The Curse of Needlessly Copying Dark Souls | Design Delve
Added 2025-06-02 15:03:55 +0000 UTCThis week's episode of Design Delve is now available!
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Western? It's made by a Korean studio
Ryan Evans
2025-06-11 00:08:37 +0000 UTCI loved Lies of P until it gave up its esthetic to copy Dark Souls. After the King of Puppets fight, which was spectacular, it just becomes Dark Souls and is so boring I never finished the game.
Harehiro
2025-06-08 00:01:53 +0000 UTCHonestly I loathe Fromsoft games for many reasons but weirdly it sounds like Lies of P fixes a lot of the problems I have with them (and kinda sounds like Western Nier: Automata). I might actually give this a go.
Tim Wilson
2025-06-04 17:37:06 +0000 UTCNice video. But it's missing more good examples of games that did it right - just to drive the point that a game can be successful without copy&pasting the same old crap from a widely known title.
Ecter
2025-06-04 13:05:51 +0000 UTCBut we have to copy Dark Souls! Why? Because it's there. I think I disagree about the jump control rationale. "Do it because the popular thing did it" in this case seems like a developer saying, "I have no idea how to do this better. Let's do what the popular thing did because at least players will be accustomed to it."
Jadedrakerider
2025-06-02 18:16:16 +0000 UTCHearing you wax poetically while Ludo barks about video game design is one of my favorite parts of being part of Second Wind.
Idnex
2025-06-02 15:39:36 +0000 UTCI've not got the reflexes to play a Souls-like (I'm having enough trouble with Clair Obscure Expedition 33 on Story mode) but it was very interesting regardless , and many of the same points crop up in regards to the copying of Harvest Moon/Stardew Valley cosy games "We don't allow saving except on sleep because Stardew Valley doesn't" for instance.
Honor
2025-06-02 15:25:29 +0000 UTC
