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It is a reset, where you refill your health (more on that later), you can level up your character and most importantly all mob enemies are respawned. It is called by other names in other games (shrines in Nioh) but they all essentially do the same thing. So, to the essential aspects of a Souls-like… and I will use both Nioh and Dark Souls (and some others) as the examples (as they were the games that caused me to hammer on keys). It is the core fundamentals of any genre (or in this case sub-genre) that defines its heritage and hope for legacy. It doesn’t mean that there can be no evolution (as with Nioh’s more involved combat) but if the core foundations are present, they should be categorised accordingly.
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My reply though is to show the other similarities not only between these two series of games but of all the games that I believe should be considered Souls-likes. Now while I disagree that the only similarity between the Nioh series and the Souls games is the difficulty, this is not the first time I have heard this.
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Nioh 1 and 2 are better games, but for some reason we never really think of them as Dark Souls clones, probably because the combat is so much more involved.’ GC replied (and this is me putting forward my opinion rather than going on the attack) that ‘We’ve never been big fans of The Surge, so we’d definitely put Mortal Shell above that. Not that I have played it yet, but I had posited that the Nioh and The Surge games would take some beating in my opinion. So, to the reason that sparked this feature, I had mentioned that I was quite surprised by the general games journalism consensus to quickly proclaim Mortal Shell as the best Souls-like.