{"id":524201,"date":"2022-10-12T09:20:25","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T09:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/524201\/"},"modified":"2022-10-12T09:20:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T09:20:25","slug":"what-was-the-very-first-souls-like-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/524201\/","title":{"rendered":"What Was the Very First \u201cSouls-Like\u201d Game?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"What Was the Very First \u201cSouls-Like\u201d Game?\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DmHFOiddUWU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nWith Elden Ring&#8217;s huge success, you might be hearing the terms &#8220;Soulsborne&#8221; and &#8220;Soulslike&#8221; now more than ever.<\/p>\n<p>While they were mostly used for FromSoftware&#8217;s Demon&#8217;s Souls, Dark Souls, and Bloodborne series at first, these words now describe an entire video game genre that has become immensely popular in the past decade. While FromSoftware helped define this new subgenre of action games, there&#8217;s now the question of if there are any Souls-likes that released before this term even existed.<\/p>\n<p>With a bit of research, some blueprint paper, and a TINY bit of genre bending, this video aims to determine the definition of a Soulslike along with what can be considered the very first game to meet that criteria.<\/p>\n<p>Also, check out these channels that inspired this video!<br \/>\nIron Pineapple &#8211; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/IronPineapple<br \/>\nAesirAesthetics &#8211; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/IllusiveFiddler7R0M37H3U5_WinkWink<br \/>\nMadLuigi &#8211; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/MadLuigi<br \/>\nCasitive &#8211; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/casitive<\/p>\n<p>Music used:<br \/>\nEternal Ring OST &#8211; Leaving Story<br \/>\nDemon&#8217;s Souls OST &#8211; The Beginning<br \/>\nSeverance: Blade of Darkness OST &#8211; Map<br \/>\nOnimusha: Warlords OST &#8211; Dress<br \/>\nDark Souls OST &#8211; Great Grey Wolf Sif<br \/>\nThe Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time OST &#8211; Hyrule Field<br \/>\nKing&#8217;s Field OST &#8211; Opening<br \/>\nUltima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss OST &#8211; Descent<br \/>\nCastlevania OST &#8211; Wicked Child<br \/>\nKevin Macleod &#8211; Robobozo<br \/>\nKevin Macleod &#8211; Hall of the Mountain King<br \/>\nElden Ring OST &#8211; Roundtable Hold<br \/>\nElden Ring OST &#8211; Omen Illusion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Elden Ring&#8217;s huge success, you might be hearing the terms &#8220;Soulsborne&#8221; and &#8220;Souls<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":524202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[212,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-524201","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rpg","8":"tag-dark-souls","9":"tag-rpg"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}