Here are some new details:

• Original creators Hidetaka Miyazaki and FromSoftware gave Bluepoint Games their blessing to remake Demon’s Souls, but were not involved in the day-to-to-day production of the game.
• There is a new option within the Nexus where players can “store” their character, and players can change their character by paying a certain amount of souls. Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan Studio creative director Gavin Moore said: “We’ve updated the character creator and we’ve given thousands upon thousands of new permutations where you can create and you can play. And then once you’ve chosen a character, what you can do is, after you’ve paid a number of souls for it, in the Nexus you can actually kind of store your character and then go in and change your character in the Nexus.”
• The camera has been changed, but you can change back to the old camera if you dislike the new camera.
• There are filters that let you play in black and white, a classic filter that “harkens back to the days of the PlayStation 3,” and more.
• World Tendency is exactly the same. The user interface has been adjusted to make it easier for the player to understand which state the World Tendency is in.
• In the original game, players can carry hundreds of healing grasses. However, in the remake, players will have a more limited supply as the more powerful grasses such as “Full Moon Grass” will weigh more than less effective grasses.
• “Fractured Mode is basically the Fractured World and it’s a mirror mode,” Moore said. “And actually, that’s challenging because you reverse the map.”
• Everything that was in the original PlayStation 3 version is in the standard edition. There is also “a ton of new content to find.” But there is no sixth Archstone.
• There are two gameplay modes: “Cinematic,” which is native 4K resolution at 30 frames per second; and “Performance,” which is dynamic 4K resolution at 60 frames per second.
• A Photo Mode is included.
• There are no difficulty settings. “It’s true to the original.”