Thinking of reserving Demon's Souls today but i'm curious.

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Euphoria14 said:

I am going to need myself a major timesink this holiday season because I won't be able to buy many games and this looks to be the answer, but some questions still remain.

1.) Is this game like playing Oblivion, only in 3rd person? (Minus the giant bosses of course) If not, which game is it best compared to gameplay wise?

2.) How many armor/weapon combinations would you estimate there are? Do these items have a wide variety of appearances?

3.) I heard this game is hard. I haven't even been able to beat Ninja Gaiden on the NES. Is this worse? I did beat TMNT though.

4.) Will this game cause me to neglect my kid?

 

I know I could probably find some of these answers in the official thread for Demon's Souls, sorry, but I always liked getting questions answered this way, especially when it comes to a serious potential purchase.

 

1.  It doesn't play like Oblivion, it is quite different.  It's a closed world really, but you get to do plenty of backtracking.  You actually play the same levels over and over... but it doesn't get boring as you go to newer parts of that level.  The whole game just repeats like a mmo... getting harder and harder.  I'm not sure what game it is like. as It is a combination of a lot of games.

2. Heaps and you can create weapons with rare items etc.  They look awesome :D

3. 1st play through is not so bad. Is hard, but you need to coop alot.  2nd play thru kicks your ass.  That is hard. 3rd play thru... hmmm I have nightmares about playing at that level ;_;

4.  Not really.  you can do levels under 30 mins.  But forget the pause button... there is none.  Just like a MMo you need to be in a safe spot.

It's an awesome game.  It's not like many games out there.  It's diffinately worth the try and it's  the hardcore dream game set in a fantasy world.