Demon's Souls 1st impressions!

I picked up Demon's Souls last week for the PS3 and just played it a while ago. One thing i want to make clear right now. THIS GAME IS UNFORGIVING!!!! Plain and simple it's hard in a way.

Demon's Souls is an RPG with lots of demons/monsters,etc. and your a hero who goes to a kingdom to rid it of an evil that has overtaken Balteria with a fog that will soon over take the rest of the world. You have Hero( there's 12 classes to choose from, Knight, wizard, thief, warrior, you know the usual) Goes to be a Hero and the first boss you face kills you with one swipe...... WTF!!! I didn't even get a chance to hit the guy!!!! But, threre was a reason for this, when you die you go to a purgatory type of place, where you have to go into different planes and recover other fallen Hero's souls, so you can get back to your body that was destroyed by the douchey Troll like boss in the beginning. So simply you get souls, you get your body going and resume your Hero ways.

The places you go to get these souls are relatively HARD! Why? Because you start off with basic armor and weapons of the class you choose and the enemies are a tad better than you. Also your health is tiny and with 2-3 hits these basic enemies do much damage. You can block if you have a shield and it works. But when you have multiple enemies it gets tricky.

Another thing about the stages is that there's lots of places to explore and are huge, pending if you live long enough. I say this because you will die, there's no escaping death, figuratively and literally( Reapers are enemies) Also, there's souls you pick up though out the game that act like currency for upgrade in weapons, armor,etc.) you get with every enemy you defeat. Now When you die, not only do you lose ALL your souls(money), but you also START AGAIN IN THE BEGINNING OF THE LEVEL!!!! And ALL the enemies are back. Also the items youve used don 't come back. Here's the thing, where you previously died, you can pick up all the souls you lost. Now If you die, again before reaching the souls they are gone for good and all those souls you collected are by-bye. Hence the game is UNFORGIVING!

Now there are some things that the game try to help you out if you play online, Multiplayer, and also a "hint" system. You can play up to 3 players online, which will totally help and make the experience a bit better, still hard though. The "hint sytem works in three ways; Death warning and Written warning. Death Warnings are basically, when a player dies (while playing online) it leaves a blood spot that show's you how that player died. It shows a red colored ghost in the dead Hero's last hurrah, before his/hers demise. The Written Warning's are self explanatory, It's a white spot on the floor that you can choose to read or not that a player has left to warn other players online. It can be some thing as vague as "Danger ahead" to some thing specific like "Use fire on the next enemy or your dead" This really helps!

Over all with all it's Hard and Unforgiving enemies and death, I really like this game, it has a Monster Hunter feel to it and I Love the Monster Hunter series. Visuals are good, controls are responsive and smooth, which is a good thing or else this game wouldn't be playable. If you like dungeon exploration, have plenty of time on your hands and don't mind re-playing a level after every death, then pick this game up. Get the strategy guide or wlk rhough to make iot easier if your too lazy to explore every nook and cranny. I enjoy the game and once I get a PS3 of my own, I will devote countless hours to this game and stay in Level 1. I wouldn't have it any other way.