Sunday 12 June 2011

Two Best Friends Play: Demon's Souls [Demon's Souls]

Hell is other people... but mainly that guy...
RATING: ****

Creator: TheSw1tcher (http://www.youtube.com/user/TheSw1tcher)
Distributed by: Machinima.com (http://www.machinima.com/)

Watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Be_657JBAI


Two Best Friends is a series that taps into one of the greatest phenomenons encountered in video gaming, you and a friend, passing a controller between yourselves, level by level until one of you dies or fails miserably. Your ever supportive friend mocks you and you don't speak for several minutes. And then you put it on YouTube. The hapless Matt is thrown in the deep end when Pat picks Demon's Soul's as their next game, its legendary difficulty given a glowing summary ("It's hard like the Devil's dick raping you in Hell!").

As ever the humour comes from our heroes thinking of increasingly elaborate ways to insult/sabotage the other. As the more experienced gamer Pat takes great pleasure in luring Matt into traps ("Yo dude... through that other door there's like a big ass bunch of treasure...") but when the controller is passed the dynamic shifts once more. Another fine entry in a consistently entertaining series.

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