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Game details

Game:
Demon's Souls
AKA
Demon Souls
Genre:
Action
Sub Genre:
RPG
Release Date (US):
October 6th, 2009
Release Date (UK):
TBA 2009
Players:
1
Online Players:
2
Developers:
From Software
Publisher:
Atlus
Rating:
M [Mature]
PSU Rank:
151 of 1169 Games
PSU Rank on PS3:
135 of 0 Games
Additional Information:
Only on PS3

About Demon's Souls

Boasting a “dark fantasy” theme, Demon’s Souls allows players to forge their own character by tweaking gender, age and various assorted attributes, before embarking on a quest to the destroyed Kingdom of Voletaria. Here you’ll duke it out against legions of gigantic creatures using a variety of weaponry, each one offering a different style of combat depending if they’re wielding by one or both hands.

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PSU Review Score
9.0
Avg. user review score:
9.2

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Summary

Demon's Souls is everything we've been looking for on the PS3 -- a stellar action RPG boasting a killer online component. The game's uncompromising difficulty may not be everyone's cup of tea, however.

We like

  • The intriguing and original online component
  • What feels like the PS3's first major RPG
  • The eerie atmosphere and physical gameplay mechanics

We dislike

  • The at times frustrating difficulty and arduous trial and error

See PSU's review on Metacritic & GameRankings

There are few games out there that are as dark and menacing as From Software’s hard-hitting action RPG Demon’s Souls. Released earlier this year in Japan, Atlus USA is bringing this excruciatingly difficult game to North American audiences on October 6, exclusively for the PlayStation 3. The difficulty level of this game has been widely publicized; make no mistakes, this is one of the hardest titles you’ll en...

Demon's Souls News

  • Five free games, steep discounts coming to NA PlayStation Plus in April

    The PlayStation Plus offerings for April have been revealed, and there's a good variety of content to whet your downloadable gaming appetite. Demon's Souls is the first of the free games on offer, and will be made free alongside steep discounts on Telltale's The Walking Dead adventure series, Soldn...

  • Reminder: Demon's Souls hits PSN today, includes pure white tendency event

    Demon's Souls will be available today through the PlayStation Network, and with the digital release comes a weeklong pure white tendency event. The game was released as a PlayStation exclusive through Atlus and developer From Software. While its spiritual successor--Dark Souls--may be more popul...

  • Demon's Souls heading to PSN

    The hit PlayStation exclusive action RPG Demon's Souls is heading to the PlayStation Network next week, Atlus today announced. The critically acclaimed title--literally, we loved it--will cost $19.99 USD and release digitally on Jan 8. New to the Souls games? You are in for a treat, especially...

  • Demon's Souls U.S. servers get a new lease of life

    Demon’s Souls' U.S. online servers have been extended to remain operational for the “foreseeable future,” Atlus has announced. The news comes just a few days before the servers were originally scheduled to shut down permanently on May 31, 2012. Additional extensions are also ...

  • FromSoftware shutting down Demon's Souls' servers

    FromSoftware has announced the official shutdown of the online servers for its hit title Demon's Souls. Tim Pivnicny, marketing vice-president for Atlus, said in a statement alongside the news of the server shutdown:"Thank you to the unparalleled passion and support of the Demon's Souls commun...

  • Atlus extends Demon's Souls server support to 2012

    Atlus today announced that the company will be extending the online server support for Demon's Souls (again). The game, which features multiplayer-esque online features, will see online support into 2012. Demon's Souls continues to be one of the highest praised PlayStation 3 exclusives to date &nda...

  • Demon's Souls online play given new lease of life

    Atlus USA has confirmed it has no intention of bringing the axe down on Demon’s Souls’ online component just yet, with the developer announcing that it’s extended support for the feature for a second time. The extension means PS3 owners will be able to indulge in the brutally co...

  • SCEJ says we'll get a Demon's Souls sequel "one day"

    Sony Computer Entertainment's Takeshi Kaji  hasn’t ruled out the possibility of churning out a sequel to brutal RPG Demon’s Souls, though revealed there are currently no plans for a follow-up to the PlayStation 3 exclusive. Quizzed by The Guardian as to whether or not we’d ...

  • Demon's Souls joins PS3 Greatest Hits

    If you haven’t picked up Demon’s Souls for the PlayStation 3, you will be able to get it at a discounted price as the hit RPG is now an official Greatest Hits title. Demon’s Souls was one of our favorite games last year, and we strongly recommend you pick it up, especially sin...

  • Namco to release standard edition Demon's Souls in UK

    Namco Bandai has confirmed that it’s releasing a standard version of PlayStation 3 exclusive outing Demon’s Souls in the UK this week. The game was originally released in the region on June 25 in the form of a swanky Black Phantom Limited Edition release, though with stock running sho...

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