I played YET ANOTHER 7 Souls-Like games you've never heard of
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- Опубликовано: 16 май 2024
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episode 5 of Steam Dumpster Diving with somehow even more "souls-likes" you (probably) haven't heard of
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0:00 Intro
0:30 Inferno Climber
4:34 Arboria
7:05 Fall of Light
9:17 Decay of Logos
13:56 Death's Gambit
15:53 Frenzy Retribution
17:53 Immortal Unchained
21:36 sponsor/outro
big thanks to help from:
Onua for creating the pose of the Elite Knight in the thumbnail: / odynom
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games played in order of appearance:
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Игры
Definitely give Dark Souls a try. It's a solid Monster Hunter-like.
I'd also recommend him Battlefield, a very well made Quakelike with some twists of its own.
Have you tried Doom Eternal? It's a fast paced shooting game that reminds me of Doom.
he needs to play Forza, it's the best Gran Turismo-like game ever
Totally agree on this, dark souls is pretty much monster hunter and nobody says that.
@@recca01982 Have you played DOOM 64? It's a really good CoD clone and the main character looks like they were inspired by halo guy.
The outro: 10/10, best advertising ever.
Bruh you've never seen internet comment etiquette's ads. I never skip one of his ads, they're hilarious.
Still, pineapple did a good job. This is the kind of ad that makes me want to buy the product just to support them for supporting creators I like.
Except, like the games in the video, Raycons are mediocre.
Okay this kind of outro would get me to consider because this is the exact kind of humor I like instead of really not that good segways everybody and their grandma uses.
Normally I skip every ad, but this one really caught my attention :D
(And the fact that he used DS3 makes it even better, it's my favorite souls game
@@colinmartin9797 eeteeeeeeeeeereeeeee
that "dog absolutely massacres you with lighting if you try and kill it" mechanic is actually a really good and should be in more video games
If that mechanic was in Dark Souls I'd cry.
I think small interactions in games like that a really fun and memorable
Loz chickens
Yeah like have a kind old man try to teach you the game and if you attack him once he warns you not to and if you attack him again you just die.
@@tiellimilin6622 Damn Chicken PTSD
" I would like to fight something other than a bug please, I've fought just bugs this whole time...
"
-Fallout76 player
Bro, you look like Shaggy from Scooby Doo
Also hollow knight player(not in bad way)
@@baranjan6969 Yes I loved Hollow Knight, although it's long as f@#k
T. Never played fallout 76 a single time in their entire life
@@funkymachine Do you have any idea how utterly broken that game was on release? It was completely fucked, even for a Bethesda game.
LOL, that "Life isn't always fair" take two steps * SMASH. I have to hand it to them, that's good comedic timing.
It's to teach the player to check carefully the way (in that room, the right passage is on the left).
Honestly, as soon as I read the hint, I knew the obvious path wasn't to be trusted.
@@thejester79 whyd you just steal the dark souls female death scream?
@@alapazam again: every SFX is from some collection purchased with the right license. It's similar, but it's not the same SFX.
@@alapazam (basically it's DS that took the SFX from the same library - yesterday I was watching an Anime on Netflix and also they used the same SFX)
"If an enemy is too strong for you, it means you are not ready to face it."
"Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes."
Did you know Bruce Wayne is Batman
Ppfftt, try to get enemy's hp to zero WHILE keeping yours above zero. Works almost every time for me
People die when they are killed.
-Shirou Emiya
@@randomnesscythe6028 If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life -Brooke Shields.
Just because you're correct doesn't mean that you're right.
Interesting that someone tried making a Souls-Like that was also inspired by Ico. Like, if you didn't know, Ico was the game that inspired Miyazaki to get into game design.
It's the CIIIIIRCLE OF LIIIIIIIFE
also ico is an older game from the same people as shadow of the colossus and takes place in the same universe, in a manner that makes the ending of shadow of the colossus a lot more depressing than it already was
I love how you don't just bash the games you play, even if they're pretty bad. You also point out the neat elements and stuff
Imagine you first time blindly run Dark Souls 1, talk to Oscar, he gives you estus flask and then goes like farewell muh dude, dabs and then dies. Would you even continue from such a strong point?
Only if Spooky Scary Skeletons faintly played at the Firelink bonfire, growing louder the closer you got to the catacombs. Obviously when you drop into the room with all the wheely bois the bass drops and the remix version blasts your eardrums out while they ravage your corpse against the cave wall.
Does this mod exist yet?
@@lamentz27 I want this mod to exist and I want to see a full playthrough.
You reminded me of my first time playing Dark Souls. lol. I didn't even know what "humanity" was, summonings were a thing, weight of armor, and to top it off I went through the spooky skeletons dungeon first and cleared it (boy was I stupid; I remember telling myself: "so this is why they say it's hard... you die a lot"). I went totally blind; the only place where I used the internet was wearing the ring to go fight what's his face.
Of course. It actually would make it better
I’ll be completely honest I got Deaths Gambit and I really really loved it. The director, Jean Canellas did look through the criticism like this. And they are coming out with a massive expansion for the game that will be completely free. It looks very promising with tons of new unique weapons and zones. Obviously this isn’t an ad but I genuinely believe they deserve a lot more attention.
From what I heard, most of the issues the game has(wonky level design, poor combat, limited weapons) are due to the devs planning a lot more than they could handle, and then needing to cut back like half of the content to ship the game on time.
I really hope this update fixes the game, since we effectively got half of what the kickstarter said it would be.
The DLC promises to ve game revamp, and i trust the devs on it.
100% agree I love Deaths Gambit have played it numerous times. I got a good laugh out of the whole ring two bells joke at the very beginning..
@@matterking1 The DLC will be free
Death's Gambit was very fun to play through, definitely deserves more praisem
Its sad to see people's wievpoint of dark souls is "make player die easy"
Yup. The Dark's Soul formulae is not that simple
If there's 1 thing I love about dark souls, it's the world. The amount of thought that goes into the level design and the lore behind locations are what make the experience for me.
Its fucking awesome!
It's a whole dynamic of different things it's one of the most fun games to make in my opinion! It's not just a rage game!
Hard but fair. With enough skill you can get past encounters on your first try even with surprises thrown at you; its all about adaptability.
I like to think its like running when it comes to the game's mechanics and fighting. Like an experienced Dark Souls player understands the core mechanics and can finish the game faster or die less from bosses and all, but those same players give themselves new challenges or PRs for the game. Dark Souls allows any player of any experience to create a challenge, but still complete it. A player with no experience even in RPGs let alone this style of RPG can still beat the game and even enjoy it. Like with running it sucks while doing it and you will get mad and want to give up, but you keep trying and when you finished it you are like "Hell yeah, I did it, now can I do it better?"
Decay of Logos: Open world Dark Souls with a barrel that has arms.
Elden Ring: Open world Dark Souls with a pot that has arms.
Coincidence?
You also get to ride an animal with horns in both games
Elden Ring confirmed to be the first Decay of Logos-like game
Oh, man. This is better than before. Can't wait for more, though.
2 MORE WEEKS!!!!!
Also the jump mechanic
also a dedicated jump button for both
"I'd like to fight something other than a bug."
Hollow knight would like to have a word with you.
Collector says hello.
Is the collector a bug? I remember it looking like a shadow person
@@f1r3-y_l1on2 its made of void, not a bug
@@andrelisboa7193 Wooo! Not a bug! I got one! Lol
@@f1r3-y_l1on2 the mask maker too, I think.
No they’re all just bugs
"Why do they give individual names to every single enemy?"
*Yakuza would like to know your location*
"Yaoi-san"
I see u are a man of Culture as well 🧐
@@dragonfly56flyswatter97 lol yakuza is quite popular. you dont need to be a man of culture for it
matabi shippuden i know the yakuza but idk what he's referring to. Does the yakuza individually name enemies, too? Idk. I'm not a man of culture
@@jonathanjoestar176 yes since 2005, also the whole "naming enemies individually" has been a thing since the 90s
I'm just shocked how aggressively GREEN everything is in Arboria.
2:01 Step 2: Wait for it to rain.
step 3 : use the ability of flying to destroy that bad game
@@TheTroll10 good*
The virgin you are coated in oil
The chad cover yourself in oil
“the second boss of the game is just the first boss with a different weapon” so its a God of War-like
That's exactly what I was thinking. The boss design looked so similar
Looks like shrek skipped leg day
God of War is lame as fuck
Exactly my thoughts!
I was having flashback of the Merciless Watchers in Chalice Dungeons instead lmao
"Play as an Orc girl"
Oh yeah, they're just tossing one out to the Orc Fandom with that character design right there.
It's a bad translation.
didn't know TLOU2 was a souls-like
whats wrong with playing as an orc :(
Can you actually say that it even looked like a orc, was more like cat looking random fantasy character.
sky Not a thing, but that was a catgirl.
"We cannot break the pots! Trash game." Amazing. Iconic. I agree.
7:28 hi, fun fact Luce in Italian means light, so it's basically ds 1 intro, bye!
11:11
It has ladder desync, its definitely just like Dark Souls
same thoughts
“Life is never fair”
*squashed*
I saw that coming
Oh, what a detective..
I did not on my playthrough :c
you never see it comiiiiiiiiiiiiing
So glad to see Immortal Unchained included. Reminds me how much I love Remnant: From the Ashes as a gun-play Souls-like.
Too bad it fails in so many respects. Because it looks nice for sure and there was definitely room for a gun-centric Dark Souls. The problem really seems to be that while Remnant did the same idea it actually CHANGED things to work with guns whereas a lot of this is basically "Here's Dark Souls but you have to beat every enemy with a time-consuming sorcery!". You can't just throw guns into Dark Souls with the mechanics completely unchanged and it work.
Iron Pineapple: *sees pot*
Iron: Target must be destroyed.
Stamina meter: **exists**
Everyone: OMG, THIS IS LIKE DARK SOULS!
Yeah this is an incredibly bullshit thing that happens too often now, people keep mistaking commonly used functionality or even combinations of them to originate from the game just because it also features them (and generally well implemented).
Bonfires are another example of things people too often seem to attribute as something unique even in base functionality (save/restart/restart and sometimes fast travel point that's need to be found and activated) - when it's more a matter of mechanical and contextual implementation that makes it stand out in From games.
If games don't have features that define Souls-series why even call it a souls-like? At least Rogue-likes and Rogue-lites generally make sense, because it's very specific functionality. I love getting recommendations as much as the next person, but it could use a much stricter definition imo.
@@drunkenmuse I think it's really weird because people could re-invent the simpler mechanics without any awareness of what Dark Souls is. I'm fine with people compartmentalizing things for their own understanding, but I don't like it when people say something is a rip-off because it has a few similarities.
Halcion Joy didn’t the stamina meter start in 90s rpgs like TES Arena or daggerfall.
death. exists
everyone. wow, life is really the dark souls of existing
actually, at this point I was looking at gravity!
I’m looking through all the comments and I just want to say I appreciate reading all the kind words, differing opinions on games, game recommendations, and overall feedback. Very cool comment section ❤️
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Hey, if you are going to make another one of these you could try Heretic 2, old game, but has some souls like vibe
Back to Ashes
Hello, I love your content!!! I hope you'll do yet another video like this and take a look at games like:
Lords of the Fallen.
Blasphemous.
Inner Chains.
They are somewhat known, so I don't know if they're unknown enough for you to review them, but I really hope you take a look at them.
That was genuinely the best sponsor bit I've ever seen in any youtube video. Rest of the video was great too, but well freaking done on making a sponsor section that doesn't make people wanna skip it immediately.
This one is my favorite:
ruclips.net/video/c5s3jGiJOcE/видео.html
It starts at 08:18
@@Markus-8Muireg a man of culture i see
You haven’t seen the ones from Internet Historian I guess
Bro, as a developer, your feedback really seems to help them! It’s pretty all around on what’s they game should work to became better... that’s awesome
"Donaldson" is exactly what I expect a japanese guy pretending to know american names would say.
That actually exists in it's highest form in a vid by ProZD(a list of "american" names made up by a Japanese person):
ruclips.net/video/oymWAeqv_-c/видео.html
@@kelsanggyudzhin2340 wtf?
@@kelsanggyudzhin2340 Thanks to you I now know of Dwigt Rortugal, aka Rortugal the Man
@@merobo5066 He was a good player, but he was no Sleve McDichael.
"I thought this was called Immortals UN-chained."
"Oh there we go"
*immediately jumps off cliff*
That's why the Immortal was chained: to not become mortal.
Yes i too watched the video
@@vehicularmanslaughter8601 got eeem!
Look at it this way, you're immortal so you don't stay dead :D
Thanks for introducing me to Arboria, been playing a lot of it and love it to death. It's a tad jank but in a way I like and the whole aesthetic and artstyle is so disgusting yet charming.
Something to note; by the time I played it the game was a lot more fully featured. More enemies and weapons and such, and the story is really intriguing to me.
I swear I keep re-watching this series like it’s a Netflix show. Love it
Not only did that third game use sounds from Dark souls, but i'm deadass certain the death sound of that girl you're escorting is, I kid everyone not, SERIOUSLY the sound Ashley makes when she's picked up in RE4.
Nope, it's the female death scream from DS1
Assassin's creed health bar.
@@matthewnoybn6656 saw the health bar and was like “isn’t that assassins creed II’s health bar?”
@@fieldrook1613 was I wrong tho
Look at a game called "Unworthy", it is a 2D souls-like metroidvania made by one guy. I bought it and I love the game so much
bought it day one its really too bad that it is so unknown
ITS NOT SOULS-LIKE IF ITS 2D
@@lives2872 what
@@lives2872 You don't know what you're talking about, just because you TYPE IN ALL -CAPES- CAPS.
@@lives2872 I guess salt and sanctuary isn't a soul like then.
Inferno climber really made "cover yourself in oil" memes before they even existed
If you get covered in oil it significantly increases fire damage and basically guarantees that the next fire damage hit you take will cause "Burn" which drains health quickly but also destroys paper items and any ice fruit (it's a long story) in your inventory.
I *promise* this is an awesome game.
So forgot he covered Arboria when I started playing it this week. MUCH further along and really fun! Definitely recommend at this point personally.
3:52
"I lived, I have one health left"
Chest: I'm about to end this man's whole career
Just Some Guy without a Mustache your like another Justin Y
@@davidhoenshell5068 Except he actually watches the videos he comments on.
Your brother, the one that has the mustache, is now just gone, I haven’t seen him in a week
@@NecromancyForKids no shit. He also has same description as justin y
But btw get this guy a freedom some people hates someone being too common or known
Pineapple really had that death coming for him.
I found this weird souls like game called "bloodborne" dont think too many people know about it
Ye that's a pretty weird name,never heard of it
Nope. I haven't heard of it, it's probably not on PC (and will probably never be).
I have it, it’s like a Cult Classic on the internet or something idk
No no, that's too popular. Have you heard of dark souls 3 though? Now that's indie
I heard about bloodborne but demon souls thats a wierd one
"Imagine if in Dark Souls you had to take naps" Yeah it's called Outward and it's annoying.
Also "orc girl". Okay cool so muscular, tusks, green ski- "CAT GIRL." Oh uh... okay. Generic it is.
Sleeping in outward isnt necessary
translation errors! small search has the chinese pinyin for orc translating literally to "beastly/animal person" which the character is at least
I quite enjoyed playing outward coop with a friend. Some of the mechanics were a bit tedious but I kind of appreciated some of the mechanics like sleeping and encumbrance.
I would recommend "Blasphemous"
2D souls-like. Takes a lot of liberties with the formula, but works quite well.
Was kinda heavily publicised and hyped, not really an "unknown" game or hidden gem
Yes man blasphemus is really nice
The devs of Arboria thought that Blighttown was the best part of Dark Souls, so they put bugs everywhere
"If the enemy is too strong for you, you are not yet ready to face it"...
And if you feel thirsty, you need to drink something.
People die when they are killed
Get experience by experiencing
Holy shit, that drinking trick worked! Thanks, buddy!
Floor is made of floor
To be fair you can literally interpret this as the game saying the enemy is too strong only due your lack of experience(with the game) or determination, thus you(the player) aren't ready.
"You can kick fish"... That is like, the best insult I ever heard in the history of evar!
I like how calm you are throughout every emotion you experience in each game, lol! Subscribed!
Man that orc girl is one of the most cursed character designs I’ve ever seen
"Orc girl" but catgirl but heavy rusted armour but scifi but samurai but tiny teenager body but... developers clearly had no idea of what they wanted. I am curious to see their original idea of "orc girl" before it became this mess of clashing ideas.
I mean... I love the idea of a cyberpunk Devil May Cry hack and slash thingy... But with a cooler design, and we have the Megaman Games and Metal Gesr Rising for that...
I just saw it what the fjuck is that
10/10 would fuck again
The Soulsborne series uses a lot of stock sound effects. Many of the ones used in Bloodborne such as opening doors, the new area noise, and visceral attacks are all used in one of the Jojo seasons.
Me and a friend actually made a document detailing all the dark souls sound effects we could find in various anime. I tried to document all the ones in Jojo, but they quickly grew to frequent to bother noting down.
Notably the same DS3 scythe R1 sound effect was used in Stardust Crusaders. a lot when stuff was being cut. I couldn't help but notice it because I hated that awful sound. I know the Part 3 anime came first but I watched it right after I replayed DS3 so that's why I noticed haha
Oh wow, interesting.
Reminds me of how Cleric Beast’s screaming is plastered onto all the Blights of Ganon in Breath of the Wild
That stupid stock pot sound effect used in every piece of media in the world. I can name 5 games off the top of my head, yet there is so much more that I believe it's impossible to name them all. ruclips.net/video/An1knjltzu4/видео.html here is the sound.
It's cool seeing all the different art styles between the games. Some of them look really great visually
I never actually knew you can kick fish before this video, thanks Arc System Works!
Death's Gambit is getting a complete overhaul at the moment. The changes might really push this game on a higher level.
16:00 "This is a third person action game where you play as an orc girl in a sci-fi city" but the main character is a catgirl? My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined. Good vid tho, you have the patience of a saint to go through some of these haha
Pretty sure it is a mistranslation and the original word was probably something like "demon", which changed to something like the japanese word "oni", which could then be mistranslated to orc.
@@SangerZonvolt You got it right, its Chinese and the word is "獸族", which can be orc or just "beastlike".
Copy-paste word "兽人" in google pictures, you'll understand immediately.
People shouldn't USE google translate!! Learn a language if you gonna effin make a game in THAT language
@@cherrydragon3120 yeah let's hire a translation team to translate our free demo into 6500 different international languages
Have you tried death's gambit since the update? The afterlife update completely overhauled the combat and other mechanics. Plus a way better story ending if you do some extra steps. I didn't really like death's gambit originally, but the update is A++ (at least for me).
Inferno Climber looks like they were playing with a lot of really cool ideas... And a very small budget XD
Looks more like a tech demo that evolved into half assed game, kinda like how tekken 1 was a tech demo
The really cool ideas do pan out if you give the game the time, by the end you're eating garlic fish to increase your attack power and keeping that food preserved in hot environments by keeping ice fruit in your inventory. Game is great!
@@USALeonHeart Don't get me wrong, you can do a lot on a small budget. I'm a freelance game developer, if I had the free time(and creativity lol) I'm sure I could make an awesome game for free. I wasn't saying low budget=bad by any means.
@@amgames5638 Not at all, I'm just a big crusader for that game as somebody who sunk a lot of pandemic lockdown into it. I detected no malice, just trying to spread the word!
@@USALeonHeart I'll take your word and add it to my wishlist, good sir. Thank you for your evangelism
i always find crash bandicoot put in the "souls like" category hilarious.
have you not played the original? It's a bitch! Makes senses why it's a souls like. XD
Most people have such a loose interpretation of souls like it's rediculous. So it doesn't surprise me that Crash bandicoot is somehow considered Souls Like despite predating it and working on different mechanics and systems.
It's just like the one game. He opens up saying it's like Diablo and Ico and yet somehow claims it to be like dark souls later without actually showing anything particularly dark souls to it that isn't part of either of those other games. yet somehow it's a Soul's Like.
@@Quandry1 It's like porn, I can't exactly describe what a souls-like is, but I know it when I see it. That said, I would not call any Crash Bandicoot game I have seen a souls-like, so unless the new one is doing something I don't know about that sounds a little crazy.
As for that one game. Most of the time it's users who tag games "souls-like", although some games talk about it in their advertising. If users call it that, they must see something. I dunno, I was not really paying attention during that bit, the game looked dull. There was dodge rolls and melee combat in a dark maze-like level though right? Depending on the combat, that is all it takes, throw in bonfires and you got a souls-like as far as most people think. That doesn't mean it's good.
@@Quandry1
Super Mario Bros 2 JP a Soulslike?
@@charliericker274 People throw that onto their games as advertising to suck people in and get them buying. Often whether it's true or not.
Soul's like has some certain characteristics or you might as well throw the whole term out (which I'm not entirely against) for Retro gaming to begin with. Partly because a lot of what the Soul's games do is retro to the point that to some of the older games things like Dark Souls Difficulty is not all that standout. neither is some of the clipping that some of the mobs do that was incidental in some older games but actually is intentional in some of the souls games purely to artificially ramp up difficulty and unpredictability. Nor is the respawning of enemies because some of those older games are actually worse about enemy respawns than a souls game is due to hardware limitations of the time.
What makes a soul's Game a souls game. Is a Combination of a classic 3D action adventure style, Mixed with a bit of a varied combat/gear based system and most importantly a somewhat rogue-like "death is not the end" way of handling player death combined with a somewhat unique leveling system that influence each other to a fair extent based on the points spent.
The problem is that more and more of the games that people call souls likes have little to none of these. It's a combination of these details that is important. Simply Being a 3d action style game with combat isn't enough. That existed way before the souls games and is not enough to narrow something down to souls like. The Atmosphere of the games often isn't even enough because without the story context to them the environments of Most Souls games are fairly generic. So you need to have a lot of the elements and more importantly some or prefferably most/all of the more unique mechanics systems in place to make it a souls like.
true Souls-like games do not have to drastically mirror each other in appearance and feel in truth. Games like BloodBorne and Nioh which take a lot of the same concepts and leveling system and often the "death isn't the end" approach to your characters proves this quite well.
This is true of some other "genre's" as well. If something is a metroid-vania. It has certain characteristics, mechanics, and play styles. Same with Rogue-likes. There are things that are distinct about them and there is not necessarily a lot of room for overlap. Even when there is some overlap there is often some key differences to the way they function to why they aren't the same. As is the case of some Rogue-likes and some Souls-like games. The key difference to whether one is the first or the second is in how they handle their specific "death is not the end" mechanic inherent to those kinds of games in the areas that they do overlap.
"so it's like dark souls with a permanent escort mission" - so basicly it's the manga Berserk
Big brain time
Griffith did nothing wrong!
i'm not weeb enough to understand this, explain
griffith got crippled by king made deal with devil like people, sacrificed his entire army unit which mc of manga and mc girlfriend are part of. griffith rapes girl friend and nearly kills mc. mc too angry to die
@@cakemanlink2852 I see what you're saying... But, maybe the old band of the hawk weren't such great people, maybe MC should have just done his job instead of leaving! MAYBE THE KING SHOULDN'T HAVE WANTED TO SLEEP WITH HIS OWN DAUGHTER!!
Also lets here griffith's side of the story about the whole "Rape" thing.
the amount of patience you have is amazing and thank you for testing these games for us so we know which ones are worth our time.
Immortal Unchained is actually really good it just takes a while to ramp up. NG+ is great.
Thank you!!! He gave the game such an unfair shake. It has a big following to it still…!!!!!
"tries to kill npc"
Npc : "so you have chosen.. death" *pulls out 5-hit combo*
NPC: "it's treason then..."
You might like DarkMaus, it's a top down "soulslike" where you play as a rat who can wield a sword/spear/Pyromancy etc, it also has a rather bleak artstyle being mainly shadowed gradients.
So. Its. Not. A. Souls. Like
@@lives2872 The bloody ogre fuck you talking about?
@@lives2872 What ? It's definitely a soul like.
Oh, yeah. I loved the game. Hopefully, he'll include it in the next video.
What I love about Iron is that he doesn't take the piss on anyone, he provides actual good advice about all games he plays in a manner which is better than 99% of so called professional reviewers. I think he would be excellent to hire as a before release qa.
I still love how when at the beginning, he says he is not covering main stream "soul like games," that Crash Bandicoot is displayed so sly in the back.
Lol the Last of Us 2 peeking up
WLF Member: "OMG THEY KILLED JAMES!"
Other WLF Member: "NOO NOT JAMES!"
Yeah I heard alot of repeated names
SKYLER!
Zoe! Noooooo
Not gonna lie, that joke killed me
WLF Member : nooo james you looking for trouble
Ellie : make it double
I love that, in the first game, every enemy has its own unique name, but an npc is called "talkative man" hahaha
Your reviews are always on point and the effort you're putting into the games (even when they're abysmal) is remarkable. My utmost respect, keep it up
Its impressive to see how far that rabbit hole goes. Like so many tried the dark soul kinda vibe. Even guns.
bro 8 seconds ago and its recommended
Was recommended 1 hour for me.
This is the importance to human history... that's why
It got recommended to me like 20 min after release
RUclips knows that you liked the past two videos with a similar name and content. he didn't upload a video like this in a while. of course its gonna recommend this video
3 hours
8:06 I'm pretty sure like 99% of all the miscellaneous sounds in Dark Souls are from some sample library.
I've literally heard the bloodborne parry sound everywhere
The ghru growl from the ones without weapons in ds3 is the same soune as the zombie noise from 7 days to die
@@TR-ru7wl I heard bloodborne parry sound on the old ML matchmaking
That might be true at a certain extent, but Fall of Light is a whole new level of doing that.
@@chrisgoody8018 finally someone else who noticed
Death's Gambit, despite it's flaws, is probably one of my all-time favorite games. I've played it enough know how to avoid basically every stupid thing that you can't control, though, so that's definitely a part of it. Can't wait for that free update coming later this year.
Okay, I will say, having like eight set characters that you have to rotate through when you die is a really interesting concept. Hell, do them after classic fantasy classes: paladin, gladiator, cleric, mage, rogue, archer, etc.
Seems like a neat idea for a different experience.
Each character also shares level ups, so when you have to take out a new character you get to build them to your liking. They each also have cool special abilities. The mage takes no fall damage, the knight ignores equipment requirements. Really good game!
Try Neopets: The Darkest Faerie. It's a pre-souls souls-like for children that grew up to become furries.
@Arnav Kumar No that's a post-souls souls-like for edgelords who hate their stepdad
@@MrAwesome401 i love your descriptions
Pay no attention to this charlatan! It is a good game, though.
i get where you are coming from, but i dont quite think its souls-y enough. i remember it being pretty like... standard action rpg? But it still would be fun to see reviewed in this format haha....
Oh god, the loading times on that game are horrible. Shame because the game's pretty fun.
0:19 Crash bandicoot N-sane trilogy, my favourite souls-like game
I was about to comment the same thing since when was crash bandicoot a popular souls like
@@robertlane6140 "its souls like because itshard"
@@robertlane6140 Ever heard of a word called 'joke'?
15:37 just imagine being in a restuarant where death himself is a chef
you should give death's gambit another try, they released a pretty big (free) expansion/update for it that basically overhauled the game in response to criticism. they updated the combat, changed game mechanics, added more metroidvania elements, updated the world and level design to accommodate for the new metroidvania elements, etc, along with adding more content.
I didn't play the original so I can't say how much it was improved, but I've seen people online say it was improved a lot, and I'm personally really loving it, having not played the original version.
what I can say is that the world is definitely more interconnected now than what you described.
there is a souls clone coming out called "Mortal Shell" looks pretty cool if im being honest
I played the games beta. It actually kinda sucks.
It seems pretty bad, tbh.
Don't listen to these jokers. It's VERY PROMISING and I enjoyed the beta immensely
Played the BETA and it was actually quite good, few janks but it is on a BETA so a very promising game coming in Q3
Its actually said to be more difficult than souls
3:50 award winning game just for that death, i genuinely laughed more than i should. @iron pineapple .. dude.. you should make a whole playthrough of this
I need more of these videos. I keep watching em over n over randomly.
Feed my addiction
love your vids, and thank you for making in video advertisements bearable and fun!
Dark Devotion is a rogue-lite Souls-like game that, imo, succeeds where Death's Gambit fails. It has great pixel art (which DG also has), the combat is more precise, and the atmosphere is thick with death and despair, with a plot even more vague and aloof than the first Dark Souls
I'm glad someone brought this game up
Dark Devotion is a fantastic game, but honestly, the "souls-like" comparison end with stamina based combat, that's it, everything else is way different even to Death's Gambit and S&S. It has the Zelda/Binding of Isaac health system, the progression is only rogue-lite in a sense that you unlock passive traits and weapons. The entire premise of the game is you getting locked into a single route and going down it, there is no way to go back to the previous room/floor/etc it's just going down and keep going whiling deciding on your build along the way
Just recently finished it, great game but has a minimal souls element but overall has a great tone similar to souls atmosphere
For sure the souls element is minimal. But I feel that's the case in a lot of souls-like games these days. The main traits being a stamina bar, difficult combat, and foreboding atmosphere. Let's call it a "souls-lite" rogue-lite then.
The aesthetic on that second game looks amazing, hopefully they actually turn it into something worth playing
It feels like an eastern european folktale
Too bad it has weight gain fetish bait
@@soulreaver6546 what?
@@rosaparks6479 yea like wtf you cant drop that bombshell on people and not elaborate
@@williambradd1800 I assume they're talking about the fairy gaining weight to puke into that machine...which is definitely weird when you write it out like that, still I don't know if I'd call that "fetish bait" so much as a strange detail in an already strange game. Now if it revolves solely around that then forgive me for being ignorant but otherwise I think they're blowing that part out of proportion putting it that way.
I could watch these forever I hope this series never ends
I do love all the sponsored segments from this series. They're pretty creative and quite enjoyable to watch.
3:55
"I died here..."
"The chest killed me..."
✓ chests can kill you
✓ there's a poison swamp
It's Dark Souls confirmed
Vigil: the longest night, Blasphemous (maybe too known tho), dreamscaper, Easter exorcist (highly recommend), Dark Devotion
Blasphemous is definitely too known to be in
Dark devotion had so much good stuff but falls sooo flat with its death and progression system
@@romank9611 Yeah , I really liked some of the bosses and the music is amazing , but the progression and items you unlock just feels so sparse.
@@mynameaintvalstrax7131 sparse is very soft way of saying it. You literally have to repeat the same paths and bosses over and over again to progress.
And items just killed me. If I wanted the best armour in game pre-endgame location I had to go through so much crap to get it and then be super careful to carry it through to the end. It was stupid af, or the weapon I liked I would lose if I die and have to again go through the same location to get it and then waste time to go further into the game with the weapon I like. If they would just have a better system, the game would have been sooo good
you forgot about unworthy its one the best souls like metroidvania
MAN death's gambit has come along way since this
I had an absolute blast playing deaths gambit. I enjoyed almost all the aspects of the game. And the music..its beyond good.
some other decent souls like, dark devotion, everpath, immortal planet, asura, shrouded in sanity, and animus harbinger (which was made the peeps im pretty sure made the first souls like on mobile, ire blood memory which i didn't mind if im honest)
@alex hernandez Every single title you mentioned sounds like a black metal band
@@toby4290 Thank you Dark Souls. For inspiring dozens of hackneyed rip off game titles.
I think he already reviewed Asura 🤔
Wasn't immortal planet featured in one of the previous videos?
Game: "Life is never fair"
Also game after a few seconds: *crushes player to death with a frickin pillar*
I guess life is no longer unfair, when you're already dead.
That would only mean Deaths fair, but life is not.
I think you meant "Life is no longer"
@@MidasButSilver Well I mean it does treat everyone the same
I usually skip every sponsor ads but yours was done neatly. I enjoyed it
4:50 , Puck has seen better times
HAHA THAT WAS GOOD
That has to be the smoothest advertisement i've seen in a while. I don't need them, but I will get a pair for you, just for that.
5:45
Ghoul dabs
"Oh come on..."
xD
Honestly felt the ad for the earbuds at the end was the best part. That was hilarious! Loved it
Managed to pick up Arboria for £6 today and it was pretty good, much more content since you showed it. I am glad the dev has kept up the updates.
"Life is never fair, yeah." *SMASH!!* That made me laugh so bloody hard that they decided to do that.
That's definitely a "y'know, I should have seen that coming, and I only have myself to blame for that" moment.
best part of this video by far
You should compile all of your favorite “soul like” games when your finished w your series :)
Yes ^^
Give Death's Gambit another go. The Afterlife update really turned the game around in like a No Man's Sky big kinda way.
I enjoyed the sponsored bit at the end. I've seen them sponsor many youtubers and they all seemed to be reading off a script given by Raycon themselves. And while yours sounded very much word for word the same but with dark souls humor thrown on top, it was definitely the most funny and interesting.
11:56 "Imagine in Dark Souls if your characters had to like, take a nap every once in a while, or you'd do like, half damage."
Literally durability, except that costs souls to fix.
durability was literally only ever an issue in ds2 tho
And only with that stupid unintended interaction with the PC port because From doesn't know how to code right.
@@kennydd2000 and with the tonitrus in bloodborne
@@wingwing8559 and phalanx spear in demon's souls
"Orc Girl in a Sci-Fi City"
That doesn't look like Gobbet at all!
You should totally revisit Arboria. It's fantastic. I haven't played it in early access so it's hard to judge how far it has come just from this video but there is TONS of content now.
i cant remember the last time i actually enjoyed a “commercial” lol your raycon bit at the end was hella funny 👍🏻🤘🏻