As such, success requires perseverance in spades, and new areas and seemingly impossible bosses often demand long spells of grind, determination and luck.

Which means, on the off-chance you didn't believe my habitual expiration-related predication above, you're well aware just how much death Dark Souls involves. If you're reading this list, I assume you've played at least one Dark Souls game before now. To avoid being soft banned, do check for disclaimers/warnings on each mod's page prior to installation.

NB - It's also worth nothing some of the mods featured here are best suited to offline play, due to the fact they may offer an unfair advantage online. This is purely personal preference, though, so please do whatever you're most comfortable with. Personally, I prefer the latter as it not only keeps things tidy, but also handles updates automatically. These can be installed manually - details of which are almost always noted on each respective mod's page - or via the Nexus Mod Manager. Like many of other games we've covered here before, Dark Souls 3 doesn't have Steam Workshop support - thus its mods are housed within the game's corner of Nexus Mods. If not, they should at least help you have fun doing so. Out next week, Ashes of the Ariandel marks Dark Souls 3 's first of two proposed DLCs before the series is laid to rest, which seems like a good time to explore the mods which might, just might, make reading the words YOU DIED over and over and over again that little bit easier to stomach. And even when/if you do it rarely shows mercy. With series director Hidetaka Miyazaki reinstated at the (knight) helm, the third installment isn't necessarily the best but is probably the most realised, and like its forerunners - and console cousins Demon's Souls and Bloodborne - it'll swallow you whole if you don't know how to handle it. Unless you've been hiding under a rock lizard for the past several months, you'll know the wonderfully twisted and challenging action role-player Dark Souls returned to our PC telly boxes earlier this year.

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