10 Awesome Video Games That Owe Their Success To Dark Souls

10. Titan Souls

Dark Souls requires a massive amount of patience, requiring players to learn from their mistakes by treating death as though a learning tool. Each challenge is considerable. The Catacombs for instance is accessible right from the beginning, and contains skeletons which reanimate constantly unless the player initially targets the Necromancers, which the game fails to mention.

The game refuses to hold the player’s hand, or even communicate vital information. Instead, players must learn from each encounter, memorise enemy attack patterns and gradually overcome their opposition.

Titan Souls – a two dimensional, pixelated adventure game – uses the same concept as a central mechanic, every enemy capable of obliterating the player in a single, devastating manoeuvre, which encourages multiple playthroughs.

Besides that, the combat is based around positioning and spacing, and most bosses are defeated through timing and dodging, rather than brute strength.