Demon's Souls

I have been keeping an eye on the soon to be released Demon's Souls for the PS3. All of the magazines and blogs and podcasts are saying that this is one very hard game. A game that is prepared to make me it's bitch. I imagine that's true, but I have heard this before, and it hasn't always been the case.

Back in the day I got into those Koei strategy games, especially the Romance of the Three Kingdoms series, and it was easy enough for me to get so familiar with the systems involved that I could play the game on "hard" and win effortlessly.

Another game that was listed by many as "hardcore" and "difficult" was Etrian Odyssey for the NDS. I thought that game was challenging, but it wasn't overly difficult. All one has to do is enter the dungeon, fight, exit the dungeon, heal, buy better stuff and rinse and repeat. Patience and a willingness to grind is all it took. Nothing difficult about that.

Demon's Souls, however, is an action RPG, and it is because of that I am more able to believe that this game might, in fact, be quite difficult. I look forward to finding out.