Con's:- Difficultly level, some may be turned off- Online features lack chatting as of before Oct. 6, 2009- Death is constant and often- Can not bank points(souls)
Origins:
Original PS3 game made with help of Japans Sony Studios. Released here in America recently as of Oct. 6, 2009. A long 1 year wait after its announcement on the Tokyo Game Show. The Director is Hidetaka Miyazaki.
Brief Storyline:
The story of Demon's Souls begins in a land called Boletaria. The Kingdom is in a power struggle over posession of souls and the demons that have over run the land. King Allant's greed is so great that it bring the great beast called the "Old One" to the valley. The Kingdom is engulfed in demons and death, while a dark fog covers the land. A band of heroes of various backgrounds and abilities venture into this fog to attempt to banish the evil that has descended upon the land. These heroes attempted this for power and glory for which led to their downfall. You arrive into this devastation as summoned by the "Maiden in Black". You are destined by her to save the Kingdom from darkness and save all of the lost souls. Also to find the band of heroes, amidst collecting demon's souls along the way to enhance your power and abilities to finish your task.
Set up of Characters:
At start up you choose your character by gender, facial features and social class ranging from Knight, Wizard, Royal and Wanderer. Class determines how well your character will play along with stats, so your choices early on are important. You can customise for your own unique look. Weaponry choices will not help unless you have the right stats. Weapon choices also affects you being weighed down and reaction times during battle, while clothing affects agility.
Basics/ Mechanics/tips and Actions:
Demon's Souls is unlike any other Japanese RPG released. The game is basically seperated into 4 or 5 sub regions, each region has its own unique feel, swarming with Monsters, demons and boss creatures. If you learn to manipulate to Light and Dark you will benefit from additional feature that open up to you. The software is not shy about changing scenarios as long as it lead to your death.
The game begins with a brief overview of the games mechanics and control features, mainly for mood setting however. Demon's souls has a high learning curve and is unforgiving to the novice or beginning gamer. The difficulty of the game can be punishing and does not hide its dark nature. In the beginning expect to dies right away. This bring you straight to the Nexus ( a hub work for your soul/spirit). This is where you can shop, store your items, repair/ upgrade weapons and learn new attributes. Unfortunately you can not sell looted weapons. And the system wants you to enhance existing equipment and abilities you poses instead of purchasing new ones to replace the old items.
You will be stuck in the Nexus until you kill one of the high level boss demons. As you will learn death comes with a price, and unfortunately you will die often. Souls are collected by you and kept as currency for which you can use to trade for important items and attributes. You can not bank them a very badly needed feature and much missed adding to the challenge of the game. Should you die you will lose all of the souls you have collected. You can go back to the spot where you died and touch the blood stain to collect the lost souls. But if you die on your path back to the stain you will lose them forever.
Due to the actions you take it will affect difficulty level as well as change the tendencies of the game and scenarios, as well as additional benefits and risks. Expect to die, honestly more often than not, this games is only for the patient of us RPGer's. When you die you keep most of your weapons, armor and healing meds. The souls are your main loss and most damaging effect of your death.
Online Play:
There are extra features in the online play that are quite interesting. The blood stains are everywhere as you will find. If you touch one of these, you will see the last 10 seconds of that players life. This may give you useful information on your enemies and how to avoid them. Some stains my contain notes by the player who died and serve as a warning or clue and give you useful tips. All Notes are rated, Good ones stick around awhile, but Bad ones disappear quickly. Unfortunately, on the version before the Oct. 6 2009 release had no means of direct communication with other player, no chats.
Not all players will be allies, there are ones who will seek out to kill you in hopes of thier own revival and to collect your souls. These players will be close to your level to make it fair. Players of extremely high levels will not be aloud to attack you. This is known as when that player choose to be a hostile Black Phantom out of the Nexus using the Black eyed gem. if you can kill that player you get their souls and you are revived. Anyone can also do this from the Nexus as well. These are part of the choices you make during the game that change scenarios. Also in the Nexus is a Blue eye stone this is used to summon another player to help you with the game, like a group of friends you choose or alliance. And same as before in off line play when you defeat a level boss, you will be revived.
Final Rating:
This game has beautiful graphics and is only for the patient of us RPGer's. If you love a challenge this is well worth the purchase.
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