In my opinion, Demon's Souls is a bad game.

[bugrimmar]

^huh, the very reason i turned to a strategy guide is because of the game's horrible grinding mechanic. i wanted to try to play the game longer. if i didn't take the guide, i would not have played after the first death. you're too passionately against strategy guides for some reason that you fail to understand why people read them in the first place.

sure, some people read them for the pointless reasons you mentioned (getting better loot, whatever), but some of us read them because a game is not good enough to spend time on, but we want to give it a try to see the whole story because it seems interesting.