Demon's Souls is very skill based, only hard if your someone that can't learn from your mistakes. There's still a few ways in which BS plays in instead, but for the most part if you die in it, it's because you screwed up or need to learn to get better. I decided for my first run that I would use fist weapons only (still on that same run), forcing myself to learn to dodge instead of just block damage most of the time, so when it came time to actually block I was more then ready for many of the challenges. Also it makes me feel quite awesome when I down bosses most people died to over and over with optimal equips while I punched them to death while wearing tattered rags like a real man.
My first character is a female by the way.
Since I bought a PS3 just for Demon's Souls, I can say it was well worth the price.
