Are there two "t"s in the word? Actually, it doesn't matter. Either way it smells of filth and everything wants to kill you. Repeatedly.

The sound design of Blighttown is AMAZING. Well, occasionally the sound developer at From Software screwed up and the hideous rapey caterwhaul of the monsters gets stuck in an unending loop and you want to tear your earballs out. But this IS Dark Souls a la the hideous torment we remember as Demon's Souls so they may have felt that was beside what they deem to be quality.

QUALITY. Blight town is a quality gaming experience and you never want to go back. It is the furthest point from safety. It is the rotting carcass of a completely forgotten squashed OMG I haven't bathed in days. I am actually going out in public smelling of tepid cold weather body stink because I had to fight through blighttown's horrible maze again and it's the last thing I do before I go to work in the morning. Because it's awesome. Because the sound design is almost perfect. Every scraping nail and rotting creeky board is in there and it is glorious like Lovecraft. And if this were a Lovecraftian tale of torment or some classical wisp of intrigue we deem as suspense it would not be enough for the developers. Because after you struggle through the dark and sinister slime of countless, relentless flies that STAB you when you weren't expecting. Because after you scream at the top of your lungs that you just WANT TO BE AWAY FROM HERE. I DON'T CARE IF I HAVE TO COME BACK JUST LET ME BE ALLAYED FROM THESE GODDAMN FLIES FOR ONE FUCKING MINUTE..

Then you win.

And someone may have helped you, but regardless, somehow. You beat her. You beat the sexy chaos spider witch. Let me repeat that. The VERY sexy gloriously bussomed but strangely lipped chaos spider witch with a 10-foot dick-shaped fiery spear of horror. You actually kill her when she's just finished spewing another thousand gallons of FATAL MAGMA at you. I'm not spoiling anything for you because it's really that crazy.

And then you enter hell. It's the funniest game ever. But really, the sound design is almost perfect. Someone tell that wily haired weirdo at From Software that he needs to read the testers' reports. Because he fixed the music from the last game. So obviously he's not just snorting 30-year old Quaaludes and taking up precious studio hours.