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In 2009, From Software revisited the dark fantasy role-playing genre with the critically acclaimed "Demon's Souls" on the PlayStation 3 (PS3). As with "Shadow Tower Abyss", "Demon's Souls" centres on the collection of the souls of the dead as a means of developing the statistics and equipment of one's character. Also like "Abyss", Sony once again declined to publish "Demon's Souls" overseas, and instead publishing rights for the American release were obtained by Atlus. While IGN reported that the game had sold out in Japan, with 39,689 units shipped during its first week, the game also fared well in the United States with 150,000 units sold by October 2009 and 250,000 by mid-March 2010. Given its overseas performance, Yeonkyung Kim, a Sony employee responsible for localisation, remarked that the company's decision not to publish world-wide was "a mistake", and "Demon's Souls" should have "come out as a first-party title". As the spiritual successor to "Shadow Tower Abyss" and the "King's Field" series, the game received multiple accolades, obtaining a Metacritic ranking of 90.