Demon’s Souls is an action role-playing game developed by FromSoftware for the PlayStation 3. It was published in Japan by Sony Computer Entertainment in February 2009, in North America by Atlus USA in October 2009, and in PAL territories by Namco Bandai Games in June 2010. While the game met with middling reception and sales in Japan, it became a commercial and critical success in the West. A remake by Bluepoint Games and SIE Japan Studio, was released as a launch title for the Sony PlayStation 5 in November 2020.
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Demon’s Souls is an action role-playing game developed by FromSoftware for the PlayStation 3. It was published in Japan by Sony Computer Entertainment in February 2009, in North America by Atlus USA in October 2009, and in PAL territories by Namco Bandai Games in June 2010. The game is set in Boletaria, a kingdom consumed by a dark being called the Old One following its release through the use of forbidden Soul Arts. Gameplay has players navigating five different worlds from a hub called the Nexus, with a heavy emphasis on challenging combat and mechanics surrounding player death and respawning. Online multiplayer allows both player cooperation and world invasions featuring player versus player combat. While the game met with middling reception and sales in Japan, it became a commercial and critical success in the West. Its success began a series of Souls games starting with Dark Souls in 2011. A remake by Bluepoint Games and SIE Japan Studio, was released as a launch title for the Sony PlayStation 5 in November 2020. The game incorporates multiplayer elements into its single-player campaign, as well as pre-written messages on the floor that can help others avoid the same fate. During the campaign, players briefly see the actions of other players in the same area that may be hidden in the game. When a player dies, a bloodstain can be left in other world that when activated can show a ghost playing out their final moments. The player character is granted a starting character class, which further influences their stats.
By defeating an enemy, the player acquires Souls, which act as both experience points to raise various statistics; and the game’s currency for purchasing new weapons, armor and items. As the player invests, the number of souls required increases. Along with souls, players can retrieve items such as weaponry and ore for upgrading. There are 22 bosses in thegame including Real King Allant and two Maneaters, and four bosses are optional. There are four optional bosses that can be added to the game if the player chooses to do so. If a player is killed during a level, they are sent to the beginning of the level with all non-boss enemies re-spawned, while the player returns in soul form with lower maximum health and the loss of all unused souls. If they are killed before then, the souls are lost permanently. The world is divided into six areas; the Nexus hub world and five additional worlds subdivided into four areas which each end in a boss encounter. There is a hub where players can exchange souls, store items and progress through any other regions of Demon’s Souls. After completing the initial portion of the first region of the newly available regions of the PlayStation Network’s Souls make use of the asynchronous multiplayer for those connected to the network. If the player manages to reach their bloodstains at the point where they were last killed, they regain their lost souls. : 22–23 The player can choose to re- spawn back to that location, marked in the form of an Archstone.
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