- Demon's Souls
- Dark Souls
- Bloodborne
- Dark Souls 2
The only souls game it is superior to is Dark Souls 2, because for all of Dark Souls 2's "mechanical improvements" (and that's a load of shit) and build variety/pvp aspects, it's not all that good of a game. It's actually pretty poor for large stretches with awful level design and completely uninspired boss fights. And not in a "they are so easy" sort of way, but a they are just boring visually, boring mechanically, and just boring period.
The other 3 games are terrific, but Demon's Souls has a lot of benefits going for it. Biggest being new car smell, but simply put I think that group of boss fights, the consistency of the level design, the lore, and all that stuff is actually at its strongest in the Souls games. Dark Souls is probably the best 3D iteration of Metroid design we have had since Prime 1 and 2, but it has a final third that really is just sloppy. Bloodborne could have been able to match up on level design, but there were some late levels that just sucked.
Plus you throw in the reduced build variety and how dialed back the PvP became and in my mind you still get a great game at its core, but one that took as many steps backwards as it took forward with this series.
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