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Whether the souls are Demon's or Dark-flavored, we know what to expect from this series: punishing difficulty, labyrinthine map design littered with secrets, and the phantoms of other players entering our realm to battle us, help us, or just troll us. In Demon's Souls, this concept went even further with the Old Monk boss fight, which could make players who were connected online be the boss that another player would battle.

By removing online functionality, Sony and Atlus are cutting out wh♎at some would call an integral part of the Souls experience. There will be no more aggressive spirits taunting you or impeding your progress, no more helpful hands to assist you if you're stuck on a boss, no more messages giving players hints (or tricking them into jumping off a cliff), and the Old Monk 🍷fight will be watered down to feature a generic NPC instead of another player.

It's kind of interesting, in a morbid way, to watch a game that's been so influential to modern gaming sa💟y goodbye to a core part of its design - but such is the nature of online-connected games, for better or for ill. Over on , fans are saying their goodbyes while calling for a remaster and/or organizing a final hurrah.

If you consider yourself a fan of the Dark Souls games or just want to see the spiritual precursor to games like 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Bloodborne, Nioh, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Lords of the Fallen, or even 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Nier: Automata (which also let you encounter other players' corpses and read messages if you played online) in its prime, pick up a copy and log oౠn before February 2018. Because after that, Demon's Souls will never be the same.