demon souls review

[Maynard]

http://www.gamespot.com/ps3/rpg/demonssoul/review.html

9.0 from gamespot.

checking around and this game got 80-90 from almost everyone (25 reviews)

but the theme is that the game is very very hard....hard is ok as long as its not frustratingly hard

[jms493]

I have read that if you can make it through the beginning of the game you can chug through the rest. They online is crazy as far as coop and seeing how other players died.

Ill let you know as I am a casual when it comes to these games...

[Herm]

Opio's been playing the japanese version for months(unless he knows someone and has had the US version that long), if you have his AIM or PSN contact him if you have questions about it.

[killgod]

or contact me.

[Maynard]

this video review is sick...by far the most excitment from the vids i saw today

[ame="http://www.gamespot.com/ps3/rpg/demonssoul/video/6232014/demons-souls-video-review"]GameSpot Video: Demon's Souls Video Review[/ame]

game looks awesome the most motivating thing for me to buy it is my girlfriend. She loves diablo and still plays it all the time. This game has been compared to that in my reading today....several times

[jms493]

That review is very positive....looking forward to popping it tonite.

[Herm]

or contact me.

you already pick it up? Whats your take on it?

[Herm]

i might pick this up down the line, is their any kind of difficulty settings or is just set to hard as balls and thats the end of it?

[killgod]

gonna log things for a bit...

1.5 hours played.

the 'tutorial' wasn't too hard for me. I have a knack (and love) for these games and this one looks so damn fun and challenging. took me about 30 mins to really start to get a hang of combat, but even basic battle you need to take care. once you get used to tearing up the easy guys, you still will take hits if you aren't careful enough.

you got 2 pieces of equipment in each hand (currently have sheild/sword and axe/bow) and you have an item linked to square (healing herbs pretty much). flicking between items is mapped to the dpad, very easy to switch between ranged/sword once you get the hang of it.

anyways...

started seeing "ghosts" of other players randomly running around, haven't communicated with anyone. you'll see plenty of bloodstains to watch deaths (you watch their ghost run around and die, but nothing else. so really you watch out for ambushes (and there are so many) or traps (ditto) and such. also messages everywhere which people can leave (easily, there's set messages and you just pick the words you want...very nice)


so i journey into the first world i guess....nice cut scene to start...

it's this huge castle. i smash through easy zombies for a while, racking up close to 1000 souls (basic zombie guys give like 6 and 8 if you kill em the right way ;). you get more from tougher guys it seems)

I'm thinkin this game isn't THAT hard cause i've only had just one close call with death and am doin alright. then I get into fighting zombies with flaming swords, not so much harder to deal with. find this lever which opens a door back to near the start so I headed back the way I came.

come across this bigger knight that looks like it's a blue ghost. tough guy...but I got him. he healed himself too that fucker. these monsters aren't retarded. if you hold block they won't just bash at your sheild like idiots, they'll find a way around that shit. no fucking around here.

anyways...

I come across a similar knight to the blue one, this one is red. red must mean GTFO.

I see him from a distance, hit him for 40 with a headshot, looks like he's got about 500 health (which isn't so scary). mfer starts charging with his sheild up so I bust out mine and prepare to duel.

cept he fuckin skewered me right off the bat. boom. my first death.


back to the start I go, all enemies alive and all my souls....gone. so that's what kind of game this is eh? cool with me, bring it the fuck on.

i start marching my way in and notice that door I opened is ...still open. sweet. shortcut!

oh hey mr blue knight. wait...wait a fucking minute. when the fuck did you get so tough. yeah he made quick work of my over aggressiveness and fucked me right up. death again.

here we go again.

dispatch the blue knight, recover my souls from that 2nd death. decided to investigate my 1st death and mr red knight.

my original souls gone. FML. mr red knight...lets try this again.


lol no. death.


so back to recover those souls and find somewhere else to adventure. lol


personally I think this game is fucking spectacular and I'd love someone else to run around with. can't wait to see what's in store...provided I get that far. lol

[A Tasty Burgerr]

So about how much time did you lose after you died? The gameplay in this looks great but I'm afraid I'll get too frustrated.

[killgod]

So about how much time did you lose after you died? The gameplay in this looks great but I'm afraid I'll get too frustrated.

for me to mash through those zombies (actually called dredglings or some shit), use the shortcut I made and return to where I was dying? 5 minutes?

when you get your souls back, you also get a few more for the zombies you just mashed through.

it really isn't bad at all.



tried to lure the red knight to make him chase me and fall down this tower. didn't work (tho i think it can) and he made me his bitch.

headed somewhere else now..

[Boucher]

You loose all your souls the second time you die, its in the GT review

[CrimsonGhost56]

looks good, but im not an action-rpg fan. wouldnt get much playing time anyway with uncharted coming out next week then cod next month

[killgod]

You loose all your souls the second time you die, its in the GT review

not exactly.


example. I have 1000 souls and I die.

I try to return to that spot (gathering 200 souls on the way) and die again.

the spot with 1000 is gone, but the spot with 200 now exists.

[A Tasty Burgerr]

Hmmmm....I don't think I want to fork over the $60 for it yet. Hopefully Blockbuster will have it but I'm not counting on it.