Demons Souls is a return to the traditional trial and error video game era.
It requires a tactical mindset, and a headful of patience.
Its difficulty is often exaggerated, it is not extremely hard. What it is though, is challenging, deceptive, and unforgiving. This game is not going to guide you through each step like modern games, like the games that influenced it (Classic Zelda's), it is the players resposibility to explore, salvage the tools neccesary for your goal, and be mindful of attack patterns and traps.
This game is essentially- for me - a dream come true. It is an Action RPG in which effectiveness is in the players skill and precision, rather than the time he puts leveling up and getting loot. Its challenging, it doesn't give you checkpoints constantly, exploration is rewarded, and your experience with the story and world is dependent on the players willingness to go out and look for it.
Critics often criticize Demons Souls for not really having a story, but to have cutscenes and the sort reoccuring is completely contradictory to the games feeling as a whole. It is the players decision to discovery the story, the game again, is not going to walk you through it, rather, one must walk through the game.
The Gameplay, Graphics, Art Design, Sound and Soundtrack, are spot on and work in chorus to create a solid and cohesive masterwork. The passion these developers have is present in every nook and cranny of The Demons Souls World. By now you have heard enough details of these aspects of the game, I am only here to justify this game, as a legitimate classic. Its only flaws were technical things, rare glitches, but their isn't a single hitch in the ideas put into it. Its only flaws, are technical.
Demons Souls is my favorite game in a very very long time, nothing these days can eye a parralell to it, its nearly flawless in excecution. Simply a solid Action RPGer