Topic: Demon Souls Remastered. Is it, isn't it?

@MaulTsir Yes! Congrats, man! Glad that you polished off the platinum. 😄 It really is a great game and BluePoint are masters of the remake.

I’ve been debating it in my head and on the other thread about my next FromSoft game. It will be a minute or two before I clear some space and dust off a few of my current projects, but re-living my experience through your Demon’s Souls completion has me hungry for another Soulsborne. The From veterans on here have just about convinced me to go to Dark Souls 1 before I try the rest, so that’s where I’m leaning now. I just need to track down a copy. I

know you said you’d probably take a little break from the genre and then maybe go to Elden Ring next. Is that still the plan?

@Th3solution Thanks man, I am relieved that I managed to get it done.

I really did enjoy my time with the game and while I did feel a little disappointed that I won't be needing to play it again I'm also glad I'm finished with it at the same time!.

I'm glad that it was able to wet your pallet for a bit more From Software games, they do become rather 'addictive', I think it's for the atmosphere/challenge it keeps you wanting more even though it has you pulling your hair at at times 🤣.

After finishing Demon Soul's I did think that ER would be next. I had little interest is going back to the older games but now I'm finished with DeS I feel that I should at least give them a chance, I'd like to think i was up to the challenge of completing all the main Soul's games and even Sekiro, I feel if I played ER first I'd probably never go back to the old ones. I'll have to see if I can pick them up low enough. Let me know how you get with your Dark Soul's adventures!

How many playthroughs did the plat take for you? I picked up my first playthrough (strength/faith) after finishing Elden Ring and completed it, but I hadn't really paid attention to the trophies or the tendency mechanics at all. I started a new (royalty/magic) playthrough with a view to making progress towards the plat.

I don't have that many trophies left to get, but I'm going to struggle to get pure white character tendency for one of the rings i need, and i also seem to have messed up world tendency in world 4 - all bosses done but still not pure white (so I must have died in "oooooooooooooh.....body form (body form for you)" at some point without realising). With the spell and miracle trophies I think I may need to do a few more playthroughs after this one. I'm enjoying it though, so not currently a chore. If I stop enjoying it, I will stop.

I also made the character tendency worse because I thought I would try coop on the off chance that I could kill an invader and bump it up, but I ended up getting summoned as the Old Monk boss. In the panic, I couldn't remember what the implications were of losing as the Old Monk so I tried to win which I did - got the trophy for killing a host and the monks headgear but knocked down my character tendency in the wrong direction....

@woollypump I did the Demon's Souls platinum in three playthroughs but you can do it in two if you know what you're doing. Tendency can always be fixed I think. Easiest way to fix character tendency is to get a friend who has the game to invade you and then kill them. Repeatedly. Eventually you'll get to white. Similarly, to get to black tendency, you just need to have a friend who'll let you invade them and kill them. If you don't have a friend who has the game and will help, you can probably find someone to help on a trophy forum or the Demon's Souls reddit or whatever.

Pretty sure World Tendency also moves back to white as you're killing invaders, just not as much. I'm sure a trophy guide will explain it. I had to mess about with it when I was getting the platinum.

@johncalmc thanks - I read last night that world and character tendency don't reset for ng+ so I should be able to do the last world tendency related trophy (world 4) with just one boss. I think I will also leave the character tendency stuff until next playthrough.

@woollypump I did it in 2, well 1 and a half, I followed the psn trophy guide pretty strictly and on my second playthrough I only needed certain spells from some bosses to complete the Platinum, it is a mind boggle at times to try and keep all the world tendency stuff into 1 playthrough but I really didn't want to have to go through 2 or 3 more playthroughs but I've read people who've got playthrough 3 and 4 down to about 6 to 8 hours for the plat.

I have a plan - I think I can get the Miracles trophy on NG+ with my first character (strength/faith) without too much work - the only one I am missing is the Recovery miracle which needs 3 colourless demon souls. I can get 3 colorless demon souls by 1) dying in bodyform in 1-1 to PBWT then get the CD soul behind the NPC black phantom there, beat phalanx then, 2) dying in bodyform in 2-1 and kill the primeval demon that's easily accessed in the early part of the area, then 3) trade my spare talisman of god with sparkly the crow . Then I need to beat Adjudicator and rescue St Urbain and I am done.

Then I can continue on my Royalty NG+ to get the sorcery and ring trophies then I am done!

I don't expect any of that to be particularly easy though - my first character is a bit low level so Adjudicator may be difficult (let alone the black phantoms), and I think I will have to do a few NPC black phantoms to get the pure white character tendency ring.

All done! Finished the miracles trophy on my first character, then did the spells and rings on my second character. So, 2 complete playthroughs, and two incomplete NG+ - I have the last two world 4 bosses, and the false king to do on one of the two.

I do enjoy From's output and the Demon's Souls remake is the first game I grabbed when I bought a PS5. However, as much as I enjoy these games I'm not the best at them so kudos to anyone who gets a platinum with these titles.

@woollypump well done, I really enjoyed my time with it although it's not a Platinum I would like to try again, the amount of planning and thought it takes made it almost like a job 🤣

Do you have any plans for future From Software plats?

@MaulTsir I don't think so. I have the Bloodborne, Elden Ring and now DeS plats. I have most trophies for DS3, but I don't think I can be bothered doing all the covenant item farming required for a few of the remaining ones. I've tried on multiple attempts to get into DS2 and it's just not sticking for me. I think Sekiro may just be too difficult for me, although I loved it up until hitting a wall at Genichiro Ashina.

Maybe DS1 down the road if it happens naturally, because I am sure I will replay it many times in the future, but so far I've split my playthroughs between Switch and Playstation, so the trophies I am missing don't reflect what I've done in the game.

Perhaps AC6 when it releases?