Demon's Souls Remake Review Thread - Metacritic started at 92

[DonFerrari]

Runa216 said:

DonFerrari said:

Runa216 said:

Just played as far as the phalanx boss and loved every second of it. Despite it being old and even the devs admitting to making it remain clunky (they wanted to preserve as much of the feel of the game as possible), it actually feels sleek as hell. I thought that might be because it's 60 FPS, but nope! Scholar of the first sin was also 60 FPS and that game felt bad.

So far I think it balances the feeling of familiarity with being new and exciting all over again. I voted 86-90 because most remakes go down a notch or two (so my official prediction is 87), but hot damn this is a good game. I could see it doing 90+, just like Bloodborne.

I still think Dark Souls 1 and 3 are better games, but I won't hold that against it. This is still an absolute winner. Now if only I could get the remote play functionality to work.

Don't take it seriously, but on youtube review of this game a lot of xbox fans were saying "everybody knows Dark Souls is much better than Demon's Souls".

I mean, Demon's Souls is an exclusive so of course they'd say that. However, there is some truth to it. Demon's Souls was a sort of prototype, Dark Souls was where they really started refining the formula. Both are great, and I'm not sure if I prefer the relative linearity of Demon's Souls or the pseudo-open-world of Dark Souls. Both gameplay styles have their place in gaming, so it's hard to chose one over the other. 

That is where the caveat of respecting the original game comes in. Since they preserved the code and all to keep the gameplay the same they can't really put the improvements in game design and others into the remaster.