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I would rate Demon's Souls 9/10, definitely one of the best games i've played this year.
I agree...I am still having a hard time on New Game+....wow...it is hard...Trying to play it on Black World and Character Tendency...but it's hard to get it that way...
I just had the best online experience ever in Demon's Souls (Asian version). I started a new character (Royal), took care of the Phalanx and Tower Knight and then made my way to Stonefang Tunnel. I wasn't there for 3 minutes when I saw the message that a black phantom had broken into my world, I can't remember his name, but I'm pretty sure it was a Japanese guy. He came right at me with a Scraping Spear and within a couple of strikes he had broken both my weapon and my armour. I tried as best as I could to fight him with my Soul Arrow and Flamethrower, but everytime I got him close to death he just took a bite of some Moon Grass and kept fighting. Luckily I was also able to stay alive with the repeated eating of Moon Grass and able to fight back with my supplies of Spice.
Eventually I ran out of Spice and Mana and I just stood still and bowed. He walked right up to me, bowed and then did a "Hurrah!". He turned around and starting heading into the level killing everything in his path, except me. I followed him as close as I could and tried to do my best to get some hits in, but he did most of the killing. Often times I lost track of him as I was heading to the Armoured Spider, only to discover he is trying to show me where all the pickups in the level is. We explored every nook and cranny of Stonefang Tunnel and he showed me where everything in the level was and waited for me to loot it all. When we finally made it to Armoured Spider's Fog Gate, he bowed and dropped 30 Half Moon Grass and 20 Fresh Spice for me. I bowed and he left my world.
It was so AWESOME!!!
Playing offline is all fine and dandy, but sometimes I need to summon people to help me (especially in playthrough 2 and, I imagine, all consecutive playthroughs) or let someone summon me so I can level up a bit. I actually don't mind black phantoms all that much, it's when they resort to sissy tacticts (i.e. backstabbing me when I can't see them) that I get pissed off. I don't mind losing a fight to a black phantom since you don't really lose your souls as such, you just have to make your way back to the bloodstain - same as when you die offline.
I did have a pretty awesome online experience with a black phantom a while ago, posted about it in another forum. Will just copy and paste it here.
Did you guys see the announcement for Project Dark at TGS? It's basically Demon's Souls 2 with a different name and it's coming out on X360 as well. While it sucks a bit that the PS3 has "lost" an exclusive I am happy that X360 owners will finally get to play this amazing game, even though it's the "spiritual successor" and not the first game.
Did you guys see the announcement for Project Dark at TGS? It's basically Demon's Souls 2 with a different name and it's coming out on X360 as well. While it sucks a bit that the PS3 has "lost" an exclusive I am happy that X360 owners will finally get to play this amazing game, even though it's the "spiritual successor" and not the first game.