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Demon's Souls PS3 is a hard master many of us love. We take it to task in our podcast this week.

Welcome back to the Game People podcast, my name is Paul Govan and I write the Family Gamer Section. Today I'm joined by Alex Beech, Jon Seddon and Sinan Kubba.
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Demon's Souls PS3 is tough in the way that games used to be tough. But this harsh master was a perfect way to lay to rest frustrations of all those impossible games I tried to fruitlessly complete while I was growing up.

Back when I first played games it wasn't unusual to get frustrated to the point of hair loss. I would often gnash my teeth and wail at the insane difficulty. But since returning to gaming I've realised this is the experience that I am now after. For this reason, I loved and hated Demon's Souls more than a little.
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Demon's Souls PS3 hits you like steam train before crushing you in its wake - daring you to try again. And as slave to the thrill of its experience you will indeed plough in hours here. Without save points, steady progression, a pause button or anything one might reasonably expect, Demon's Souls creates one of the strongest connections to a videogame role I've experiences for many years.

Demon's Souls is finally released in Europe after higher than expected sales in North America and a hugely positive critical reception. Any chance to don demon hunting gear for a new type of adventure fills me with anticipation, especially if it's as hard to come as this.
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Demon's Souls contains captivating and atmospheric microcosms. I willingly became absorbed in the harsh fantasy setting - needing to surrender and accept the game's own philosophy, rather than clinging to old expectations, fascinated me. It was a harsh but honest experience, something I'd been unknowingly craving.

I'm a direct and honest person, and Demon's Souls reminded me just how much I appreciate having that reciprocated. Many games tiptoe around, offering frequent hints and rewards and hoping not to offend me. The alternative was refreshing.
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Demon's Souls for the PlayStation 3 finally comes to the UK after gaining cult status in Japan and America. The atmosphere of this challenging action-RPG captivated my imagination long after I had finished playing it. Even between play sessions I was perpetually playing it in my imagination. No other game can offer such an experience that drips with tangible fear but gives you such ultimate rewards.

Set in a medieval fantasy world that's desperately seeking redemption from the encroaching Demon, Demon's Souls: Black Phantom Edition for the PS3 takes you on a dark and difficult ride through the nightmarish land of Boletaria. Eschewing the modern hand-holding elements of most games, Demon's Souls thrusts you into its world and expects you to bring light to a dark and foreboding place.
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Demon's Souls should really be my nemesis of video games. It's an excruciatingly hard game. Unforgiving. Seemingly vindictive with its level design and psychopathically joyous about letting you plunge hours into a dungeon crawl only to have all of your progress pruned back without a second chance.

It will induce rage quits, controller violence and an urge to hate every counter-intuitive system it possesses until you swear you'll never touch a video game, never mind a RPG ever again. It is, without doubt, the most challenging and difficult game I have ever encountered.
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Set against a medieval fantasy world, Demon's Souls on PS3 is a new third person action role-play game that constantly punishes the player and offers little of the hand holding seen in most modern games. It is a dark, depressing world that does little to entice the player to come back, yet somehow it has me captivated.

The game started unceremoniously by thrusting me into my task of freeing the kingdom of Boletaria from an unimaginable soul devouring evil. My character determinedly marched through darkness towards a glowing light as a ghostly voice told of the horrors that had befallen the land. I knew little of what lay ahead, and the game wasn't going to tell me any more without a fight.
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