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submitted 5 months ago by steal_your_face@lemmy.ml to c/gaming@lemmy.ml

I’ve never played a soulslike games because they are a bit intimidating to me. Amy recommendations for soulslikes games to start on or for beginners to the genre?

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[-] Tiefa@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

I very much enjoyed Sekiro and it led me to Elden Ring that I then, in turn, did not enjoy at all. haha Sekiro feels much more approachable but it doesn't have the replayability of other Souls games.

[-] visor841@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Hm, what didn't you enjoy about Elden Ring? I started with Sekiro, finished it, and have moved on to Elden Ring (in co-op tho). I have very much enjoyed both.

[-] Tiefa@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

I guess the tuning of the game. With Sekiro there was, for the most part, a general linear path that you did to complete the game. You could go in some different ways but for the most part it was linear. With Elden Ring you can go in any way and as people have said, if you get stuck, go somewhere else and get higher level and go back. But I don't like leaving so I would proceed to get dumpstered over and over and get frustrated which is entirely my own fault. But, in Sekiro it seemed like the difficulty of the encounters were created in regards to where you were in the story and even though they were hard, were better tuned to your character power. I bet co-op would be a ton of fun and could make my play through more enjoyable if I got back into it.

[-] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago

I'd have to agree with that. Sekiro has a lot of the trimmings of other From games while having a movement system much closer to the standard hack-n-slash adventure game like Assassin's Creed or Ghost of Tsushima most recently.

[-] dsemy@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

Sekiro feels much more approachable but it doesn't have the replayability of other Souls games.

Interesting perspective; I actually have double the hours in Sekiro (164) compared to Elden Ring (86) and DS1 (88). And I also didn't really like Elden Ring (though I really wanted to).

[-] Tiefa@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I guess I assumed Elden Ring would have more replayability due to all the classes you could do playthroughs with.

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