"This game is just like Dark Souls!"
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With Elden Ring's huge success, you might be hearing the terms "Soulsborne" and "Soulslike" now more than ever.
While they were mostly used for FromSoftware's Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, and Bloodborne series at first, these words now describe an entire video game genre that has become immensely popular in the past decade. While FromSoftware helped define this new subgenre of action games, there's now the question of if there are any Souls-likes that released before this term even existed.
With a bit of research, some blueprint paper, and a TINY bit of genre bending, this video aims to determine the definition of a Soulslike along with what can be considered the very first game to meet that criteria.
Also, check out these channels that inspired this video!
Iron Pineapple - https://www.youtube.com/c/IronPineapple
AesirAesthetics - https://www.youtube.com/c/IllusiveFiddler7R0M37H3U5_WinkWink
MadLuigi - https://www.youtube.com/c/MadLuigi
Casitive - https://www.youtube.com/c/casitive
Music used:
Eternal Ring OST - Leaving Story
Demon's Souls OST - The Beginning
Severance: Blade of Darkness OST - Map
Onimusha: Warlords OST - Dress
Dark Souls OST - Great Grey Wolf Sif
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time OST - Hyrule Field
King's Field OST - Opening
Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss OST - Descent
Castlevania OST - Wicked Child
Kevin Macleod - Robobozo
Kevin Macleod - Hall of the Mountain King
Elden Ring OST - Roundtable Hold
Elden Ring OST - Omen Illusion
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