what are the Dark Souls of their respective genres?

>>382480794
smash bros melee is the dark souls of fighting games

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>>382480794
Guilty Gear Isuka is the Dark souls of fighting games

SMTIV is definitely the Dark Souls of Persona

>>382480794
Mario has enemies and checkpoints, so I'll say mario. Sonic has rolling though, so who really knows.

>>382480794
Family coming over to visit for a dinner meal is the Dark Souls of real life

>>382481126
What is the Dark Souls of /v/?

>>382481216
The captcha

>>382481271
That's deep

>>382480794
>Platformer
Crash Bandicute NSane Bullshit thing
>ARPG
Diablo 2
>JRPG
Dark Souls/Dragon's Dogma
>RPG
Witcher 1
>MMORPG
Vanilla WoW
>Hack and Slash
Devil May Cry 1
>FPS
Quake 3

Going on the basis of clunky controls and mechanics that only really make sense and work when you've played it for a few hours.

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FPS

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>>382482258
>what is the dark souls of their respective genres?
>dark souls

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What is the Dark Souls of the Dark Souls series?

>>382480868
by being the worst smash?

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MCLA pre patch for racing.

>>382482531
Demon souls.

>>382482531
Dark souls

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>>382482258
>Vanilla WoW

Dragon's Dogma is the Dark Souls of 3d Action RPGs

>>382482736
>going on the basis of clunky controls or mechanics that only really make sense when you've played it for a few hours

Vanilla WoW was literally "Make your character, follow the exclaimation marks" it told you nothing

Shit when I joined I didn't even know you could switch classes

Ecco the Dolphin

More like Dark Souls is the NinjaGaiden of action adventures

>>382483103
>Shit when I joined I didn't even know you could switch classes
You couldn't switch classes in vanilla. I don't even think you could switch classes in WotLK which was when I stopped playing.

What's the dark souls of shitposting?

>>382483674
dark souls-like threads like this one, amusingly

Sonic ASR Transformed is the Dark Souls of kart racers, fight me.

>>382480794
STALKER for FPS

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