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[Discussion] Which Soulslike will you be playing this weekend and what's your favourite Soulslike genre mash-up? (lemmy.nz)

submitted 5 months ago by v4ld1z@lemmy.zip to c/soulslike@lemmy.zip

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I'm currently playing lots of games none of which are soulslikes, though, funnily enough :D Juggling Hunt Showdown, Slay the Spire 2 and Esoteric Ebb right now - enjoying my time with all of them.

What I mean by genre mash-up is a game of a different genre that uses aspects of soulslikes and incorporates them in a transformative way to create something new. Think, something like Nine Sols which is a sidescroller, maybe a metroidvania too? (please correct me if I'm wrong) that took inspiration from Sekiro's combat with its heavy focus on parries to create a cool mix of both. Or Hollow Knight for an easier example.

I don't think I've ever played a game like that before outside HK, maybe, but purely concept-wise, I like the idea of Remnant. Shooters are usually relatively light on using gear and spatial movement during combat, exceptions like DOOM or Borderlands proving the rule, which makes Remnant an interesting mash-up. It borrows from soulslikes but is primarily a shooter, still.

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[–] MissingInteger@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Simon >Manus<, whose above the Abyss… Okay, super obvious when you put it like that. I totally missed that. Viewing the fight through that lense reveals all the other details you listed.

Yeah, I can definitely see Maria in the Namless Puppet fight: The Scissor weapon and the Rakuyo, both splitting in Phase 2. Also in Phase 2 the red glow around the weapon. Also, yeah, some of the acrobatics are kinda reminisced of her.
If those two thematically fit together… I don't know. I need think more deeply on the story of Lies of P after the DLC anyway. You can definitely make them fit together with the puppet parallels, but I don't know if this actually meant to appear that way.
One quick tought: Maria's has agency still in protecting the secrets. Nameless Puppet only ever had, if it had agency at all, hatred as it's driving force at least according to an item description (I think the boss amulet). So I think you can make the story connections around the characters, but not between those two characters specifically. Maybe, I don't, I need to think about more.

Anyway, thanks for the story insights and this Lies of P disussion as a whole :)

[–] GrantUsEyes@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago

The similarities seem beyond coincidental to me, but I agree.in that it's probably not meant to be read as other than a collection of inspiration and references, similar to Simon hence: an homage.

You have a point (and I did purposely omit a tie to the angency issue) but, yeah I said strongly parallels which, may have been over selling it a bit . XD Chalk it up to my enthusiasm of actually getting to talk about any of this!!

Have a great week!