Demon's Souls Remake (PS5) - Confirmed for launch

Yoshimi wrote:Hey folks. I'm playing through Demon's Souls at the moment, and trying to get all the trophies. Could anyone help me get my white character tendency (by invading me a few times, and letting me kill you)? Happy to return the favour!

I can be online any evening, or even though the day if it's more convenient.

I managed to kill a few random invaders, so no longer require help. Although I'm now grinding fat officials for the gold coin for the final ring, so if anyone has a spare please hook me up!

If Maf still has the game I bet he'll help out...

Mafro wrote:.

Yoshimi wrote:

Yoshimi wrote:Hey folks. I'm playing through Demon's Souls at the moment, and trying to get all the trophies. Could anyone help me get my white character tendency (by invading me a few times, and letting me kill you)? Happy to return the favour!

I can be online any evening, or even though the day if it's more convenient.

I managed to kill a few random invaders, so no longer require help. Although I'm now grinding fat officials for the gold coin for the final ring, so if anyone has a spare please hook me up!

I think I got pure white by killing the named NPC phantoms in some areas, as I play offline. My next run I need to get to pure black for the ring at the end, and I need to help someome beat a boss.

For the gold coin, this is me getting it from this guy. I think it took about 10 kills of him with luck and item discovery items equipped:

Victor Mildew wrote:

Yoshimi wrote:

Yoshimi wrote:Hey folks. I'm playing through Demon's Souls at the moment, and trying to get all the trophies. Could anyone help me get my white character tendency (by invading me a few times, and letting me kill you)? Happy to return the favour!

I can be online any evening, or even though the day if it's more convenient.

I managed to kill a few random invaders, so no longer require help. Although I'm now grinding fat officials for the gold coin for the final ring, so if anyone has a spare please hook me up!

I think I got pure white by killing the named NPC phantoms in some areas, as I play offline. My next run I need to get to pure black for the ring at the end, and I need to help someome beat a boss.

For the gold coin, this is me getting it from this guy. I think it took about 10 kills of him with luck and item discovery items equipped:

I'd killed all the NPC phantoms, but I'd used Poison Cloud on one of them, which I discovered doesn't move character tendency. I also killed the guy from the cage in 3-2, which I think moved me back to black.

I spent last night farming the fat official in your video about 50 times, but still didn't get the coin. I had the item discovery ring on and put a few levels into luck. I can't make the item discovery weapon as I'd used the soul on a spell

I might just wait until NG+ for it now.

I didn't have anything special going apart from a ring and some sort of armour I think. I've not made any special weapons as I've just been keeping the boss souls.

I think the world tenancy being white helps, so maybe if youve not got the level to it, try that.

I might have a spare coin or two, I'll look later.

Victor Mildew wrote:I didn't have anything special going apart from a ring and some sort of armour I think. I've not made any special weapons as I've just been keeping the boss souls.

I think the world tenancy being white helps, so maybe if youve not got the level to it, try that.

I might have a spare coin or two, I'll look later.

That would be much appreciated.

I think world tendency being black helps drop rate. I used the last of my eyes to get it to near black, and my character is pure black.

Gutted. After putting dozens of hours into Demon's Souls, proceeding through NG+ and almost platinum-ing the game, I have a bug that crashes the game whenever I try to change rings or access the ring inventory screen. Searching online I can see others have had this issue, but I see no solution.

Well despite the bug which meant I couldn't change rings... I managed to Platinum Demon's Souls!

Bring on Elden Ring!

I did check for the items by the way, I just didn't tell you I checked

I didn't have any spare as it turns out.

Good work on the platinum, I'll try for that one day.

Victor Mildew wrote:I did check for the items by the way, I just didn't tell you I checked

I didn't have any spare as it turns out.

Good work on the platinum, I'll try for that one day.

No worries. The gold coin was a bitch though. Farmed the fat officials for hours!

Yoshimi wrote:Well despite the bug which meant I couldn't change rings... I managed to Platinum Demon's Souls!

Bring on Elden Ring!

Well done!

Nice one John

Started this the other night courtesy of the new PS Plus Extra, not sure about it so far.

On one level it visually impressive, but there's also something just that bit... off about how everything looks. It doesn't hang together in the way the From games usually do and the art direction for locations and characters just doesn't have the right feel to it.

Beyond that the controls just don't have that same responsiveness and feedback to them - it all feels very weightless and "my first Unreal Engine game" about the interaction, like there's an intangible barrier between the player and what's happening in a way I've never experienced with a Soul's game before.

Also the main character animation is hilariously bad, just moving around and performing basic attacks looks so clunky and, again, off in a way that is hard to describe.

Now all of this might be true of the original, I've never played it, but everything from Dark Souls 1 through to Elden Ring don't exhibit these issues and have a consistency to it that this just doesn't show.

Coming off the back of so much time playing Elden Ring probably doesn't help either

Going to give it a bit more time to see if I can get past these barriers but in all honesty in not hopeful!

Started this the other day - seemed impossible to me as a Knight at the phalanx bit, so I was thinking of just dropping it and seeing what other delights PS+ offered.

I know people said this about Elden Ring and I never noticed such a discrepancy but christ - I switched to royalty and its a million times easier. Magic got me through that first level with ease. Enjoying the difficulty with that so think I'll see how far I can get.

In general i think it seems great - the sound is brilliant, including the controller noises. Fighting and landscapes seem really cool. Some similarities to Elden piss me off- e.g. the total lack of any reasonable signposting. The bit where you need to run to the top of the nexus and find the baby thing or whatever is a strawberry floating pisstake, why the strawberry float would I know to do that. And how is that a fun thing to do