Youtube red me a video recently, forget what it was about, but the guy mentioned 'Rogue, one the first rogue-likes' and that caught me off guard a bit.
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And than there’s Demon’s Souls just sitting in the corner I guess.
gets out his cane
You whipper snappers don’t know or remember King’s Field.
One of these days I'm going to play that.
If you're a fan of early first-person dungeon crawler RPGs, very much in the vein of Ultima Underworld (or maybe a Morrowind demake, with extra jank) then it might be worth taking for a spin. It has a lot of the 'early gaming' foibles, like having puzzles that are unfair, and killing you on a whim. The controls, mmm, give you a lot of thinking time, let's say. It's also derivative, "follow the leader, but on the PSX" stuff. But you can see that some love went into it.
"From magic" starts with Demon's Souls. Don't be expecting a bold experiment that defines a new genre with the KF games.
I always thought old Ben was a little too dismissive here. "Well of course I know him--" Oh, well excuse me Mr. Jedi-pants!

I mean, in logic any predicate A implies A. If we consider Souls Like to be some arbitrary subset of Dark Souls properties, then yes, Dark Souls contains them all.
But also, just because it’s a Souls game doesn’t mean it’s Souls Like, like DS3.

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