Assembled with the assistance of @ZandraVandra and @valbaca. These swamps will be judged on two axes:
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Fun: How enjoyable it is to play through the swamp as a zone in a video game.
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Swampiness: How effectively the swamps invoke a feeling of depression and despair.
Of these, Swampiness is of course the most important, but fun is certainly not a negligible factor. So we begin, in order from least to greatest.
#8: Harvest Valley (Dark Souls 2)
Fun: C+
Swampiness: F
A decent area to walk around in. Full of sexy ladies and big strong men who will suplex you given half a chance. Neat to explore, not too difficult to survive, kind of bullshit in a couple ways but not too bad. However, it's not a fucking swamp. It's just a bunch of poison gas in a mine! It's only even in here because Dark Souls 2 doesn't have any better candidates. Poor show, DS2, poor show.
farron keep is way to high, but Aeonia and Lake of Rot are deserving at the top. those places rule.

