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Given Lemmy's size, the definition of soulslike may be treated relatively loosely. While games like the numerous FromSoft titles, the recent Star Wars Jedi games, Lies of P, Nioh and similar games should be the focus, games that incorporate soulslike elements - like Hollow Knight and Blasphemous, for example - may also be discussed here.
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The game is literally about community. The game goes through great efforts to create an ambiance of isolation, through constrained and inconvenient connection with others.
It costs resources to summon, public interaction is limited to templated messages and seeing ghosts, the secrets are deep and it's virtually impossible to uncover every secret by yourself.
Personally, as someone not particularly fond of exploration, with a preference for 100%ing games, I play Souls games with the cheat sheet.
It's my preference, it's how I enjoy the game most. It doesn't diminish the experience for me, but it might for you. Be careful, using a cheat sheet like this might ruin your experience.
Totally fine to do so. At the end of the day, who am I to judge how someone plays a single-player game in their leisure time? Sure, I can offer perspectives as to how I would deem a good playthrough to look like, but does it really matter?
I've had games that I played with a guide alongside playing which I wouldn't have been able to finish by myself otherwise. Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, for example, were among my first ever Zelda games after A Link Between Worlds and I just wasn't familiar with this kind of freedom and problem solving in video games up until that point. If it weren't for guides, I wouldn't have been able to finish either of them at all