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Winner of gamescom award 2015 ""Best RPG"" and over 35 E3 2015 Awards and Nominations - The DARK SOULS 3 Deluxe Edition includes the full game & the Season Pass. Expand your experience with the Season Pass featuring new maps, bosses, enemies and additional weapon and armor sets. About the Game The game is a fantasy tale with a strong surreal Japanese influence which gives it a spooky supernatural vibe. Loosely the premise is to kill monsters and harness their souls, which are then parlayed into rises in level. Should you be killed before you can trade in the souls you are carrying, they are lost and you respawn at your last resting place, usually a bonfire. You can, if you’re quick, gather up the souls before they scatter too far – but if you are killed again before you get them all, they are gone for good. The screen can be filled with enemies which can be alarming – and it also encourages the rapid learning of tactical thinking! Quickly take out the ‘easy’ enemies, sneak up on and despatch the muscle, and pay careful attention to stronger, cunning enemies that are likely to unleash something nasty on you should you relax for an instant! They’re Bosses for a Reason! Bosses levels are intensely challenging, and some of them will leave you wrung out and exhausted, hands shaking and brain as traumatised as though you had been battling for your life for real! Tactics are your friends here, observe the enemy, looking for patterns and weaknesses as well as their strengths and the hell they can unleash on you. Make sure you go into any boss level with a well-stocked inventory, plenty of ammunition and a clean bill of health: you will need all of it! However, the beauty of these challenging levels is the rush of victory when you do finally beat them: you get a real sense of ac