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Feb 5, 2009
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Demon's Souls
Developer: FromSoftware
Publisher: Atlus, Namco Bandai Partners, Sony Computer Entertainment
Feb 5, 2009
Summary
A third-person action RPG with cooperative and competitive multiplayer elements in which the player enters the kingdom of Boletaria as it is being ravaged by a fog that spawns murderous demons. The player has to hunt down the arch demons situated in five disparate areas within the kingdom and partake in punishing combat to reach the Old One, the vengeful being that brought the fog to Boletaria.
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