When the game booted, the title screen was wrong. The usual melancholic piano was gone. Instead, there was a low, sub-bass thrum, like a cathedral bell struck underwater. The fire wasn't orange. It was black, with a thin corona of sickly ultraviolet. The subtitle "Scholar of the First Sin" had been scratched out, and underneath, in a jagged, hand-drawn font, it read:

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If you are coming from the vanilla version of Dark Souls 2, expect a very different experience.