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>>182547 Each (especially Dark Souls) had dozens of times where I stepped around a corner and went "waaaaaah", this reaction that was half "wahoo" and half girly squeal of excitement, because I was seeing some new crazy-awesome thing up ahead.
Let me tell you about the worlds in Demon's Souls. -There is the crazy fusion between a massive castle and the great wall of china, battlements filled with soldiers and knights and siege weaponry, all of it being ravaged by hungry dragons. -There are the mines, with fire-breathing salamanders and goblin-esque miners bearing pickaxes and red-hot pokers, with elevators and winding mazelike tunnels and chasms leading down to red-hot magma flows. -There is the world of crazy gothic architecture, where you break out of a medieval prison and there's a cathedral and crazy networks of massive towers with mind flayers and gargoyles and a giant beating heart in the center wrapped in chains the size of your character. -There is the Valley of Defilement, full of filth and poison, rats and twisted plague victims with wicked rusty knives, and ramshackle layers off narrow cliffside scaffolding constructed out of rotting wood such that every step must me taken carefully, and the miasma fills the very air... -And then the windswept mountaintop with the crumbling ruins of holy celtic-style shrines where you duel falchion-wielding skeletons that charge in like total badasses and there are massive storm manta rays flying through the sky which fire MASSIVE CRYSTAL SPEARS for you to dodge when they pass overhead and the entire experience is the most metal thing since Brutal Legend...
And Dark Souls? Dark Souls has even more crazy dark fantasy variety and weaves it all together in this glorious interconnected web for you to explore. And it's got this crazy slowly-piece-it-together emerging narrative hidden away inside it (read the item descriptions (ESPECIALLY the keys)), with a process of steadily dawning comprehension that just... THEY'RE REALLY GOOD GAMES, MAN.
If you're gonna play one play Dark Souls, but if you're gonna play two (and are up for a wee bit more genuinely hard bits) try Demon's Souls first IMO? But seriously, don't miss out.
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