Dark Souls II: Crown of the Old Iron King

Video Game
2014

IMDb RATING

YOUR RATING

Dark Souls II: Crown of the Old Iron King (2014)

In the second part of the "Dark Souls II (2014)" expansion "The Lost Crowns", the Bearer of the Curse ascends a complex, ash-dusted tower with an exposed throne room at the top. The expansio... Read allIn the second part of the "Dark Souls II (2014)" expansion "The Lost Crowns", the Bearer of the Curse ascends a complex, ash-dusted tower with an exposed throne room at the top. The expansion is praised for the unusual vertical layout.In the second part of the "Dark Souls II (2014)" expansion "The Lost Crowns", the Bearer of the Curse ascends a complex, ash-dusted tower with an exposed throne room at the top. The expansion is praised for the unusual vertical layout.

Director
- Yui Tanimura

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

7.7/10

172

YOUR RATING

Director
- Yui Tanimura

1User review

See production info at IMDbPro

Photos

Featured review

8/10

Fire, samurai, big chunks of metal, oh dear

And now we have Crown Of The Old Iron King, the second expansion for Dark Souls 2, and my favourite one. It has the least amount of annoying or nonsensical things of any of these DLC's, although it still does fall victim to a dumb and annoying optional area in the Iron Passage, with a lazy re-skin of a boss that already existed in the base game.

Everything else is really good stuff though, some of the best Dark Souls 2 has to offer. Brume Tower is a great area with a lot of inter-connectivity and an interesting way of traversing it, and looks utterly gorgeous. The new enemy design is much better than it was in Sunken King, the bosses are better, the lore is slightly more interesting in my opinion, and the new equipment is all really interesting as well.

Really I don't have all that much to say about this that I didn't say about Sunken King, other than it's much of the same but better, so again, if you like the base game...