There's no way to describe how amazing of a game Demon's Souls is. Challenging without being unfair(except against gold skeletons while you have those flying mantas raining spikes on you...jerks), and when you succeed at a particularly difficult battle all you can think is HAH, SUCK ON THAT! Though I do have to say it gets considerably less difficult the more you play. My only gripe is everything is static. There's no randomization, so you know exactly where every trap and ambush is at and you know exactly how to counter everything that comes by. A problem I would like to see resolved in Dark Souls. Great review. :}