If I was at From Software, I would be very worried about now. Simply because churning out the same Souls game every year is no longer an option when other studios can do it so much better. The trophies are also more interesting and less of a slog compared to the original game (shown above), and while I don’t normally bother with trophies, I actually had fun acquiring them all for this remake. There are some other nice tweaks as well, with the target camera being more helpful now, but overall, this feels like a properly streamlined and improved game while still being very faithful to the original. This single change makes the whole game a lot more straightforward and less awkward.
Ranged combat in FromSoftware titles is something of an acquired taste. For those with that craving though, the Lava Bow in Demon’s Souls is definitely worth their time and attention. Players will need to give Blacksmith Ed an item called the Hard Demon Soul, and, from that, he can craft this useful bow.
Arguably one of the best entries in the Souls series was the first game, Demon’s Souls. Released back in 2009 it became the dream import game for middlecore hipsters, as the Asian release was fully localized in English and was region free. Now it has been remade for the PlayStation 5 and it’s finally come into its own. As you can see in the above video by YouTube creator PanFro Games, some builds with the Meat Cleaver are incredibly broken because of how the weapon can continuously stagger enemies, preventing them from ever striking back.
For those who haven’t played Demon’s Souls since 2009, or even those who haven’t played the remake since its 2020 launch, there’s plenty of value in delving back into Boletaria. After playing something like Elden Ring, it’s fascinating to revisit modern FromSoftware’s roots, seeing the impetus for its one-of-a-kind design philosophy with the benefit of hindsight. For anyone interested in gaming history, Demon’s Souls is required reading, and a single playthrough isn’t enough to extract all its mechanical depth. Moreover, it’s novel and almost surreal to see what FromSoftware cooked up in 2009, and how its approach to game-making has evolved since then. Priests start with a mace which is good, but what is even better is the Blessed Mace.
It can also be dropped in the Inner Ward by the Imperial Spy enemy. Like most of the other Souls games, Demon’s Souls also features a multiplayer component. It allows you to either summon other players to help you fight through the monsters and bosses you face, or invade the worlds of other players to add to their woes (and they can invade yours, too). Though you’ll need a PlayStation Plus subscription to access Demon’s Souls’ multiplayer, you will still be able to see the notes other players leave to either warn you of or trick you about incoming threats.
The recommended path to complete Demon’s Souls and unlock all possible paths is outlined below. Players will likely want to adjust their progress based on their chosen Builds, but this is a good outline for recommended progression. If you feel you have messed up your character, you can try to reduce your soul level to correct your build. I’ve always kind of been lukewarm on Souls multiplayer, and Demon’s Souls is no exception.
Loot the corpse to obtain a Cling Ring, which is incredibly useful when fighting in soul form. There are two Boletaria Soldiers near the upcoming door frame, so don’t stay too close to it. You will need to go up through a set of stairs but look at the top of it. Again you will have a set of stairs to your left, this time with a Boletaria Soldier standing at the top. Don’t go up just yet, stick to the right, smash the barrels to loot an Unknown Warrior Soul. Keep going until the end of the corridor to loot Mail Breaker from another corpse.
Red-eye Knight Set
Enter the next room, and head towards the bottom right of the room to grab x6 Firebombs. Keep going beyond the siege machines, a Soldier with a spear will approach you while a crossbow-wielding one will shoot you. Try to lure the melee one and don’t attempt to fight both at the same time. At his side you will find a corpse, that has x4 Half Moon Grass.
Music is often a part of game’s that holds up to time the best, but in this case, it was mostly about providing higher-quality cleaner audio which can happen in modern game development thanks to the advancement of technology. Most players likely won’t notice as good audio should go unnoticed due to it feeling seamless, but this is an improvement for the better in the remake which makes the game feel a bit more modern in 2020 and beyond. All of this is true for Bluepoint’s remake, which largely stays true to the spirit of the original Demon’s Souls, both for better and for worse.
If you want curated lists of our favorite media, check out What to Play and What to Watch. It was true in 2009, when developer FromSoftware released the mechanically groundbreaking role-playing game on PlayStation 3, and remains true for Bluepoint Games’ remake, released alongside Sony’s PlayStation 5 this week. That depends on who you ask, but there were times when I was begging for Bluepoint to take the wheel and make this game its own. Namra is a gaming enthusiast and guides writer, always looking to play AAA titles on day one, while her favorites being Last of Us, Uncharted series, Spiderman, Final Fantasy, and Alan Wake. Demon’s Souls Remake has all kinds of enemies, and the worst are magic ones.
Head back to where the room you were before with Ostrava, of Boletaria. And now head towards the inside of the building by turning right. Go to the left of the corridor, and at the end of it, you can loot a corpse to obtain an Unknown Warrior Soul.
Demon’s Souls Boss Guides
Customers enjoy the gameplay, finding it very rewarding and fun with many challenges for newcomers. Here are the games released during 2025 that have won major industry awards or received nominations for those awards. 777X ‘ll update our awards tracker whenever new awards and nominations are announced. Find an up-to-date list of every game available in the Xbox Game Pass (and PC Game Pass) library at all membership levels, and find out which games are coming soon and leaving soon.
The stamina used up for each attack depends on the type of weapon equipped, with heavier weapons requiring more stamina for each swing. On 11 June 2020, the remake of Demon’s Souls was announced during the PS5 – Future of Gaming Show by Playstation. There’s a lot of rumors going around and people are doing their best to figure out what they can.
The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered is the next first-party PlayStation title for PC, launching on April 3rd. Bluepoint delivers a Demon’s Souls remake that is as much its own as it is From Software’s, and it shows off the power of the PS5 with it. The Blue Eye Knight Helm can be found in World in either Pure White or Pure Black World Tendency, in an open door left to the staircase to Phalanx.