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I loved everything about the Dark Souls 2 gameplay preview. Not one thing I disliked.

Deflecting projectiles? Enemies punishing you for trying to stab their back? Enemies getting mad and bursting through walls to get ya? Torches? Better lighting that really adds to the atmosphere?

I am excited.

Really hoping all this talk of improving enemy AI means that they'll be more aggressive instead of letting you snipe them from afar without retaliation allowing for way too many cheesing opportunities.

I'm pretty much in agreement. It looks lovely, fun, and - above all, challenging. I would readily welcome smarter enemies, and the ones they have certainly look interesting. I'd say it's a shame we didn't see more of the combat, but it looks like it's mostly just a slight rework of the stuff that made Dark Souls stand out from other hack-and-slash games - which is good, because it was a great system and I really enjoyed it.

I just hope the bosses are good. One of the things I miss from my first run of Dark Souls (beyond just generally not knowing what was coming) was staring at that fog gate and debating internally whether I wanted to risk my souls and humanity on an unknown.