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Dark Souls 2 - Bonfire prayer

Dark Souls 2 - Bonfire prayer

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Dark Souls 2 - Dual-wielding

Dark Souls 2 - Dual-wielding

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Dark Souls 2 - More dual-wielding

Dark Souls 2 - More dual-wielding

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Dark Souls 2 - Sorcery

Dark Souls 2 - Sorcery

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Dark Souls 2 - Ladder

Dark Souls 2 - Ladder

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Dark Souls 2 - Bridge

Dark Souls 2 - Bridge

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Dark Souls 2 - Torch

Dark Souls 2 - Torch

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Dark Souls 2 - Jump attack

Dark Souls 2 - Jump attack

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Dark Souls 2 - Roll with it

Dark Souls 2 - Roll with it

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Dark Souls 2 - Bonfire

Dark Souls 2 - Bonfire

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Dark Souls 2 - Mirror Knight

Dark Souls 2 - Mirror Knight

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Dark Souls 2 - Forest

Dark Souls 2 - Forest

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Dark Souls 2 - Overgrown

Dark Souls 2 - Overgrown

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Dark Souls 2 - Looting

Dark Souls 2 - Looting

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Dark Souls 2 - Masks

Dark Souls 2 - Masks

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Dark Souls 2 - Creepy dudes

Dark Souls 2 - Creepy dudes

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Dark Souls 2 - You, maybe

Dark Souls 2 - You, maybe

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Dark Souls 2 - Dragon

Dark Souls 2 - Dragon

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Dark Souls 2 - Dragon again

Dark Souls 2 - Dragon again

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Dark Souls 2 - Dragon and on

Dark Souls 2 - Dragon and on

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Dark Souls 2 - CYCLOPS DRAGON

Dark Souls 2 - CYCLOPS DRAGON

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Tom Sykes

Tom loves exploring in games, whether it’s going the wrong way in a platformer or burgling an apartment in Deus Ex. His favourite game worlds—Stalker, Dark Souls, Thief—have an atmosphere you could wallop with a blackjack. He enjoys horror, adventure, puzzle games and RPGs, and played the Japanese version of Final Fantasy VIII with a translated script he printed off from the internet. Tom has been writing about free games for PC Gamer since 2012. If he were packing for a desert island, he’d take his giant Columbo boxset and a laptop stuffed with PuzzleScript games.

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