Demon's Souls: Difference between revisions

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** [[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.

* [[Call a Rabbit A Smeerp]]: The Mirdan Hammer, called a Lucerne hammer in the real world. Justified trope; there's probably no Lucerne, Switzerland in the Demon's Souls world.

* [[Call a Rabbit a Smeerp]]: The Mirdan Hammer, called a Lucerne hammer in the real world. Justified trope; there's probably no Lucerne, Switzerland in the Demon's Souls world.

* [[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.

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** 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'''.}}

* [[Death Is a Slap On The Wrist]]: You can die as many times as you want; the only penalty is loss of your currency and a shift in your World Tendency. In-story, this is explained as a phenomenon that only happens when one dies in Boletaria, and continues after the soul is bound to the Nexus.

* [[Death Is a Slap on The Wrist]]: You can die as many times as you want; the only penalty is loss of your currency and a shift in your World Tendency. In-story, this is explained as a phenomenon that only happens when one dies in Boletaria, and continues after the soul is bound to the Nexus.

** 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.]]

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** 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.}}

* [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin]]: Most boss names say it how it is: {{spoiler|Tower Knight, Armored Spider, Phalanx, Penetrator, to name a few.}}

* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: Most boss names say it how it is: {{spoiler|Tower Knight, Armored Spider, Phalanx, Penetrator, to name a few.}}

* [[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.

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** 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.]]

* [[Fan Nickname]]: [[Armored Core ~~(Video Game)~~|Otsdarva]] of Boletaria.

* [[Fan Nickname]]: [[Armored Core|Otsdarva]] of Boletaria.

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

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

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* [[Heroic Fantasy]]

** [[Medieval European Fantasy]]

* [[Homage]]: Tower of Latria's swamp looks a lot like [[~~Actraiser~~]]'s Bloodpool, down to the red bloodied waters.

* [[Homage]]: Tower of Latria's swamp looks a lot like [[Act Raiser]]'s Bloodpool, down to the red bloodied waters.

* [[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.

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** ...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.

* [[Kill It ~~With~~ Fire]]: An effective tactic against the Phalanx demon.

* [[Kill It with Fire]]: An effective tactic against the Phalanx demon.

** 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.

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* [[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.

** On a note unrelated to [[Berserk]], you can get some [[The Man Your Man Could Smell Like ~~(Advertising)~~|Old Spice]] in the game.

** On a note unrelated to [[Berserk]], you can get some [[The Man Your Man Could Smell Like|Old Spice]] in the game.

** The Large Sword of Moonlight is this game's entry in the lineage of powerful melee weapons named Moonlight in [[Armored Core ~~(Video Game)~~|From Software]] games.

** The Large Sword of Moonlight is this game's entry in the lineage of powerful melee weapons named Moonlight in [[Armored Core|From Software]] games.

* [[Shield Bearing Mook]]: Hoplites, most [[Heavily Armored Mook|Blue-Eye and Red-Eye Knights]], certain Black Phantoms. Also includes a Shield Bearing Boss: the appropriately-named {{spoiler|Tower Knight, who bears an appropriately-sized tower shield for his stature, and spans several stories in height}}.

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

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* [[Wreaking Havok]]: There's plenty of destructable set pieces in all the worlds, but the real fun comes from killing basic enemies and running into their corpses and enjoying the subsequent flailing of disturbing creature's ligaments.

* [[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.}}

** The Maiden in Black {{spoiler|can wait for someone or a collective to clear the way so she can lull The Old One back to sleep. Of course, the player can decide to double cross her at the end, making himself the [[Spanner in ~~The~~ Works]].}}

** The Maiden in Black {{spoiler|can wait for someone or a collective to clear the way so she can lull The Old One back to sleep. Of course, the player can decide to double cross her at the end, making himself the [[Spanner in the Works]].}}

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

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