I wish I was already playing this, but like with every Japanese-made game that's come out recently, those sushi-eating mofos get this game a considerable amount of time before the rest of the world, nevermind the fact it has a huge following in the West that's already trying to find ways to crack the Japanese copies so they can play it early. Why they decided to release it to everyone else weeks later is mind-boggling.
Stupid marketing tactics aside, I am wholesomely eager for this game. Pre-ordered it (and it this coming from a guy who thinks pre-ordering is a scam), paid it off in full already, now I'm sitting around either playing the previous games, tugging my junk, or doing both at the same time while waiting for this. Already I'm liking some of the changes and some of the things from DaS1 that are making a return now that Miyazaki is on-board. Don't get me wrong, DaS2 was a fun game, it had good points to be sure, but when you play it, it's clearly obvious that the game suffered from Miyazaki's and the A team's absence and that it was made by a group of people who didn't really "get it."
It's going to be fun getting adjusted to some of the tweaks, especially the magic bar, as I never really got an opportunity to play Demon Souls. Although a lot of familiar elements return (to point of causing a-holes on /v/ to trash-talk the game and the series....unsurprising considering /v/ hates video games in general), some of the newer stuff is intriguing me, such as the new Power mechanics, and the faster pace of combat that it's inheriting from Bloodborne, the return of the Pyromancer starting class (they should never have axed it out in DaS2), and apparently increasing the amount of Phantoms and Invaders summoned to your world up to 4 each I think I heard.
