Demon's Souls

km · Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 3:11 am

This game does not explain hardly anything. Like uh, how do I save and quit without losing all of my souls? It's pretty stupid that the game tells you things like press R1 to attack (which is in the manual... I can read, thanks) but doesn't tell you that you have to clear the first area of the first world to do any levelling up or why your health bar can only be filled half way.

Messages are really fun, and I've already seen bloodstains turn into weird little bits of performance art inside the Nexus.
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km · Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 10:48 pm

I figured those things out but I had to work it out on my own. It wasn't a fun oh hey I figured this out it was I've played this for a few hours and hey I need to do something else now. Everything I had read about the game being brutal made me worry that I was going to have wasted all my time because I didn't do the right thing when I needed to stop playing. I'm not a fan of hand-holding, but I think those things are crucial enough that they at least deserve a mention in the manual.

By excellent help system, wes, do you mean the messages other players leave or what?
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km · Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 3:29 am

This game is brutal. I feel like I am being severely punished for trying new things. I have literally wasted 4 hours of my life with nothing to show for it except some extra healing herbs. I don't know if it's my dude or what but it takes FOREVER to recover from... anything. Healing takes so long it's more likely to get you killed than helping you. I have died because the landing animation pushed my character off the ledge, losing 5000 souls in the process. One of the REALLY frustrating things is that until you beat the first part, you have no way to "store" your souls, even if they're just as stat increases. I feel like I'm losing so much every time the game pulls what I feel is some serious bullshit and I die on the way to my bloodstain.
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vi) RPGs (Role-Playing Games)
For adolescents; half-formed personalities roaming (in packs) in search of identity.