demon souls review

[killgod]

http://demonssouls.wikidot.com/intro


this is a huge help too

:tee:

 

[Maynard]

great review from ign

9.5 Presentation
Though the CG sequences and storyline bits are a bit thin, when they're there, they're great, and the game's mood and setting are at once beautiful and terrifying.
9.0 Graphics
The sometimes inconsistent framerate and slightly wonky ragdolls and collision detection are the only thing detracting from what is an otherwise gorgeously depressing, incredibly imaginative world.
9.0 Sound
Hilariously bad voice performances aside, the atmospheric ambience and great sound effects will give your surround system a workout.
9.5 Gameplay
Hands-down one of the most unique and rewarding games you'll ever play, Demon's Souls demands absolute concentration and is completely unflinching in punishing a lack of it. Yes, in a good way.
9.5 Lasting Appeal
Quite honestly one of the deepest games on the PS3, one could rightly say Demon's Souls doesn't even start until your second time through.
9.4
Outstanding OVERALL
(out of 10 / not an average)
http://ps3.ign.com/articles/103/1033437p4.html

 

[CrimsonGhost56]

I'm a little late to the party on this one (just heard about the game yesterday), but it looks very intriguing.

Debating picking it up as part of the TRU sale.

no DS at TRU ... sucks cause im sure a lot of people would of picked it up during the B2G1Free deal

 

[Twigg4075]

That is very uncool.

I've heard people wondering out loud if BB would match the 2 for 1...

I've never seen that happen. TRU has this sale every year and I've never seen anyone match it.

 

[killgod]

i've nailed down 4 demons in my own game and helped guys slay the stone knight a few times.

i'm so addicted to this it's not even funny.

12 hours deep and i've had the shit for 3 days. lol

 

[killgod]

shrine of storms.....oh my fuck.


badass weapon shortly inside....but the enemies will blow you away when you see how badass they are.

some mfer invaded my game but i had 2 guys and we eventually killed him. dude was strong too....kept turning invisible and throwing spells.

but then i peaced cause my phantoms died and the place was insanely hard.


check it out for some lulz, but take few souls with you

 

[Maynard]

so im into this game now. Still on 1-1 but i have an understanding of this game and how it works. Combat is nice once you understand how it works. Games like this with all those spells and ratings for items with those little icons are confusing as fuck....but that wiki has been the answer.

question though. I got to the merchant dregling and he looks like a bad guy and i whacked him 1 time. Is this gonna effect my status with him?

 

[Maynard]

this game is fucking insane. Seems so in depth and very overwhelming. But bad ass to say the least. Took me like 4 solid hours just to beat 1-1....the boss was easy, but getting to him wasnt. I kept dieing

got to the top of the nexus and saw the leaderboard. This is really cool cause its like a giant hall of fame of players. You get to see their CAP and some of them look amazing

the only issues that i think will prevent me from completing the game are that its really really hard and no option to adjust the difficulty. And the lack of save points. I hate getting killed and having to start all over again. That frustrates me really really fast

the game is amazing though. I am glad i gave it more time. started up around 3 today and finished around 11. Did a few games with various classes to see how they are but i settled on the royalty class because he had good magic and was only a level 1. being a level 1 made it harder, but i wanted to make my guy my way

 

[killgod]

this game is fucking insane. Seems so in depth and very overwhelming. But bad ass to say the least. Took me like 4 solid hours just to beat 1-1....the boss was easy, but getting to him wasnt. I kept dieing

got to the top of the nexus and saw the leaderboard. This is really cool cause its like a giant hall of fame of players. You get to see their CAP and some of them look amazing

the only issues that i think will prevent me from completing the game are that its really really hard and no option to adjust the difficulty. And the lack of save points. I hate getting killed and having to start all over again. That frustrates me really really fast

the game is amazing though. I am glad i gave it more time. started up around 3 today and finished around 11. Did a few games with various classes to see how they are but i settled on the royalty class because he had good magic and was only a level 1. being a level 1 made it harder, but i wanted to make my guy my way

i sent you a message to meet up you homo.

coulda helped you fuck shit up.


you just gotta be patient to avoid dying. play smart....and keep lots of healing herbs around. lol

hit me up if you wanna play sometime

 

[Maynard]

i didnt see a message, but then i dont really notice on ps3 when friends are online or if a message comes in. sorry about that

i probably couldnt have played with you though cause i didnt get the white and blue stone thing until after beating the boss in 1-1

 

[Twigg4075]

this game is fucking insane. Seems so in depth and very overwhelming. But bad ass to say the least. Took me like 4 solid hours just to beat 1-1....the boss was easy, but getting to him wasnt. I kept dieing

got to the top of the nexus and saw the leaderboard. This is really cool cause its like a giant hall of fame of players. You get to see their CAP and some of them look amazing

the only issues that i think will prevent me from completing the game are that its really really hard and no option to adjust the difficulty. And the lack of save points. I hate getting killed and having to start all over again. That frustrates me really really fast

the game is amazing though. I am glad i gave it more time. started up around 3 today and finished around 11. Did a few games with various classes to see how they are but i settled on the royalty class because he had good magic and was only a level 1. being a level 1 made it harder, but i wanted to make my guy my way

This game seems to be a throwback to the old says of gaming. Remember some games where you maybe had 3 lives (sometimes only 1) to get through the entire game? If you died it was back to square one.

 

[killgod]

i didnt see a message, but then i dont really notice on ps3 when friends are online or if a message comes in. sorry about that

i probably couldnt have played with you though cause i didnt get the white and blue stone thing until after beating the boss in 1-1

Yeah no sweat. 1-2 will be a tough one for you at the point you are at, but it's not too challenging once you get up another 10 levels or so from where you are now.

All the other levels tho, they sure get challenging.


Dying doesn't really piss me off anymore once I got better. I can jump into someone else's game on 3-2, which isn't an easy level, but I'll rack up like 15-20K souls on just one run through that.

I've not played in a couple days but I'm pretty sure when you earn souls playing in someone else's game, if you die, you return to your game with all the souls you earned. So it's no loss there.

You only lose out the souls when you are alive and die, but then you can always recover those...


Anyways, gimme a shout if you ever wanna meet up!

 

[SethMode]

Man this game is insane. I love it, but it's crazy how easy it is to stumble upon someone twice or even thrice as powerful as you are. The red knight on 1-1 being one example.

I actually haven't died THAT much (5 times and I'm on 2-1, I think?), but the game is beyond stressful for me, as I know that dying can potentially mean so serious ass-fucking. Can't wait to get to the point that you're at KG. Still, the game seriously rewards the patient and skillful player, which is great in today's atmosphere of games.

KG and Maynard, what are you PSN names?

 

[Maynard]

ya know that fucking red knight....i actually killed him last night with my weak ass low level guy. I ran into him before knowing who he was. I killed him very easily too. He is the one standing all by himself down a outdoor walkway. There was a locked door there and soul in the corner....might have been a unknown soldiers soul, but i cant remember.

i read how hard it was later on last night saying i need to be like level 30 or something. I just blasted him with 4 or 5 soul spells (soul arrows or whatever its called) and he died. Of course after dieing on the level i eventually went back up there and he hit me once and i was down

 

[SethMode]

ya know that fucking red knight....i actually killed him last night with my weak ass low level guy. I ran into him before knowing who he was. I killed him very easily too. He is the one standing all by himself down a outdoor walkway. There was a locked door there and soul in the corner....might have been a unknown soldiers soul, but i cant remember.

i read how hard it was later on last night saying i need to be like level 30 or something. I just blasted him with 4 or 5 soul spells (soul arrows or whatever its called) and he died. Of course after dieing on the level i eventually went back up there and he hit me once and i was down

Yeah, I tried to Melee that bitch and got my ass handed to me in one damn spear stab. Now I'm having trouble with those fat giggling bastards that fire...er, fireballs at you in 2-1.

 

[Maynard]

i am still pretty confused by the soul mode vs alive mode. What the difference other then not having full health?

i dont really know how to join others games but i think i selected the wrong thing with the square button and it summoned for help. I just said no when they person tried comign in the help

i also dont understand the pure white vs black tendancy. From what i read you can get things in pure white that you wont see in black or neutral.

does this game purposly make it harder to go thru a level after you get killed on that level?

game is seriously deep and i feel very lost

 

[SethMode]

i am still pretty confused by the soul mode vs alive mode. What the difference other then not having full health?

i dont really know how to join others games but i think i selected the wrong thing with the square button and it summoned for help. I just said no when they person tried comign in the help

i also dont understand the pure white vs black tendancy. From what i read you can get things in pure white that you wont see in black or neutral.

does this game purposly make it harder to go thru a level after you get killed on that level?

game is seriously deep and i feel very lost

Agreed. The only thing I get at this point is how to fight and how to pray that I don't die. And yeah, that soul mode = less health. KG, care to specify what other shit means?

I also feel very lost in many ways. I love the game, but I'm so overwhelmed by everything, and what makes that feeling even worse is the fact that I feel like I'm making the wrong decisions with my soul points now when I upgrade my character/buy shit. I feel like I'm missing something very important that's going to bite me in the ass and force me to redo the whole first level, etc...

 

[killgod]

Man this game is insane. I love it, but it's crazy how easy it is to stumble upon someone twice or even thrice as powerful as you are. The red knight on 1-1 being one example.

I actually haven't died THAT much (5 times and I'm on 2-1, I think?), but the game is beyond stressful for me, as I know that dying can potentially mean so serious ass-fucking. Can't wait to get to the point that you're at KG. Still, the game seriously rewards the patient and skillful player, which is great in today's atmosphere of games.

KG and Maynard, what are you PSN names?

CommanderChron

i am still pretty confused by the soul mode vs alive mode. What the difference other then not having full health?

i dont really know how to join others games but i think i selected the wrong thing with the square button and it summoned for help. I just said no when they person tried comign in the help

i also dont understand the pure white vs black tendancy. From what i read you can get things in pure white that you wont see in black or neutral.

does this game purposly make it harder to go thru a level after you get killed on that level?

game is seriously deep and i feel very lost

When you are a soul you can get summoned into other people's games (either to help them or kill them). You also are 'quieter' so sneaking up on Crystal Lizards is much easier. They drop rare items and if you miss out on killing them, they won't be back until you start a whole new game so it's wise to go after them as a soul (and wear your thief ring...)

When you are alive you have full health and can summon people into your game to help you. When you die in alive form the World you are in shifts more to Black. Being alive is important because some (almost all) bosses you definitely need help with.

When it comes to WT it's like this. The "Blacker" the world is, the tougher the enemies become. More life, more strength, less life for you, etc. Item drops are also tied to this as you'll see more items when it's Black. You also gain more souls in a Black world because it's tougher.

If you push a world fully black or white (pure white/pure black) additional things open up, side bosses and such will appear.

For example in 1-1. If you make the world all black, that gate at the VERY START on the left becomes open. There's a ridiculously tough boss in there, as well as a badass set of armor (which you can see if we play together )

So basically the tendencies allow you access side bosses, items and such that aren't normally there.

You can google up the guide to making a world all black and then all white. It'll take you like an hour and you need a few items to do it, but I did it for the first world and it paid off nicely for me, although armor doesn't make all that much of a difference in this game I find.


The whole Tendency thing is deep, time consuming but ultimately worth it if you want more bosses and the best equipment out there.

Everytime you die in alive form on a level, that place gets blacker so that might be why a place got tougher for you. Dying 7 straight times in alive form in a level will make it 100% black.

Agreed. The only thing I get at this point is how to fight and how to pray that I don't die. And yeah, that soul mode = less health. KG, care to specify what other shit means?

I also feel very lost in many ways. I love the game, but I'm so overwhelmed by everything, and what makes that feeling even worse is the fact that I feel like I'm making the wrong decisions with my soul points now when I upgrade my character/buy shit. I feel like I'm missing something very important that's going to bite me in the ass and force me to redo the whole first level, etc...

I wouldn't sweat making bad decisions. There's guides out there to how to do a 'perfect run' so you can experience every last corner of the game in one run, but I'm saving that for my 2nd playthrough and just living and dying with the choices I make right now.

I'm glad the store only had Collector's Editions (10 xtra bucks and came with the 150 page game guide) cause it's provided me with all that I know and helped greatly.


I'm hoppin on shortly if you guys wanna play, but since there's no in-game chat we'd have to use 360's if you guys have them.

 

[SethMode]

Must spread it around KG. I won't be on tonight (about to go out), but I'll add you to my Friends and definitely in the not too distant future.

 

[killgod]

Gamespot forums have some good info on the game

http://www.gamespot.com/ps3/rpg/dem...c_id=m-1-51596197&pid=954345&tag=topics;title