demon souls review

[Maynard]

xbl for chatting

game is pretty sick looking. Awesome graphics and plays very smooth. i chose to be a knight but really wanted to be a preist or magician. magician for spells and a preist for his kick ass looking weapon. There is another dude with a battle axe

getting thru that tutorial is nothing. Im about to step thru my first arch....i like they say you can goto any world....not

 

[killgod]

Kill god did you leave a message warning me about that fucking red knight!!

I will be playing tomorrow...send me a FR.

I did. Other people had left messages too. Don't even fuck with him. I managed to lure him way across the map and got him to fall to his death...for a massive amount of souls. But I found he's guarding a door I don't have a key for.....and if I can't handle that guy in battle, then I don't even wanna know what the fuck is behind that door. lol

This game shows you early on that it has some ruthless big mother fucking beasts to destroy. I can't even fathom how I'm gonna kill some of the things I know I'll be facing down the road. lol

i understand this but just want to be sure on something.

u have 1000 souls, you die.....you go somwhere else totally different and away from the area where the 1000 souls were lost....you die again....

do u lose the 1000 no matter when or where you go after...meaning the very next time you die is what matters regardless if you even went back for the 1000?


btw, i picked up the game....my GF loved the videos i showed her. But im gonna screw around tonight. If you and jms wanna run together tomorrow let me know

I've never gone anywhere outside of this castle level. I think this is even still part of the 'tutorial' cause I found out I'm not even leveling up yet. lol


Regarding death and lost souls. From what I've read and seen, the most recent death will remain on the map for you to collect those souls and that's it. So I'd imagine if you left and died somewhere else, those original 1000 would be gone.

I've not left the level to return to the Nexus (the central hub of the game) without retrieving the souls.

no in game chat....bummer

PSN needs to up their game with chat comms.








I bought the CE version of this game, simply cause it was 10 xtra bucks and came with a 150 page guide. This game is ridiculously deep and complex....and can be confusing as hell at the beginning. It's a game you'll have to fight through to understand at first, but from what I see/hear it's rewarding and worth it.

It's not hard for me since I love the genre...but just saying for the rest of you guys.

Regardless of my opinions I'd suggest you definitely try it if you have an interest in this.

 

[killgod]

xbl for chatting

game is pretty sick looking. Awesome graphics and plays very smooth. i chose to be a knight but really wanted to be a preist or magician. magician for spells and a preist for his kick ass looking weapon. There is another dude with a battle axe

getting thru that tutorial is nothing. Im about to step thru my first arch....i like they say you can goto any world....not

good call on using XBL.

i'll probably be fiending off this all weekend if you guys wanna try and meet up...but that can be a bit tricky to do and can't be done at the beginning.


i made a hunter, was also thinking of using magic too...but decided on this guy for some reason. lol

 

[CR Knight]

add me guys. i picked up the deluxe edition tonight. this game looks quite intimidating. hopefully it's not too frustrating.

 

[killgod]

it just ramps up non stop it seems.

came across a giant mfin dragon, spitting fire down on the path. went the other way...to see another dragon chillin...and the other dragon came over. crazy assholes. i'll explore that at another time lol.

defeated my first boss it seems, took me a bit to figure out how to kill it but it wasn't too hard.

once you do this (trying to avoid spoiling anything) you'll unlock all the other 4 worlds and the stones to allow people to join you or to join other people's games and fuck them up lol.

it's an interesting game mechanic and i'm curious to see how this plays out. if some random asshole appears in my game and starts chasing me around....fuck that'll be somethin. lol

 

[killgod]

a helpful tip for you guys.


in most video games the game gets harder as you progress.

(lets use Super Mario Bros for NES as an example)

World 1 - Level 1 being the start. 1-2, 1-3. 1-4.

Then you got 2-1, 2-2, 2-3..

and so on, getting harder as you progress



I think in this game, 2-1 is easier than 1-2. and 3-1 is easier than 1-2.

It seems that the first level's in each of those worlds are where you should fight through at the beginning and progress into the 2nd level of a world when you are truly ready to rock.


You'll understand fully when you trot into 1-2.....lol

But I've read that hitting up the 1st level in the other worlds is best for beginners.

 

[Maynard]

i didnt go to far into the first world. trying to play a new game when your sick - FTL
hopefully i can get alot of time in tonight with this game

 

[mfbmike]

is this game also for xbox?

Might get it.

 

[Maynard]

ps3 only

 

[killgod]

some more info that might be of help regarding co-op. just had my first go with some guys joining my game.

i just invited the guy in, he made a 'lets go' gesture and off we went mashing through things. he helped me straight through to the boss. had i fought that boss solo it woulda been longer and much tougher (it was somewhat hard with help), so the help was nice.

essentially you'll see blue markings on the ground if someone is waiting to be summoned. you gotta be alive rather than a soul to summon a soul i think. they help you through till you kill the demon and then I think they return to human form in their own game? not sure there.

you also get to give the guy a rating to decide how many souls they get for their help (doesn't take away from what you get). The ratings are S, A , B and D I think. S being the best as far as I can tell...

 

[killgod]

anyone wanna meet up and play tonight?

i've helped a couple guys slay some demons. got fucked up on some other ones. lol


i love how co-op is designed. it's purely beneficial to the 2 or 3 guys playing together to succeed. if you don't keep each other alive you may not have enough to kill the end demon. plus the only way the phantoms get paid is by seeing the level through.


anyways..holla

 

[Maynard]

i feel pretty good today and not sick like yesterday. But i am now in a bit of a pinch. I bought and played this game yesterday when i was very sick.

now, when i think about playing the game, its associated with my feeling of being ill. Its kind of a bummer cause i dont know if i will be able to get into this game.

This happened once before with pancakes. I went 10 years or so without ever eating pancakes cause the thought made me sick to my stomach

 

[CrimsonGhost56]

i feel pretty good today and not sick like yesterday. But i am now in a bit of a pinch. I bought and played this game yesterday when i was very sick.

now, when i think about playing the game, its associated with my feeling of being ill. Its kind of a bummer cause i dont know if i will be able to get into this game.

This happened once before with pancakes. I went 10 years or so without ever eating pancakes cause the thought made me sick to my stomach

wat

your crazy bro. i can understand the food part, but videogames?

 

[killgod]

wat

your crazy bro. i can understand the food part, but videogames?

lol dude's so scared of the video game's challenge he's callin in sick.

 

[jms493]

i am going to play for an hour now....lets see whats up

 

[Twigg4075]

no in game chat....bummer

That is inexcusable.

 

[mfbmike]

lol maynard you're a crazy sonofabitch

 

[Maynard]

yeah and the bummer of it is that i spent 60 bucks on this game. i am gonna play it tonight. But if i dont at least i know my gf wants to play it....which actually kind of sucks because my ps3 is in my man cave and i dont want her hoggin my shit

 

[jms493]

oh lord where are the checkpoints???? Where are they???? .............so sad.

So if I get through the whole level to the boss I have to start ALLLLLL the way at the beginning again???

 

[killgod]

oh lord where are the checkpoints???? Where are they???? .............so sad.

So if I get through the whole level to the boss I have to start ALLLLLL the way at the beginning again???

no checkpoints, but the levels really aren't all that big...

an very simple explanation to the first level after the tutorial might help you.....

 

Level 1-1 Boletarian Palace is what i'm referring to.

Basically there's a lever in the level that opens that huge door at the start. Behind this door is your Level 1-1 boss. So really, you just gotta do that and then the door is open to the boss.

There's also two doors near the start, one to the left and one to the right of the huge boss door near the start.

Opening those side doors is easy and they stay open forever once opened. So really in your first go I'd aim to open those side doors, as if you die (and you certainly will) you can use those doors as shortcuts to get deeper into the level easier and quicker.

If what I just said isn't enough help....here's a bigger spoiler guide to 1-1 since I'm done with that level (which means I finished it....which means I spent 3 hours there and died 10 times or so....lol)

 

Fight your way up to the top path way that has the catapults and a blue knight in the middle. There's a couple towers at each end and one leads you down to the left door near the start I mentioned earlier. If you head to the bottom of the tower you can open the door with the lever. Open permanently.

The one tower that has a path guarded by a red knight....don't even bother. Unless you are level 30 he'll fuck you up instantly and he guards a door that locked to you at this time. (If you are still working on this level, leveling up isn't even open to you yet lol) So it's worthless to try. If you wanna lure him across the map and make him fall down a tower.....he coughs up 2000 souls. Your call.

Anyways, back by the blue knight is a fog door. Fog doors are signs that you are progressing deeper into the level, so keep that in mind.

You'll head down some stairs and face some traps and enemies along the way (there's a path on your right with some stuff you can bash through....a shopkeeper is hidden in there)

You'll fight your way along to a point where you can go up some stairs where archers were shooting at you, or down. Going down leads you to some enemies, treasure and an NPC knight guy you can save. I saved him, then he walks around fighting guys in that lower area....he eventually died as I stopped paying attention to him. lol

Anyways, if you head up, you'll tackle another knight and see a fog door.

Through this fog door is a few more enemies and your first encounter with a flying dragon lighting shit up.

You got a bridge littered with enemies and a path to your left. To your left is a horde of treasure with a sleeping dragon. If you head over there...the flying dragon comes over and lands. So I stayed the fuck away from that.

Back over to the bridge, the dragon flies back over and will continually torch the bridge in repeated fly bys. Time it properly and sprint through.

At the end of this bridge is a lever..which opens the boss door.

Past this lever you fight some guys and come into the tower that leads you down to the right of the boss door.


So now you have all 3 doors open. If you die, all those doors remain open. So no big deal.


Once you kill the boss, he's dead forever. You can help other people kill bosses you've killed in your game through joining their game....but he'll never return for you.

You'll also get another warp stone back to the Nexus where the boss dies. So when you warp into Boletarian Palace you can warp to the start, or to where the boss died, or where the 2nd boss dies when you kill him, etc.

So I guess those are checkpoints after all..

Any questions, just ask. I'm 6 hours deep into this and have a pretty good handle on how it all works.