There are many awful areas in Dark Souls games besides this one

There are many awful areas in Dark Souls games besides this one.

>thinking that Blighttown or Farron's Keep is better than anything in this game

DS2 is the only correct answer for 'best Dark Souls game'.

OFFICIAL POISON AREA RANKING
Blightown > The Gutter > Farron's Keep

The Gutter may be shorter, but still think it's the worst because poison was turned up to 11 in that one.

The rave dungeon that follows it is worse, there are more of those, and it triggers both NPC and Player invasions, however it is incredibly funny to fight there once you know what's up.

I still hold that Blighttown has fucking BRILLIANT design. The flaw was in the framerate, but the PC release fixed that problem. Farron Keep was fine. Maybe a little dull, but fine. It may not be better than DS2's best, but it's certainly better than its average.

>but still think it's the worst because poison was turned up to 11 in that one.
That applies more to Black Gulch than the Gutter I think. The statues are pretty forgiving in the Gutter.

I like Blighttown and the Gutter
Can't say annything about Farron yet.

Dark Souls 2 really does not have any particular bad areas that are annoying to play. Even the poison hell that was Black Gulch felt like it was fair because you could finish the short area in multiple ways.

The only area in DS2 i really dislike is the Shrine of Amana

I actually just finished DS2 yesterday and I really don't understand why it receives all the hate it gets.

Mind you I've only ever played Demons Souls and Dark Souls 2 SOTFS but i thought the game was incredible and kept me hooked from beginning to end and can't wait to do all the DLC and check out a guide and find what I missed out on the first playthrough.

I enjoyed it much more than Demon Souls and find it hard to see why it gets the cold shoulder in the Souls Series but it makes me excited to go and play DS1, DS3 and Bloodborne once I've completed everything in Dark Souls 2.

DaS is fantastic.
DaS3 is very polished but it's basically a retread of DaS1 without doing anything original.
I'm a PCuck so can't give my opinion about Bloodborne.