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[All] Any good proto-Soulslikes? Games that typify the genre that came before Dark Souls? (pawb.social)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Kolanaki@pawb.social to c/soulslike@lemmy.zip

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And I don't just mean Demon's Souls and King's Field. I don't think the genre itself is super unique, as much as it was (originally) a kind of return to form that simply hit at just the right moment. Plenty of games long before DS were similar in gameplay and sometimes even tone.

Like Soul Reaver, which is extremely similar with the combat, non-linear yet linear through metroidvania type tools level design, and even a respawn system where instead of loading a save, you come back with everything you did still done but now you're somewhere else and forced to backtrack.

I've kinda exhausted all the new options and I still crave more so now I'm looking back to the past to see if there's anything I missed out on when it was new. The only thing I could think of off the top of my head was the Soul Reaver series, tho.

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[–] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Honestly, such an interesting question and all I can come up with are the two Soul Reavers and Defiance. Maybe Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask could work too? Since OoT introduced z-targeting which is basically how the targeting camera from soulslikes works

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 6 days ago

I'm wondering about the N64 Castlevania, despite having played it once back in the day (I rented it). Can't remember if I gave up on it because it was hard or if it just wasn't good. I am pretty sure it had similar combat, but it just wasn't as tight.

I also just remembered Ninja Gaiden, the xbox one, was kinda similar. It at least was uncaringly hard. Hell, even back in the NES days, Ninja Gaiden was regarded as impossibly difficult and one of the few games of that era I was never able to beat.