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While the Dark Soulsseries may have come to an end with the release of Dark Souls 3, fans are continuing to keep the kingdom of Lordran alive with community-run events and mods. Recently, yet another of these fan-made offerings has been made available, and it looks to be one of the most ambitious yet.
Dark Souls: Daughters of Ash is a new mod for Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Editionon PC that offers a 're-imagined and massively expanded' experience. Specifically, this mod, created by Reddit user Grimrukh, takes the original Dark Souls and adds an 'enormous' amount of new content.
This content includes new pathways through the game's world, which are filled with new secrets and NPCs to discover. These NPCs offer entirely new quests, which intersect as players make their way through Dark Souls: Daughters of Ash, and new events will expand upon the established lore.
Furthermore, Grimrukh has added weapons with new abilities, and players will find that most of the preexisting equipment has been altered in some way. It also brings new enemies, including some that have been culled from cut content, and bosses to Dark Souls.
Indeed Dark Souls: Daughters of Ash sounds like quite an extravagant overhaul, and, amazingly, Grimrukh has been the sole programmer working on it. In a Reddit post, Grimrukh notes that over 1,000 hours were spent on the mod throughout 2017 and 2018, including hundreds of hours of playtesting.
While this effort has led to 'more content than the original game,' Grimrukh notes that the mod is not filled with brand new assets. That is, players will be able to interact with a myriad of elements that are functionally new, but the art of these elements are taken from the original Dark Souls release.
Furthermore, Dark Souls: Daughters of Ash does not support multiplayer, and Grimrukh recommends playing the mod offline in order to avoid game-breaking invasions. As expected from a mod of this scale, especially one built by a single person, players also may encounter bugs on their journeys through Lordran.
Despite these few shortcomings, it is hard to deny that Dark Souls: Daughters of Ash is an impressive undertaking. While some players seem to be having problems with the mod's approach to weapon durability, which has them breaking much more quickly, many will simply be happy to have a seemingly new Dark Souls experience to enjoy.
More details on Dark Souls: Daughters of Ash can be found on Reddit.
Dark Souls: Daughters of Ash is the original Dark Souls (2011), re-imagined and massively expanded. It’s my vision of what Dark Souls might have been if FromSoftware had been given an additional six months to develop content for the game. Well, parts of it are. Other parts are my own design choices, and a few parts have been mixed up for novelty. My aim was to recapture that feeling of playing Dark Souls for the first time.
Get it here for Dark Souls: Remastered (v1.4.0): https://www.nexusmods.com/darksoulsremastered/mods/140
Get it here for Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition (v1.3.1):https://www.nexusmods.com/darksouls/mods/1524
Many, many thanks to those who have donated, or sent me kind words about the mod. You make it all worth it. I did this all out of love, but you can donate to me here if you really like the mod and want to encourage me to keep my eye on video game projects in the future.
Read the original announcement post here. I’ll be posting content about the mod to this site eventually. You can also contact me on this site, or submit bug reports.
Check out the subreddit, or better, join the Daughters of Ash Discord server here, where I’m more likely to reply quickly if you need me.