07-19-2010, 02:14 PM
Demon Souls is PS3 exclusive made by Atlus. it's a hack'n slash with ps3 rpg elements, and magic, like the elder scrolls but it has a multiplayer(i'l explain later) and its a 3rd person game who got game of the year by gamespot.
ps: it's a long review, if you want to know why the game is unique, and why it is worth a purchase or a rent just skip to the 2nd paragraph in the gameplay section.
Story: if you'r looking for an rpg with a great story look away, the story is almost non exsistent, their are some cut scenes and you meet characters and you have some goals, but it's not like a true story. You'r in a place called the nexus and you have been chosen to defend the 5 kingdoms from demons and kill the "one" which brought misery and death to you'r world.
graphics: the enviorments, characters, and demons are breath taking. Don't expect the graphics to look like crysis they don't but for a console game they are really good, their is a lot of detail and atlus did a very good job with the colors textures and shadow in the game, the world looks real, it looks beautiful, and it sucks you right into the game. The armor and weapons look kick ass, and the demons look great.
gameplay: this is what makes the game so unique. Well it's a hack"n slash with rpg elements. Don't mistaken it to be a game like devil may cry, god of war, or bayonetta. The combat system is very similar to oblivion. The "l" and "r" buttons are each for a hand, you can hold two handed weapons such as cross bows, bows, two handed swords, two handed axes, or one handed weapons such as a sword an axe, with a shield, or another sword, axe, or katana in the other hand. Early in the game you choose your class, each class gives you diffrent items and weapons early on. You can use spells in the game, you can use items which gives your weapon fire damage or you can use a moon grass which gives you health. You can also equip rings which gives you a stat boost, to upgrade your stats like health, endurance, luck, magic .... you need souls, to get souls you have to kill demons.
Now this is what makes the game unique. No matter what you do in the tutorial you die, even if you kill the boss which kills you in one hit. That is because the game introduces you to the "soul" system. When you die you restart the level all over again, levels take about 15-30 minutes to complete, even if you'r at the boss you restart it, and if you are in human form your life is cut back in half. To return to human form you must defeat a boss, and use the "soul" you took from him, or you can find stones which make you go back to human form. The game can be played online or offline, it's the same game but online you can play co-op with freinds, you can post messages on the floor, if someone recomends them you will gain life, you can also get tips from messages others posted. It's a win-win situation. Also you see the soul of a player if he's in the same level of you, their are also blood stanes on the floor, you can see how a played died and learn from their mistake. When you die you leave a bloodstane on the floor, it contains all of your souls, if you die twice with taking back your souls the bloodstane disapears and you loose your soul. You can also invade the world of other players and kill them, in one boss fight you get to fight a player, or you can be the boss. The gameplay is more rewarding then fun, this game will make you cry like a little bitch, but if you get used to the system( and if you hit quit game when you die, you wont loose your human form and when you enter the game you will be at a check point
) then will the game be more rewarding then fun, you can play it both ways, even though if the 2nd way is a glitch.
value: well to beat the games it takes about 60 hours, , and since their is pretty much no story, you won't have to talk to the people you already talked to, and saved people you already saved, you'l just go and play the levels again. You can continue the game with your 1st character and restart, you'l be the same level have the same items but your oponnents will be 8% stronger. You can restart up to 32 times each time the oponents will get stronger, it is possible for it to restart more times but its impossible to win the 32nd time you die in one hit. It's a great game with lots of replay value, until know the top play spend about 600 hours on it, even though it came out less then a year ago.
story:7//10
graphics :10/10
gameplay: 9.9/10(0.1 points deducted for being too hard, if you like hard games it wont bother you, but you wiill still cry)
value:10/10
overall(not an average): 9.5
ps: it's a long review, if you want to know why the game is unique, and why it is worth a purchase or a rent just skip to the 2nd paragraph in the gameplay section.
Story: if you'r looking for an rpg with a great story look away, the story is almost non exsistent, their are some cut scenes and you meet characters and you have some goals, but it's not like a true story. You'r in a place called the nexus and you have been chosen to defend the 5 kingdoms from demons and kill the "one" which brought misery and death to you'r world.
graphics: the enviorments, characters, and demons are breath taking. Don't expect the graphics to look like crysis they don't but for a console game they are really good, their is a lot of detail and atlus did a very good job with the colors textures and shadow in the game, the world looks real, it looks beautiful, and it sucks you right into the game. The armor and weapons look kick ass, and the demons look great.
gameplay: this is what makes the game so unique. Well it's a hack"n slash with rpg elements. Don't mistaken it to be a game like devil may cry, god of war, or bayonetta. The combat system is very similar to oblivion. The "l" and "r" buttons are each for a hand, you can hold two handed weapons such as cross bows, bows, two handed swords, two handed axes, or one handed weapons such as a sword an axe, with a shield, or another sword, axe, or katana in the other hand. Early in the game you choose your class, each class gives you diffrent items and weapons early on. You can use spells in the game, you can use items which gives your weapon fire damage or you can use a moon grass which gives you health. You can also equip rings which gives you a stat boost, to upgrade your stats like health, endurance, luck, magic .... you need souls, to get souls you have to kill demons.
Now this is what makes the game unique. No matter what you do in the tutorial you die, even if you kill the boss which kills you in one hit. That is because the game introduces you to the "soul" system. When you die you restart the level all over again, levels take about 15-30 minutes to complete, even if you'r at the boss you restart it, and if you are in human form your life is cut back in half. To return to human form you must defeat a boss, and use the "soul" you took from him, or you can find stones which make you go back to human form. The game can be played online or offline, it's the same game but online you can play co-op with freinds, you can post messages on the floor, if someone recomends them you will gain life, you can also get tips from messages others posted. It's a win-win situation. Also you see the soul of a player if he's in the same level of you, their are also blood stanes on the floor, you can see how a played died and learn from their mistake. When you die you leave a bloodstane on the floor, it contains all of your souls, if you die twice with taking back your souls the bloodstane disapears and you loose your soul. You can also invade the world of other players and kill them, in one boss fight you get to fight a player, or you can be the boss. The gameplay is more rewarding then fun, this game will make you cry like a little bitch, but if you get used to the system( and if you hit quit game when you die, you wont loose your human form and when you enter the game you will be at a check point
) then will the game be more rewarding then fun, you can play it both ways, even though if the 2nd way is a glitch.value: well to beat the games it takes about 60 hours, , and since their is pretty much no story, you won't have to talk to the people you already talked to, and saved people you already saved, you'l just go and play the levels again. You can continue the game with your 1st character and restart, you'l be the same level have the same items but your oponnents will be 8% stronger. You can restart up to 32 times each time the oponents will get stronger, it is possible for it to restart more times but its impossible to win the 32nd time you die in one hit. It's a great game with lots of replay value, until know the top play spend about 600 hours on it, even though it came out less then a year ago.
story:7//10
graphics :10/10
gameplay: 9.9/10(0.1 points deducted for being too hard, if you like hard games it wont bother you, but you wiill still cry)
value:10/10
overall(not an average): 9.5