I honestly couldn’t get through it. I love loathe, especially the first album, the ambient album and of course ILIAITE. These new songs imo have felt overcompressed and utterly incohesive. What are other peoples thoughts? Similar thing happened to this band Gaerea I really liked.
I had really only watched this game from afar for most of my time as a fromsoft fan. I remember watching people play the original and thinking oh man looks like an easier dark souls with really peculiar direction, I should try it out some time. Didn't like the style of the remake so when my brother got a PC we very legally got ahold of the original because I found the atmosphere and aesthetics so appealing.
The most I have raged at a souls game was promised consort Radahn in Elden Ring... until now. Interestingly enough I had no issues with the valley of defilement or the latria swamp or the notoriously long adjudicator archstone shrine of storms gauntlet (which I really loved the art design of, though I am sure I would have disliked the area more if I didn't narrowly survive the backstabbing ghost enemies that no one seems to talk about). I did the swamp after latria so I had plenty of lotuses but also if you equip the poison resistance ring you will literally never get poisoned.
Which leads me into my main point which is that I found I enjoyed demons souls the most when I felt appropriately powerful and could just enjoy the dense atmospheres of the areas. I also found flamelurker and the maneaters especially to have really solid movesets and fun dodge timings which was pleasantly surprising, and killing the storm king with the sword was better than any other iteration of that that gimmick style fight in successor titles. For the record I did a dragon bone smasher cursed weapon build and I found the most frustrating parts of demons souls not to be the enemy designs or levels necessarily but what I would call "rage game mechanics."
- Reverse rolling, sometimes doing the "shove" (or "kick" as it was in later titles) unintentionally because it was so easy to trigger
-some enemies just one shotting you (unbalanced, ironically what Elden Ring gets critiqued for a lot)
- breaking your arm constantly against geometry (feels somehow worse than in dark souls)
- no poise (same in dark souls 3 but feels even more punishing in demons souls when you make one mistake and get stunlocked to death)
I can see how in its heyday this game was considered the pinnacle of difficulty. I don't know how I feel about it quite yet overall compared to the other titles but it is certainly a contender for the hardest souls game for me yet; not even my first time playing ds1 on mouse and keyboard made me rage like dying to the flying manarays and skeletons in shrine of storms or old king Doran in new game plus because Ostravas quest broke for me in NG.
I will say I tend to prefer the older games because they focus more on level design and worldbuilding than extremely difficult bosses, but demons souls definitely had what I feel was almost an intentional jank to just make players mad like many retro games of old. What do you guys think? Are some of the mechanics obtuse on purpose to perturb players or is it just that the developers were super limited on resources and haphazardly implemented janky mechanics on a whim due to an overactive imagination and lack of managerial oversight?
Hey everyone, I'm a new medical scribe who was able to weasel his way into a private clinic (primary care, internal medicine). The doctor im working for is older and behind on the times so to speak, so im getting paid next to nothing (essentially minimum federal wage) but given I'm getting clinical experience and mainly doing it over the summer im not too concerned. What I am concerned with is if what I am doing is typical for scribes nowadays - I work with the nurse practitioner often and she lets me do notes manually so thankfully im still learning how to type up a note efficiently. With the doctor, since we see around 20 patients a day (primary care) the doctor prefers I use "open evidence" AI to record a visit. My job after consists of editing the note and adding missed details, as well as ordering labs, writing prescriptions in the EMR, generally just organizing the chart. Is this typical? I personally hate using the AI but if its what the doctor wants...