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Yeah i could agree with that. I think soulslike and roguelite can overlap but here its not quite a soulslike. The main thing it’s lacking is that there is no real loss for death other than you lost your run so no “run back” risk trying to get your souls. I also think that it doesn’t quite reach the difficulty id expect from a soulslike, since the game seems to be a little more geared towards setting you up with gear intended for building combos off of. That just naturally brings down the game difficulty.

But, it’s still fun. Finished another boss this morning and going to be doing the 3rd tier runs now.

Ive been playing Curse of the Dead Gods (from the giveaway- thanks again!). I’m currently through 3/3 of the first tier runs and 2/3 of the 2nd tier runs (then 3x3rd tier and 1x 4th tier from what i can tell without spoilers).

I’m having quite a bit of fun with it. It’s a roguelite that has some interesting combinations of your gear (weapons+relics) + curses (which are generally bad but some have bonuses in addition to the bad). Last run i did i had a relic that gives +1 constitution any time i was under 50% health when entering a new room, a claw weapon that scaled with constitution, a 2 relics that healed me 16% per room, and another relic that gave me 100% of damage taken as gold. So basically every room i was triggering traps to go down to 34% health and make several hundred free gold which in turn also scales my weapon. My claw weapon was doing 50 damage per strike and shredded enemies. I almost beat the 2nd boss of that stage no-hit on my first attempt because it was such a strong combo lol.

Nightmares

I completely forgot this game was a thing. But not planning on buying a switch2 for one game

Would love Lies of P. Saw a bit of a boss fight on a stream and it seemed right up my alley. Haven’t heard of a lot of those though

Since you say you’re pretty lore oriented then i would start with DS1. It holds up. If you were just meh on lore then id say dive in with DS3 since that’s my favorite fromsoft game

I’m not sure id define it as “favorite”, but when i think about this the most memorable skill check boss that comes to mind for me is Dancer (ds3). Whether you accidently come across her early or doing it later she can be a considerable fight. Though unfortunately she can be cheesed so it does lose some value from that

Haven’t played demon souls. Didn’t love elden ring. Of the remaining DS3 is my favorite but part of that i think is just because it’s the most familiar. Sekiro and bloodborne i loved as well. If i had to choose i think bloodborne 2 because id love to see more of that story the most alongside new atrocities, and i really loved the layers of exploration/shortcut it brought.

I’m curious, when you say sekiro has so much untapped potential, does anything in particular come to mind?