I think Dark Souls is harder in someways but I like Demon's Souls more.I really miss the Nexus.I like the the fact that in Demon's Souls you could just go where you wanted to with the archstones.getting out of blight town was a pain!! there too much backtracking.Over all I love Dark Souls but there are a lot of things Demons Souls did better *IMO*. I'm giving dark souls a break for a bit to play some Batman AC which is my GOTY of far!!!. but yeah Dark Souls is awesome and it's kicking my ass lol.

I don't remember finding any enemy in Dark Souls as tough as Black Phantom Selen or the Maneaters (Bell Gargoyles were certainly modeled after them but were much easier) in NG+ and beyond. I also thought the Valley of Defilement and 4-2 were tougher than any area in Dark Souls. Most of the time when a boss put the hurt on me in Dark Souls it was the first time facing him and I was immediately charged and pummeled. I certainly got ambushed by the Capra Demon and Stray Demon (wow, was I pissed about losing my souls and the way you encounter this toolbox), but I took them down once I knew what to expect. The Maneaters in Demon's Souls, on the other hand, are always brutal in NG+ and beyond, and you're on a narrow bridge that makes the encounter even more savage.

Dark Souls does limit healing compared to Demon's Souls, and I would think mages would have a much tougher time in Dark Souls given that they limited magic uses. However, you can increase your healing opportunities quite a bit by kindling the bonfires and using the healing miracles to the point that you could heal dozens of times.

In the end, I thought the bonfires and lack of a big penalty for dying made Dark Souls a bit easier. I haven't experienced anything like the feeling of having to start from the very beginning of 5-2 (before opening the shortcut) or 4-2 after dying near the end of the level and maybe being invaded a few times on the way. I felt pretty devastated when I lost all my progress and souls like that.

@Getowned I miss the Nexus mostly because I thought the NPCs were more memorable in Demon's Souls.

I'm wondering how far you've progressed in Dark Souls. After completing Anor Londo, you can easily move around the world rapidly. Even on foot I can get from one place to the next in most instances very quickly after I've opened up the shortcuts. You can run from the very beginning of Anor Londo to the boss room within maybe a minute or so with the shortcuts opened.

Demons Souls is more unforgiving. It punishes you more for failure.

However, Dark Souls is hands-down the harder game in terms of actual gameplay. The combat is deeper, there is a greater number of genuinely dangerous enemies, and you have fewer overpowered abilities (magic in Demons Souls basically turned the game into easy mode).

Basically, you'll die more often in Dark Souls, it's simply that the punishment for death isn't as steep (thanks largely to bonfires).

Yea ill give a pass to Demon souls bosses. But i still stick by i actually played the whole demon soul play though one as a dead phantom lol. Newb move for sure :) and i still only had a problem on valley of defilemnt.

Im just not one who says demon should was very hard. Yes i had a tuff 1st 2 hrs then the game was pretty easy compared to what people were saying so i blew right thru it and stumbled on valley. the amount of different enemy patterns in dark souls make it harder in my opinion.

I loved the demon soul nexus alot more which is the sole reason i think its a better game. I was like a lvl 50+ int on demon soul so running into a boss room casting inferno i would win every fight in 3 seconds. and casting soul arrow and homing arrow in demon soul really did trn it into easy mode.

I think I found DemonS to be more difficult than DarkS. I think that Hollow in DarkS is not as punishing as being a ghost in DemonS.

I am planning on playing DemonS again just cuz it was such a good game as well.

But I don't play the Souls games cuz others think them challenging. I play them cuz they are really enjoyable for me. I love fantasy hack n' slash and the Souls games really have the combat structure down compared to others.

demons was easy dark souls is much harder lack of major boss vunerabilitys nad some of the bosses being multi phase is much harder