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this was fun! thanks :)

One of our community members @Skua@kbin.earth at !soulslike@lemmy.zip put together this Elden Ring video theorizing how the lands between and lands of shadow were geographically connected.

What are your personal favourite soulslike theories? Drop by and join our discussion

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Somehow it works for me. Pairs well with the reading I suppose, I like imagining the voices and such.

I’ve dabbled. You’ll be pleased to hear then that I started Withering Rooms , and even tho I haven’t seen much of it yet, (Defeated the first boss and unlocked an… important area) I can say find it eerily-adorable; and it’s exactly the kind of thing I crave deep within, I even like the combat! Thank you for talking about it.

Am I slowly discovering that this genre isn’t for me anymore?

The day you quit playing soulslikes is gonna be a sad day for me (╥﹏╥).

Kind of. I’m not really talking about boss fight difficulty but as the whole game in general. I answered some of it in my response to Burnwits above. Particularly this section

To further elaborate Both DS1 and DeS have easier bosses yes. But mechanically, they both have stuff that personally gave me more resistance, that I think.adds to the whole “difficulty” thing. This is personal of course

for example navigation was harder in DS1 to me. I died so much traversing the world in this game more than any other mostly to gravity. Thats on me, of course. And… figuring out the god damn world tendency in DeS. Figuring out Dragon God.etc. I’ll admit as well it’s because I’m a dummy. But it makes the game harder to “solve”

But DS3 felt easier to me because mechanically it’s very… like proto elden ring? (With easier fights) And I know exactly what the game wants from me an how to deliver it. No friction at all.

I had practically the same experience with bloodborne, and I was an inexperienced gamer so to say I struggled at first is an understatemet :P

I’ll admit I’m being a little cheeky saying DS3 it’s the easiest (conveniently ignoring the thousands of hours I have poured into these games XD) I’ll clarify that it’s not to diminish the game, but, the formula feels so ironed out in this entry that its what I’ve felt like playing through it.

there is a notorious lack of weird stuff, like world tendency or progression order to figure out, no much risk of gravity and restricted mobility, or even something like the root chalices… I have not played DS2 but I know it’s qUiRkY, so I really wish DS3 had something bizarre going on.

All in all, I can see why it is a lot of people’s favourite.

( and the jump in quality in fabric physics from BB to DS3… huge! )

Not had much time to game these past few weeks but managed to squeeze in a little bit of DS 3 to get back to where I was before my save went kaput.

Easiest soulslike I’ve played made even easier by the Farron Greatsword. Very fun!

After I tried again yeah, too late tho XD

Same for me, but I found the link works on the web app. ( then clouflare repeatedly told me to fuck off. ) ;(

Sekiro…I think I’m entering late game and I’m elated. It’s such an elegant game, from the aesthetics to the combat. What an experience it’s been.

I’ll share a lil meme I drew the other day. :P

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So beautiful, they look like popcorn!