Dengeki hints at Demon's Souls 2?? Whatever it is, Fall 2010!

[binary solo]

lestatdark said:

Slimebeast said:

binary solo said:
Let it be an official launch of Demon's Souls to the rest of the world first please. It's completely arse that a GOTY-worthy game is denied (or at least made difficult to obtain) to so many gamers.

Once that happpens then I'll cheer for Demons' Souls 2 (but only if the put they apostrophe in the right place this time, or just drop the "s" altogether, 'Demon Souls' works just fine).

I thought both variants were accepted in English. "The Demon's Souls" - one demon who has several souls, isn't that correct?

Actually the title makes a lot of sense if you take in the context of the entire game. It's not meant as the souls of the demons per se, but as you, the collector of demon's souls, or to the old one, the creator of the demon's souls.

's is only correct if it's one demon and 2 or more souls, but in the game there are a multitude of demons each with one soul to collect. Maybe the boss demons have more than one soul? I don't know because the game isn't available here. Anyway regardless of the number of souls boss demons have its multple demons and multiple souls; therefore s'.

In any situation where it's more than one demon and the word is being used in the possessive sense then it's s'. If Demons is only being used in the plural form with no possessive element then having an apostrophe at all is an even bigger grammatical crime than putting it in the wrong place when one is required. If the prhase is only meant to refer to the plural with no possessive element then the correct form is "Demon souls" you don't pluralise both words (you pluralise souls because what your talking about is a whole bunch of souls, all of which happen to be of demon origin).

@ Lestadark: in both your examples Demons' is still the correct way of writing it, in both cases it's more than one demon so it's using 'Demon' in a plural-possessive sense.

You're always on less shaky grammatical ground if you try to avoid apostrophes. Hence "Demon Souls" is both a correct title, being descriptive of what the game is about, and isn't open to grammatical criticism.