Oldschool hardcore is back!!!
Demon's Souls... Demon's... Souls... The first time heared that title I thought of a rpg of which you can play asleep and that focuses on story... I couldn't have been more wrong! This a fraking hard, gameplay focused... rpg! Alright I could have been more wrong.
When I say fraking hard I mean really fraking hard, the kinda of hard that makes little kids cry to sleep. But not the broken or unfair hard of most hard games. This is oldschool hard: When you die it's because weren't focused and you made a lot of errors.
The philosophy of this game is... you will die a lot and you will be punished for that. While in most games when you die nothing bad happens, you'll get a checkpoint close to where you died and you won't lose anything. In Demon's Souls, when you die you lose all of your souls, that work both as exp and money. To make things worse, when you die in body form you go to soul form... with half your health. When your in soul form you can find your blood stain to regain your souls but if you die on your way to the your stain, that stain will disapear... and all your souls will be gone! And another thing when you die in body form the area you were in will become harder. This might be too hardcore for most gamers, but if your pacient and you're careful you'll get better. That is the magic of demon's souls: it actually makes you better gamer. An aspect that is rare in the games of this generation.
Demon's Souls isn't just a revival of the past gaming, it's also creating something for the future with it's multiplayer. In any other game the multiplayer and singleplayer modes are strictly differenciated but in this game the multiplayer is integrated in the singleplayer, meaning if your playing Demon's Souls and you dont know that your connected online you might get invaded by another player without even knowing that that was possible, as long as didn't see the blue eye stones on the ground can summon other player to help you, the white phantoms of other player playing in their own world and the blood stains that show the finall moments a player. The multiplayer is nearly perfect... nearly because the mecanisms of the multiplayer doesn't make it possible for you to pause the game... Yeah, you heared me, you can't save!
This game isn't perfect, it has some small problems like broken targating system, lack of uniqueness to each class and no story, of which isn't actually a problem, since most great game arent great because of their stories. Inspite of those minor annoyances, Demon's Souls really shines on what a game should be, it's a fantastic game because it's a fantastic game, not because it tries to give you the best story or the best graphics, but because it gives you the best GAMING experience.