The environments themselves are incredibly detailed, and the various enemies you fight very well realized, but what I kept being impressed by was the lighting. It’s clear that Sony and Bluepoint intended this to be a truly lavish remake, and the game’s structure - essentially five long, mostly linear levels - provides an excellent platform for breathtaking visuals carefully tuned to the user’s experience. It serves as a showcase not only for the PS5’s graphical prowess, but its sound design, haptics, speed and OS.įirst, the graphics. Any review from the last decade is still completely relevant, down to the “magic is overpowered” and “inventory burden is annoying.”Īs a next-gen gaming experience, however, Demon’s Souls is as yet without comparison. I don’t want to give a full review of the game itself let it suffice to say that, although it looks and runs much better, the core of the game is almost entirely unchanged. The comparative few who played Demon’s Souls were elated to hear that it was being remade, and by Bluepoint at that (who also remade the legendary Shadow of the Colossus), but worried that the game might not stand up by modern standards.Ĭan an old game, the essentials of which are a decade behind its descendants, be given a really, really, really ridiculously good-looking coat of paint and still act as a blockbuster next-gen debut? Well, it kind of has to - there’s no other option! Fortunately the game really does hold up, and in fact makes for a harrowing, cinematic experience despite a few significant creaks.
“Souls-like” is practically a genre now, though the originals are unsurprisingly still the nonpareil. Its sequel, Dark Souls, was more popular and improved on the first quite a bit, but much of what made the now major series good had already been established. The original Demon’s Souls was an incredibly influential game. Demon’s Souls is the first title that can truly be called next-gen, and it shows - even though it’s a remake of a PS3 game… which also shows.
The next generation of gaming is here with the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X - except it isn’t, because there are almost no next-generation games to play on them.
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