Why is Demon's Souls seen as being a 'hard' game?

[EncodedNybble]

Xen said:

blkfish92 said:

EncodedNybble said:

 

I mean, I can run through the whole game with < 25% health (so I can use the...rat's ring or whatever to drastically increase damage) and not die more than a few times.  It's not THAT difficult outside of a few bosses (man eaters...I'm looking at you).

Damn those man eaters....

The fake king was the only tough opponent, IMO...

Maneater was easy for me... mainly because because of the Blessed Mirdan Hammer, I killed him so quickly that the other one didn't manage to jump in.  That weapon is CHEATING.

I guess I wasn't into it as much as you were :) I never used that weapon against them.  I mainly did it without dying too much with my normal steel...uh..damn, I've forgotten the weapon.  It was a dagger :)  I didn't find the man-eaters that hard as a concept it was more of the fact that you fought on the platform. 70% of my deaths in the game were being knocked off the damn platform by the man eaters