Playstation 5

Hateyou said:

The Astro game is pretty cool, my kid likes it, my neighbor and his whole family played it and really liked it. They should make a legit sequel. Or just, someone should make some more games like it at least.

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Yeah, that pack-in game punches way above its weight. It's one of the best 3D Mario games I've played and it isn't even a Mario game. Does some really cool stuff with the DualSense controller too, so I tell people to give it a go to see what the controller is capable of.

The only full game on the PS5 that I think is similar to it is probably Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart. Which is a great game and fantastic visually. If I had to pick five games for someone to get with a PS5, Rift Apart would probably be one of them. Along with Demon Souls, Elden Ring, Horizon 2, and Ragnarok. Returnal would be my 6th choice but it's very much an acquired taste.

Aazrael said:

How hard is Demon Souls compared to Elden Ring? I got through Elden Ring with levels and summons. But I guess thats not an option in DS.

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Hateyou said:

Demons Souls isn’t that bad imo. I beat it back on the ps3 which had shit fps. The bosses were still fairly simple compared to some of the later games. You can out level stuff in demons souls but it’s more grindy than ER if you choose to do it because you’re more limited on where you can go early on.

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Vorph said:

Demon's Souls you can just get through with magic. Start as Royalty 'class' and look up where to find the crescent falchion in world 4-1. From there it's just a matter of picking up all the other +magic damage items. Only real pain in the ass with a magic build is that eventually you have to invade someone as the Old Monk (and win) in order to get the best hat in the game. On the plus side, the remake has an option to hide headgear that the original never did.

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Consensus tends to be the bosses are a lot easier than most From bosses, while some of the levels are oddly a bit tougher than most From levels/areas.

Overall definitely in the lowest tier of FromSoft difficulty. Worth a play.

spronk said:

you can cheese a LOT of stuff in demon souls (remaster) if you get stuck, like one of the early bosses, spider boss, has a couple spots where you can use terrain to never get hit.

biggest issue is its a fairly linear game, with Elden if you get stuck you just go find something else to do, with Demon Souls you gotta grind or something since there isn't anywhere else to go. Some of the levels are an absolute nightmare too, i'm thinking of the swamp level. nothing that annoying or frustrating in Elden Ring really.

its really fun though, I've only really played Demon Souls and Elden Ring, having bounced off Dark Souls 1 a lot for whatever reason. more technical than gameplay, I think my PC had real problems running the game due to widescreen etc and the PS4 version is capped at 30 fps

its on PS+ premium so definitely worth a shot, some of the light/dark stuff is super obtuse and I still don't really understand it even though I 100%'d the game

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Basically: never be in human form. It effectively takes a ring slot from you, but it prevents your tendency from getting fucky.

After you kill a boss and become human, go die in the hub before continuing.

Aazrael said:

How hard is Demon Souls compared to Elden Ring? I got through Elden Ring with levels and summons. But I guess thats not an option in DS.

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You should also get a bow and arrow and farm the shit out of 4-2 at the bridge


Once you shoot the reaper, everything else in the room dies - 4k a pop Run back up to the bonfire and respawn (about 4 seconds away going back up) and do it over and over again.

Basically when this video guy goes in with an all out assault, just stay center on top of the bridge and shoot the reapers head until it dies.

Szlia said:

Let me give you the best advice : don't do anything the other people proposed. Try to forget whatever they said (which should be easy as none of it makes much sense if you don't know the game) and just play the game blind. Why ? Because you can only do it once and that's the best way to experience these games. If you get stuck and lose hope or feel you are wasting your time or not enjoying the journey, then go for spoilers and fish for some cheesy strats or soul farming techniques, but at first get lost and confused, get trolled and taste sweet retribution! Having played Elden Ring you are already a lot more knowledgeable than the poor people who wandered into Demon's Souls back in the PS3 days

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Kinda true actually

I simultaneously agree that exploring From games yourself is the best way, and disagree because Demons Souls specifically has such a weird and stupid mechanic in world tendency. When I played it I fucked myself raw turning worlds pure black dying so much simply because I liked being human. They had items to turn you back human when you died, why wouldn’t I use them?

Fucking dumb system, the only thing not worth “exploring for yourself.”

Aazrael said:

How hard is Demon Souls compared to Elden Ring? I got through Elden Ring with levels and summons. But I guess thats not an option in DS.

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Demon Souls and Elden Ring are probably the two easiest of the six From Soulsbornes. Both give you major avenues to lower the difficulty. You can overlevel in both, use summons in Elden, and use sorcery in Demon. Sorcery also works pretty well in Dark Souls 1, but won't help you much in Souls 2 or Bloodborne. Once you get good at melee combat, it's easier to use than sorcery anyway. Sorcery is more of a crutch for people starting out until they graduate beyond it. Demon helps with that graduation by making the Enchanted Falchion a really good weapon that you'll default to more and more even if relying on sorcery.

As people have already said, pick the Royalty class, keep the Cling Ring equipped at all times, and jump off a cliff in the Nexus every time you win a boss fight (to reset your HP back to its nerfed state). The "world tendency" stuff is generally really stupid and seems convoluted, but all you need to remember is to never die in "full HP" form outside of Nexus. Always stay in nerfed HP, go die in Nexus after every boss. Dying in Nexus affects nothing and puts you back to nerfed HP, while dying in the worlds makes them gradually harder to the point that some (World 4 comes to mind) will be almost impossible for a newer player.

Long as you make sure to do that one thing (and it becomes second nature fairly quickly to go jump off the Nexus cliff between levels) the game isn't bad at all. After that you can graduate to Dark Souls 1 Remastered and play a sorcerer there too, or maybe try going more melee if you found yourself liking that more in Demon (and with the Enchanted Falchion scaling off of Int, you probably will end up using it a lot by the end).

Szlia said:

Let me give you the best advice : don't do anything the other people proposed. Try to forget whatever they said (which should be easy as none of it makes much sense if you don't know the game) and just play the game blind. Why ? Because you can only do it once and that's the best way to experience these games. If you get stuck and lose hope or feel you are wasting your time or not enjoying the journey, then go for spoilers and fish for some cheesy strats or soul farming techniques, but at first get lost and confused, get trolled and taste sweet retribution! Having played Elden Ring you are already a lot more knowledgeable than the poor people who wandered into Demon's Souls back in the PS3 days

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I agree...except in the case of Demon Souls. Going in blind is how you end up with completely borked world tendency and end up having to start the game over because you spent 8 hours dying on World 4-2 with red phantoms everywhere (Yes, this was what happened to me the first time).

Demon Souls is the one where you really need to know what you're doing going in for that reason. Going in blind on any other From game is a great idea, but not this one.