Almost beating Demon Souls, level 87 and only missing the final boss. It took me only 21 hours, this is probably less than half of what I needed for Dark Souls

I was expecting it to be a bit longer, I got underwhelmed realizing x-3 maps were basically only boss fights

Overall awesome game, really, probably the best I've played this year. I think I enjoyed boss design more here than in any Dark Souls, which have good bosses but I feel 80% of them is just about memorizing patterns and acting fast without needing to understand arena layout or how the bosses works. I actually like some of bosses are about only using arena inbyour favor.

Overall the magic build made everything easier than I'm used to, magic is extremely overpowered here some bosses were trivialize once I understood what to do with them. I guess I have beaten at least half of them without dying one single time, this is satisfying as Demon Souls layout put you very far from archstones with few exceptions

I've also found fighting with sorceres much more fun than with knights, I'm satisfied to finally getting a magic build working after many frustrated tries in DS lol

Level design is much better in DS though. It has much more clever maps with more things to discover and explore. I remember besting it and running to play it again only to see what I missed. Here... not quite really, I'm satisfied for now, I will try other game only for the please of testing another build. Dark Souls plays more like a 3D Metroidvania, while here the structure is much more linear (1-2 and 3-1 are the only maps that I can remember using items from later maps to unlock secrets)

Hopefully FromSoftware won't stop making Souls like games with tight design, I will miss them if they only go to open worlds like Elden Ring :/

Trying to decide what game I'll beat next, maybe FF 7 remake again or Crash 4

So apparently an older internal pitch slide was leaked (unconfirmed). However, VGC claim the images on the right are real (pitch footage). 

Seems like a good business proposition and not that expensive, the only question is the dev capability.

Curious to see what Santa Monica's second project is and curious to see what Bluepoint is making. 

Its hard to have any confidence in Bloober Team lol. 

Apparently you can't get the platinum trophy without buying the DLC which is kind of scummy lol

Oh so I don't actually have to fill my hard drive up with games, I just have to start downloads for games that would fill it up... that's kinda' weird how it works lol, I'll have to give it a try! 

Are you doing it ona PS4 or PS5? I scrolled up that thread and apparently someone confirmed it only works on a PS4, welp!

Anyone think we might see SM2 at the Marvel/ Disney event?

I feel like it wouldn't be unexpected. I suspect there'll be a ton of eyes on that stream itself and that only works in Sony's favour if it's like 'cool multiplatform game + cool Sony exclusive'.

I'm wondering if there'll be a PS Showcase in September at all. I'm honestly leaning to a GoWR SoP with 1 or 2 games before the presentation begins (like the Ratchet SoP).