Ok, so I received my Demon's Souls from Gamefly yesterday… Returning it today. Definitely and absolutely not my style of game.
First, I have no idea what I'm doing. According to the intro, some demons are collecting souls, so I'm out to save them or something. So, in the tutorial I get slaughtered by a boss (guess I was supposed to die there, or I totally suck). So I get to this Nexus place and don't know what to do. I click on a 'glowie' (the only one I can click) and it sends me to some castle, again, not knowing why or what to do there. So I aimlessly wander around getting lots of souls (like 1800) and then I swing at something on stairs, kill it, but the animation moves me a bit forward and I fall to my death, losing my souls. Trying to go back there, I turn too fast and fall to my death. 1800 souls and 2 hours of my life lost. So, I try again, create a new character (mage) which is what I wanted to be, thinking now I know what to do. Repeat the above as a mage, 2200 souls later I get to the after-tutorial boss and kill it. Still not sure what I should do I continue on, on a ramp where dragons like to burn everything around. Eventually I make it to a 3rd 'shimmering gate' and a super boss with 3000 archers wham me in one second.
Nah, that did it for me. Was not having fun at all.