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I don't want to answer for Chris, but I'd rank them something like this:
Dark Souls >= Dark Souls 2 > Demon's Souls.

From a mechanics perspective, I think Dark Souls 2 is easily the best in the series and that smooth frame rate really makes a big difference. However, I don't think that Drangleic is quite as interesting as Lordran was. The lack of shortcuts really bugged me - you're always on a march to the next bonfire, rather than exploring the environment to create shortcuts between areas.

Also, there are a lot of parts of Dark Souls II that feel like they're engineered to be annoying. It's like they made them harder just to say that the game is even more unforgiving. There's no real reason that certain bonfires need to be as far as they are from certain bosses, or that certain bonfires already have enemies in attacking distance.

All that said, I still really loved the game and definitely plan to go through New Game + after I finish up the Dark Souls 1 DLC. You shouldn't be too scared of this one. It's got a tough opening, but once you get over the hump, it's a real breeze.

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PC list is out of date, but otherwise, the list is accurate.

I've got the third Leaf on the Wind in my bag. Was excited to read it at lunch today, but based on your comments, my excitement's now doubled!

UPDATE: Read it at lunch. Great issue, wish we could've had it as an episode of the show proper.

Funny enough, Chris and I beat the game this past weekend within an hour of each other. We're planning on doing a recap podcast and Chris is going to be working on the review.

While it hasn't been anything extensive, we've both done some posting in the forum thread on the game, mostly around lore. I wrote up this initial impressions piece, and we've both been tweeting about our progress pretty frequently.

Probably worth checking out the post date of Chris' blog. Just sayin' 

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Stop ruining the end of The Sixth Sense for everyone!

That sounds about right. We don't really hate anyone, just poking some fun at these big companies and their various foibles. Though I might actually hate Inazuma Eleven. That game is super boring.

Confusion is to be expected with any episode of PixlTalk. There's rarely a coherent thought or a strong line of progression from one topic to any other.

In any event, the episode does have a little glitch in the middle (around 30 mins) where we lost a couple minutes. Stupid recording tools.

Oh man, agreed on this all day. Even the Diablo III comment.