History YMMV / DemonsSouls

* AccidentalInnuendo: Sometimes, the Maiden's line "Touch the demon inside me" sounds a lot different from what it should mean.
** Not to mention the item you use to give your weapon magic damage, ''Sticky White Stuff''.

** [[FridgeBrilliance When you think about it, it makes sense.]] What [[spoiler:King Allant]] has been reduced to (a pile of sludge that could barely harm a bug) shows how relying on the power of Demon's Souls will ultimately destroy you.
*** Or rather, [[spoiler:King Allant]] was regressing, since the player has cut off his formerly steady supply of souls, and the Old One was now sucking the souls out of him for nourishment.
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Backstabs with the Keel Smasher/Dragon Bone Smasher. The thing is taller than you are, wider than pretty much every humanoid enemy, and is blunt at the top. [[CrossesTheLineTwice And then some enemies get back up again afterwards.]] The sight of it is just absurd.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: The music during the fight against [[spoiler:the False King]]. Its sinister sound suits the challenging fight.

* DemonicSpiders: A literal example in that there is actually a [[GiantSpider gigantic demonic spider]] that breathes fire as the first boss of the second world.

* GameBreaker: The Firestorm spell, which unleashes huge flames all around the user. Invading Black Phantoms love to spam this.

** While not necessarily a game breaker, the Anti-Magic Field miracle can transform world 3 from "That One Level" into "Happy Squid Head Stab Time", since the squid headed guards (who have a powerful distance attack spell and a paralyzing field spell that they use to render you defenseless against a nearly 100% fatal attack) rely entirely on magic, and once you're up close to them, all they can do is try to cast while you stab them to death. It is strongly recommended that you get the 4-3 boss' demon soul, rescue Saint Urbain, and trade that soul for this miracle. It makes that entire world much, much easier. Just don't use it in co-op or pvp, since it can cause serious lag.

*** Almost everything in Demon's Souls's PvP could be considered a game breaker. By casting [[StatusBuff Light Weapon]] [[PowerFist on an Iron Knuckle]] you can kill a [[MightyGlacier high-vitality body form character with Second Chance active]] when they're at full health by headbutting them. It's an inescapable combo, unlike the Dual Katana combo mentioned above, [[ComboBreaker which can be escaped]]. Despite all that, it's considered one of the worst set-ups in the game.
** The Item duplication glitch. You can take a Demon's Soul that gives 60k and easily get 198 of that item in one duplication attempt. That's roughly around 12 million souls, in which point you can pretty much raise most of your stats pretty damn high and and a good chunk of the game that gave you grief before is now all a pathetic joke. Oh and you can dupe anything. And by anything I mean ANYTHING. Need some more shard of hardstone to make your sword a godtier weapon fast? No problem we'll just give you 200 of that item easily. Need some greystone to change your shield into something else? That's no problem either. Effectively if you use this glitch in the right way, the game isn't even a fucking hard game anymore. You've just made a game infamous for its difficulty seem like something that was made for children.
* GoddamnedBats: The Valley of Defilement has Giant Mosquitoes who are very annoying if you don't have ranged weapons or melee attacks that work well on them. There's also an annoying group of hard-to-hit rats in the first level of this section. The main mook enemies, the Depraved are also somewhat this; they aren't very dangerous singularly but they can come in hordes, like to sneak up on you, can cause status effects and have an irritating push attack (that can be outright dangerous in the first map with all its pitfalls).

* GoodBadBugs: There is a small glitch in the Tower of Latria stage you could take advantage of so you only have to fight [[spoiler:one of the two Maneaters.]]

* HellIsThatNoise: The extremely jarring sound of the Mind Flayer's bell ringing in the otherwise silent world of 3-1.
** Not to mention the ominous-sounding female voice (that turns out to be the voice of the Former Royal's Wife) that randomly starts [[OneWomanWail wailing]] from time to time with no warning.

* MemeticBadass: Due to his awesome looking Dark Silver Armor, ability to hold a giant mace in one hand and never let his shield down in the other, and [[spoiler:fighting you]] all to protect Maiden Astrea, Garl Vinland was declared the manliest character in the game.
* MemeticMutation: "This is <insert negative adjective here>, please evaluate me."

** No, his name is Ostrava, not [[VideoGame/ArmoredCore Otsdarva]].
*** [[OverlyLongGag And no, the white sprinkly particles that came out of Tower Knight's feet when you attack it]] [[WildMassGuessing are not]] [[VideoGame/ArmoredCore Kojima Particles]].
* {{Moe}}:
** The Maiden in Black is a perfectly straight example.

* NightmareFuel: A few areas around Boletaria; the Prison of Hope especially, what with the mad prisoners, the royal mistress' singing, the iron maidens and the [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons illithid]]-[[{{Expy}} looking]] things...

* ParanoiaFuel: After a certain level. The Nexus, or starting hub, which seemed so safe, the only dangers coming from being an idiot (attacking some NPC's, falling long distances etc.), suddenly feels less safe when you notice corpses that weren't there before...

* ThatOneBoss: [[spoiler:Old King Allant. He's [[LightningBruiser fast]], has wide-sweeping, long-range, defense-penetrating attacks, and has high defense himself; characters that aren't built for melee may have great difficulty with this fight. Oh, and best of all: he has an attack that ''lowers your experience level.'']]

*** Flamelurker, who is very strong, very fast and agile, has powerful attacks that are boosted by fire damage and often knock you down, becomes stronger and changes his attack pattern as he loses life, and until you beat him, you can't forge many of the weapons and shields that would actually make him a little easier to beat, since his soul is needed to forge demon soul fortified weapons, as well as more than half of the other special weapon types in the game. The Dragon God, the boss that comes after him, is almost an anti climax boss fight in comparison...
* ThatOneLevel: The Valley of Defilement. It's dark, you have to traverse wide-open areas so it's easy to get disoriented, most of the place consists of swamp that will infect you with Poison and/or Plague, and worst of all, while immersed in the water, you're completely incapable of backstepping and rolling, and your movement is severely slowed, making you a sitting duck for enemies that can easily kill you in one hit (and are otherwise, [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard unaffected by the water]]).

*** Note that, if you blow it off, you can get a Composite Long Bow and about two hundred arrows (maybe 300 to be safe), then kill the Dragon. The catch is that the fastest way to get a Composite Long Bow is to go to area 4-1 (The Shrine of Storms), in which the Skeletons will rape the unprepared. What makes it worse is that to get cheap arrows, you need to rescue Graverobber Blige (his arrows are 10 souls each, while Boldwin's are 20 each) before you leave. To top it off, Blige never goes to the Nexus, so you'll have to go back to the Shrine of Storms to buy more from him. If you kill the Adjudicator though (assuming you manage the black skeleton before him), Blige will move to a much easier to reach spot, where you can buy the same stuff and more with less effort.
*** World 3, which has monsters that can paralyze and then OneHitKill most players in a single attack. Plus, it's incredibly dark, and several paths drop off very suddenly, so you may be plummeting to your death before you fully realize you walked off the edge.

* TheWoobie: ''[[WorldOfWoobie Several]].''

%%* NeedsMoreLove

* ThatOneAchievement: Master Slasher's Trophy. Only two enemies in the entire game drop the Pure Bladestone ore, and the drop rate is infinitesimal. The only way to get is to keep on killing them for hours on end and hoping for the best.

* NeedsMoreLove

** The Item burden mechanic only limited exploration and collecting, often at really inconvenient times. This forced players to have to drop certain item in order to get the new loot, permanently.

* CompleteMonster: Yurt the Silent Chief, who chooses to repay you for rescuing him from a cage by slaughtering multiple helpful [=NPCs=] in the Nexus before targeting you.
** Also, Mephistopholes, his boss, who will task you to assassinate many good-aligned [=NPCs=].

** The Item duplication glitch, that is all.
*** Just to give you an idea of how broken it is, you can take a Demon's Soul that gives 60k and easily get 198 of that item in one duplication attempt. That's roughly around 12 million souls, in which point you can pretty much raise most of your stats pretty damn high and and a good chunk of the game that gave you grief before is now all a pathetic joke. Oh and you can dupe anything. And by anything I mean ANYTHING. Need some more shard of hardstone to make your sword a godtier weapon fast? No problem we'll just give you 200 of that item easily. Need some greystone to change your shield into something else? That's no problem either. Effectively if you use this glitch in the right way, the game isn't even a fucking hard game anymore. You've just made a game infamous for its difficulty seem like something that was made for children.

* AlasPoorVillain: Many get this feeling after killing [[spoiler: Garl Vinland and Maiden Astraea.]]
** Some also get this feeling after [[spoiler:impaling the Dragon God with both spears, injuring him so badly all he can do is lie there, writhe in agony, and snort little spurts of fire until the player ends his pain.]]

* JerkAss: Biorr Of The Twin Fangs Considering He May Attack You If He Takes Enough Damage From The Blue Dragon.
* MemeticBadass: Due to his awesome looking Dark Silver Armor, ability to hold a giant mace in one hand and never let his shield down in the other, and [[spoiler:fighting you]] all to protect his love, Garl Vinland was declared the manliest character in the game.

** Yuria, if the fan art is to be believed. Sadly averted.
** The Maiden in Black, however, is a perfectly straight example.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: A few areas around Boletaria; the Prison of Hope especially, what with the mad prisoners, the royal mistress' singing, the iron maidens and the [[DungeonsAndDragons illithid]]-[[{{Expy}} looking]] things...
** The plague babies in the Valley of Defilement. ''*shudder*''
** Are you afraid of anything? If so, Boletaria has some nightmare fuel for you. Hate bugs? Enjoy the six-foot centipedes with four faces. Does body horror terrify you? Then the Old Monk or the prisoners should really terrify you. Scared of the dark or of heights? Then the first two areas of the Tower of Latria will make it hard for you to sleep. It's like a NightmareFuel travel ad.

* {{Moe}}: Yuria, if the fan art is to be believed. Sadly averted.

* {{Narm}}: Despite the great seriousness that the Monumental's speech to you should be taken with, it's kind of hard to do because it has a noticeable lisp.

*** And let's not forget Flamelurker, who is very strong, very fast and agile, has powerful attacks that are boosted by fire damage and often knock you down, becomes stronger and changes his attack pattern as he loses life, and until you beat him, you can't forge many of the weapons and shields that would actually make him a little easier to beat, since his soul is needed to forge demon soul fortified weapons, as well as more than half of the other special weapon types in the game. The Dragon God, the boss that comes after him, is almost an anti climax boss fight in comparison...

** It's also possible to make the red-eye knight from the very first area kill itself by falling down a tower. It's a bit of a GuideDangIt if you don't know how to take advantage of the AI, but killing the knight gets you more than 2000 souls, which is a hell of a boost at that point of the game. And you can do it over and over.

** And another one at the steps where you fight the Blue Dragon; a blind spot from its fire allows you to kill it with no risk to yourself. You should still make it quick, though, since Biorr isn't invulnerable (unless, of course, he stumbles into this blind spot himself).
*** Also, there is a bug that you can use to kill ThatOneBoss ''before'' he even starts moving.

** Early in the game, after you kill the red dragon or make it move to the next area, there's the Purple Flame Shield, which has high defense, is nigh invulnerable to fire and works even better if you use Cloudstones and up its magic resistance.
** Obviously, having two experienced Blue Phantom players help you will allow you to storm through any level without you having to move a finger save for opening the fog doors. This, however is heavily frowned upon and defeats the point of the whole game.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: When you beat the game, [[spoiler:after you have conquered some of the greatest challenges in videogaming history, built a character that no demon can stop, and chose to let the Old One rest once and for all, that moment when the hero takes one last glimpse at his main enemy gives a feeling of pride and accomplishment that no gaudy cinematic could possibly mimic. The war is over and you have won, with no twists or strings attached.]]
** The fight with the boss of 4-3: [[spoiler: It's just you against a small army of flying, spear-shooting manta rays and their enormous progenitor - but you have the Storm Ruler, ancestral blade of the Shadowmen, with which they rent the skies themselves asunder in ages past. ]]

* FridgeHorror: There are some really horrifying implications to some of the things you find out in this game. For example [[spoiler:since there is no God, only the Old One, that means that there's no afterlife in Boletaria, and as we see, the souls of the people who are killed just sit there until either the character finds and uses them, or a demon eats them. Then there's the Monumental's story: [[AndIMustScream in order to preserve the fabric of reality, hundreds of people became half living statues, able only to speak.]] Then, one by one, they began to die until there's only one left, one who had to watch every single one of his friends die and wonder if or when he would be next. Oh, and here's the topper: [[DownerEnding when the player beats the game and gets the good ending, they become a monumental themselves, which means that the fabric of reality is safe from the Old One, only up until the player dies like the previous monumentals did.]] So your choices at the end of the game are to either become a living statue that condemns himself to a fate worse than death for the sake an unbelievably CrapsackWorld, or become the ultimate demon and wipe the world out completely. Hmmmm, decisions, decisions...]]
** Also, one of the game developer's main focus was to give the player a feeling of accomplishment. In this case, [[spoiler: the satisfaction of either being the world's most powerful and evil king, or putting an end to the demon threat once and for all.]] There's no way to know for sure unless there's a sequel.

** Another boss that CAN be ThatOneBoss is the [[spoiler: Old Monk]]. It CAN be because [[spoiler: If you play online, the boss can in fact be another player, another player whose headdress shoots blasts that do a decent amount of damage. A skilled player being the Old Monk, especially if they have healing items and/or a weapon with a status ailment you weren't expecting, can be a real nightmare.]]

** The DAMN BRIDGE in Boletaria 1-2. It's not bad when you learn how to play the game more effectively, but good lord. You have the dragon shooting you with the fire, but the worst part was of course at the end. Archers in front of you but you can't go forward to much you'll provoke TWO heavy soldiers and you can't move back anymore because the damn dragon will blast you.

** No, his name is Ostrava, not [[ArmoredCore Otsdarva]].
*** [[OverlyLongGag And no, the white sprinkly particles that came out of Tower Knight's feet when you attack it]] [[WildMassGuessing are not]] [[ArmoredCore Kojima Particles]].

** Also, one of the game developer's main focus was to give the player a feeling of accomplishment. In this case, [[spoiler: the satisfaction of either being the world's most powerful and evil king, or putting an end to the demon threat once and for all.]] There's no way to know for sure unless there's a sequel.* GameBreaker: The Firestorm spell, which unleashes huge flames all around the user. Invading Black Phantoms love to spam this.

* GameBreaker: The Firestorm spell, which unleashes huge flames all around the user. Invading Black Phantoms love to spam this.

*** However, they are actually ''only'' a threat if encountered in the swamp that prevents you from rolling out of the way. A single Giant Depraved One is an easy target, due to their incredibly slow speed and ridiculously telegraphed attacks. It's when you have to face two of them at once that it gets somewhat problematic. Wait, did I say two? Scratch that. There's an island with '''FOUR''' of them. [[ItGotWorse And not only that,]] they also come in [[BringMeMyBrownPants Black Phantom flavor.]]

*** However, they are actually ''only'' a threat if encountered in the swamp that prevents you from rolling out of the way. A single Giant Depraved One is an easy target, due to their incredibly slow speed and ridiculously telegraphed attacks. It's when you have to face two of them at once that it gets somewhat problematic. Wait, did I say two? Scratch that. There's an island with '''FOUR''' of them.

* MemeticBadass: Due to his awesome looking Dark Silver Armor, ability to hold a giant mace in one hand and never let his shield down in the other, and[[spoiler:fighting you]] to protrct his love, Garl Vinland was declared the manliest character in the game.