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DodogamaRayBrst posted...

Well it has estus flasks and bonfires and a focus on parrying, which for reasons that sometimes seem dubious to me is often considered a Soulslike element. And I guess it also has shortcuts, but they're barely relevant.

Beyond that I really couldn't tell what about Stellar Blade is soulsy at all.

Okay, so that is also similar to the Star Wars Jedi games, which have all that plus the death penalty. The Jedi games barely count IMO, so this barely would not count IMO. This is admittedly arbitrary and all very in my opinion.

What is interesting is that some of the exploration and shortcut elements that we call Soulslike are admittedly taken from Metroid Prime, which in itself is basically a 3D Metroidvania. And then people argue that a Metroidvania can't be a Soulslike... lol