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Bonfireside Chat: A Dark Souls and Elden Ring Podcast

[PREVIEW] Bonfireside Chat 184: Soulslikes in Review (Part 1)

Bonfireside Chat: A Dark Souls and Elden Ring Podcast

Duckfeed.tv

Leisure, Video Games

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

This is a different kind of episode for us, because instead of talking about one game in depth, we're looking back at all of the non-Souls games we've covered for the show and asking ourselves two questions: Would we recommend you play these today? And what element, mechanical or aesthetic, would you like to see someone take from each game and use elsewhere?

This first part goes through all of the games we talked about on the original run of the show, so:

  • King's Field IV: The Ancient City

  • 3D Dot Game Heroes

  • Shovel Knight

  • Lords of the Fallen

  • Shadow Tower

  • Shadow Tower: Abyss

  • Titan Souls

  • Momodora 4: Reverie Under the Moonlight

  • Hyper Light Drifter

  • Salt & Sanctuary

  • DarkMaus

  • Let It Die

  • Nioh

  • Hollow Knight


Transcript

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0:00.0

Some of our landings were desperate adventures. We are now prepared to meet the inevitable counter-attacks with power and with confidence. I'm My name is Gary Butterfield.

0:26.7

My name is Cole Ross.

0:28.6

And you're listening to Bonfire Side Chat.

0:30.6

It is a retrospective favorite.

0:32.6

Yeah.

0:33.2

And this week, we're doing something kind of different.

0:37.6

We're, instead of talking about one game or part of one game, And this week, we're doing something kind of different.

0:43.0

We're, instead of talking about one game or part of one game, Gary, why don't we talk about 25 of them?

0:44.7

Yeah.

0:45.4

Let's get this.

0:46.4

Let's, efficiency is what you come to the duckfeed.tvine network for.

0:50.4

Yep.

0:52.3

So I have the document titled Souls Like Showdown.

0:56.2

That's from an earlier concept where I think we were going to rank these or at least make our own personal lists here.

1:02.1

But we decided that what we would rather do kind of right now as we are looking at Eldon Ring and, you know, staring down the possibility of maybe not doing a, you know,

1:11.9

doing a lot of souls likes for a while after that starts, kind of looking back, we've been

1:17.1

doing this show for eight years now since 2013.

1:21.6

And we've covered a lot of, uh, non-soles, but souls related stuff, either old from games or games that uh uh directly kind of

1:31.2

like uh took inspiration from souls so we're going to go back through and just kind of like

1:35.9

at a broad level share you know just what was there to learn from these and you know where

1:42.6

did they come up short and in the ways that they came up short, how do they reveal what's important about a soul's like?

1:49.5

Yeah.

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