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Lance McDonald (soulsborne modder) confirmed that he has been in contact with the developers and was given access to a preview of Demon's Souls, and since then he has been saying quite a lot of small things about the game on Twitter.
TL;DR in case you can't load the tweets:
TL;DR in case you can't load the tweets:
- He was shown the game and was told several things by the developers, but didn't play it himself.
- The game went gold on September 24.
- The game uses parts of the Shadow of the Colossus PS4 remake's engine (which is Bluepoint's engine).
- The internal file structure and even file names are almost identical to that of the original Demon's Souls, which to him suggests Bluepoint is really trying to be as faithful to the original as possible.
- Nothing he saw suggests difficulty modes were introduced.
- The actual game camera is a bit different from what was in the gameplay trailer. When you run it pans out like in the original DS, and when you walk or stand still it's a bit closer and slightly tilted to the right.
- The Fool's Idol still has the piece of wood in her hands. The stained glass behind her in the church now portrays a woman and two bald men at her sides (which is something that was among the unused files from the original game).
- He won't reveal now whether the 6th archstone is or not in the game [spoiler: it isn't].
- He doesn't know if item burden is still in the game. Stockpile Thomas though definitely is.
- The gameplay trailer was played with a hacked character, and that's why it killed everything in one hit. For the fight against Vanguard, the hack was disabled [if you look really closely, you can in fact see a very short fade-to-white when the character enters, and the footage of the two modes is merged. I originally thought it was just part of how fog walls work now, but apparently it was an edit].
- Body/soul form is still in the game by default, it's not relegated to a particular difficulty mode.
- The music for the Nexus is almost identical to the original, the cut without the long pauses he leaked a few days ago is only the one the game uses when hovered over in the PS5 menu.
- Fractured Mode is still a thing, he thinks he knows what it does but he won't say it now.
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