Afro_D-Shak wrote:
DevotedWalnut wrote:
I bet you wont know who I am...
Your gamertag doesn't give hints as to who you are at ALL.
Has anyone here played Demon's Souls? I'd love to play it but, alas, I do not own a PS3. There's a sequel-type thing coming out next year for Xbox 360 and PS3 both, though.
Excellent game,the trend these days with most developers is to make games less difficult and to include the same generic competitive multiplayer, Demon's Souls stays away from the norm by being challenging and unforgiven, and its multiplayer element actually enriches the single player campaing instead of being a different component of the game.
The core of the game is of a very basic action oriented RPG, you chose a class and a gender, wich determine your initial stats, abillities and equipment, you have one button for attack, another to defend and the usual roll-evasive movements.
There are five locations on the game with four stages each and a boss at the end of each stage, you must first clear the boss of the first stage of the first location (1-1 stage) after that youre free to chose wich location you want to go, the way to access the different areas of the game is via the five archstones in the nexus, wich functions as the game lobby.
Once you enter a stage you must reach to end of it and defeat the boss in one sitting, there is no save function (the game saves automatically wich actually works against you), you cant pause, not even for accessing the menus and the stages are filled with traps, enemies that hide in the shadows wating to ambush you, tough as nails sub-bosses and many other dangers, and if you die (you will die) you'll have to start from the begining of the stage and lose all of your souls, you get souls by defeating enemies, they function as the game currency for buying items and levelling up, so you dont wanna lose your souls, still even if you die a lot the game never feels cheap, its always your fault when you die and that encourage you to try again and again to beat it and you'll feel a great sense of accomplishment when you do.
The first time you die you lose your body and get into soul form, the only way to get your body back is to defeat a boss or by using some rare items, so you'll spend most of the time playing the game in soul form, the penalty is that your max HP is cut in half when in soul form.
The online component of the game is actually very cool, the game is always connected and mixes competitive and cooperative multiplayer seamlessly in to the single player; players can leave messages on the ground advising other players, they can be anyhting like "use fire on the next enemy" to "watch out for the ambush" or "there is a great treasure ahead", you can rate these messages if they were helpful to you and the player who wrote them will get healed everytime one of his messages gets a good rate, whenever your in body form you'll be able to invade other people's game and others can invade your game too, these are battles to the death and the loser loose his souls and body, there is nothing like beating a boss and as you get your way to next stage with your precious recently acquiered body, you get the message that someone has invaded your game, there is no way of telling where the invader is, he can be very well around the corner or waiting for you to get careless and stab you in the back, he can also get killed by the many dangers of the stage before he even gets to you.
Just like when invading games you can also seek the aid of up to three other players in soul form to help you with a stage, the reward for them is that if you win they get their bodies back and gain souls.
The dificulty of the game makes it very adicting and even when you finish it you can chose to start all over again with all your items and level, the catch being that the game gets more difficult each time you beat it.
I strongly encourage you to play Demon's Souls if you can, it may even be worth to get a PS3 just for this game (Hint: there are other great games too), IMO its the best game so far in this current gen of consoles.
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