Demon's Souls is a fantastic game, but its tendency systems have been controversial since day 1. I wanted to take a deep dive into these systems (mostly World Tendency) to examine why they fail to make good on their intriguing concepts.
0:00 - Intro
1:55 - Character Tendency
6:50 - Explaining World Tendency
18:45 - Problem #1 - Too Complicated
20:13 - Problem #2 - Poor Tutorials
26:55 - Problem #3 - Lack of Feedback
31:08 - Problem #4 - Cause and Effect
38:50 - The Resulting Frustration
45:18 - The Lacklustre Content
1:03:00 - Appeal of Variable Difficulty
1:06:55 - How to Fix it!
1:12:30 - Conclusion