It occurs to me that Mina the Hollower’s setting might best be described as an abortive soulslike… (opens in new tab)

It occurs to me that Mina the Hollower’s setting might best be described as an abortive soulslike milieu, in that you show up just when things are starting to get bad, and – in the standard ending – proceed to kill King Big Sad Guy just before he’s able to successfully do the Flame Thing.(Heck, you even have to fight Hell Fuck Castle’s steward, the terrible HorseDog – or, rather, TurtleCat – at one point. It’s very conscious of the forms of the genre!)