Game Review: Demon's Souls
In the current age of video games, there isn’t a gamer anywhere who isn’t familiar with FromSoftware and their Soulsborne collection of video games. While their present accolades are impressive and their future is as bright as the burning sun, it’s important to look back at where everything started for this developer’s illustrious line of Soulsborne games. FromSoftware’s reputation for difficulty-driven gameplay was always ingrained in their DNA as far back as their Kings Field games for the PlayStation 1. With the dawn of the 7th generation of video game consoles, Sony’s Japan Studio collaborated with FromSoftware to develop a 3rd-person RPG which incorporated their trademark gameplay for the newest line of consoles. Demon’s Souls was the end result of that collaboration as Hidetaka Miyazaki and his team experimented constantly throughout the course of development to realize their vision of a modern-day, dark-fantasy RPG experience which didn’t shy away from providing the p...
