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The Demon's Souls debate

What the community thinks of Demon's Souls, ordered by reader support. Agreeing, translating and reporting a message need no account.

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  1. QuestPhoenix

    Next to Hollow Knight it feels heavier, slower, more punishing in a different way.

    Willie_12

    Only played it a few hours, but that heaviness stuck with me.

  2. Donato_1990

    Movement feels stiff by modern standards but the weight of every swing sells the danger. Lock-on has issues in tight spaces, and animations commit hard with no canceling, which forces a patience most action games don't demand anymore.

  3. ratke_candido

    I picked this up because everyone kept calling it a masterpiece, and I bounced off hard around the third demon. The atmosphere is great but the combat felt clunkier than people admit, like it's carried by mystique more than actual design.

    davis_lelah

    Did you push through after the third demon or just walk away for good? I ask because I almost quit there too, then something clicked and the rest felt completely different.

  4. CoopRider

    What sets it apart for me is how the level design ties directly into the tension. Every area funnels you toward risk in a way that feels intentional, not just difficulty for its own sake, and that's why later games in the genre still get compared to it.

    suzanne16

    Level design carrying the tension makes sense, though I'd say the ranking rewards vocal fanbases more than influence itself, and that's just how these duels shake out

  5. Loot_Howell

    It doesn't get the credit it deserves for basically setting the template everyone copies now. The multiplayer integration was clunky by today's standards, sure, but the world design still holds up better than most recent attempts.

    FrameRex2

    Replying to Hortense_24

    Or, well, I switch sides depending on which one I lost to more recently.

    Hortense_24

    Yeah same, I've voted for it in basically every duel it's had since I found this site, template or not it earned that reputation.

  6. Samuel_75

    no entiendo cómo sigue tan abajo con lo que influyó, esto del ranking a veces no tiene ni pies ni cabeza

    ÁngelesSamurai

    Coincido en que la influencia pesa poco en este ranking, se vota más por lo reciente que por lo que sentó las bases, y eso distorsiona bastante la posición final

    IronHunter82

    played it years back, barely scraped past the second demon honestly, how far did you get before it clicked for you

  7. GlitchPilot

    Ce qui marque le plus c'est l'ambiance, vraiment lourde et cohérente du début à la fin. Par contre la caméra et certains couloirs étroits en combat rendent des passages franchement pénibles, plus par accident que par intention. Ça reste une expérience marquante malgré tout.

  8. TurboBard

    mine glacée et donjons implacables, le charme est là mais le confort zéro rebute encore pas mal de monde je pense

    QuestRunner25

    The fog area got me, I remember pausing mid-session just to breathe, my roommate thought I'd rage quit.

    LootFox

    Con Hollow Knight en mente, ¿de verdad la crueldad de este juego envejece igual que su diseño de niveles? A mí me parece que uno resiste mejor que el otro con los años

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