What are the Dark Souls of their respective genres?

what are the Dark Souls of their respective genres?

smash bros melee is the dark souls of fighting games

Guilty Gear Isuka is the Dark souls of fighting games

SMTIV is definitely the Dark Souls of Persona

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

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

What is the Dark Souls of Sup Forums?

The captcha

That's deep

>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.

FPS

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

What is the Dark Souls of the Dark Souls series?

by being the worst smash?

MCLA pre patch for racing.

Demon souls.

Dark souls

>Vanilla WoW

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

>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

>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?

dark souls-like threads like this one, amusingly

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

STALKER for FPS

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