Dragon God is one of the most awesome spectacles in any Fromsoft game. Just the coolest shit you'll ever see.
But it's not fun to play. Hurtboxes are wonky. Tells are hard to read, if you can even see them at all. Damage is too high.
Game suddenly becomes Dragon's Lair.
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The first time I played Demon's Souls, I stubbornly fought Flamelurker melee and absolutely hated it.
Now I just put Water Veil on and peck him to death with magic to get it over with!
Cool design, for just a big fire guy, but the hurtboxes on his attacks are obnoxious.
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Demon's Souls on CRT continues, into the fiery bowels.
I really like 2-2, it's got that Demon's Souls je ne sais quoi.
A long, tense crawl with creepy atmosphere and sensible dungeon ecology, leading up to an iconic boss who is just a real asshole. Total dickhead.
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Demon's Souls on CRT continues.
While I'm cool on the zone, I love the Adjudicator. Absolutely wild design, I just wish it was executed better. Mechanically there isn't much there, and the camera doesn't handle the cramped space well. Lives larger in the imagination.
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Not my favorite set of photos, this zone was tough to (CRT) photograph on account of being very monochrome throughout, producing various camera artifacts.
And I'm more a fan of the boss than the zone itself, honestly.
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Demon's Souls on CRT soldiers on.
Upon closer inspection, and reflection, Fool's Idol stands out as an extremely well designed boss fight. It's a perfect mixture of gimmick boss and moderate combat challenge, AND it's an appropriate lore capstone to the level.
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The placement of this particular black phantom is so evil.
At the end of a *very* long level, right before the boss door, she appears out of thin air armed with a one-shot crossbow and a plague knife, ready to inflict a stressful run-back upon first-time players.
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Demon's Souls on CRT continues..
Something I love about the level design of Demon's Souls in comparison to subsequent games is how LONG the levels are. You often cover a lot of ground, vertically and horizontally, and pass through multiple distinct sub-areas.
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Latria is handily my favorite zone in any Fromsoft game. It may as well have fallen straight out of the Plato zone. Undiminished. Perfect.
It's a torture prison that harvests human suffering to feed a Lovecraftian demon. Incredible.
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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.
