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This tries at its best to fix localization mistakes while making the overall lore of Demon's Souls more explicit
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The main objective of this mod is to try and fix the many glaring localization mistakes that can be found all throughout the original Demon's Souls as best as it can while making the lore more explicit with use of Lokey Lore's analyses of Demon's Souls that can be found in his website.
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Unfortunately, Demon's Souls, thanks to being considered a failure during its early stages, has along with Dark Souls 1 the worst localization quality out of all recent Fromsoftware games, with the current Elden RIng being the best. And thanks to it being the worst, many discrepancies can be found mostly in item descriptions and some in the dialogue of the game, like for example Saint Urbain being called a "Sage" in the cinematic and ingame constantly.
This mod has the objective to fix the localization mistakes in the item descriptions along with not only adding what the original context meant but also "fixing" such translation error (e.g Ostrava in his JPN dialogue says that in the region to Boletaria's South, Boletaria is a great kingdom, but in the EN dialogue, instead of saying Boletaria's south, he says "the southern kingdom", and in order to fix that, I added in the brass telescope description this tour Ostrava went through, with this unspecified southern kingdom being among the many countries to Boletaria's south), and along with fixing those errors, I added in what the original JPN said in the Archstone descriptions, added new names to such Archstones (e.g Storm King Archstone is now called "Forest of Monoliths", bc the og JPN mentioned that in the Old Hero Archstone and bc it has many monoliths there) and made some stuff about the overall lore of Demon's Souls more explicit, like how for example, Saint Astrea, in order to take away the pain of the people of the Valley of Defilement, or the thought of that at least, she took away their souls as a whole since the soul is what allows a person to comprehend the world and with that, have thought
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I couldn't have done that without the theses made by Lokey Lore on Demon's Souls, it really goes to show how great the lore of Demon's Souls. Even though Demon's Souls is not that fantastical when compared to other medieval-setting games that Fromsoft went on to make like the Dark Souls trilogy, it nonetheless is still a great game that aged like fine wine, and I hope that this mod leads you to gain a better understanding of the lore which is more accurate to the JPN and hopefully lead you to check out Lokey's stuff regarding DeS.
(Oh yea, also, this mod also makes the ladder and the open whole which disappear and reappear on a bridge in the first part of the Valley of Defilement stay for good and makes fixes a part of bottom Latria which contains weird-looking lighting, not blending with the environment)
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Unfortunately, Demon's Souls, thanks to being considered a failure during its early stages, has along with Dark Souls 1 the worst localization quality out of all recent Fromsoftware games, with the current Elden RIng being the best. And thanks to it being the worst, many discrepancies can be found mostly in item descriptions and some in the dialogue of the game, like for example Saint Urbain being called a "Sage" in the cinematic and ingame constantly.
This mod has the objective to fix the localization mistakes in the item descriptions along with not only adding what the original context meant but also "fixing" such translation error (e.g Ostrava in his JPN dialogue says that in the region to Boletaria's South, Boletaria is a great kingdom, but in the EN dialogue, instead of saying Boletaria's south, he says "the southern kingdom", and in order to fix that, I added in the brass telescope description this tour Ostrava went through, with this unspecified southern kingdom being among the many countries to Boletaria's south), and along with fixing those errors, I added in what the original JPN said in the Archstone descriptions, added new names to such Archstones (e.g Storm King Archstone is now called "Forest of Monoliths", bc the og JPN mentioned that in the Old Hero Archstone and bc it has many monoliths there) and made some stuff about the overall lore of Demon's Souls more explicit, like how for example, Saint Astrea, in order to take away the pain of the people of the Valley of Defilement, or the thought of that at least, she took away their souls as a whole since the soul is what allows a person to comprehend the world and with that, have thought
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I couldn't have done that without the theses made by Lokey Lore on Demon's Souls, it really goes to show how great the lore of Demon's Souls. Even though Demon's Souls is not that fantastical when compared to other medieval-setting games that Fromsoft went on to make like the Dark Souls trilogy, it nonetheless is still a great game that aged like fine wine, and I hope that this mod leads you to gain a better understanding of the lore which is more accurate to the JPN and hopefully lead you to check out Lokey's stuff regarding DeS.
(Oh yea, also, this mod also makes the ladder and the open whole which disappear and reappear on a bridge in the first part of the Valley of Defilement stay for good and makes fixes a part of bottom Latria which contains weird-looking lighting, not blending with the environment)
To install the mod, just drag the files in the mod zip file and drag them into where your Demon's Souls game is at. With this, I hope you enjoy the mod!