demon’s souls being pitched originally as a competitor to oblivion is so funny. imagine being sony and you swing by the fromsoft offices to check in on the tes killer they’ve got in the works for you only to find you they’ve given the keys to the armored core 4 guy and he’s got them cooking up some sort of unplayable mutant and this fucking thing is the version of the project that’s actually shippable
after that you don’t publish their next game because, obviously. you’re not going through that shit again. they’re letting the fucking armored core 4 guy direct again. anyway his next shot at the unplayable mutant defines the next ten years of games discourse for some reason