My issues with the Demon's Souls Remake 

I'm baffled that you would look this deeply at the art of a game you have not played to compare it and explain why you don't like it. Ridiculous

It's like none of the people who made the remake even played the game

-changing the music to make it more orchestral and generic -updating the environments to the point of eye pollution -changing the “you died” screen prompt -changing the sound design. Yep. These people understood nothing about what made demon souls so charming and gutted any enjoyment I could have. One of the biggest offenders is how they got rid of the “laughter” in the tower knights theme”. One of the most ICONIC parts of the OST gone and then they “bloodbourne” it up. Knew it was gonna be bad from the get go.

I really resent change for the sake of change, it's kind of like how companies constantly release UI "improvements" that just look worse or overly simplified. Logos get changed for the worse all the time too.

According to Schopenhauer, music is the most exalted form of art. Out of all the forms of art, music depends on matter the least and is as such closest to the soul. I think that music captures the essence of the two games and that the differences between the soundtracks of the original and the remake reveal something about the games themselves. The first and probably the major difference between the two soundtracks pertains to their scope. The original soundtrack is chamber-like whereas the remake's soundtrack is orchestral. The original uses only few instruments at a time, the remake uses a full orchestra. The original induces feelings of loneliness and abandonment unlike the remake which induces feelings of heroism and wonder. The original remains somber, the remake strives for fantastic action. The second difference involves the complexity of the two soundtracks. The original keeps its music modestly simple, the remake on the other hand opts for complex movements. The tracks in the original loop couple of very recognizable tunes, the tracks in the remake all blend together. The third difference relates to the specific sounds. The original uses many odd sounds which give it its own identity like the male vocals in the Tower Knight OST or the organs present throughout the soundtrack. The remake has a very generic set of sounds which are expected in a fantasy setting. Furthermore, it removes the sounds which made the original stand out. Overall, I believe the remake's developers didn't look beneath the obvious surface layer of Demon's Souls. They must have assumed it was a high fantasy action game while in reality it's more of a contemplative experience. Many of the more alien or unique characteristics of the original were trimmed off and what was left simple wouldn't pass the test of time even with the high end graphics. I doubt that Demon's Souls would gain such a cult following and a spiritual sequel in the form of Dark Souls if it had the same direction as the remake. To summarize, the remake fails to keep a coherent identity. Parts of the original which are somber, calm and alien clash with the remake's epicness and spectacle.

My man, I gotta say the biggest gripe I have is that in the original your character is completely silent save for when you take damage or die when you are in soul form. It added emphasis on when you recovered your human form. In the remake you sound exactly the same when in both soul and human form. It's something you will notice within the first 15 minutes of playing the game too, I really don't have a lot of faith in Bluepoint.

I'm glad there's other people that don't like the aesthetics of the remake and how they massacred demon's souls looks wise.

As a music guy. The new music is generic compared to the original.

The music in the remake is incredibly bland while the music in the original soundtrack is much more melodic and has a much more interesting instrumentation.

WHAT DID THEY DO TO MY DEAREST MAIDEN ASTREA'S THEME!!!!

Bluepoint did the same with the Shadow of the Colossus game. The remake is graphically great, yet it lacks the aesthetic of the original, it looks bland and generic as hell.

They seem to have taken the abnoxious aproach of more = better regardless of context, I wouldn't call it incompetance so much as deliberate merketable choices in addition to the desire to show off the new hardware. As one of the first console launch exclusives the game was doomed to be a ps5 techdemo, in that sense you can say the the whole game itself is one expensive advert for the new console, and as we all know adverts don't exactly thrive on subtlety.

Thank you for being a rare DS youtuber who voices negative points about the remake! Fact is, I personally haven't played either the original or the remake but if I'd ever get a chance to, I hope I can play the original.

My thoughts exactly, every little design decision seems made in a vacuum on the metric of 'what is cool' without thought or consideration. It is all so crude and corporate in it's approach..

"we wuz Fallen Cresent Knights and SHiiiiet"

The architecture is the biggest flaw I pointed out as soon as the first trailer. The architecture style of Demon's Souls is brutalism, specifically norman architecture rather than the high renaissance gothic fantasy the remake sprung for. I always said Dark Souls is famous for its gameplay and environmental lore (and level design), whereas Demon's Souls has the greatest atmosphere in the entire souls games. And the remake destroys DeS's greatest strength.

Incredibly based. One look at the Satsuki's redesign tells you all you need to know about Bluepoint lol. The fact that they had to remake a fucking PS3 game is just baffling to me too. I can't believe so many people defend this garbage.

Thank you for making this video. So many other people are ignoring why the original game was so beloved. People are not giving enough credit to the art design of the original game. The aesthetics were very deliberate and intentional.

fat minister is enough reason not to play remake its graphic upgrade and design downgrade

As much as I wish they had done more with the Dark Souls remaster in terms of a graphical update/touch up, this is a cautionary tale of how that can very easily go wrong by trying too hard. This isn't to say they didn't put a lot of effort into the remake art but I miss the atmosphere and the gloom from the original, the remake is dark in places sure but the original Demon's Souls had this overall gloomy vibe which I feel is largely lost in the brighter and cleaner style they have gone for here. It really is a shame as the visuals were what got me into the Soulsborne games in the first place starting with Demon's Souls.

Finally I’ve found somebody who feels similar to me! I was starting to think I was the only person in the world who actually disliked this remake. Frankly I’m surprised the reaction to this game was so positive, pretty much everything here is either identical to the original or actually a step down. The only improvement really is the graphical quality. And I mean that the quality of the graphics is better, not that the actual presentation of the visuals are improved (because I don’t think they are). And then there’s the godawful “remixed” soundtrack, which spits in the face of arguably the best videogame soundtrack of all time by replacing it and not even giving you a choice to switch to the original.

demon's soulless

I don't know why they didn't remake Demon's Souls the way they did Shadow of the Colossus. SotC kept original artstyle and asthetic (for the most part) and just enhancing the graphics. Demon's Souls only needed revamped gameplay mechanics and bosses (the actual problematic parts of the original). Also regarding music, original has much simpler, subdued, old school music resembling those old school rpg's fitting the subtlety of orginal's asthetics. While the new has more modern, bombastic orchestral music that kinda fits the new artstyle, but that was problematic to begin with.

I appreciate your opinion, I agree actually with most of the stuff you said, more pretty does not mean the art is better.

My friends roommate gave me shit when I gave light critique about the art direction changes and was like "are you an originalist?". I said yes.

Agree 100% the original have a creepy feeling in every design. It's ok that the devs want to try new things and it's ok to like what they did. but the remake just looks like a "diablo/lords of the fallen" skin for the original gameplay.

"A corpse should be left well alone."

Fun fact: When Bluepoint first started production on the remake, they originally made an HD *Carbon copy* of Boletaria 1-1, but it was Sony, I believe, in collaboration with the chief of Bluepoint staff, that wanted to remake the visuals for the area to appeal to a more modern audience. "The North English Castle look might of worked 10 years ago, but we decided to go for a more gothic style to fit a modern audience and to push the graphical capabilities of the PS5." No doubt they wanted to appeal to the larger fanbase of Souls Fans, who mainly recognize the visuals of Bloodborne and DS3. Actually according to dev diaries and notes, it can be inferred that there was a great controversy within Bluepoint, one side being massive Demon's Souls fans, wanting to preserve as much of the original art direction as possible- The other side being the modern Western concept artist, with ideas of "Shape design" "tersiary detail" etc who were keen on modernizing it. The Demon's Souls remake was ultimately a compromise. We got the fluted helmet, we got the "Old" Flamelurker, but a lot of new stuff was ultimately slipped in. Remember, the game was initially supposed to be like how they remade Shadow of the Collosus; faithfully. But it was Sony that got Bluepoint concept artists working on the new stuff. Another weird note was any collaboration with FROM Software was almost non-existant. They got the original game codes translated by Sony, but that was IT. You think they'd get dev notes, original unreleased concept art, a bloody conference with Miyazaki or even any of his work buddies, but no. Nothing. They used concept art from the PS3 Special Edition booklet for reference! It would be like if a fan decided to remake Demon's Souls. This should of been a collaboration with Fromsoftware and Bluepoint, ultimately. I don't know who's at fault, if it was Sony's uneasy relationship with Fromsoftware, or Fromsoft's isolationist attitude when it comes to everything. To their fault they are an intensely Japanese company, and what goes in or comes out of their studio is as mysterious as Willy Wonka's Chocolate factory. Altogether I didn't hate the remake as much as I initially did. Bluepoint did preserve a lot of the original silhouettes, and some of the changes they made did feel like keeping in faith with Miyazaki's vision. Some things I really liked about the remake: -The Valley of Defilement. You'd think with the odd gothic grimdark designs they added that they'd turn the Valley into a literal shitfest, but the place does fall under the "Brims with grime, but is oddly pure". It kind of looks beautiful, when you first enter the Swamp of Sorrow's cliff overlooking the valley, you see this ray of sunshine coming from above, and then looking over the expanse of decay, you can make out the bloodstains of other players that glow like little tombstones. Its a nice emotional bit of visual story telling. I also particularly like the first encounter with a depraved in 5-1, where he's kind of alone and silhouetted near a patch of moss and he turns around and you see how twisted and weird he is. This is compacted with how you end up fighting dozens of these guys soon after. - The sound design is undeniable. I am a huge Demon's Souls fan, ok? I got mad when they changed the "clang" noise when blocking in subsequent Souls games. But i fully amerced myself in the ambient sounds, casting magic feels great through sound alone, the tinny reverberations of your voice based on what helmet you're wearing. Its amazing. I'm not sure why they got the "cities overgrown by plant life" wrong, because you can hear distant screams of villagers while progressing through Boletaria, they make it quite clear that the scourge is "Going on" as you progress.

Bold points and I agree with you completely on the character designs you pointed out and the line delivery. I only think it's a little ruth calling this like a "factory remake", they tried to put a lot of care and even introduce more things to this game. The same happened on their last project (Shadow of Colossus), and fans really seem to have appreciated that. I believe they could have had a little help and direction from Miazaki or something, but he was(and is) occupied with Elden Ring. I respect you opinion in the end.

-Original Satsuki: grizzled ronin. -Remake Satsuki: Chinaman caricature. -Original Yuria: Dark witch in tatters. -Remake Yuria: Bright witch. And so on... i just don't understand why they would to these things.

My biggest issue false king looks less intimidating his eyebrows look almost friendly.

It might be a remake but it can't compare to Miyazaki's vision of the original. I don't like this "remake/remaster" era in video games, tv shows, movies, etc. we are in, it lacks vision.

Old king Allant had truly regal features. High cheek bones, straight nose. He had no age. Is it handsome 50 years old or well preserved 80 years old? Who knows?.. New one is just average. And I'll take creepy exaggerated smile instead "he is ugly 'cause zits" Fat Minister any day.

Holy shit someone finally says it.

dont like what they did with prison of hope. before it looked like an actual prison with bare walls and brutalist designs, dirty, wet and neglected surfaces. then they changed the architecture to be more like a cleaned up cathedral? competely spoiled the atmosphere

This Remake is NOT Demon's Souls!!!! It's a Chopped up copy of Demon's Souls. I played the OG Game when it first came out in 2009 for over 1000 hours... The OG game Musical Score has been removed - None of the NPC's or Bosses are the same, just a slight resemblance, the areas are not the same, some areas seem to have a 'bright daylight Sun appearance". I do not recall NO AREA in the OG game that had bright sunshine. For the most part, all the outside areas were dreary/greyish tone. Not to mention how they TOTALLY destroyed the atmosphere of "Latria Tower"....SMH!!! Gaming has come down to GRAPHICS... Just because you have NEAR HUMAN looking Graphics does not JUSTIFY you will have a GREAT GAMIMG experience. FromSoft or whoever own's the IP Rights to the OG Demon's Souls should file a Lawsuit against BluePoint for Plagiarism - using the Title Demon's Souls when in FACT this is NOT Demon's Souls

Demon's Souls PS5 is the Lion King 2019 of video games, except even worse in the aspect that the original will probably never again be available legally. It's a shame it's been accepted by so many, but I guess that's to be expected when the majority of people playing it never touched the original in the first place.

Demon Souls original was a passion project of Mr Miyazaki whereas the remake is more a product to sell as many copies as possible, a cash grab. They basically applied the "Hollywood effect" to the game turning it into a generic hack and slash that happens to be called Demon Souls. They stripped out all the subtlety of the original game and replaced it with something that feels like a si-fi arcade game.

Not to be rude, but these points sound like 95% nit-picks based on a very subtle preferences that the majority of people would NEVER notice (looking at you, cotton vs silk comment) mixed in with 5% legitimate issues, like changing the fat official signature design feature. I too haven't played the remake, but from all the playthroughs I've seen, it looks the same, just with higher quality assets and lighting, and a couple design changes here and there. The things brought up in this video are, by and large, incredibly superficial changes, and it's kind of bewildering how you can take so much offence to something like angle of a characters head being approximately 5 degrees different than the original in a 10 second cutscene.

_This might be the different between art and a factory product_ Excellent summary. I've actually shared your thoughts on every single point you made, and then have some more criticisms of my own. For me, this remake was a tremendous disappointment.

They also forgot King Allant has full beard and not just goatee.

I'm gonna grab my popcorn for this. The backlash from the more toxic parts of this community should be entertaining.

"They hated him because he told the truth"

It breaks my heart because its one of my favorite RPGs and I want to support its return. It's just impossible to justify payong $70 for an inferior experience. Honestly though just look at the UI for the remake and immediately you'll know where the issue lies. Soulless, corporate, pure focus on looking clean and functional rather than immersive and stylized to fit the game

Just wanted to address a couple things lore wise, firstly the timeline. It's a bit unknown exactly when the bulk of DeS is taking place when compared to the colorless fog engulfing the land, but it is fairly obvious that the tutorial and the main game take place in separate locations as well as even separate times. The tutorial likely takes place in an outpost on the outskirts of Boletaria near Stonefang at the beginning of the demon invasion, note it is brighter and more colorful in this area than the rest of the game as well. While the main game takes place mainly at the heart of Boletaria, when demons have already replaced and are posing as high ranking knights as well as the king himself. Along with the city being filled with dregglings and loyal yet mindless soldiers that attack anyone including Ostrava/Ariona, the prince of Boletaria himself. Whom of which had traveled to Boletaria from Latria through the fog (after it had already engulfed everything and after Allant was already replaced by a demon), so the main game likely takes place shortly after the demon invasion (probably around a year after). Secondly is the flamelurker in the remake, in his intro cinematic he actually does break out of the chamber above the door frame. Breaking free from his containment if you will. As for the architecture, I can shed some light on that subject as I'm relatively familiar with it. Given that Boletaria was founded in ancient times, the oldest parts of the nation should resemble the time period it was built in. Judging by King Doran's armor as well as the architecture in some areas itself, Boletaria was founded in it's universes equivalent of ancient greek times. The architecture particularly is quite similar to Mycenaean architecture, as well as Doran's armor (potentially, unsure) being similar to royal or ceremonial mycenaean armor. So as said the oldest parts of the nation should resemble the time period in which it was built, so the further away from the oldest building you get then the newer the architecture becomes. So in the tutorial, the architecture should likely be more medieval like it appears in the remake while the heart of Boletaria should more resemble it's original architecture. Unless of course since it is the heart of a nation, they continue to build on top of the old architecture replacing it with the new. So the heart of Boletaria should either look ancient, or high medieval depending on how progressive or conservative the nation is. Great vid btw

The feeling I got from the devs was that they were trying to project their own "creative vision" of some sort onto an already existing product. I'm paraphrasing, but in the short documentary that came out about this game with the director, he said "Sometimes you have to stomp your foot and stand your ground even if someone disagrees with you"

I didn’t buy the remake either. The remake took away the style and replaced it with A a very generic design. The biggest failure was not including the original cut content.

Overall, I think most of the remaster does benefit from qol improvements, updated graphics and added details due to the technological limitations at the time along with a few of the remade osts, AT WHAT COST THOUGH! I can feel the passion so I don't think it's completely soulless, but the aesthetic and charm was scrubbed off while making it look nicer

Some of your points, like the diablo looking arena i do agree on, but i still think people are too whiny about this game. EDIT: Got finally the ps5 and have played mostly throught the game now. Tower of latria looks the best but the gargoyles are a downgrade. Boletaria castle looks good imo, the design is pretty rugged at the start, but gets more decorative towards allant. Maybe the gold accents in the final level are a bit much. Stonefang tunnel looks too much like the unreal engine 5 demo lol,and valley of defilement and shrine of storms look good.

I'd like to agree or disagree with you... _if I had a PS5 to play it on._

They also messed up the direction with the new dialogue and changed several lines for no reason. King Allant says "My precious Demon" but in the remake he says "My demonic reflection" with is not only inaccurate to the lore but also to the japanese script.

I agree with all points but for my two cnts False King Allant was probably the worst boss visually. He looked like many other JRPG characters and it almost threw me off the first time I played considering how unique and weirdly down to earth many of the actual fantasy designs were.

I hate to say it, but I disagree with most of what you said. You have an attitude of a snobby fan who feels hurt that it isn't just like the original. It hurts your argument. Plus most of the graphics from the original are dingy and grimy because of the PS3, and because brown and grey mush were the graphical flavor of the times.

The problem with remakes is people thinking they played one of the greatest games of all-time when they didn't. It's nearly impossible to recreate art. Resident Evil 1 Remake is one of the only remakes to truly succeeded and that remake was done by the director of the original game. Shiny twinklely images don't make something better.

So glad I have the original

I quite like the remake overall (although it’s definitely not a replacement for the original) but some changes are just baffling. The attention to detail seems to really vary from point to point. Like, they kept little details like the nails in the gargoyles and the reapers long fingernail, but we still ended up with that disaster of a Fat Official redesign? It’s very inconsistent.

Oh wow! I thought I am the only person in the world who dislikes the remake... So, I am not alone!

I'd guess the dislikes are from people who didn't completely hear you out and watch the full vid, or possibly from people who believe you're nitpicking or just disagree with you. I actually agree with most points made. It's a thumbs up from me!

The thing that botherd me about the remake is the voice acting there is barely any emotion and dialog is needlessly changed. The music sounds great and the visuals are stunning but not accurate to the original as you have said in the video. Sad thing is thats Demons soul would never have required a remake if not for being locked to the ps3. Bluepoint did a great job being a company working on something thats not their vision and as expected they failed in some key aspects.

You pointed out perfectly what is that in dark souls that makes it dark souls..demon's souls indeed! Amazing,really..

I haven’t gotten to try it because I can’t get my hands on a ps5. However I’m not sure it can live up to the mood and atmosphere of the original from what I have seen.

From the moment I heard the way they changed the OST for The Nexus to BOSS MUSIC EPIC for the Remaster I was instantly turned off and had a feeling they lost/perverted the OG art style/feel of the game.

You're reminding me of all the issues I took with the Halo Combat Evolved and Halo 2 remasters.

I literally heard REE from the back of the room from some early PS5 adopter when you gave the disclaimer lol. Keeping it real, I saw this disappointment coming a mile away. THE PS5 launch title designed as the big selling point made by the same folks that did SOTC remake. A toxic combination of taking niche and revered games and trying to sell it to millions. Seen this shit Marvel has been doing for a decade to know where this was going to go. I think they do great work but I think Capcom's approach to RE2 Remake was the kind of remake the modern age needs and what fans of the original won't absolutely hate by being different enough to not shelve the original.

I don't have a PS5 to play the Remake, but I'm an old-Souls fan. I started with Demon's Souls shortly after release in 2009. I'm just thrilled people get to experience the game (and that I'll be able to Plat it again). I get that some of the atmosphere is not the same (and DeS has the best atmosphere of all of them), but I also know BluePoint tried to be as respectful as possible to the original, while giving it enough of a graphical update to make it worth it for new players. I think some things seem better, actually (like from what I see of the character creator--not From's strong suit). Whatever the case, I'm sure I'm going to love it...and Elden Ring.

I despised their Shadow of the Colossus remake for exactly the same reasons. That and they felt the need to tamper with the music and add shitty midi to moments of silence.

I only played the original once a long time ago on a borrowed PS3. I played the remake through many timed now. To me the jump in gameplay quality caused by increased FPS is immense. I never noticed anything you are talking about because I was never too invested in the original. To me DS Remake is the second-best Fromsoft action RPG, right after Bloodborne.

I just don’t get why a original person from the og demon souls didn’t guide them.

He doesn't need to play it because he played the original and the gameplay is 99% the same. He said that at the very beginning.

I never noticed the eye thing while watching invincible,I do agree that they stripped a lot of the good ol demon souls vibes

Good job. You just hit the nail on the head.

I agree they dropped the ball with he music. It's no where near as good as the original and it's a damn shame

I appreciate your bravery being a contrarian and I have my own issues with it, like some in Latria, the fat minister, and your tone points are valid. I also think you shouldn't judge a video game with out having the elements delivered to you how they are intended; with you in control to look around and explore and chose the pace. It's very different than cherry picked footage others upload and promo material. I have never had an idea of a Fromsoft game, match it remotely once it releases and I finally play through it. It deserves to be reviewed in full or it's not a true game review, it's a trailer review. I want to address several points you made I think need some more context or consideration in my own opinion. I am not 'correcting' you as we are both sharing our opinions, I just feel these points are worth considering to develop your opinion more fully. 2:30 the video of Shuhei Yoshida eating those original words and publicly apologize of how wrong he realizes he was now. 4:55 It has been plenty long for plants to grow. This isn't JUST starting, King Alant rewoke the Old One and there has been time for four separate creatures to cultivate enough souls to become arch demons. That does not happen in a few months. Entire kingdoms have fallen. The yellow monk had time to go on a journey, find the yellow robe, usurp his own queen, imprison the surviving population population, decompose, and do you have any clue how long it would take to go to Ikea enough times to get all those chairs!? Probably twice so that's a couple years at least. The reason everyone attacks you is because they haven't been able to sustain their soul requirements for clarity and have gone mad. Also, plants actually start growing back very quickly. Bamboo can grow nearly and inch PER HOUR! 5:30 Many people tried escaping but only Valarfax made it. He was one of the Twin Fangs as you know who were King Alants loyal brave knights. He wouldn't order an Uber the moment some fog rolled in. He would have stayed to defend the kingdom with Biorre. Abandoning his lord and partner would only have happened if he had no choice, perhaps after Biorre was imprisoned, but mostly likely he would try to secure his release in someway first before Silent Hill LARPing out into the death fog. 5:50 The NPCs are human because they are all actively doing something to keep acquiring souls to retain their sanity like vendoring or hunting down and killing demons. 7:17 the Arch Stones were made LONG before Demons Souls Takes place. That is why you don't see Maiden Astria on the 5th Archstone, or the Yellow Monk on Latria, and the digger king is gone and his land is now controlled by Boletaria. They were made during the first scourge and it's been a VERY long time since then. Only 1 monumental is still alive. How old do you imagine something called a monumental lives? Prolly a while if they aren't a bunch of anti-vaxers who caught covid when the Fog covered the land making people unable to see basic reality. Unless this is a translation error and should be the "Fox" coverage, which would make the 'Old One' Roger Ails... hmmm, a massive hollow monster devoid of any soul sleeping below ground with trees growing out of it! Holy crap someone get @VaatiVidya on the phone! I digress; but to address the ornate intricate craftsmanship being out of character for the nexus, dude the way you open the door is an inverted statue of liberty dropping a massive sword through a load bearing Ostrava bench and ripping open a magic dance floor. I feel like they weren't on tight construction budget. Go to Bed Bath and Beyond and see how much 20 candles costs then imagine needing to buy that many for each place you intend for a visitor to stand. 8:00 Fat officials, I agree. Think they focused on the "fat" rather than the fact that they were more ministers of evil imposing the will of a box of milk duds that that rolled into the couch. 13:00 The facial animations in the remake are very wells done, you can't see the nuanced inflections and animations in compressed youtube video. The ps5s graphics need to be see to be believed, nothing online can capture it at all, it's like the first time seeing HD or HDR, it's akin to seeing and entirely new color, the facial dynamics can only really be seen properly in game or details will just be missed. 15:11 The ps5 has 3d audio that only really works with a headset. It does not sound good on my tv speakers, but on my Drop Senheiser PC38X's it does even more to immerse you into the game than the visuals. There are so many things you can't even hear at all without a headset cuz the way they made the audio. It's mixed in a way you can 'see' around you 360 degrees with your ears as if you are watching a second monitor, really hold off on judgement of the sound work until you hear it properly! It's impressive. I do agree on the tone being different but I will mention what I think about that in my wrap up. In closing, they certainly knew their audience and the subject material the lore was based on. The amount of hidden lore accurate details they put in the game beggars belief! They intentionally kept the 4-1 skip FOR the community making a tactical choice not to fix it as it's like Han Solo saying he did the kessle run in under a unit of distance. It's endearing at this point, not a problem. It's loved because it's wrong. If you wanna know how to ruin something watch what Solo: A Star Wars Story does with that. They redesigned the fluted helm and some people didn't like it, so respecting those are veterans they made the original design as a reward for beating the vanguard tutorial boss. You can see the human forms of the demon bosses in photo mode watching their soul dissipate and they rendered content based off the design works which even Fromsoft didn't put in the game. For the whole tonal difference with the music and such like how different latria is. It is a song from the original soundtrack actually and infact is more true to the lore than the original. She sings to comfort and ease the fellow prisoners, they chose music that is intentionally more soothing which makes latria not nearly as creepy but infact more true to the lore. It updates the game while keeping the original still worth playing too! They wanted to remaster the game without making the original obsolete. We gained something without having to lose anything in a way. Do you know hard it is to make something the same, that's also different!? That's why nobody likes remakes. We want our member berries! But you don't eat the member berries cuz they aren't actually as good now. The new differences combined with the fractured world mod that flips the entire game horizontally AND has secret items to find only in pure black and white fractured world tendency to unlock a new secret door and get the penetrator armor peope asked for from the beginning. They give us something far better than a faithful remake, they give us a chance to recapture the feeling of playing demons souls new in a slight way. It's SO appreciated! The 5:4 boss tone is not NEARLY as unsettling without the music that was PERFECT in the original. I like that they didn't got straight for a carbon copy with better graphics. Some things just don't work on better hardware. If they remade silent hill 1 100% faithfully it world be horrendous. The hardware limitations helped set the tone. The fog and bad graphics made your imagination fill in the gaps. The fog would just be obnoxious and the enemy original designs would look boring. What happens when you try to be 100% faithful and only up the graphics and sound quality is you get the Secret of Mana remake. Everyone loses. The purists and the people who want something fresh. Consider you were in charge of remaking Dark Souls 1 on PS5 and know that you can't have it turn out like DSR cuz it wasn't different enough and everyone hated it with passion, but you can't change it too much either or it's be like Dark Souls 2 where everyone hated it cuz it wasn't like DS1 at all. This is probably one of the most terrifying communities to make a game for cuz of our passion. That means it takes guts to do drastic design choices cuz you will get obliterated if you do it wrong. I really hope that the idea of the game you are getting from the uploaded footage doesn't set you mind in stone too much because this game truly is worth looking at with fully open eyes before forming an opinion. There is alot of very detailed appreciation and fandom to be missed if it's not given a full fair chance from the start. I hope you can go in neutral and play the game and then see if you still feel the same way. If you do, I respect you have a different opinion and that is perfectly fine! I just wouldn't want another passionate soulsborne fan to miss out on a single ounce of quality content because of a bias set by not seeing in as the medium it was intended to be viewed as. Deracine for instance, DOES NOT translate through a lets play watch, AT ALL. It exists in how it uses the vr hardware, and this game exists in how the ps5 does visuals and the heavy investment in to audio that can only exist fully with a headset. There's haptic feedback in 3-2 when you are near the beating heart! It's disgusting but SO good! This game is actually a collection of hundreds of subtle details more than a flashy graphic flex, you just need to be able to look clearly to to that tho :)

I don't like demon souls remake, but I think you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, read it first, then criticise it, play the game first then I can listen to your opinion, your arguments are of one who never played the game and its felt on the script, not undermining your video, just find it very vague and arbritraty to point out stuff u haven't expirienced.

I recently tried the remake. It looked pretty, sure enough. But also generic, a lack of substance. The changes they did to the armor, especially the flute set is just unnecessary. It looked like something from Lords of the fallen. Thank you for sharing my feelings about this game as the original Demon Souls was my introduction to the souls franchise. I will say though, Bluepoint really did do a lot of work and probably had good Intentions. They just missed the mark, at least for me.

I agree with pretty much everything you said. What i really dislike about remakes like this is that they're never "Let's take what's there and bring it up to modern graphical standards", instead they are "We know better than the original artists so let's change this". Really disappointing. The only silver lining to me is that the gameplay is pretty much the same, and people no longer have to buy an outdated console to get the gist of Demon's Souls

The same thing applies to the cover too! Have a look at the japanese ps3 cover, and compare to the us cover and then to the remake cover. The japanese cover is the Slayer of Demons(main character) on the ground, like a corpse(in the same position as Oscar in Dark Souls). He is(almost) dead, but you can see he's still holding his sword on his hand, and you see many arrows on his shield, so you also see that although he fell, he put up a good fight before that. And that is the atmosphere of the actual game. You'll be dying all the time but what matters is putting up a good fighting and eventually overcoming challenges. Now, the american cover of the PS3 version, although doesn't covey the same feeling, still doesn't make it seem like the protagonist is the most badass man alive, it's just some random knight with a cool glowing. Now take a look at the PS5 cover... It seem like one of those generic medieval fantasy games. If not for the title and previous knowledge it being a remake of the PS3 version, if you saw its cover at gamestop, would you think it was a original and innovative game who actually created it's own subgenre and is the spiritual predecessor of the Ultimate Game of All Time(Dark Souls won this prize)? I know I wouldn't, I would think it's some generic fantasy game. Just as you said, in the trailer, the original makes the character seem like he's struggling, he's giving his best but it's not enough, while on the remake he just sweeps the ground with enemies. And this is the main problem I have with the remake. The PS3 version was minimalistic, but realist. You weren't the ultimate chosen hero of all time, you were just someone who entered the fog looking for opportunities and power. On the remake they make you seem like a good. The voice acting doesn't have the same emotions. The music doesn't feel as unique and sometimes the atmosphere doesn't even match(see Dirty Colossus' new theme theme and compare to the fight). They even DESTROYED one of the best music of all time in my opinion(Maiden in Black, or Nexus Theme). Sorry for ranting The point is, they took a minimalistic, desolate and lonely tale of a random knight who happened to be lucky and be trapped into the nexus and through perseverance manage to kill its foes into a generic and epic game with epic music and giant castles and orchestras. Some people think that fromsoftware would go with that if they had time and money and hardware, but as you said, the concept art proves it isn't true. Sorry for ranting...

I completely agree. I don’t want to ruin anyone who loved the remake’s parade, but, I agree, it was very disappointed as well. I would say they are trying to be as marketable to a western audience as possible, robbing the nuance of a lot of the stuff and making things more “superficially cooler” than the original which was unapologetic about its weirdness. The new intro was absolute cringe. It felt like its trying to sell you on a gameplay rather than an atmosphere. In the original we have a knight fighting tactfully and cautiously, as he looks around the enemies surrounding him and keeps his guard up. In the remake he just dives balls deep into eight enemies with LITERAL SUPER STRENGTH. Then the phantoms that pop up do power-ranger poses like their your “buddies” whereas the original was more vague and mysterious, is this my friend, is this an enemy? You don’t know. The music has no punch to it at all, and the instrumentation is much more “bland” whereas the original music sounded like music that could actually be produced in the middle ages (with its minimalism) in fact most of the soundtrack sounded like this! The Flamelurker arena is emblematic of how they are trying to make the most marketable game ever sacrificing the original intent. But it extends further than that, as almost everything that is “weird or odd” was changed to be scary or gross or more evil looking. This heightens the cool factor, because if you kill a cool demon or a gross demon, you feel cooler cause you did it. The original vanguard was made into a Warhammer 40K chaos monster, whereas in the original he looked a lot more goofy and silly, which imo added to the mystique and intrigue of the world. And they made sure to give him blood and weird growths on his body! Fat Officials, like you mentioned, were changed to be bloated and gross looking and all semblance of subtlety was removed. Archstones in the original game had a rock-like elephant thing which the sword pokes, but they changed it to a “evil demon skull” because it wasn’t cool enough. The miners of Stonefang looked out of shape and fat and pathetic in the original, and they changed them into “evil looking goblins.” I know they changed the Flamelurker to resemble his original look, but the original remake flamelurker is also a glaring example of how they are changing the “weird aspects” and “fixing” them to be more marketable and generic. Realistic but unimpressive architecture for a fortress? Nuh-uh too weird lets make it look gothic or something! The mind flayers looked a bit too silly in the original nope gotta fix that, lets make them look like mind flayers from your next door DND book. Adjudicator was very “idk what I’m looking at” so lets make him grosser, and give him nipples with nipple rings. and remove the yellow slimy skin and tattoos (too confusing!) too! I am not a fan at all of what they did to the remake. Considering the music… if you want to see a “you missed the point” example with the music, listen to Armor Spider theme of the original and compare it to the remake's, because they barely sound the same at all or have the same energy. The former sounds mad and insane and erratic and erroneous, very panicky and nightmarish, the latter sounds like tension and oooh spookies here and there. Its not innovative at all compared to the original's minimalism and odd use of instruments. The glaring changes proves to me that their intent was not to expand on the original’s style, but rather create a cooler and more marketable version of the game. It was a missed potential. The original was so weird and strange in so many aspects, but that is going to be overshadowed by the new generation as graphics begin to get better. Who in the right mind would get a PS3 to play the original demon souls, no one. But people will remember demons souls for the much more generic remake. That isn’t to say I don’t respect the work they went through.

This is not necessarily a bad game; it's mechanically still Demon's Souls. But it is in many ways, a bad Remake: it deliberately changes the art direction/cinematography/lighting/sound design, etc, and with it, the general atmosphere and overall tone too. All of these components are integral to a souls games, they can't be altered or exchanged with something else. It failed completely to convey the originally intended experience. It may be more technically impressive, but it's lesser in most respects simply because it is not Demon's Souls.

You're completely right. It's why I haven't touched Dark Souls Remastered.

This guy hasn't played the remake but talks about atmosphere 😂 Well I've played it and completed it and the atmosphere is outstanding!

Somewhat weird video to make without even playing the remake imo. The original is still there.

Never played the remake (or original for that matter), but saw a Chase invasion video a few minutes back...felt like I was watching him play a generic fantasy mmo. If not for the video title and backstabs there was no way I would've thought it was a Souls game.

It’s a big disappointment but I expected that when I saw the og devs weren’t doing the remake

The artists at Bluepoint are artists too, and they did an insanely good job with the remake. But as artists, they’ll want to make small adjustments that they think suit the overall picture. Can’t blame them much for that, especially considering the vast majority of the game is done beautifully. I think you’d like it if you played it.

It is patently ridiculous to criticise something you've never played

i liked it, but that was all i *liked* it. They ruined the audio. boss fight music, namely 1-4 boss.. they changed the music to medievil elevator cheese. but that isn't even the worst thing.. they removed the haunting sound of rushing wind from stronefang tunnel, all of the ambience is lost, it just felt static and i spent much of my time on demons souls playing with the sound on my soundbar so low all i could really hear was the weapons clanging i didn't really care.

Yeah, jumping from a Norman style castle to a Gothic one for Boletaria is a major shift of architectural styles/periods for the buildings. Also I couldn't forgive the less realistic take on the Knight's fluted set the ps5 version did

Hi, I fully agree with you. I think that videos from the channel "The Firelink Conspiracy" would be worth watching regarding this topic, they go in-depth regarding everything. This is suggested to those that criticize you for talking about a game you have not played, even though there's no need to play it to talk about the points present in your video... As for you Silver, I think that the video talking about the music change (again on that channel) might interest you as to narrow down why the new soundtrack feels wrong...

The remake suffers a lot from being the same game. All of the originals worst points are still there or are worse(the upgrade system and the weight system). Also they took zero of the potential that comes with a remake to actually balance the game or even add more weapons and armor sets. It's frustrating watching the opportunity be wasted.

Honestly do not see why anyone's complaining about this vid because defending the hot mess that is demons soulless is a bad look for anyone

Yeah you pretty much nailed it. Spot on. Demon’s Soulless’ aesthetics are entirely influenced by the most soulless, design-by-boardroom Hollywood and AAA trends out there. No subtlety, no nuance, no atmosphere to speak of. The creature and character redesigns all look like they belong in a mobile shovelware game, the UI is generic and minimalist, the game is full of those awful gaudy HDR magic and fire effects, the game’s color grading is skewed towards a putrid orange and teal common in the worst 2000s and 2010s Hollywood blockbusters, and the fantastic soundtrack of the original game has been replaced with boring and indistinct orchestral music similar to what you find in, again, the worst Hollywood blockbusters and AAA games. It’s the “this will be graphics in 2013, Nintendo hire this man” design philosophy. There is not a single bit of care put into any of these creative choices, they were made because it’s what the suits say is trendy and popular. Paint by numbers, with the laziest script. Not to mention, they didn’t do a single damn thing to fix any of the original game’s problems! World and character tendency still suck, there are still too few armor sets (+ they’re still gender locked), and half the bosses are still forgettable afterthoughts (even more so seeing as their gorgeous aesthetics and fantastic music have been ruined). Demon’s Soulless has all the faults of the original game with none of its charm. It’s worthless.

The way he said “face” when he said “most important part of your face” around 14:15 was no joke scary af.

My issue with Demon's Souls remake is that most people won't experience it and it will share the same fate as the original. Exclusive games are detrimental for gaming as well as gamers.

I'm glad I played the original first, menus in the remake look bland and generic like Elden Ring.

The new hud urks me the most

Idk. I’ve played 1500+ hours on the souls games. They’re my favorite games. And I think the remake did an excellent job. Sure things are different, but they put their own “flair” in the game. I agree that the fat official lost some creepiness, but that’s the only thing I can agree on.

this game is laughably bad and it’s honestly weird to see the love it got. like they literally just updated graphics. like if something is bad in a game why not fix it or change it. no they just didn’t wanna touch anything but the graphics. it’s honestly horrible

Fat official in the remake - his smile and optimism: gone.

those 1/3rd of downvotes on this video didn't watch it , they just saw the title and downvoted because they're butthurt sony simps who are dying to have a reason to justify buying a ps5......