Repost from Reddit, but quite humorous... I haven't played it but this makes me want to play it...
Demons Souls is a game that will make you into a man. A scrawny fourteen-year-old, after two hours with this game, will be grooming his muttonchops and ready to ship off on the next boat to fight the Kaiser. If you are already a man, it will make you into some sort of bizarre double-man. Whats that you say? Youre a woman? You dont want to be a man? Too bad. Too bad. Thats the Demons Souls way.
Youve probably heard that Demons Souls is hard. Pshh. Lots of games are hard. Some are even harder than this one. The difficulty is not the point. What sets Demon's Souls apart is the way that it doesn't just kill you, but also stomps on your genitals when youre down. And it will make you realize that thats what you needed all along.
Its a lot like life. Sometimes in life you win, and sometimes the giant armored skeleton stabs your face off because the flying mantis monster you didnt even see shot you in the back with a spike at just the wrong time. And when that happens in life, do you respawn at the same spot and carry on like nothing happened? NO, asshole. You go back to the beginning of the level, leaving all your hard-earned souls out there on the pavement, and you fight your way back. And you learn a lesson from the whole thing, because you should have been wearing your Thiefs Ring, now shouldnt you? Thats life.
The trend in hard games these days is to unlock Easy mode for you once youve died enough times. Do you think Demons Souls does that? Do you think Demons Souls is so much as aware of the concept of Easy mode? NO IT IS NOT. If Demons Souls even knew we were talking about Easy mode, it would come over here and kick the shit out of all of us. And we would deserve it.
Ill tell you what happens in Demons Souls when you die. You come back as a ghost with your health capped at half. And when you keep on dying, the alignment of the world turns black and the enemies get harder. Thats right, when you fail in this game, it gets harder. Why? Because fuck you is why.
Have I told you about the online elements? At any time when youre in Body form, another player from anywhere else in the world can invade your game and murder you to regain his own body, or just to keep you on your toes. This happens when youre in the middle of fighting armies of unthinkable monsters that are probably already three-quarters of the way towards killing you. And no, you cannot opt out of this feature! This is what you signed up for when you agreed to be a man.
When this happened to me -- when a guy strolled into my game like it was Taco Bell and exploded my torso, costing me my body and all my progress in the level -- was I mad? No, because I was too busy being in awe at how fucking hardcore the experience was.
Now, dont let this dissuade you. Demons Souls is a pitiless master, but let it never be said that it is not fair. The game rewards handsomely those who stand up to it, and the greater the challenge, the greater the glory.
What the hell are you waiting for?