thoughts:
-interesting playing this the same day i finished ff7 remake. a lot of the charm and soul, the alien atmosphere seem to have been sucked out of the original game. see: sound design in tower of latria, the flamelurker arena looking like its straight out of doom 2016, the tower knight soundtrack being a very generic orchestral soundtrack instead of "HUH HUH HUH HUH",
-basically it can often feel like the original demon's souls, filtered through Lord of the Rings.
-it is indeed beautiful.
-its wild going back to these bosses again after like a decade or whatever. most of them REALLY don't hold up. only one i've enjoyed so far is flamelurker.
-interesting playing this the same day i finished ff7 remake. a lot of the charm and soul, the alien atmosphere seem to have been sucked out of the original game. see: sound design in tower of latria, the flamelurker arena looking like its straight out of doom 2016, the tower knight soundtrack being a very generic orchestral soundtrack instead of "HUH HUH HUH HUH",
-basically it can often feel like the original demon's souls, filtered through Lord of the Rings.
-it is indeed beautiful.
-its wild going back to these bosses again after like a decade or whatever. most of them REALLY don't hold up. only one i've enjoyed so far is flamelurker.