Demon's Souls Remastered

DrDamn

I always thought the way certain archstones are better suited to certain classes was always interesting too. Like the Tower of Latria was horrible for low level melee classes but easier for magic based characters. I love the distinctive graphical feel of each archstone too.

I’m severely lacking in time so still only done 1-1 and the first shortcut in 2-1. I’m just starting to make my way through 1-2 though as there is a catalyst up a tower to get and the other is in Latria - I ain’t setting foot in there yet 😃

DrDamn

How are people finding invasions? Don’t spend too much time “alive” to notice them? Or better / worse than usual. I’ve only had one and he was fairly incompetent.

Brave

I’ve not actually been invaded yet. Edit: but yes I tend to indulge in risky behaviour when I’m human so as to avoid it altogether.

Latria spoiler: I’ve been dragged in by the old/mad monk, so technically I’ve invaded a couple of people,. but I’ve yet to have one actually make it to me. 😄 I got my silly hat for free, and have another spare if anyone wants.

In fact if anyone is able to get to 3-2, let me know. I’m having trouble summoning at the boss door there and could do with an assist on Maneater.

Gordon

I try to do all the starting levels for each arch stone, then all the second ones etc. No particular order, I’ll just pick one and poke away at it until it’s done or I fancy a change.

I don’t tend to get invaded much as I usually head back to the Nexus and jump off the top of the stairs as soon as I’m back in human form. That’ll learn ‘em.

DrDamn

Successful night last night. Made it to the Tower Knight and took him down first time with a team mate who did the majority of the work to be fair 🙂. By the time I’d run round the top taking out the archers the other guy had got him down to about 1/3rd health and he went down quickly after that. So got my catalyst and a couple of spell now.

As I had taken down the Phalanx and now Tower Knight without dying I was looking pretty rosy on the old world tendency front so I headed to that bit to the left at the very start with the normally locked gate.

Never got in here before so very cautious and excited. Three sets of spawning red mobs as you work your way through actually quite easy. Just number and how close they are is a little tricky - cheesy arrows from distance and soul arrows took care of that. I got blue knight helmet and a bunch of souls to cash in when needed. All good so far. I then found an entrance to a room and a mouthy lady with a shield and an axe. My sword (mail breaker+3) and magic (throw fire thing) barely tickled her! Might need a bit of assistance if someone is up for it?

Brave

DrDamn up for assisting matey 🙂

Brave

Just for reference re co-op.

https://www.pushsquare.com/guides/demons-souls-how-does-multiplayer-and-online-play-work#how-do-you-play-with-just-a-friend

How Do You Play With Just a Friend?
This Demon’s Souls remake adds a feature called password matchmaking which makes it much easier to group up with a friend. If you go the in-game Options menu, navigate to Settings, and go to the Network screen, you can turn on a password requirement.

Once you turn on the password requirement, you’ll only see the summon signs for people who entered the same password as you, and any summon signs you’ve placed can only be seen by other players who have entered that same password. This is a fantastic way to pair up with a friend as it bypasses the possibility of having a stranger summon someone into their game instead.

Using this password system also bypasses the level requirements for seeing a summon sign. You won’t have to be within a similar soul level to see the summon signs of someone with the same password as you, so there’s no need to worry about accidentally progressing too far past your co-op mates. However, do note that if one player is a much higher level, they’ll receive a debuff to try and keep things better balanced.

Brave

Man, that run to Old Hero is brutal. Had me near chewing my dualsense in rage.

Done it now but crikey, I’d forgotten just how much of a badge of honour this game is.

Gordon

Brave Yeah, that one is a real pain. Fighting those bloody skeletons on the cliffside path with a sword the size of a surfboard is hours of fun. At least old hero is fairly straightforward once you do get there.

I made a lot of progress yesterday. Got dirty colossus, dragon god, old monk, penetrator and storm king. Also fell down a hole while “helping” Dan.

Gordon

Here’s the trophy guide I mentioned earlier :

Jogort

Gordon that’s a helluva platinum list 😱

Brave

Cheers matey. I’ll be giving that a good look over after this run through. Got the Dirty Colossus done. So that’s all the world x-2 bosses and some of the x-3s.

Won’t be long before I’m done 🙂

DrDamn

Brave I’ll be giving that a good look over after this run through.

Yeah, I’ll be looking at Platinum runs after my first whatever will be will be play through.

Discovered my dragons are still very much alive, will stock up on the arrows.

Gordon

Jogort It’s certainly a bit intimidating. I think I’ll probably give it a go anyway.

Brave

Having now finished it, I have to say I think it was a complete triumph. It felt like I was playing it for the first time which is something I always wished I could experience again. Probably up there in my top ten lifetime gaming experiences. Definitely one of the greatest launch titles I’ve ever played; although yes, it’s a remake of one my favourite games of all time, so I was always going to say that.

The original was a triumph in world building and imo, gameplay innovation. Particularly in how much it utilised online play. That said, especially when you look back in comparison, it wasn’t exactly a feast for the eyes.

This one though. It has it all. It’s a visual and aural tour de force, the combat - if anything - is actually better. Just generally how they’ve managed to bring it back to life exactly as I remembered it, not how it was, is just a stunning achievement in my eyes.

I had to look back at some videos from 2009 to remember certain areas and it was actually quite a shock seeing what it really was like. Admittedly YouTube compression was awful back then but still it didn’t look good. 😉

I’m going to cleanse the palate with something else, probably “The Pathless”; but I’m definitely diving back into this soon. I’m going to try for the platinum. It’ll be slow going, but I’m a third of the way there now.

DrDamn

Brave It’s a visual and aural tour de force, the combat - if anything - is actually better.

60FPS makes a big difference I think, I’m a lot more confident in approaching a tough mob now and I’m more consistently getting the backstabs and parries in too.

Gordon

Brave Agreed with all of that. It’s just fantastic. I’ve barely touched the other PS5 games I got. Bluepoint have done a great job updating the presentation while staying true to the original game. I started a second run through following the platinum guide I posted above. Already got phalanx, tower knight, armour spider and flamelurker down. It’s amazing how quickly you can zip through it when you know where things are (and soul arrow helps a lot too).

Brave

Gordon Here’s me punching Gundyr to death. Re: our pugilist build conversation.

That was the end of hours of pad-chewing frustration, mind. It took ages to get the timing down. Soooo satisfying to get right though.

Brave

New update, coming in at 8GB. No notes so far, which is always a pain.

The most obvious change is that ping is behaving itself now. London server is sitting at 9ms for me. Instead of 3 - 4 seconds, Some folk are saying that there’s a change to how the password settings work. So you can’t password restrict inasions. 🙁

DrDamn

DSIII gets a bump to 60fps on PS5 … 😃

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