So, deep in Dark Souls 1 at the moment after beating 2 3 times. I'll be back on it later this week. With that said, there are some things I prefer in the second game, over the first, and vic versa;
- Menus are all around much better and more comfortable to navigate in the second game.
- Items and Equipment usage and management is better in the second game. More slots for rings, and weapons are a welcomed change. I feel more restricted in 1 with what I can do.
In DS2:
- Can't rearrange items in inventory (helps with quick switching etc)
- Some menus you can't see their requirement stats and things like this - Item Box is one place I want to see if I meet the stat requirements for a weapon before I take it out. If you can do this in the menu box, I haven't seen how to yet!
Had they kept these two things in that were already in the first game, the menus would've been almost perfect. Oh, and the item name is in the wrong place I think, it should be at the top not bottom since the icons themselves aren't always that distinguishable from each other for similar armour/weapon items.
I try to stick to two weapons in each hand because it's not easy to quickly switch in the heat of things, but more often than not I go like this:
R: Weapon / Catalyst
L: Shield / Binoculars / Bow
atm, I'm going weapon / chime / weapon as I'm switching between a rapier and claymore situationally, and because you can't reorganise the menus, this is quicker than cycling through the weapon menu.
