BLACK SOULS II
Last updated: 2025-12-01
- Masterful, profound RPG with strategic combat.
- Deep, dark, and philosophical narrative experience.
- Abundant content, high replayability, multiple endings.
- Distinctive art style and Souls-like mechanics.
- Mandatory unofficial patch for playable experience.
- High difficulty; narrative can be confusing/disturbing.
Emotions
Satisfaction20%Excitement12%Admiration10%Frustration8%Disappointment5%
- Reviews
(sample size) - 837
- Helpful reviews
- 45%
- Unhelpful reviews
- 54%
- Protest reviews
- 0%
- 84%Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
- 16%Helpful reviews with negative sentiment
- Positive points
- 1080
- Negative points
- 353
- Gameplay points
- 447
- Perf. points
- 15
- Rec. points
- 207
- Misc points
- 267
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 121.2% Avg playtime 0.5h | 31230.6% Avg playtime 0.6h |
| > 2h playtime | 60.6% Avg playtime 6.8h | 68867.6% Avg playtime 13.1h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 386.5 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 33.9 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 0 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 2.6 days |
| Point | Description | Importance |
|---|---|---|
Masterful, Profound RPG Experience
| Players overwhelmingly praise the game as a masterpiece, highlighting its exceptional storytelling, deep lore, and challenging gameplay. Many consider it one of the best RPGs ever, offering an unforgettable and emotionally impactful experience that resonates long after playing. The game is seen as a significant achievement, particularly for an RPGMaker title, often surpassing its predecessor. | 100% |
Strategic & Engaging Combat System
| The combat system is widely praised for its ingenuity, strategic depth, and significant improvements over the previous installment. It offers a challenging, turn-based experience with diverse tactical skills, status effects, and freedom in build customization, often described as Souls-like in its precision. Players appreciate the engaging mechanics, well-adapted boss fights, and how it encourages strategic progression over excessive stat-stacking. | 60% |
Deep, Dark & Philosophical Narrative
| The narrative is lauded for its intricate, multi-layered storytelling that explores profound philosophical themes like nihilism, existentialism, love, and despair. It skillfully weaves together twisted fairy tales (especially Alice in Wonderland), Cthulhu mythos, and Dark Souls-like allegories, creating a cruel yet beautiful world. This thematic depth, combined with strong character interactions and tragic elements, provides a deeply immersive and thought-provoking emotional journey for players. | 50% |
Abundant Content & High Replayability
| Players commend the game for its massive content volume, extensive branching plots, numerous side quests, and multiple endings, including secret routes. The 'New Game Plus' cycles are highly incentivized, offering different playthroughs to discover hidden truths and extend the experience. This extensive content contributes to high replay value and a lasting sense of discovery. | 50% |
Distinctive & Appealing Art Style
| The game's art style is consistently highlighted as unique, appealing, and greatly improved from the first game, with more detailed and polished characters and sprites. Its abstract and distinct aesthetic perfectly fits the dark fairy tale and horror themes, and the charming character designs, including the adult content, contribute significantly to the game's overall appeal and emotional impact. | 44% |
Innovative 'SEN' Sanity Mechanic
| The unique 'SEN' (sanity) mechanic is highly praised for tying directly into the game's narrative philosophy and significantly increasing content. As sanity diminishes, players unlock new monsters, dialogues, and hidden plotlines, effectively immersing them in the world's madness and revealing its 'true' face, drawing comparisons to and often surpassing 'insight' mechanics in other games. | 7% |