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Okay so yesterday I picked up a few games dirt cheap that I had previously bought and sold within a day. One of them is mentioned in the Final Fantasy XIII thread (shock I wonder what it could be?!) and the other I will discuss here if any of you want too.

So the game is the one mentioned in the title, Demon's Souls. This game is absolutely brutal. If you thought Ninja Gaiden was hard, you have yet to see something that truly kicks your ass. Anyways, I figured I would give it another go and I am wondering if any of you have played it and have some advice.

BTW, I got the game for $14.95.

I loved Demon's Soul and you are right, a few hits and you are dead.

There is honestly no easy way around it, you are going to die A LOT! Get used to it quick!

The one thing that I did was go through slowly and look around a lot. Try to see where enemies could be, is there a booby trap at my feet, etc. Other than that, hope you can raise some good helpers or you could take a look at online guides.

Thanks for the info. I was starting to worry that dakkadakka was filled with 360boys.

Can you grind in this game? Like fight a bunch of stuff and then leave the level with all my souls and buy some better equipment? I hate trying to play the level and then loosing everything if I die twice in a row.

You kind of can. *I am trying to remember playing this game from months ago.

You are really going to return to places and just run through them. The more you go through places you figure out where all the enemies are and you should know the best way to kill them. That's really the only way.

Early in the game after beating the first two bosses of the first stage(castle place where the first boss was a blob I think and the second one was a huge set of armor) I would run through, kill everything, and return to the 'teleporters' to go back to the main place.

Best place to farm herbs to heal is boletarian palace (world 1-1 then part 1 -3), What-ever-its-name-is-again mines is good for stones for upgrades (world 2-1, 2-2 where the crystal lyzard pit is).

Also if you want to farm for souls go to the shrine of storms and kill of the skeletons (they give about 300 to 500 souls each) they are weak to magical attacks, and yes you can leave a level and retain your souls to buy/ repair equipment.

Always run around with your shield up! (if you have a good shield.....) or always be ready to comabt roll out of the way (if you go this route wear light armour)

Worst comes to worst just try luring one enemy out at a time, or you can try getting the Large Sword Of Moonlight (faith based build needed or you do no damedge), thiss word ignores any and all shields.

Try getting fire based weaponry as alot of foes seam to be weak against fire.

I have to be a ass-hat on this point, im on new game ++ (beat the game twice with the same character, dificulty is 150% ontop of the orriginal stats of foes) so you have no idea what fury this game has to unleash.....yet (i cant even continew as i botched my character build)

Stay focused with where you take your heros build! Eitehr stay melee, ranged (with some melee as it is dificult to pure range the game), mage, or faith build which meshes melee and holy spells to heal you (or do some insane damedge with Gods Wrath miracle)

What character did you start with? some are alot esier to start off with then others: Temple knight can be very difficult whereas the soldire or wanderer are more simple to get the hang of.

Just a thing to remember is The more heavy armour you wear the more you stamina drops (including when you attack) and the slower you combat roll, where if you wear lighter armour your stamina drops at a drasticaly slower rate (allowing for more attacsk, unless you use 2 handed weapons those just rape stamina nomater what you do) and you combat roll like an oiled rat down a water slide at a 90 degree angle.

Be carefull with some soul signs left by other players, they can often lead you to traps or areas were you are forced to die to continew.

And if you die, try getting back to where you jsut died as slowly and safely as you can, your souls will be there UNLESS YOU DIE AGAIN, then they are gone for good (ive lsot 100k souls at once, trust me it sucks when you even permanently loose 5k souls)

Sorry for the giant wall o text
TL,DR you missed alot of good pointers

Tazz

This thread makes me want to start playing this again.

I have a Temple Knight and the extra reach helped make it easy early on. Not sure why I stopped playing actually.

I went through a lot of rerolls trying to find the class I liked best though.

@Tazz Azrael: I think I played a Barbarian? I can't quite remember though. Anyways thanks for all the tips. They should help quite a bit. My wife still worries about the possibility of me breaking the controller though. I am on Prozac now though, so that should help right?

If you die do you lose everything or do you just lose the souls?

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/277615.page

Lord Scythican wrote:@Tazz Azrael: I think I played a Barbarian? I can't quite remember though. Anyways thanks for all the tips. They should help quite a bit. My wife still worries about the possibility of me breaking the controller though. I am on Prozac now though, so that should help right?

If you die do you lose everything or do you just lose the souls?

Dont worry it is just the souls you loose, and starting with the barbarian can be tricky since he gets no armour if i remember correctly.

Thanks Manchu!

Tazz Azrael wrote:

Lord Scythican wrote:@Tazz Azrael: I think I played a Barbarian? I can't quite remember though. Anyways thanks for all the tips. They should help quite a bit. My wife still worries about the possibility of me breaking the controller though. I am on Prozac now though, so that should help right?

If you die do you lose everything or do you just lose the souls?

Dont worry it is just the souls you loose, and starting with the barbarian can be tricky since he gets no armour if i remember correctly.

No wonder I died 30 times on the first skeleton...