@ Silicon: Demon's Souls is more a wrpg by aesthetics only, it has more in common with Zelda (battle mechanics, being an action rpg, dungeon crawling) than anything that can purely be patented as a western influence. There is a type of morality system with white/black world/character tendency, but unlike the Bethesda/Bioware games I've played, DS' system is actually dynamic and has dramatic effects on it's worlds.