Demon's Souls on CRT continues, into the lair of the terrifying Armor Spider.
I love the music here, it's using every trick in the book to be unsettling. Lot of crunchy dissonance and chromatic slides. Pizzicato plucks. Sickly brass. Stabs. Urgent, pounding drums.
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2-1 isn't the most exciting of the early zones in Demon's Souls but I'm impressed by its excellent sense of place and history. A lot of work was put into making this a believable space while still being a fantastical abstraction. There's implicit class commentary, also.
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Demon's Souls on CRT continues.
1-2 is another all-timer. It's so stressful, and I love that if you go underground to escape the dragon fire you get owned by dogs in the dark. These sorts of horror elements are essential to Demon's Souls' success, I think.
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Soul of the lost, withdrawn from its vessel.
Let strength be granted, so the world might be mended.
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(double-posting this because I broke my quote chain! whoops!)
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Before very recently I had never touched a photo mode in a game but now I'm a total sicko for them.
I get it, now.
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Bumping Demon's Souls up to three times a week for a while, due to taking so many photos. Can you blame me?
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Demon's Souls on CRT advances.
1-1 is the Souls level from which all others flow. The elegance and economy of design here arguably have never been matched. One bonfire, two HUGE shortcut unlocks. A dense clockwork mechanism that unfolds like origami.
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The Nexus is a triumph. It's so alien, and subtly menacing, but it's also home. However relieved you feel returning to it, clinging to the shadowed back of your mind is the poisoned knowledge that you are its prisoner and it could very well be your tomb.
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Brave soul, who fears not death.
I shall guide you...
So that you may lull the Old One back to slumber.
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Demon's Souls on CRT continues.
Vanguard is such a good idea that they keep doing it over and over again.
The sudden ramp up from regular dudes that sword fight you to huge bizarre demon that one-shots you immediately after you walk through the door is memorable.
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Demon's Souls on CRT begins.
I bought a used PS3 to play this game years ago, after having already played Dark Souls 1, 2 and 3, and it became and remains my favorite.
It's so beautifully weird. Clever and ambitious. Primordial and yet ahead of its time. I love it.
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Demon's Souls CRT series starts soon (Thursdays and Saturdays, tentatively). Here's a spicy teaser plate.
Kinda went ham with the new photo mode power up.. May or may not have over 70 pictures already.
