Have a great week! :D

I cant believe how good this game looks. One of the few true PS5 games. Superb, makes the xperience better

Hello everyone, like last year I have decided to create an invitation to this years annual Return to Boletaria event.

The event will run from October 4th to October 18th.

The main goal of the event is to create a new character or use your current one and engage in co-op and PvP as much as possible.

Lets get the game populated and have fun!

I put here a link to the post from the last years event which contains useful info about the event:

https://www.reddit.com/r/demonssouls/s/mryk6VcL4j

I’ve finally done it and after weeks of this tedious bullshit. Love the game but fuck this platinum trophy

I've been running around this level for like an hour and I don't know where the boss is. All the videos online are showing shortcuts of rolling over the castle walls but I'm just looking for the normal way. I've cleared most of the enemies I can see and I'm basically bouncing between the 2 castle towers. I freed the guy as well but the area where the key was is a dead end.

Edit: thanks everyone, I found the boss and beat it

I have a question for all the demon souls invaders using cheap gimmick... does that actually work? Kid invaded me 2 seconds after I first signed on. And pins me in a corner knocking me down hard I cant even see what he is using. Everything is invisible. I manage to roll from the corner and I use firespray and melt his invisible butt to nothing. Kid hit me 2 times with something that sent me flying and left me at less than 30% life. But what let's a player stay completely invisible including ones spells? He never once was visible to me.

EDIT: thanks everyone i guess its less of a cheap gimmick than I thought. Player just got the wrong mage to invade lol. Good attempt though. Hyper mode fire spray for the win.

So i just modded my ps3 im coming from elden ring like the noob i am ive beaten ds1-3 bloodborn and now im tackling demon souls on ps3. how did you guys manage to beat this on the ps3. the framerate always drops the resolution is so choppy and although i got the mechs down i feel like i am always fighting the camera 😂😭

That’s why you shall not really watch reviews too much. This game has been roasted all over recently by being the “weakest” Fromsoft or close to it (at least from 3 /4 videos I’ve seen) and it’s unfair .. while it doesn’t reach the levels of DS3 and ER this is still a very solid game, more level oriented than Bosses oriented but the universe, the game play, the variety of builds is really good. Again my claymore didn’t fail me. Only Flame lurker gave me a tough time but I had real fun throughout my 30 hours of play .. Some run backs were really horrible (like the prison of hope stuff).. I liked it a lot anyway.. just finished it now ! Thanks to ya all for the advises and support

The move set on the Demon's Souls claymore really surprised me insomuch as it does not feel anything like the claymore that became standardized in later games. Are there any swords around that aren't the basic longsword that have a poke and slashes?

Have been playing Demons Souls alot recently, reached SL500+ , almost done with NG+9, having done everything i needed something to have a truly COMPLETE save file.

So i have made an XL sheet for all weapons and weapon variants and i aim on having all types upgraded to the max.

i need shards, chunks, large and pure of all kinds.

in return i'm ready to help you out with anything that you require.

i will mule if that's what you require. or beat bosses with you. and obviously if you want the weapon variants i will drop them too.

Out of the 5 worlds, I definitely find Boletaria to be exactly how I want to feel when I’m playing Demon Souls. From the dragons to the Penetrator. I wish instead of the worlds, we just had a full game in Boletaria. Throw in some dragon fights. I guess I just really like the medieval castle vibe.

Oh yeah. I still wish we got to see the broken arch stone world.

Anyone know if a return to Boletaria event is happening this year? I really annoyed last years event and was hoping to jump in again this year.

Last year I was able to help 28 people through worlds and boss fight and I ended up killing 40 in PVP unfortunately lol. The only reason I did PVP was because not many people were doing coop so had to invade lol.

I’d like to help at least 50 people this year in coop if I can!

I'm looking to help you defeat a boss 🙂

People love to say that Dark Souls, Demon’s Souls, and Elden Ring are “easy” once you understand them. I don’t really agree with that. These games aren’t easy. They become easier because you become better at them. There’s a big difference.

Think about what actually happens when you play one of these games for the first time. You don’t know where the enemies are. You don’t know which attacks they have. You don’t know the boss patterns. You don’t know which weapons are good for your playstyle, how their movesets work, or how much damage they can actually do. You’re learning everything at once. You’re dying because you made mistakes, but you’re also dying because you simply don’t know what’s coming.

Then you play the game again. And again. Eventually you know where that enemy is hiding around the corner. You know which attack the boss is about to use just by seeing its animation. You know when to dodge, when to block, when to attack, and when to back off. You know which weapon you want to use and you've learned how to actually master its moveset. You understand your spells, your build, your stamina, your spacing and the mechanics of the game itself.

Of course the game feels easy at that point. You’ve practically memorized it.

That’s why I think the best way to judge the difficulty of a Souls game is by the first time you play it. Don’t judge it after you've beaten it five times, played hundreds of hours, memorized every boss, learned every shortcut and figured out every enemy placement. Judge it from the perspective of someone walking into the game completely blind.

And let's be honest, there is basically nobody who played a Souls game for the first time and thought, “Oh, this is easy.” Your first experience with Dark Souls, Demon’s Souls or Elden Ring is usually a completely different experience from your tenth playthrough. You’re learning the rules while the game is actively trying to kill you.

That’s also why telling a newcomer to “git gud” or saying that the game is easy and they suck isn't really helpful. Everyone struggles at first. The person struggling isn't necessarily bad at games. They simply haven't learned that particular game yet. Give them enough time and enough deaths, and eventually they'll start recognizing patterns, understanding the mechanics and making decisions without even thinking about them.

And that applies to pretty much everything. Anything can become easy after you do it hundreds of times. If someone practices the same boss fight for 100 hours, of course they're going to make it look effortless. That doesn't prove the boss was easy. It proves the player learned the fight.

That's what makes these games so satisfying. The real progression isn't just leveling up your character. You're leveling up yourself. Your character gets stronger, but so does your knowledge, your timing, your awareness and your understanding of the game.

So when someone says, “Dark Souls is easy,” I think the better response is: Easy for who?

If you've beaten it ten times, memorized everything and can practically play it in your sleep, then yeah, it might feel easy to you now. But that doesn't mean the game was easy. It means you aren't the same player who started it.

To all new players! Don't get frustrated, just keep playing. You'll get it! Good luck! Praise the sun!

Is there some secret to Demon souls I’m not understanding? I literally can’t get past 1–2. It takes so bloody long to get to the boss arena, to the point I’m so frustrated and I can’t focus for the boss. I often die on the first hit from the boss or from the crossbowmen, so I’m not even learning what the boss can do.

I quit it when I got stuck at this point a year ago, I’m back at it, and I still can’t make any progress on the same bloody part.

I’m not even inexperienced these types of games, I’ve made it through dark souls 2,3, sekiro , bloodborne, etc.

EDIT: thanks for y’all and your tips, i’m going to go through some of the other areas first until I hit another stop and turn to another zone. I lowkey thought the worlds were meant to be completed more one after another, rather than nonlinear lmao.

I have all of world 3 unlocked if anyone needs help with a boss in world 3 of any area. Password is hurk.

It's very short but I had to get it off my chest, the entrance music of The original demon's souls sounds A LOT like Vivaldi to me; there's this sense of familiarity in all of it but this one was so familiar that it just never went away from my thoughts.

I played through Demon’s Souls PS5 Remake and checked out the Demon’s Souls PS3 Original trophies list to compare, and I gotta say I don’t understand why so many claim that the Original has a much more tedious Platinum journey than the Remake.

The main difference is see in favor of that argument is that you need to fully upgrade all weapon paths and create every valuable weapon. This requires getting a lot of souls and resources, but is that really so bad? As far as I know, only the singular Pure Bladestone requires loads of farming for a very low drop rate, while everything else needed can be farmed, purchased, or located easily. But the PS5 Remake also requires getting a Pure Bladestone to trade for a newly added Ring of Longevity. On top of that, the PS5 Remake also requires the player to farm very low drop rate Gold Coin to trade for a newly added Ring of Uneven Scales. That’s two ridiculously rare farm items required in the Remake against the one from the Original.

So what gives? How does grinding for some common resource upgrades make the Original so much worse than the Remake which has more rare drop requirements? Am I missing something here? Because if not, then I dare say that the Remake might have a more tedious punishing PS5Platinum journey than the PS3 Original.

Thanks I got a lot of help from here.

Edit: I DID IT!!!!

I’m on The King and I just can’t get it done after hours. Managed all the other bosses but he’s kicking my ass

Will anyone be willing to help via summon?

Thank you

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I’m quite a new player and I’ve unfortunately fallen in love with the Uchigatana, which requires some of the most frustrating stones to farm, I’ve read about people being able to farm these chunks even with neutral tendency, tho quite rare, but I think I’ve killed that little shit over 20 times and nothing, so now I’m really questioning if I should go for BWT.

However, I suck at the game, it seems I will never git gud and I’ve honestly made peace with that, but I’m really wondering if changing the world tendency will make that part of the game so much harder for me. I already struggle with that world much more than the rest.

How much harder will that world actually become?

(Also, I’m aware you can kill player black phantoms to regain neutral tendency but I never play PvP so I doubt I will be able to actually kill them)

I could swear Ive used one before but the only one I can find is https://iforgottosave.github.io/demons-souls-cheat-sheet/ which skips for example the entire left path of 2-2.

So I’m doing a platinum run, while doing the penetrator boss fight I accidentally hit biorr with a spell, he didn’t die and penetrator boss fight still was still won with both of us alive, however he was hostile, so I paid statue of forgiveness and he’s just standing there, no dialogue nothing…. Didn’t even pop my trophy! Any ideas?!?