Demon’s Souls (Review)
For many, Demon’s Souls will be like Marmite, with its love it or hate it appeal. That’d be fine except many gamers will be struggling to get the lid of the damn thing. This RPG game’s tutorial gives you a few weak enemies while going over the controls and just as you start to think ‘this isn’t so bad,’ a boss appears and kills you in one hit. Welcome to Demon’s Souls, meatbag.
In this dead Soul form, your health is greatly reduced and you’ll have to defeat a boss to get your body back. To avoid going insane, it’s best not to think of yourself as ‘dead’ in the traditional sense. You’ll be spending most of the game in this state, so just get on with it.
Dying sends you to the Nexus, which is the game’s hub where you upgrade or buy weapons, buy magic skills or upgrade your stats. Although you can only do the later after defeating a boss. From here you select which area you want to travel to. The first castle you arrive at is impressive in scale and detail, but any sense of hope dwindles when a huge red dragon arrives with a mouth full of corpses. That’ll be fun later. Much, much later that is.
This is where the game really starts to show its true nature. You won’t exactly be storming the castle, just slowly shuffling your way forwards one kill at a time. You’ll die again soon (even though you’re already dead) and be returned to the start of the level with all your Demon Souls removed but any items still intact.
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