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[Discussion] Which Soulslike will you be playing this weekend and what's your stance on spoilers in Soulslikes? (lemmy.zip)

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I'm playing anything but soulslikes currently. Overwatch just got a pretty big update and got five new heroes added in one patch, so that's been quite some fun. Been thinking about continuing my LoP DLC playthrough, but we'll see if it comes to that. Got some work to do for school.

With Nioh 3 having just dropped, I thought about my stance on spoilers in soulslikes but also in video games in general. For very story-heavy games, it sucks quite a lot to have a major plot point spoiled to you. There's usually a lot of buildup to these reveals so getting told about them prematurely can ruin a lot for me. When it comes to soulslikes, it's not as much of a problem for me. Most are usually quite light on ~~spoilers~~ lore, with some notable exceptions here and there, and focus more so on combat, exploration, gameplay. Sometimes, just seeing a name is a spoiler already, more so when it's a character that appears in a different, non-fight context, sometimes seeing the name of a track in the soundtrack is enough. Overall, though, I still get enjoyment out of the game despite already knowing bosses and story of the games. For example, even though I am overall not too fond of Elden Ring, I had fun playing through the game for the first 50 or so hours even though I had seen the game in its entirety beforehand.

What about you? Have you had the plot of a soulslike spoiled to you before? Did it lessen the enjoyment of the game for you?

To anyone playing Nioh this weekend: enjoy!

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[–] Juice@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

spoilers

I mean, finding out what happens during a single event in a storyline that doesn't even begin to make sense until you've played through the game 5+ times and watched 20+ hours of vaati videos for context; I mean what surprise is there to be spoiled?

"The crazy death eating monk at the top of the dragon area in the rot infested continent is actually the animal protector of the dual beings in a single form god that protects a rune making it possible to kill a god!"

Wow you lost me at "death eating monk" or

"The old man in the wheelchair you see in the alternate dream dimension that exists between life and death, he can walk, and is being controlled by an extra dimensional alien god, who torments him with a living doll made to resemble his ex partner from when they murdered a village full of fish people, that also exists in a dream, in order to steal the corpse of another god; all so the god that is controlling the old man can eat the spirits of the people the god turned into werewolves!"

Uhhhhhhhhhhhh

Like there's very little that can be spoiled here. Sekiro has the most narrative imo, but it has multiple endings. You can live and the lord can die, the lord can die and you can live, you both can live and go on vacation in China, or betray your lord to join your father and become a serial killer.

Speaking of Sekiro, its what I'm playing this weekend. After struggling through my first play through maybe like a year ago, coming back to it it's so good and I'm much better at it. Turns out 250 hours of Executor pays off