An otherwise great game made worse by what came after it. I can’t even imagine how radical Demon’s Souls felt to the people experiencing it when it first released. The Fromsoft games have buoyed my interest in video games for the past decade, and this game still retains a lot of the groundwork DNA that would be refined and evolved in subsequent games. Suffers from a number of systems that feel either incomprehensible or unnecessarily limiting (and that are tellingly not present in future games). Pretty easily the worst collection of bosses.