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I'm going to say first of all that I am a major fan of Dark Souls. So I'm obviously going to be biased here.

Was the PC port rushed? Yes, there's no doubt about it. Is it a broken product, though? No, not at all, because the simple fact is that it was never intended to be played using a keyboard and mouse. The developers, probably at the behest of the publisher, didn't really make that clear for the PC version, and that's a shame, but this game was designed from the ground up for a gamepad to a similar extent that Starcraft is designed for a keyboard and mouse. I think if this was communicated more clearly people would have been less caught off guard by the atrocious keyboard and mouse support in the vanilla PC port.

You need to pick up a gamepad, preferably an Xbox 360 one, to play Dark Souls on the PC the way it was meant to be played.

> And for those few hours I did play it, nothing about it stood out to me as being incredible or ingenious.

Of course, there is no way you can expect to appreciate the game itself if you're struggling with the controls.