Man, I've still got to play 7 of these.
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This is a viable option. Gameplay is even smoother in 3, and the story/narrative progression is there, but it's also pretty weighed down by DS history, and most importantly (to me) you lose/fastforward a lot of the aspects that make it feel like a Hero's Journey.
I agree with this. There's a whole area in DS3 that most fans online go crazy when they get to it and I was just like 'uh ok it's just another place'. But it felt accessible for a new player to the series; it's made me want to go back to the others now.
