Modder demasters Dark Souls into pixel, retro nightmare
If you’ve ever wondered what it’d feel like to be back in 1999, booting up your PSX and popping in a Dark Souls disc, then modder thegreatgramcracker over on Nexus Mods has got you covered with Pixel Souls: Demastered.
The mod takes Dark Souls Remastered and replaces textures with pixel art based on the original game’s textures, decreases model quality, and reduces the quality of music and sound effects for a “fun, somewhat cursed, ‘retro’ feel,” says thegreatgramcracker.
Demakes and demasters have seen a boom over the past few years, and Dark Souls now joins the likes of other FromSoftware games, including Bloodborne and Elden Ring to receive the lo-fi treatment.
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