Ok, now I have put in about 100+ hours to the game and can now make a fair comparison between dark souls and I´m going to take what many considers the height of castlevania; symphony of the night.
Same: Setting with burg/castle, enemies could cross games, enemy drops, leveling, weapons/armour/rings incl status effects and special attacks, magic (ie poison/fire/heal), linear but can stilll choose path (you need fullfill certain criterias before you can go further in one direction), traps, secrets (ie breakable walls), chests, hugeass bossfights, resting place, enemies come back, can transform
Differences: In c:sotn you have a map, can pause, you don´t get most info during loading screen, can´t upgrade weapons, no human/hollow form, always music, no parry, no tailoring of class, no conclaves/covenants to join, obviously no online features
Of course there is more to add to both categories. But Dark Souls world itself, with the exploration, means and how to overcome it reminds me alot of Castlevania. I enjoyed the last game in the Castlevania series: Lords of shadow, but to be honest, this is more castlevania than that game ever was.
Since no one answered on this board I felt like I was alone with this view.
Googled "dark souls castlevania" and sure enough, some interesting input considering this. Here are the top 3 articles about this and they reach many of the the same conclutions as I did.
http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=9090497
"If you changed “Gwyn” to Dracula, placed him in the castle of Anor Londo, and played as a “Belmont” character, then this game could easily pass as the greatest Castlevania game ever made."
what the fuck is this anor londo bullshit.. just what the fuck?! they ruined the best game ever by making it open world - with empty and ugly areas and cheap ass mobs; demons souls was ace.. what the fuck is it
Yea, while playing Demons/Dark Souls, I went through the "best game ever" - "worst game ever" mood swings all the time. it takes a unique game to do that.
Yea, while playing Demons/Dark Souls, I went through the "best game ever" - "worst game ever" mood swings all the time. it takes a unique game to do that.
hahaha, too right I think we've all been in THAT place at one time or another during a play of Demon's Souls.
Just ordered this, gonna be interesting.. I've never been able to make up my mind if i'm gonna hate or like this hehe. I do like Boss fights (in for example Mario Galaxy or Metroid) and i'm feeling really fed up with games where there's absolutely no feeling of urgency or panic (Skyrim bores me im sad to say.)
Can you fall to your death in this game? Or is it like many other games where you're surrounded by invisible walls - that pisses me off, i enjoy dying that way if i fuck up
You can fall to your death yes... and you will... quite often I presume As for jumping? No, but there are context-sensitive areas where you will automatically jump.
i googled jumping and some people say you can, while others say you can't.
On this page it says you can jump
Jumping in this game is a task by itself Dont worry though you wont have to do it too often
As for falling to your death.. hmm..
I passed that place before.. is that just the devs trolling the players, you cant go there? That's a bit disrespectful if so imo, wasting thousands of people's time on something that isn't particularly funny.. Tried the jump 30 times or so before i gave up.
Overall i like the atmosphere, though the story and lore is cheesy as hell. "the land of the ancient lords, Lordran." Wow.. that's so... imaginative But i like the level design and it's quite challenging indeed. Some things really sucks like the fact that neither the game itself or the manual explains much of the core mechanics though.. FPS is awful at some (few) places, at one place it dipped well below 10.
I can't see myself finishing this, i'm gonna burn out eventually at some place, perfecting every fight after each death will undoubtedly get old.
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I jumped that no problem. Why people have problems? its second level
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odd.. i run and jump directly at the edge and i land with my legs into the wall on the other side, seems impossible. I've never managed to die there though lol, that was an incredible shitty jump from that player Is there anything there worth getting?
I don't remember... I think there was nothing or some empty barrels? I am not sure now
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I have played it maybe for 4 hours ... but no. Nothing. only chests.... oh wait! I found a running gem or crystal once. or something. In a barrel
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what the fuck is this anor londo bullshit.. just what the fuck?! they ruined the best game ever by making it open world - with empty and ugly areas and cheap ass mobs; demons souls was ace.. what the fuck is it
I agree that part of the game turned me off. Ugly level design and those 2 archers were just cheap, not challenging.
what the fuck is this anor londo bullshit.. just what the fuck?! they ruined the best game ever by making it open world - with empty and ugly areas and cheap ass mobs; demons souls was ace.. what the fuck is it
I agree that part of the game turned me off. Ugly level design and those 2 archers were just cheap, not challenging.
Yeah, i beat them in hardest way (died at least 15-20 times there). On my second playthrough i bought many poison arrows and killed them easy.
odd.. i run and jump directly at the edge and i land with my legs into the wall on the other side, seems impossible. I've never managed to die there though lol, that was an incredible shitty jump from that player Is there anything there worth getting?
You cant reach from there, obviously since you couldnt do it in 30 tries! You get there by jumping from the roof of the same house you are trying to jump out of. You get to the roof by another route. I think you get like a light crossbow inside.
Yes game can be challenging, by once you get the hang of fighting mechanics and get better gear and level up your character to your liking, the game is really not that hard.
Started as wanderer + master key. Going for kind of a samurai build char with a touch of magic.
Played for 2,5 hours.
Leveling up so far mainly vitality, one more attunement slot to get two, dexterity (going for katanas), and little on magic.
In 2 hours leveled up estoc to +5. Got 2 spear magic spells. Took way thru burg, havels, forest, undead parish, rang first bell. No deaths. Adventure continues. Next Im thinking about revisiting asylum, or open door in the forest to covenant...and then head doooownwards.
Next playthru I´m going to do Belmont perhaps. To bad you get notched whip so late in the game...
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I think we've all been in THAT place at one time or another during a play of Demon's Souls.
