Dark Souls, What do you think? Options

[grif11]

I'm thinking of getting the new "Hardcore" hack-n'-slash dark souls for my birthday, since this video. Sure, the game looks pretty tempting to me, but what do you all think?

[Rane]

Short answer: It's great.

Long answer: Players of Demon's Souls will feel right at home with Dark Souls. The gameplay mechanics are much the same, just refined. The exploration is top-notch. The greater the risk you take, the greater the payoff if you succeed. Some of the areas and enemies will make you want to just go back and chill at the bonfire and the areas you've explored.

But that feeling when you do progress, when you kill that giant that kept stomping you into an undead pancake, when you cut off the last head of the hydra, when you smash those huge skeletons into pieces and loot the artifact behind them or when you take down that one demon with the help of another player: priceless.