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[RobotWillie]

Games that are Spiritual Successors:

1. Yooka Laylee
2. Red Dead Redemption (Red Dead Revolver)
3. Dark Souls

Had to change mine I was doing RDR and it said there was a new post lol.

[shaggy]

Games that are Spiritual Successors:

1. Yooka Laylee
2. Red Dead Redemption (Red Dead Revolver)
3. Dark Souls
4. Perfect Dark

[Duke.Togo]

Games that are Spiritual Successors:

1. Yooka Laylee
2. Red Dead Redemption (Red Dead Revolver)
3. Dark Souls
4. Perfect Dark
5. Axiom Verge

[Crabmaster2000]

Games that are Spiritual Successors:

1. Yooka Laylee
2. Red Dead Redemption (Red Dead Revolver)
3. Dark Souls
4. Perfect Dark
5. Axiom Verge
6. Mighty No. 9

*isn't Axion Verge an Homage as opposed to successor?*

[shane]

*isn't Axion Verge an Homage as opposed to successor?*

Yeah, Axiom Verge is definitely a standalone game. He technically started out making a romhack of Super Metroid, but everything about AV is original.

[RobotWillie]

Well I think thats where your confused. A spiritual successor is like a sequel that isn't part of the series its being adapted from, or it is part of the series but it is a whole new set of characters that are not part of the earlier games canon at all with recycled gameplay elements and new ones added in to update it, but its also got original components but not an entirely original thing at the same time. It still has a deep connection to the series its being adapted from. Even in most cases having the same creator.

I know Wiki is a flawed source but every other game mentioned says in its article its a spiritual successor or part of the series:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_Verge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Souls
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dead_Redemption
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_Dark
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mighty_No._9
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yooka-Laylee

Axiom is the only one whos article says nothing like that. It says it borrows elements from a few classic series like Metroid,Contra,Blaster Master,and Bionic Commando. Which is a homage to a style of gameplay.

 

[Crabmaster2000]

My rule of thumb has always been "does it have any real connection to the original series/release" such as members of the development team, same publisher, characters/enemies from the series appear, etc

[tactical_nuke]

Games that are Spiritual Successors:

1. Yooka Laylee
2. Red Dead Redemption (Red Dead Revolver)
3. Dark Souls
4. Perfect Dark
5. Arumana no Kiseki (Roc'n Rope)
6. Mighty No. 9
7. Bioshock (System Shock)

[douglie007]

Games that are Spiritual Successors:

1. Yooka Laylee
2. Red Dead Redemption (Red Dead Revolver)
3. Dark Souls
4. Perfect Dark
5. Arumana no Kiseki (Roc'n Rope)
6. Mighty No. 9
7. Bioshock (System Shock)
8. Soul Caliber  (soul edge)


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[Crabmaster2000]

Games that are Spiritual Successors:

1. Yooka Laylee
2. Red Dead Redemption (Red Dead Revolver)
3. Dark Souls
4. Perfect Dark
5. Arumana no Kiseki (Roc'n Rope)
6. Mighty No. 9
7. Bioshock (System Shock)
8. Soul Caliber  (soul edge)
9. Chrono Cross

[Addicted]

Games that are Spiritual Successors:

1. Yooka Laylee
2. Red Dead Redemption (Red Dead Revolver)
3. Dark Souls
4. Perfect Dark
5. Arumana no Kiseki (Roc'n Rope)
6. Mighty No. 9
7. Bioshock (System Shock)
8. Soul Caliber  (soul edge)
9. Chrono Cross
10. Torchlight (Diablo)

Games developed or worked on by Tose:

1. Super Princess Peach (DS)

[Disposed Hero]

Games developed or worked on by Tose:

1. Super Princess Peach (DS)
2. World of Final Fantasy

[Crabmaster2000]

What's a Tose game?

[SirPsycho]

Games developed or worked on by Tose:

1. Super Princess Peach (DS)
2. World of Final Fantasy
3. Chubby Cherub

[Addicted]

@Crabmaster 2000:

Tose Co., Ltd. (株式会社トーセ Kabushiki-gaisha Tōse?)  (also called Tose Software) is a video game development company based in Kyoto, Japan. It is mostly known for developing Nintendo's Game & Watch Gallery series, various Dragon Ball games, as well as other Nintendo products. Tose has developed or co-developed over 1,000 games since the company's inception in 1979, but is virtually never credited in the games themselves.