Demon's Souls (PS3)
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Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Rated : Ages 16 and Over
- Language : English
- Product Dimensions : 16 x 13.59 x 1.4 cm; 30 Grams
- Release date : 20 Aug. 2010
- ASIN : B003UBGS1Q
- Manufacturer reference : 0149386
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- 27 in PlayStation 3 Games
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Product description
Beautiful, compelling, and unforgiving, Demon's Souls is the hardcore RPG experience PlayStation 3 owners have been waiting for since the platform's launch. Revolutionary online features support your adventure like never before, presenting seamless interconnectivity that serves in every instance to enhance the single-player game. Team up with other players in simultaneous cooperative play, working together to topple some of the game's colossal bosses, or force your way into the games of skilled players and challenge them to PvP battle.Leave hints and clues for those who will follow in your footsteps; either intentionally or through your own inadvertent demise, your bloodstains will allow your successors to view a replay of your death, hinting at how to avoid your gruesome fate. Unprecedented in its depth and subtlety, peerless in its relentlessly challenging gameplay, Demon's Souls is the ultimate action RPG.King Allant the XII, the last king of Boletaria, searched tirelessly to expand his might. The Nexus, a great ice shrine nestled in the mountains, bestowed the power of the souls onto him, bringing prosperity to his kingdom. Still unsated, he returned again to the Nexus, where he foolishly awakened the Old One from its eternal slumber. This long forgotten evil, now wrought upon Boletaria, plunged the realm into darkness and fog. A mighty demon horde poured into the kingdom, devouring the souls of men. Champions from other realms learned of Boletaria's fate and sought to deliver the kingdom from evil; none would return from the cursed land. Called upon by a mysterious maiden in black, you go forth, the last hope for humanity in a place lost to demons and darkness...
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As a final note, it's worth noting that the difficulty may seem punishing at times, but never impossible to overcome. It takes some dedication and patience to learn a bosses' and regular enemies' attack patterns but at the end of the day it's actually not that complicated. So I would highly recommend to anyone who has some time to commit and a love for great level-design and challenging gameplay. One downside is that other games seem less alluring after playing Demon's Souls.
If you've already been won over by Dark Souls, then you're probably only wondering whether Demon's Souls will quench your thirst for more of the same. It will.
If on the other hand you're coming to the series fresh, then it's important to know that it won't be a welcoming experience: I had to come back to Dark Souls twice after putting it down out of exhaustion and frustration before things started to click, and you'll probably find the same during your first playthrough of either game. I would say the difficulty is only one of two reasons why these games are for the hardcore; the second is that in order to give them the dedication they need, you have to *want* to be part of the club. You have to hate the idea that you're missing out on something special. You mustn't be comfortable with playing easy games that you can pick up, take your quick fix of escapism, and put down again. If that's why you play games, fine, but the Souls games aren't for you.
If on the other hand you're one of the former camp, you'll love these games once you learn how to play them: cautiously, with concentration, and your heart in your throat with the tension of it all. Dark Souls is, in my view, superior: the boss fights are better-designed and more challenging, the world layout is more intuitive and less frustrating without being too much easier, and it's more polished and more beautiful both mechanically and visually. That said, Demon's Souls delivers the same sensation - albeit in a rawer way - and will ultimately satisfy newcomers and veterans alike. Though surpassed by its successor, it's still one of the best games of this console generation.
Don't bother with anyother class or gear other than the knight (flute armour) because its all you need.
- Gameplay -
Demon's souls, a game critically acclaimed for its difficulty. Personally, I disagree with those profound statements; if someone claims this game is by any means "hard" then I can only come to the conclusion that they are playing the game wrongly, this is particularly true when on their first playthrough. Demon's souls is no Skyrim or standard medieval-era RPG game, instead Demon's souls is a game that demands the player to analyse their enemy and wait for them to expose an exploitable weakness of which they can take advantage of. If you want to survive in Demon's souls then going straight into a fight is by no means the way to go, if you follow the play-style Demon's souls demands, you will have no problem with this game at all because you will feel more rewarded and deaths will occur less frequently pen-ultimately, leaving you feeling a greater sense of gratification. The gameplay is fluid and responsive and as people say, any death is entirely the players fault as they have either missed the right time to strike their enemy or disregarded the environment or health/stamina bars. It can be said that due to the tactical, engrossing gameplay you (as I did) will realise an estimated 1 hour play of the game quickly becomes 2 due to the concentration and fun this game needs and gives. This leads me onto the controls:
- Controls-
The controls for Demon's souls are absolutely perfect and are accessible to all audiences, even me, someone who has never played an RPG before. The controls are fairly basic and easy to pick up, the player should have no problem here.
-Graphics-
Playing a 2009 game in 2012 you may feel that despite graphical advances, you would be able to notice any differences made in the 3 year period inbetween. With Demon's souls this however, is not the case. The graphics for this game are excellent and look as good as a game produced now (as well as exceeding the graphics of some games produced now!). The graphics in Demon's souls really are perfect and no issues were found in this area.
-The difficulty-
A commonly raised point when talking about Demon's souls, the difficulty of the game is no problem at all infact, the real difficulty really comes when trying to conserve health supplies or being aware of your health and stamina bars whilst in a fight. If you're a careful player that doesn't play games that promote headless-chicken tactics (Call of duty) then I promise you, if you stay aware during this game and watch enemy attack patterns then you will have no problem at all with the difficulty. My first play-through actually lasted 2 hours as I had become so engrossed in the magnificent world created by From Software.
-The verdict-
If reluctant, BUY THIS GAME!
I have quickly gone from being reluctant to playing this game every night since I love it so much!
BUY IT NOW!
YOU WILL NOT REGRET IT!
DO NOT LET THE DIFFICULTY PUT YOU OFF!










