PlayStation 5, November 2020
Series : Souls Orig.Developer : FromSoftware Port Developer : Bluepoint Games : Genre : Action role playing game Other Tags : Souls-like Remake of Demon's Souls (2009 PS3) Trophies : truetrophies.com
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Review
The original Demon's Souls revolutionized action RPGs for decades, but had some limitations in terms of graphics, sound, and performance. This remake didn't just fix all of these issues, but went above and beyond and made one of the best looking and sounding games I have ever played, even beating the presentation of FromSoftware's own modern titles such as Elden Ring. This remake is very easy to recommend for anyone who's interested in any Souls game.
2025-09-16
(great)Facts
- I couldn't get HDR to work with my Elgato 4K60 S+, but I just received word from Elgato Technical Support:
Change the '4K Video Transfer Rate' from 'Auto' to '-2'
- 4K Video Transfer rate 0 and -2 means chroma subsampling 4:4:4 and 4:2:0, respectively. 4:4:4 means that color information is at the same resolution as the brightness information, 4:2:0 means that the color information is at half the resolution as the brightness information. So the image should look a little less sharp than before.
- The Large Sword of Moonlight can be cut down and found surrounded by slugs in 5-2, 'Leechmonger Archstone'.
- The Armor Spider is weak to Magic damage. Sticky White Stuff applies +110 Magic Damage to a weapon for 60 seconds.
- A Regenerator's Ring can be found in Shrine of Storms 4-1, to the right of the first gate, on the other side of a small wall. It's possible to do a roll from the stairs to the wall in the tower above (take armor off).
- Faith increases number of Miracle slots ([Faith:slots] [10:1] [16:2] [24:3] [40:4]), effectiveness of Miracles, and Magic Defense. Intelligence increases max MP.
- Saint Urbain, who sells Miracles, is at 4-2, after The Adjudicator.
- Magic spell efficiency depends on Magic stat, spell slots and MP depend on Intelligence.
- Talisman of Beasts can cast both Miracles and magic spells. It is a quest reward from Mephistopheles for killing Ostrava. Mephistopheles can be found in the Nexus if the character has pure black tendency.
- Freke's Apprentice will teach you magic spells once your Magic stat is 10.
- Reason to upgrade shields: Guard Break Reduction reduces stamina lost when blocking, and higher levels allows blocking stronger attacks without breaking guard.
- The way from the Stonefang Tunnels maze to the Flamelurker is in the lava pool, to the far right when coming out of one of the tunnels. Enter the far right tunnel and take the first right.
- Enable weapon modifications: After killing the Flamelurker, bring the Searing Demon Soul with you and exhaust Ed the Blacksmith's dialogue in 2-1.
- kouryakubo's maps are still amazingly useful.
- The Reaper in 4-2 is vulnerable to fire, and strong against magic.
- World 2: I recommend using a blunt weapon or a spear.
- World 4: The Thief Ring is useful throughout to avoid getting hit by the Storm Beasts. Early on, use blunt weapons (even your fists) and later on, use fire weapons on the Reapers.
- World 5: Use fire weapons. A fireball type spell is also useful.
- You can trade one Talisman of God (to the right of first fog door in 4-1) and one Gold Mask (from below the heart in 3-2) for Colorless Demon's Souls with Sparkly the Crow. Only one of each.
- Maneater (3-2) and Dirty Colossus (5-2) are weak to fire. Old Hero (4-2) is weak to fire and poison.
- Yuria, the Witch teaches spells. You can rescue her by:
- Get Iron ring of keys and Official's Cap by killing the two Fat Officials in 1-4.
- Go back to the prison before the Tower Knight fight and unlock the prison door.
- Kill Fat Official to get Bloody Iron Key
- At the start of 1-4, unlock gate behind dog carts
- Go to tower and equip the *full Official's set* (Cap, Gloves, Clothes, Leggings)
- Kill Fat Official
- Unequip Official's set and talk to Yuria
- When you're not locked on to an enemy, you can free aim ranged spells by facing your character forwards and pointing the center of the screen on your target.
- How to invade another player:Use the Black Eye Stone in soul form.
- How to play co-op: Use a Blue Eye Stone.
- The 'shopping list trophies' King of Rings, Sage's Trophy, and Saint's Trophy must each be on a single character.
Soul Remains distract enemies, including Reapers!! I used one on 4-2 to trivially get past the 3rd Reaper.
After beating the world 4 boss, 4-3 with the Storm Ruler is a great farming spot.
Analysis
How to handle a Reaper: Snipe with 10 arrows. Don't melee.
