[MalReynolds]

Cleared Demon's Souls. Took 30 hours, I did the levels in the wrong order accidentally making the game WAY harder than it should have been, and played an almost strictly melee class (most guides online are for ranged people, and involve a lot of running away).

When you play the game, the proper order of things is 1-1, 2-1, 3-1, 4-1, 5-1, 1-2, 2-2... etc. Each level has 3 areas except Level 1, which has 4, so that should be a tipping point that you should probably end on Level 1-4. But it was not a tipping point for me.

I played 1-1, 1-2, 2-1, 2-2, 2-3, 1-3, 1-4, 4-1, 4-2, 4-3, 3-1, 3-2, 3-3, 5-1, 5-2, 5-3.

1-4 has THE hardest boss in the game, but I managed to beat it with the help of another fellow I summoned into my game. I was wondering why 1-3, 1-4 were so goddamned hard. Turns out, you're supposed to play them later. Made everything past 3-1 kind of easier, though. All in all, most pleased. Might dabble with the game a little more later, who knows.