It’s great that so much detail, from a reorchestrated soundtrack to DualSense haptics, contributes to the epic feeling of fighting the Storm King. It’s not a surprise that a consistent frame rate of 60 frames per second looks and feels good for a game that requires precision timing. As Polygon’s Michael McWhertor pointed out, there was hardly a straight line of improvements from Demon’s Souls (PS3) to Demon’s Souls (PS5).
So what if there were grumbles about changes to the voice acting, art style, and architecture? Demon’s Souls had completed its trek through console generations, from sleeper hit to hot new thing.īut there was substance to those grumbles. When a fully remade Demon’s Souls launched together with the PlayStation 5, many fans saw it as a triumphant return, a platform exclusive that served as a showpiece for the graphical power of the new generation. As remakes bring ever higher polygon counts and ray tracing, let’s embrace the distinctiveness of retro games.įor example, the calls for a port of 2009’s Demon’s Souls started early: Once Dark Souls became a success across platforms and over multiple generations, it wasn’t a surprise that players looked for Sony to share the wealth and release Demon’s Souls from its exclusive home on the PlayStation 3. Remakes of retro games demonstrate how constraints of technology, capital, and time impact art styles, designs, and game feel. Good luck navigating all that.Īccompanying the question of how a remake will be made are questions of when and why. Remakes can also introduce new players to a game, while still having to consider those who played the original. Remakes bring with them opportunities to address perceived flaws or to restore features that were cut or compromised. The whole structure of a game already exists, with all of its art, sound, music, design, characters, and gameplay. Remaking older games might seem straightforward - after all, the blueprint is already there in the original.
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