>bro Miyazaki totally copied Severance, this game that I didn't even know about until Iron Pinapple played it 2 months ago
>try Blade of Darkness
>it's complete shit and nothing like Dark Souls

kek video essay trannies do be like that

>>714064401 (OP)
I was gonna play it but then the devs re-released the game while advertising it as "the first souls game" which was so cringe inducing I got turned off.

Everyone knows dark souls copied Xena on the playstation

>Souls game
>It's just standard 90's western game design

What makes something a “Souls” game for you ?

>>714064585
Acktschuallyit was Deathtrap Dungeon, right down to the marketing.

>>714064401 (OP)
The Severance devs said they built their game around Ocarina of Time combat and dungeons, including the lock-on and moving around enemies combat style. Most likely Miyazaki was influenced by OoT as well and not by Severance, which was niche outside of Europe, add their shared love for dark fantasy and you get two games that are fairly similar.
That being said Severance is not only far from being shit, the combat is actually interesting, engaging and somewhat realistic unlike Souls where everything boils down to rolling around like a retard or making some op meme build. Different games.

>>714064857
>That being said Severance is not only far from being shit, the combat is actually interesting, engaging and somewhat realistic
Lol

>>714064401 (OP)
You fell for it too, uh OP
Glad I pirated

>>714064857
Severance is a wooden piece of trash with little appeal and that flopped majestically.

The only way it could be seen as similar or better than Souls games is if you are a retard that can't play Souls games at all

>>714065702
I played Souls games just fine but I ended up enjoying the simplicity of Severance a lot and it became one of my favorite games. I kinda like the game being more linear, no character building, short cutscenes, etc.

>>714065884
>simplicity of Severance
Severance puts shitty input combos that are forced to make any damage
Those directional input combos are clunky as shit

>>714067117
Yeah I'll admit those can be a little sucky sometimes, the way some of them are designed makes it so that it's hard to avoid accidentally doing them. Not too different from Souls having jump attacks and kicks though I guess. But I suppose just putting it on a single button press wouldn't have made a difference at least in single player. The game had a multiplayer pvp mode and I guess they wanted it to feel a bit like a fighting game for that maybe.