Your attack power actually goes up by 50 percent when everything is aligned properly, which means that you’ll probably be able to take down every enemy without them even getting a turn. And you also get quite a few bonus coins at the end of battles both for solving puzzles perfectly and for taking no damage.

The amount of projection here, I feel like I’m at one of those laser light show concerts.

Is this another one of those games where the enemies all strangely wait around, attacking one at a time?

“I’ve had a Black friend on my boat.”

Just don’t you dare take this away from me, you flippin’ white supremacists.

Was about to say, way ahead of you, Japan.

A quick search turned up something about her contesting the military’s practice of having female officers dress up in burka in a region to avoid offending the local patriarchy.

YOU WANT TO VOTE FOR SOMEONE SMARTER THAN YOU! THAT’S THE POINT!

Except the context was the person she was responding to; it was other people who screengrabbed without showing what she was responding to, which—when put next to her response—put it in a pretty clear context.  It wasn’t her fault other people stripped it out.

Oh, they pause. They consider. And then they lol.

“It was fear of violent protests.”

Hey, I certainly wont begrudge FromSoft from making money on what works for them. I just wish, say, Bloodborne—which was a great game—just had a bit more to make it not feels so narratively incomplete (which it sounds like they did at one point during development, but ended up cutting most of it). Or Dark Souls…

Real question: is the Wendy’s not already on fire in this video? I assume she’s tossing accelerant on already enraging flames?

Aye, “dreary” is a perfect descriptor.  I certainly found it fascinating, I’m not surprised it would impact some like that.

It would help if people didn’t seem to respond to reopening with “it’s over!  no more masks!  no more social distancing!  heck, let’s throwing massive, crowded parties!”

They are very close together aesthetically, but I’d still say Demon’s Souls is more dark fantasy (mud and rust, stone and mortar), while Dark Souls is more mythic fantasy (like a gloomy faerie tale).

Still, while sad to see the loss of that aesthetic, there was probably no way to really translate it over to improved graphics. A lot of it was probably dictated by the limitations of the hardware.

It worked for Dark Souls 1 as well.

My response to the first trailer for this game, between watching Ellie kiss her girlfriend to her swearing bloody revenge on “all of them”, I didn’t think I’d be picking this game up anytime soon. “No thanks, not interested in watching Ellie’s love interest get killed off yet again, and maybe even raped too, because…

RIP dark fantasy aesthetic, Long Live the mythic fantasy aesthetic.