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Given Lemmy's size, the definition of soulslike may be treated relatively loosely. While games like the numerous FromSoft titles, the recent Star Wars Jedi games, Lies of P, Nioh and similar games should be the focus, games that incorporate soulslike elements - like Hollow Knight and Blasphemous, for example - may also be discussed here.

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[Discussion] What was your first experience with a Soulslike, and how did it go? (lemmy.zip)

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I had given DS1 a try on PC back when I saw the game played by PewDiePie (jesus this was ages ago) and didn't really get the game at all; keyboard controls prior to PTD edition probably didn't help either lol

My first real venture into soulslikes was Bloodborne and it went horribly to say the least. I killed the Cleric Beast and Gascoigne the first evening I tried the game and put down the game afterwards but it was just too much for me. I was scared, didn't know what I was doing, and it was just waay to hard for me.

Took me a couple of years to get back to it and give it another shot. One of my all-time favourite games today.

How about you guys?

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[–] umbraroze 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I got Dark Souls for free on the Games with Gold on Xbox 360.

Was like "hey, this seems pretty nice, love the art style and music."

Only months later I heard this was supposed to be this notoriously hard and frustrating game for real pros.

I was then like "Well it did seem a little bit unforgiving, yes. Maybe I should leave this for later. You know, after I've 100%d Metroid Prime 2."

(Metroid Prime 2: Echoes on GameCube is balls hard. I beat the last major area boss. Then my Mad Catz memory card died. Did the whole game again. Beat it. Didn't get 100% because I missed one scan. I will do it again, probably soonish now that I've dumped the disc for Dolphin, but I'll wait a moment if there's a Switch rerelease.)

I have enjoyed some other Soulslikes - Elden Ring is great fun even though my tangible progress is quite slow.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Wow that's brutal. Hope you do get around to finish Metroid sometime!