>>53768868>>53768892DeS simply suffers from being the first game. It’s clunkier than DaS1, encounters are all simpler, bosses are mostly the easiest in the game, doesn’t have dedicated mechanics like jumping and jump attacks, enemy AI is simpler, etc. What it did have was atmosphere, very cool lore that I still think is some of their best
Like the fact that sorcerers and clerics draw magic from the same being, or how Bolteria was an expansive empire that encompassed Latria and Stonefang, hence the fat officials in Stonefang, etc, and some neat experimental if flawed mechanics like World Tendency. Bluepoint took away it’s strongest point, the art direction and atmosphere with the remake, and only gave us the penetrator’s armor as a wearable set in return