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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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I've still got a couple to clear off my backlog.

I've finished Bloodborne and Sekiro multiple times, have finished Demon's Souls once, and we're on our second playthrough of Elden Ring. I have not really played any of the Dark Souls, however.

DS1 was actually the first one I've ever played after watching PewDiePie play the game (holy shit, this was ages ago). I didn't really get the game and I didn't know what a soulslike is yet, so I dropped the game quite quickly after killing the Taurus Demon.

Fast forward to a couple years ago, I bought the DS collection for PS4 and started a playthrough of DS1 and DS3 which I've both played a couple hours of but then dropped again because I preferred the other FS games.

I would really like to play DS2 sometime soon, however. I want to know if the game is really as bad as people make it out to be or if it's just hyperbole.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Have you played Lies of P or Khazan yet? If so, Sekiro should be right up your alley. The game sports quite a difficult learning curve since it's so vastly different in combat flow and gameplay compared to classic soulslikes, but it's one of the influences for LoP and Khazan, I imagine.

Absolutely my favourite soulslike and my favourite game of all time. Took me three separate attempts to finally get into the game, but it was oh so worth it.