Many may agree that is one of the greatest video games ever created but even with the help of the version, some additional tweaks are required to have those visuals truly sing. FromSoftware's seminal RPG isn't just praised for its brutal difficulty and level designs: A key aspect of the experience that elevates the entire game is presentation and atmosphere. While high-quality art design may never age, some of the more technical aspects like textures and lighting rigs often need a little help to boost them into the modern age.
Fortunately, Nexus Mods user fromsoftserve is allowing fans to truly upgrade their experience with the «Re-Remastered» mod, an add-on that improves and overhauls nearly every aspect of the game's version. Perhaps most impressive is the inclusion of dynamic shadows on every map, especially when the majority of the original's shadows were fixed, and the upscaling conducted on every in-game texture. The result is a stunning version of Lordran that pops with detail and color more than even the revamped version of.
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Of course, the aforementioned upgrades are just scratching the surface of the «Re-Remastered» mod which also improves the reflections of every body of water, adds more grass to areas like Undead Berg and Firelink Shrine and, perhaps best of all, replaces the distance geometry. While the original version of used fake map pieces to simulate faraway locations, the mod replaces those with actual pieces of the world. For example, players can now see Blighttown from Firelink Shrine and Moonlight Butterfly Castle all the way from Undead Berg.
Seeing the «Re-Remastered» mod in action is genuinely impressive as fromsoftserve has managed to take an already stunning game and elevate the experience even higher with some smart technical improvements. It's difficult to imagine one playing an unmodded version of after
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