Comments on: Demon’s Souls: Retrospective

By: Foxhole

Foxhole — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 22:15:00 +0000

Well then, my hats off to him. I’m quite sure his experience is in the minority though.

Either way, I’m glad people enjoyed it. It’s a unique experience that I don’t think people should have missed out on. After all, I feel like it’s a masochists game, and I’ve probably just moved on from video game masochism to other kinds.

By: Kyphrin

Kyphrin — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 18:34:41 +0000

He used scimitar and then eventually katana, very rarely used a bow

By: Foxhole

Foxhole — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 21:44:00 +0000

Then he must be pretty darn good. I died in the tutorial countless times, but I went melee, I heard you’re supposed to stick to range as thief.

By: Kyphrin

Kyphrin — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 19:58:30 +0000

I watched my friend play through as thief, and he had no trouble getting through the game O.o
Well… aside from the flamelurker demon, but that was due to lack of preparation.

By: Foxhole

Foxhole — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 21:01:53 +0000

Kyphrin, I watched my friend play through as Royalty, I would say try being a thief, your experience will vary greatly.

That being said, I’m glad you enjoyed the game, it seems like a lot of people did. I’m still going to harp on the lack of story progression.

By: Kyphrin

Kyphrin — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:30:26 +0000

I found this game pretty intense and it had the ability to draw me in very easily… I really enjoyed the multiplayer in it, I played as royalty and was going almost straight mage, though I had created a really nice Falchion, and I am proud to say that I have yet to die from another player invading my world ^^ nothing better than blasting someone and then picking up 100,000 souls…
Anyway, I think in the beginning you’re right, the game is a lot of trial and error. But by the time you get to the second dungeon you should have a pretty good handle on what’s safe and what’s dangerous. I died maybe once a day, playing for a few hours a day. Running away and pot shots aren’t really necessary once you got a good handle on the controls, my mage tended to circle single enemies and take a dodge and stab tactic with her sword, and for groups I just stuck with fireball or soul ray most of the time.

By: Foxhole

Foxhole — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 05:17:51 +0000

I don’t recall ever saying the game was a hack and slash. I tried to finesse my way through the game, I mean, we’re on a fighting game site for crying out loud, we’re practically comprised of people who specialize in precise gaming movements.

While your experience with the game is different, and I think that merely speaks to your skill than anything else. You say that everyone complains and that it’s a grind, so it must be a grind to a lot of people. Everyone said they died on the first stage repeatedly, well, everyone is a lot of people right? So Demon’s Souls was pretty easy for you, that’s great, but you can’t use your perspective as a generalization on how everyone else will experience the game.

Though I neglected to mention that when I played through as a soldier and royalty I also passed the intro stage dying once or twice, but it really wasn’t any more fun than when I was dying a boatload as the thief.

By: R-e-n-n-a-t

R-e-n-n-a-t — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 04:40:42 +0000

I get tired of people calling Demon’s Souls a grind and a hack n’ slash. If you try to hack n’ slash you will die over and over and over and over again. If you roll and block with precision, attacking with efficiency it’s possible to beat entire levels without dying more than a couple times. I beat the first level a while back, which everyone said they died on many times, and I only died once.

It is not a grind most of the time, I’ve replayed stages several times, but it’s usually because I want to explore some area that I missed the first time. There is quite a bit of hidden stuff that you won’t find unless you take risks.

There really are almost no puzzles though; the closest to puzzles I’ve seen is a couple cannon ball rolling traps and some environmental obstacles that you can use against vastly tough demon crowds, such as a mine cart that explodes on stuff. Usually the few puzzles that there are deal with explosions or heavy weights crushing random noobs.

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