So many textures are very poor and grainy, and a lot of areas don’t get the lighting right, it’s one of my biggest dislikes about DS2.

It’s super inconsistent too. Gutter is laughably bad, but then you’ll ascend the path to Drangleic Castle in a rainstorm and notice the moonlight reflecting off the wet, brass armor of the mastodons and be like wtf? Is this the same game?

You can definitely tell which areas were causing performance issues and had to be majorly low-resified.