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[[File:Demons_Souls_Dragon_God.jpg|frame|Huh? [[Mercy Mode|Easy-mode?]] [[Nintendo Hard|Pfffthahahahaha]]!]]

 

 

 

The game is set in the Kingdom of Boletaria, which was led to great prosperity by [[Royals Who Actually Do Something|King Allant XII]] with the use of the power of souls, until it was beset by a strange [[Fog of Doom|colorless fog]] that isolated it from the rest of the world and brought soul-hungry demons with it.

 

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* [[Absurdly High Level Cap]]: It is extremely difficult to get to max level through normal play, and unnecessary as well.

* [[Always Night]]: Tower of Latria and Valley of Defilement, it's possible that this was caused by the Colourless Fog.

** [[Teleport Spam]]: {{spoiler|Fool's Idol, combining with [[Doppelganger Spin]] for [[Shell Game]] shenanigans}}

** [[Turns Red]]: {{spoiler|The Flamelurker}}

*** {{spoiler|Abuse the AI by sneaking behind it and sniping it with spells, bolts, or arrows?}}

** [[Zero Effort Boss]]: {{spoiler|Maiden Astraea, if you kill Garl Vinland.}}

* [[But Thou Must!]]: When the Monumental tells you its plan to defeat the Old One, you get to decline to helping it. It then points out that your only other option is staying in the Nexus for all eternity, slowly withering away.

* [[Captain Ersatz]]: The assassins that you see after the Tower Knight's arch stone look a lot like [[Assassin's Creed|Altair]]. The Tower Knight himself bares a striking resemblance to [[Berserk|Grunbeld.]]

* [[Chainmail Bikini]]: Notably averted. All character classes wear the armors the way they should be worn.

** Astraea, the maiden saint; you find her {{spoiler|on a pile of human corpses in an enormous pool of plague-infected blood, surrounded and worshiped by the vile things dwelling in the swamp. On the other hand, she seems to genuinely care for the poor once-people in the valley, she doesn't attack you at all, and it's very likely she killed only in self-defense.}}

*** {{spoiler|Those vile things in the swamp? '''Fucking aborted fetuses'''.}}

** It becomes a lot less cheap if you take the World and Character Tendencies into account. The more you die (except for spirit form deaths, if you've patched), the blacker it gets, and when it's all dark, it becomes harder.

* [[Death Mountain]]: World 2, the Stonefang Tunnels, complete with falling rocks, [[Lethal Lava Land|hot lava]] and multiple opportunities to [[Bottomless Pits|fall to your death.]]

** Opting for the ending where you {{spoiler|kill the Maiden in Black and become the new demon lord awards you 200,000 souls in [[New Game+]], as opposed to the 60,000 souls you get for the other ending.}}

* [[Evil Plan]]: {{spoiler|The Old One has a simple one: collect souls for eating. Allant found this out the hard way.}}

* [[Experience Points]]: Souls are both these and currency.

* [[Exploding Barrels]]: Found around the place, although they explode only when set on fire. Hitting them with regular weaponry just breaks them.

** The fireball-using Fat Officials in Stonefang Tunnel can count as this to players who first meet them, as they are the first enemies that use spells if the player hasn't been to the Tower of Latria yet.

* [[Failure Is the Only Option]]: The tutorial ends with you coming face-to-face with the monstrous Vanguard in a very enclosed space. You're supposed to die so that your soul can be bound to the Nexus. If you're good enough, however, you ''can'' kill the Vanguard, which nets you a lot of souls. And then you die anyway, [[But Thou Must!|so that your soul can be bound to the Nexus.]]

* [[Fat Bastard]]: The Fat Officials; the Adjudicator.

* [[First-Episode Resurrection]]: The tutorial ends with your death.

* [[Heroic Fantasy]]

** [[Medieval European Fantasy]]

* [[Infinite Flashlight]]: The light stone on your belt.

* [[Infinity+1 Sword]]: The Meat Cleaver, a large sword made from the Adjudicator demon's soul, has the best stat boosts in the game (it gets boosted by YOUR stats, not the other way around), having A's in strength and dexterity, and an S in Faith, meaning that as long as you work on those stats, its damage scales up much faster than any other weapon in the game. Although it is a bit bigger and slower than other swords, once the player passes a certain threshold, its damage leaves all other weapons in the dust.

** ...Until the [[PvP]] gamers figured out that the easiest way to break pushlocking is to switch weapons.

* [[Kevlard]]: The Adjudicator qualifies, although the Meat Cleaver stuck in his chest was a pretty good indicator of where you had to hit him.

** And every enemy in the Valley of Defilement. All that filth must be very very flammable.

** The three primary damage types are physical, magic, and fire, 'nuff said.

** {{spoiler|Miracles may seem all dandy and righteous, but when you realize they require demon's souls to learn (not at all unlike spells) and that God is really the Old One, well...}}

* [[Like a Badass Out of Hell]]: Or out of The Nexus at least.

* [[Made of Iron]]: All of the NPCs are incredibly sturdy and have a lot of health, but special mention has to go to Biorr. He helps you in your fight against the Penetrator and the Blue Dragon, and both times, he takes the brunt of the punishment, the kind which you'd die from easily, yet he can keep taking all the damage and keep standing up to charge.

** To put that into perspective, when you see him the second time, Biorr takes repeated blasts from an enemy that would kill you in one hit (at around 600 HP). Biorr takes 20 HP from the attack. This becomes less fun when dealing with enemy unique [[NPC|NPCs]] (Rydell has more HP than you can max out at in the game).

* [[Ominous Fog]]: With soul-hungry demons in it.

* [[Only the Worthy May Pass]]: Only when you impress King Doran with your fighting prowess will he let you have the Demonbrand.

* [[Our Souls Are Different]]

* [[Peninsula of Power Leveling]]: 1st stage after the Tutorial, there's a Red-eyed Knight. You are ''not'' supposed to casually take them on until about 30 character levels later. You can, however, poisition yourself so the character AI walks off a cliff and kills itself from falling damage. This enemy respawns every time you enter the stage, and you get a lot of souls from it.

** One sure way to tell a strong enemy from the rest is whether or not its eyes glow.

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: The two dragons in World 1-1. The red dragon is standing at its nest in an attack position, searching for prey, and will immediately come after you if you dare set foot on the bridge several hundred feet away. The blue dragon, meanwhile, is taking a nap.

* [[Save Scumming]]: Deliberately prevented; the game autosaves almost constantly.

** It's still possible to prevent losing your souls. When you die, ''immediately'' hold down the PS button and select "Quit Game." Start the game back up, and load your save

* [[Shout-Out]]: The description of the Dragon Bone Smasher [[Berserk|sounds awfully similar to another sword in a similarly themed world.]]

** One could say the game is at least partially inspired by [[Berserk]], [http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o312/oracrest/Demons%20Souls/1271717936246.jpg given the grim atmosphere and many shared elements and aesthetics]. People have even made a Guts build.

* [[Slasher Smile]]: The Fat Officials sport permanent and ''very'' unsettling rictus grins.

* [[Sleeper Hit]]: Developed by a relatively small and obscure developer, released at a time when numerous big titles were coming out, absolutely no advertising or fanfare, [[Nintendo Hard]]... and still sold well. Enough to qualify for a Greatest Hits hits release and extend the lifetime of the servers. Also a critical hit, scoring '''The''' Game of the Year at both IGN and Gamespot. Who saw that coming?

* [[Socketed Equipment]]: Almost every weapon and shield in the game can be imbued with "[[Green Rocks|Transmogrified sprites]]," or shards of special stone, that can affect how weapons deal damage, what sorts of damage weapons deal, what player abilities can affect a weapon's damage output and by how much, etc.; and can even confer small bonuses to health or mana regeneration. By imbuing mundane weapons with certain demon souls, you can change weapons into special unique versions with vastly different properties. These and other special weapons you find throughout the game can be further enhanced by applying the souls of infant demons.

* [[Speech Impediment]]: Scirvir the Wanderer has a stutter.

** ''[[Dark Souls]]'' is this to '''Demon's Souls'' itself.

* [[Stupidity Is the Only Option]]: In order to save Saint Urbain, you are required to fall for the exact same painfully obvious trap that he fell for -- one which his disciples warn you about multiple times, in fact.

* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]:

* [[Swamps Are Evil]]: The Valley of Defilement is a sprawling toxic swamp, populated by all manners of fetid creatures, from giant blood-sucking mosquitoes, depraved people, plagued rats, and is home to the most "impure soul of all." It's also [[That One Level]].

* {{spoiler|[[Take Up My Sword]]: In a way. If the player chooses to calm the Old One, he or she becomes the new Monumental afterwards.}}

* [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard]]: In the Valley of Defilement, AI human black phantoms (who normally operate under the same limitations as you) are not encumbered (or poisoned) by the swamp at all.

** Neither is any enemy for that matter. That includes the [[Demonic Spiders|Giant Depraved Ones]], who can't be stunned, have loads of HP, and will relentlessly pursue and attack you with their heavy-hitting giant clubs. Their Black Phantom versions are probably the most hated enemy in the game.

* [[Too Awesome to Use]]: Both played straight and averted; averted by the main resource in the game, souls, due to the death penalty that promotes using them up whenever you get the chance, but it's also easy to start hoarding other items, even in situations where they would be very useful.

** The Stone of Ephemeral Eyes certainly qualifies. It can instantly revive you in soul form. But there is only a small, set number of them per playthrough, and the only enemies who have a chance to drop them are the [[Demonic Spiders|Giant Depraved Ones]] and the [[Nightmare Fuel|Plague Babies]], both located in the much-hated Valley of Defilement.

* [[Ultimate Blacksmith]]: Ed, who can upgrade weapons using every kind of ore. And he's one of the few remaining lucid people in Stonefang.

* [[Vader Breath]]: The Blue Eye and Red Eye Knights.

* [[Weaksauce Weakness]]: The Adjudicator, who is every bit horrifying, has one major weakness: people moving clockwise. Every one of its powerful attacks can be dodged if you run clockwise around it.

* [[Whip It Good]]: A decidedly non-sexual example: Fat Officials in Stonefang carry riding crops instead of their signature Great Axes. They don't hurt a lot, but if you block it, expect it to take off about 3/4ths of your stamina bar, if not completely guard break it. God forbid they follow up with [[For Massive Damage|their fire spell]].

** Although {{spoiler|according to the Maiden in Black, what we see may actually be The Old One's lair, or at least a massive shell that protects the true creature from harm. Since the Maiden in Black can't actually lull the Old One back to sleep until she's gone a good ways inside, this is a much more likely scenario.}}

* [[The Worm That Walks]]: {{spoiler|The Leechmonger.}}

* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: The majority of the game involves the protagonist doing the legwork for one, since {{spoiler|the Old One will not allow the player near it until there are no longer any demons left to feed it souls. The protagonist has to go out and do the killing before anything can be done about the Old One. So either you feed it souls like it wants, or refuse and wander the fog until you wither away or something kills you, which would also please the Old One.}}

* [[Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe]]: The Maiden in Black speaks like this.

** So does {{spoiler|Old King Doran.}}

* [[You Bastard]]: When you attack {{spoiler|Maiden Astraea, she}} calls you out on such offensive dickery.

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: It's possible to give your character an irregular hair colour.

 

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