I beat Demons Souls last night! Sorry, had to tell someone as my girlfriend struggled to the grasp the magnitude of my heroic accomplishment.
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The Japanese really comes out in that ending... shades of MGS.
Funny thing is, that I have 3 games in my backlog. All of which I have played an hour or so: ME2, Singularity, LA Noire. And I want to do, is play NG+ on Demons Souls, which is crazy, as I can't even remember the last RPG I enjoyed, or finished; I have tried Oblivion, Fallout 3, Borderlands, etc.
Anyway, really pumped for Dark Souls now. The items on my wish list are:
-keep the non-scalable enemies.
-keep co-op... I think voice would be ok in co-op. I know some think it would ruin it, but I wouldn't mind it, you could always turn it off. But definitely no voice for Invaders, it is already lame enough to get invaded, killed, then get a message saying 'U R teh Sux0rs. Loser.'
-keep combat the same, simple... yet deep.
-allow me to sell shit I don't need.
-i don't want the level-up girl to give me that
"You seek soul powa? For thine is the kingdom, the powa and grory, forever and ever..." ever time I want to level up..., not to mention that little spiel after leveling up..
-for all the talk of an open world in Dark Souls, I hope that is something lost in translation. I really don't feel like a GTA style open world. DS was overwhelming enough, I find open world games overwhelming because of all the options available to you at once, I often find they feel like work to me.
-this talk of Dark Souls being even harder worries me. I found the second 75% of Demons Souls to be not that hard, but 1-1 through 4-1 were killer. The early difficulty just made me appreciate my newfound powers that much more though.
As I make this list, I realize that what I really want is just more Demons Souls
~S