What was the best game of 2020? Which game excelled in multiple fields, combined them all together, and let loose a ferocious flurry of blows to your expectations? The answer this year was obvious

Never underestimate the power of nostalgia. While 2020 has been a fantastic year that has closed the book on a console generation and looked to the past, it has also been a year of revivals. Of remakes and remasters, of sequels to long-forgotten games and a resurrection of time-honoured franchises.

Demon’s Souls is an unrelenting blast from the past, reforged with numerous quality of life changes and looking better than ever thanks to the PS5 hardware that gives this old-gen classic a true next-gen update.

I say, “finally” but it actually took players like, two days to crack the secret. What’s even the point of secrecy these days?

The door was not in the original game on PS3, so it’s clear that Bluepoint Game is having some extra fun with its remake of From Software’s classic.

Sony’s kicking off its PlayStation 5 era with a remake of Demon’s Souls, but it’s not the next-gen console manufacturer on the block that has a FromSoftware RPG as an attention-grabber. Announced a while back, Microsoft’s also venturing into those die-and-try-again waters with Elden Ring, a game that is being headed up legendary developer Hidetaka Miyazaki and features some world-building lore from celebrated pirate George Arr Arr Martin. I think, I’m not big on fantasy.

Sony, clearly very aware that it has the games that so many people are lusting after, just can’t stop showing off Demon’s Souls.

This day we get hyped! The gates of PreOrdor have opened and the Q4-Hai descend on us, but our wallets are loaded and our credit cards are sharp! By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand, gamers of the West!