Demon’s Souls VS ShellNewHandler

• Rewarding challenging gameplay
  Demon's Souls offers deliberate, methodical combat where learning enemy patterns, managing stamina, and positioning carefully pay off. Overcoming tough bosses and areas gives a strong sense of accomplishment that helped define the 'Soulslike' genre.
• Atmospheric world and art direction
  The dark fantasy setting of Boletaria is bleak and haunting, with memorable level themes like the Tower of Latria and Valley of Defilement. The 2020 PS5 remake by Bluepoint Games adds stunning visuals, improved lighting, and a smooth performance mode.
• Innovative online features
  Asynchronous multiplayer lets players leave messages, see ghostly echoes of others, and view bloodstains showing how others died. Co-op summoning and invasions add tension and community, creating a shared sense of struggle.
• Deep, flexible character builds
  A wide range of weapons, armor, magic, and miracles allows for varied playstyles, from heavy melee tanks to ranged sorcerers. Weapon upgrade paths and stat choices encourage experimentation and replayability.
• Excellent level design and exploration
  Levels are tightly designed with clever shortcuts, hidden paths, and environmental dangers that reward careful exploration. The hub-based Nexus structure lets players tackle worlds in a flexible order.

Possible disadvantages

• Steep difficulty and punishing mechanics
  Dying costs souls and can reduce your health via body form, and World Tendency changes can make areas harder. The game gives little guidance, which can frustrate newcomers and make the learning curve feel unforgiving.
• Obscure systems and poor explanations
  Mechanics like World Tendency, Character Tendency, and item burden are poorly explained in-game. Players often need external guides or wikis to understand them and avoid missing content.
• Limited availability
  The game is only available on PlayStation platforms (PS3 original, PS5 remake) and not on PC or Xbox. The PS3 servers' age and the PS5 remake's price and hardware requirement limit access for many players.
• Uneven difficulty and some frustrating sections
  Certain areas and bosses, like the Valley of Defilement's poison swamp or the Adjudicator, can feel tedious or unbalanced. Some encounters rely on cheap tactics rather than fair challenge.
• Dated design in places
  Even with the remake's improvements, aspects such as the stiff animations, sparse storytelling, long load times in the original, and a clunky item-management system feel dated compared with later Soulsborne games.

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• I recently got libreoffice, but now the new option in right click looks like a mess. Can someone help me get rid of them please?

  Use Shell New Handler. Run the portable app and simply untick the items you don't want to appear in your new context menu. Source: about 4 years ago

• This menu should be easy to add/remove programs to... Who is really creating Access Databases from this menu often enough to keep it here? (Not me!) Is there an easy way to edit this?

  I've always used ShellNewHandler for this. It's a really simple portable utility that allows you to remove most of the items from that menu. Tested it out on Windows 11 and it's still compatible. Source: over 5 years ago