Actually, Oblivion starts out as a joke, and can stay that way, but it can become obscenely difficult in the late game if you don't level up "correctly" (i.e. you play as a non-combat character, and focus your stats accordingly). It's hard because it's a broken system, but it's hard nonetheless.

It might be 40 hours for one play through, but it has 120 hours of scenarios and choices. This game could be played multiple times with various story branches and you could have a totally different experience every time.

if you don't level you character in oblivion at all and just go to fort wooden hand for loot you will dominate everything. Which was very fun to more I did that for like 50 hours without even playing any of the main story!! I loved oblivion one of my favorite games this gen.

RPGamer

The game is very hard, but not unfairly so; each time you die, you'll learn a bit more about the level, and you'll be able to progress a bit further. I was very surprised with what I found in Demon's Souls.

AceGamez

Its appeal may be niche, but for those who appreciate a challenging and ultimately very rewarding game in a genre that's poorly represented not only on the PS3 but in this entire console generation, Demon's Souls is an absolute must have.

Play Magazine

The word of mouth on this game is going to be great, unless your friends only play WiiFit. Demon’s Souls is what an 8-Bit game would play like if it were popped open and dumped out in your lap. Gorgeous, thoughtful, and complete unto itself, it’s the second-best title I’ve played this year. Maybe even better.

GamerNode

Demon's Souls uses sprawling, atmospheric worlds, haunting game concepts and mechanics, an unconventional control scheme, and formidable difficulty to envelop players in an experience that is easily one of the best of the year.

Gamer Limit

Demon's Souls is one for the history books. It simply improves the recently stale action genre, and is way ahead of its time with its vision of online play.

GameCritics

Without question, Demon's Souls is one of 2009's finest titles, and an amazing, challenging journey without equal.

GamingExcellence

That said, Demon's Souls is a terrific game. It sets such a high standard for dungeon crawling titles that can only be matched by the best of them.

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Great scores! Wheres GT, Gamespot and IGNs scores!? :)

gamespot gave it a 9.0 ign hasn't scored yet. and GT gave it a 8.9

Well I was obviously just proving you wrong by using the scores of 95 or better. :p had to do it. Anyways I provided the link for you to check.. Someone above wrote gamespot and gt scores.

Thats cool. Anyway, did you see read the post where it said they played the full game and got 120 hours out of one play through (which is 90% of the full games content)?

gt = 8.9

gamespot = 9

ign = hasn't reviewed it yet

I really hate it when people say game X is better than game Y on account of a small difference in review scores.

yea stage I read it I'm impressed I hope it's a good game. I think they should both be able to coexist and one not having to be better than the other. I'm looking forward to dragon age. I never played mass effect so I can't comment on that either