It looks stunning and it plays beautifully, but I could write an essay on how the music in this remake compared to the original completely changes the tone of the game. In 2010 the Demon's Souls score was recorded with very small instrument sections and close microphones - there’s simply no way of knowing if that was a creative decision or a budget constraint, you’d need to have a conversation with the original's game director/composer to get any kind of concrete answer but regardless, the musical tone that was created for the groundbreaking original was lonesome, melancholic and rustic. What we get in the 2020 version is epic and bombastic; It's still mostly great music! But it isn’t Demon's Souls.

Reviewed on Sep 14, 2022


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