MacNCheezus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6CssymAHSs

Nice. Schubert was Austrian but I think it counts.

Also, it just occurred to me that Rammstein's "Dalai Lama" is an adaptation of the same story (originally a poem by J.W. Goethe).

Schubert was quite the musical gangster BTW. He wrote the Erlkönig at 18, and despite only living to 31, he composed some 1,500 works and managed to gain enough fame to be buried next to Beethoven. His Mass No. 2 in G Major is one of my favorite pieces. It's short and sweet (only 22 minutes) but full of bravura, dramatic soli, and the Credo has a violin riff that wouldn't feel out of place in a heavy metal show.

I never played that, but according to its Wikipedia page "When a player is killed during a level, they are sent to the beginning of the level with all non-boss enemies re-spawned, while the player returns in soul form with lower maximum health and the loss of all unused souls."

The real question is whether this makes Super Mario a souls-like.

It seems to me that the most distinctive feature is the save mechanic that essentially splits the game into levels where you can only save your progress when you reach a campfire.

For example, Jedi: Fallen Order is a soulslike because it has the same mechanic (with meditation circles instead of campfires), despite being SciFi themed. It does also have all those other things you mentioned, but arguably, so does Skyrim, which is definitely not a soulslike.

Lies!

Not really my vibe but if you enjoyed it, you should also check out Fever Ray, that’s the lady’s solo project. Dark, gritty, experimental stuff.

All the single ladies
All the single ladies
Why are there so many single ladies?
Ain’t nobody having kids anymore
This is how you end up with the Handmaid’s Tale

Cool, now do a map of all the countries where the former President’s cook (who couldn’t swim) mysteriously died in a paddle boarding accident and everyone forgot about it a week later…

How's the smell though?