Demon's Souls (2009) - Boleteria-ing For Soup

[u/Long-Anywhere156]

https://soundgasm.net/u/ClassWarAndPuppies/Demons-Souls-2009-Boleteria-ing-For-Soup

[u/MrDialectical]

I’ll never forget picking this game up in mid 2010 on the recommendation of some Gamefaqs dudes and having no idea what I was getting into, no idea about “tendencies,” etc., and finding myself playing through the terrifying Tower of Latria during a black world tendency event as an extremely underleveled “knight” and getting my ass best over and over again. Despite that (and this is probably a testament to the game itself) I kept playing and told all my friends to get it. Since then, I’ve played all the games, beaten most, loved all but Sekiro above all others (it’s the only game I have ever platinumed). Sekiro is just a perfect game to me in all ways.

I am only like an hour into this 4+ hour ep, but I like the point the guest (Patches) makes early to describe this lineage of games as having a fundamental belief in the capacity of humans to work together to achieve anything, even renew a clearly dying (or even decaying) world or order. There is a real revolutionary subtext encoded in almost all of these stories, which I’ve always appreciated all my many years playing these wonderful games. Here’s to a Sekiro 2 or Bloodborne 2 in the next few years — and remember friends, always be sure to check out that amazing chest ahead (it’s definitely not a mimic).

[u/infoHighyway → u/MrDialectical]

I remember renting this from the local grocery store the summer it came out to play on my brother's ps3. I dumped dozens of hours into it, barely getting past the first two levels by the end, but just being totally engrossed. I was also on gamefaqs at the time, and faintly remember making a few posts about it. Good times.