One of the greatest strengths of the Dark Souls series is just how satisfying its baseline combat feels. Right from those early moments in the Undead Asylum, I was hooked by the swordplay long before I'd experienced its world and story. Having played the free Steam demo for upcoming action roguelike Corpse Keeper, which adopts those core FromSoftware ideas in a 2D game with progression in the style of Darkest Dungeon, I'm left eager to see what developer Melancholia Studio can achieve through its early access run.