Demon's Souls: Black Phantom Edition
King Allant the XII, the last king of Boletaria, searched tirelessly to expand his might. The Nexus, a great ice shrine nestled in the mountains, bestowed the power of the souls onto him, bringing prosperity…
Demon's Souls: Black Phantom Edition is a role-playing (rpg) developed by FromSoftware, released 25 July 2010 on PlayStation 3. The main story takes about 50 hrs to finish.
What Demon's Souls: Black Phantom Edition is
Demon's Souls: Black Phantom Edition is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by FromSoftware and released in 2010. It was published by Atlus. It is available on PlayStation 3 only. It runs on PhyreEngine. It carries an PEGI 16 age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
King Allant the XII, the last king of Boletaria, searched tirelessly to expand his might. The Nexus, a great ice shrine nestled in the mountains, bestowed the power of the souls onto him, bringing prosperity to his kingdom. Still unsated, he returned again to the Nexus, where he foolishly awakened the Old One from its eternal slumber. This long-forgotten evil, now wrought upon Boletaria, plunged the realm into darkness and fog. A mighty demon horde poured into the kingdom, devouring the souls of men. Champions from other realms learned of Boletaria's fate and sought to deliver the kingdom from evil; none would return from the cursed land. Called upon by a mysterious maiden in black, you go…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, historical and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Demon's Souls: Black Phantom Edition holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 61% of the 3,814 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored 10 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 50 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 80 hrs, roughly 1.6 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
Demon's Souls: Black Phantom Edition launched on 25 July 2010, within three weeks of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, StarCraft II, Limbo and Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, StarCraft II, Limbo, Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition.
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