Demon’s Souls Remake Easy Mode Was Discussed - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 19 November 2020 / 1,228 Views
Publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment and developers Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan Studio and Bluepoint Games have officially released the Demon’s Souls remake for the PlayStation 5 worldwide.
Bluepoint Games had discussed adding an easy mode to the remake, however, they decided it wasn't their place. This is according to creative director Gavin Moore who spoke with The Washington Post.
"This project remakes the work of another development team," said Moore. "While we’ve made some changes, our core driving mantra has always been to preserve the spirit and intent of the original creators.
"While we considered and discussed an easy mode, we ultimately decided it wasn’t our place — merely being custodians for this amazing game — to add something that would fundamentally alter its balance."
While there is no easy mode in the game, it does feature over 180 videos that provide tips and tricks on how to beat certain parts of the game. The videos are available in the PS5's Activities feature.
"I think a lot of new users hear Demon’s Souls and they go 'Oh that’s game’s really difficult.' But it’s not. It’s actually very fair. It’s challenging, but very fair," Moore told The Washington in an earlier conversation.
"But we do understand that people get stuck. ... And we’ve got 180 plus help videos that actually sit inside the game, so if you do get stuck, you can bring up, as you’re still playing, one of those help videos and it will tell you, ‘In this area, you need to do this,’ or ‘This is the best tactic against this boss.’
"The way the system works is it will show you a video if you ask for some help, which is just enough to give you a hint. And then if you still haven’t got it, you can look at the next one."
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Their goal was to preserve the experience of the original, so they did the right thing.
They should have added, it wouldn't change the core game, it would be just an option to whoever wishes to use it.
Agreed. As much as I like these games on paper, every time I play them, I realize I do not have the same patience that I used to have 10 years ago, thus never end up finishing them. I have no idea how an easy mode would have impacted this game in any negative fashion.
If developed to have an easy mode someone could say it would impact the design (don't agree but ok it could), but after the game is finished, adding a mode doesn't change the rest. Have the other modes in TLOU or UC became any different when they added grounded or crushing difficulties?
Options are a bad thing apparently. Always believed in equality, if some gamers wanted an easy mode, they should have one.
I really wish they did have an easy mode because I find now that am a dad with 4 kids time I don’t get a lot of free time to game n when I do I would to enjoy games like this so I can see why everyone talks about the lore n why they like game hence more sales I think as am sure am not the only one in this boat who would love to try these games
no no no no no fck no!
if it had a easy mode I might have gotten this game.. Ive played games for 35 years, Im getting alot older.. I dont have the time to "get gud".. I played harder games then the souls series when I was young.
If you have ever played a Souls game then Demon's Souls is a breeze. If you are new to the series then LEARN THE GAME. It is not that hard. No need for an easy mode.
The day they do it there will be a huge backlash from their very loyal fanbase (me included) which will definitely hurt sales, and at the same time all the journalists begging for an easy mode so they can review the game at day one wont be able to convince much people to buy the game and compensate for the lower sales. Not a good trade off.
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