I love that in Demon's Souls, you can go to any area you want after the first boss. Player freedom Tower of Latria, especially Prison of Hope, has the best atmosphere I've ever seen in a souls game, with some Bloodborne areas being *maybe* on par Tower Knight is the best design for a giant boss in my opinion. Instead of stabbing the giants in their feet until they suddenly drop dead in the later games, you damage its ankles until it falls and hit its head. That is perfect, and I'm sad that's not the design of every giant enemy in the souls games that released afterward Also, I would say Flamelurker has one of the best run-backs. You can use the shortcut to the right and memorize where to fall and not die. A bit annoying to learn, but you get there in a minute once you do learn
@CinderSnake
5 ай бұрын
I agree with the freedom part, I just don't like that the levels aren't connected to each other in some way which is arguably the best part of dark souls 1. Yeah any time I was talking about atmosphere in this video it was hard to use footage of anything other than latria to show off great atmosphere and that may actually be part of my dislike for the area, the atmosphere is so effective that it shakes your confidence to the point you hate going through it. Personally I enjoy the "duel" bosses far more than gimmick bosses but a good gimmick boss can be a breath of fresh air, as long as the gimmick doesn't become tedious or boring, where you are kind of just going through the motions waiting for things to happen in the right way for you to progress (dragon god, Bed of chaos.). With the tower knight IMO the main design flaw is all the extra archers, its like having to do the dishes before you eat, taking care of those annoying guys that aren't really a threat to take care of but will fuck with you when you're dealing with the tower knight, which is why I prefer the adjudicator, its the same concept but no annoying adds. Tower Knight has better music though, sounds like a guy ironically laughing at a bad joke. Its hard for me to think of a good gimmick boss but my first pick would be Priscilla from DS1, her being invisible but leaving tracks in the snow is incredibly cool and being able to shoot her with an arrow that stays visible and acts like a marker for where she is, is probably the most memorable and cool moment in dark souls for me. In short yeah I would like some creative and interesting gimmick bosses but they would have to be careful to not make it boring.
@LabiaLicker
5 ай бұрын
"So every time you kill a boss and become human. You go back to the nexus and climb up the long flight of stairs and jump off" Of course this game was made by the Japanese.
@dexmagedan5530
2 ай бұрын
Demon souls sucks major ass. The ps3 version is the one i played tilting your stick forward makes you move side to side jittering back and forth. No bonfires anywhere just beat this game its has a unsatisfactory ending too.
@oldensad5541
5 ай бұрын
There is something confusing about this video, coz worst "souls" game is Elden Ring and one of the best is Demon Souls, just behind DS2
@Maximus20778
5 ай бұрын
Elden ring is not far from worst wym?
@mattmediaplays
5 ай бұрын
Typical Souls player hipster who hates Elden Ring because it's extremely popular, has much more accessible difficult while also being the hardest one in the series if you opt to not use its many tools and probably died over and over again to the delayed attacks that they refuse to learn how to dodge instead calling the game unfair and broken, whereas the problems with Elden Ring's design and balancing are nothing compared to previous installments.
@oldensad5541
5 ай бұрын
@@mattmediaplays dude, how did you know EXACTLY why I dislike Elden Ring? Are you a witch? Probably you are coz you can tell it's not a joke and absolutely serious🤔
@CinderSnake
5 ай бұрын
The only possible way I could see Elden Ring being worse than Demon's Souls is in terms of gimmick boss fights, then yeah Demon's Souls wins by having more gimmick bossfights but in everything else Elden Ring wins, unless you are really into the spooky atmosphere which is very subjective or you really like it when a game is intentionally frustrating and tedious, which yeah Demon's Souls wins in that regard.
@oldensad5541
5 ай бұрын
@@CinderSnake it's not entirely serious take, and I surprise I need to clarify that considering I sad DS2 is the best game, second only by DeS :) But if you actually interested I can explain why for me it's true. Souls games was at the beginning mix of survival horror, RPG and action adventure. Leaning heavily in survival horror and RPG, leaving action elements as spice. That's what was essential and mold the experience. Slow, methodical, and knowledge dependant. Technically anyone was able to perform extremely well at DeS, DS, and DS2. Even person with bad reaction time was able to breathe through games if this person had knowledge of game mechanics and specifics. It was extremely fair and sympathetic from my point of view. Then was Bloodborn, much more reactive and action based, and from there everything changed completely. Right in the middle of series. 3 slow, survival horror-like games, 3 action oriented games. Obviously I like old style more. Ellen Ring have specific features which make it's worse than Bloodborn and DS3. Some of them objective, some subjective to my taste. Combine this together, and you have paradoxical reality of Ellen Ring being worse than Demon Souls for me. Coz it belongs to my less favorite part of the series and it's worse than other two of this part. P. S. English is not my first language, so I hope my explanation is understandable :D
@LabiaLicker
5 ай бұрын
0 comments? wtf! Pump those numbers up
@LabiaLicker
5 ай бұрын
I remember when the remake came out there was a number of reviewers creaming their pants and generally soy poging over the original. I wasn't aware that it had the amount of issues it does. Btw what did you think of the remake? Apparently it is coming to pc (eventually). For now though you can always the original via emulator flawlessly and you can unlock the fps!
@CinderSnake
5 ай бұрын
I Haven't played the remake so maybe that fixes some of those polish issues but I definitely think a lot of people give fromsoft a pass on the frustrating things they do, their earlier titles are much more esoteric than the newer ones so some people will like it because of the frustration and some dislike it, I tend to fall into the dislike because I play games for fun, yes I am that weirdo but because of that frustration you get a massive feeling of catharsis when you make it through a frustrating area, great example is blight town if you don't take the shortcut. The video was actually recorded on the emulator and its the only reason the video got made, I own the game on ps3 but I'm not buying a capture card for like the 2 playstation games I would want to make video for. You can control your ps4 through the pc so thats how I'll record bloodborne. As for what I think of the remake, I haven't played it, so its hard to say, it changes the music and I kinda dislike that because of how unique it is, the music has range from incredibly creepy to downright comedic but maybe that didn't fit with this new shiny version and it being so shiny might ruin the atmosphere which is the best part of this game but I haven't played it and I don't think I'd want to play it again, I would rather play one of the more mechanically fun souls games, So I'm probably skipping the remake.
@LabiaLicker
5 ай бұрын
@@CinderSnake From watching some of the gameplay from the remake I think they overhauled the mechanics and gameplay balance. I'm not 100% on that, but I thought it looked a lot different from the original. And yeah I 100% agree on the early fromsoft games being Esoteric, like King Field.
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