Why Demon's Souls' Design Encourages You to Quit

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Game:
Demon's Souls (2009)
Duration: 8:30
28,693 views
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In todays episode JM8 dives into the designs that were forgotten on the cutting room floor of From Software's offices. How it punishes its struggling players with its over abundance of negative reinforcement loops.

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Timestamps:
Introduction - 00:00
Bad Beginnings - 00:31
Laborious Loop Lecture - 01:20
Redesign Time - 02:53
Designing a Demon - 03:22
I Don't Get it. - 06:03
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Demon's Souls
From Software
PS5
Design
Essay
Analysis
The Anatomy
Game Design
Difficult
Dark Souls
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