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glilimith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• GrantUsEyes@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Go for Elden Ring!! If you have not played any soulslike before this game is a great introduction to the genre. It’s also so BEAUTIFUL, the lore is amazing, and most importantly…it’s so fucking fun! An experience you won’t forget.

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• BurntWits@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Personally, I’ve never played the Ace Attorney games so I can’t comment on them, but between Elden Ring and Lies of P I’d suggest Elden Ring if you’ve never played it. Lies of P was fun but it never quite hooked me the same way. Also if you’ve never played a Soulslike before, Elden Ring is a fantastic place to start. The DLC is also amazing, and is probably my favourite add-on content of any game ever. It was a bit controversial at launch for being very difficult, but I think that’s kind of the point.

  Elden Ring is definitely the easiest to get into, but I think by the end becomes the hardest of all the Souls games on a normal playthrough. Due to its open world though it is easy to trivialize the game if you’re really struggling, with the exception of the final boss of the DLC who is just a brick wall no matter what (or at least was at launch, I haven’t played the DLC in a little while so that might’ve changed). Elden Ring wasn’t my first Souls game, but it was for all my friends who played it, and they all loved it just as much as I did. I’d put it in my top 3 of all time, maybe #1.

  With all that being said, Lies of P is still a really good game, and I’m sure other people feel differently than I do comparing the two, those are just the thoughts of a massive Elden Ring fan so maybe take it with a grain of salt.

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  • glilimith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’ve bounced off a couple souls games before but I’m now like 150 hours deep into elden ring on a friend’s copy, lol, but they only have the base game. I’d like to play the dlc (which is not on sale) eventually so I think it makes sense to get my own copy at some point (I’ve heard transferring saves is pretty easy on pc)

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    • BurntWits@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That’s a good point, I hadn’t thought of it that way before but you’re right. As much as I love Sekiro and Dark Souls they don’t really encourage you to do better, more just punish you for messing up.

      In Demon’s Souls, when you died the first time you were stuck at 50% max health until you regained human form, and dying in human form darkened the world tendency.

      In Dark Souls, if you got cursed your health was capped at 50% until you removed the curse which wasn’t free. In the original build of the game the curses stacked all the way to 1/16th of your max health but thankfully they changed that.

      In Dark Souls II you lost a fraction of your max health after each death until you were down to 50%.

      In Bloodborne, your heals didn’t replenish after death so each time you healed and died you lost that heal and would have to go around finding more heals.

      Dark Souls III wasn’t too punishing, I can’t think of anything at the moment that was super punishing about that game. It was my go-to recommendation for beginners until Elden Ring for that reason.

      In Sekiro, every time you died you lost half your money and couldn’t get it back. You also had a chance to make a random NPC sick which would prevent you from continuing their quest until you healed them, which wasn’t easy or cheap. The chance to get someone sick also increased the more you died. I think the baseline was 13% chance to get someone sick, and increased every subsequent death until it capped at 50% each death, though there was a way to reset that number.

      Elden Ring is kind of like Dark Souls III in that it doesn’t really punish you for dying, which I think is the right approach. If you go with Elden Ring and love it, and do the DLC and love that too, I’d strongly recommend going to Dark Souls III next. It’s the closest to Elden Ring.

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      • Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I like to try to recommend people who are interested in Souls games to start with Dark Souls 1. If that’s your first soulslike the bosses will still feel epic and it will be a magical experience. If you start with Elden Ring or DS3 and go back to Dark Souls you will get completely underwhelmed.

        Between Pyromancy, Zweihander and Poise DS1 is also by far the easiest of the games, even for newcomers.

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• QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The only one I don’t have is the Miles Edgeworth one, I still need to start Apollo Justice…

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  • glilimith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Edgeworth’s games are very different in structure but SO GOOD. I played the first one when it came out and it instantly became my favorite in the series. I still need to get around to playing the sequel though, lol.

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    • QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I like that Modern Capcom aren’t jerks… and that the entire Ace Attorney series is on Steam.

      I never really played Apollo or anything beyond.

      I was in the camp of “Trials and Tribulations was too definitive an ending to continue.”

      And I think so were many others. I hear Apollo Justice didn’t sell that well which is what lead to the other Apollo games being named after Phoenix

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