Demon's Souls
This was one of the main reasons I re-started the long battle with the backlog demon and is also the part of this valiant crusade that gave me its most fiercest struggle.
It all started with the new Bloodborne DLC. Bloodborne is my favourite PS4 game and
it was my 100th Platinum. When I earned the Platinum on it, I got hooked into the "Soulsborne" style of gameplay and wanted to play the previous entries, so I made my way backwards through the series. First Dark Souls II on PS4, Dark Souls on PC and then finally onto Demon’s Souls on PS3.
Demon's Souls originally launched on PS3 in Feb 2009 so that would just make it over 7 years old. Having played a lot of early PS3 games recently, sometimes their age can show through the controls or gameplay and it's really your nostalgic feelings towards the game that would drive you to completing it. You can see how a developer might have used the game as the base platform to expand upon a series for future sequels.
Demon’s Souls is not this. At least at the time it didn't feel as an introduction to the series or any sort of bare beginning. Instead I found it to be an extremely well-crafted title playing a solid experience despite its age. The gameplay and level design are the typical outstanding hallmarks the Souls games are known for, but personally I found the worlds to be much more enjoyable to die in and to discover my pain tolerance limits in than with the other Dark Souls Games. It would be second on my list of the best in the series.
Demon’s also has a lot of unique features that aren't found in any other Souls game. The Character and World tendencies (in my opinion the hardest notion you have to learn and manage in Demon's) change the world and gameplay according to some of your choices or if your character is in full body form or not. When I say choices, I mean not killing NPC's for a quest line or choosing to kill the Black Phantoms in the world to boost the tendency toward either pure white or pure black.
I went for Platinum on it and succeeded. The Platinum is quite tough as it requires an insane amount of grinding for materials (made easier with the item dupe glitch) but you still have to earn at least 1 of that material to dupe it and I spent 8 hours alone grinding for the dreaded Pure Bladestone. I had good luck with the other stones but a guide is highly recommend.
Demon’s never felt like a bare Souls game used to expand upon the series or an intro to me. Instead I felt it was a unique Souls experience that was a joy to replay.
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I did everything back on the PS3 version and bought the PS4 version on the day of release. Luckily the online trophies all popped up automatically (Thus saving lots of hours grinding on that front) but I still needed to do the Single Player content all over again, which took me 60+ hours as
We all have one. I certainly do. One that I've built up myself through various PSN sales over the years, along with the PS+ titles we've gotten. Although a lot of very good titles have come out at the start of the 2016 gaming year, I decided to try clearing some of the games in my backlog that have been there for quite some time.
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