The soul of Demon's Souls lives on in Dark Souls

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So Dark Souls (previously known as Project Dark) is the spiritual successor to Demon's Souls. Did you hate Demon's Souls for its difficulty? Well that's too damn bad because it only gets harder. I think my favorite part is this:

The game will have large areas that can be explored, so if players see, for example, a field in the distance, then they will be able to make their way there and have a look around.
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Areas won't be only be horizontally expansive, but also vertically so. Thus, the focus on exploration is increased in Dark Souls.

That's one of the few gripes I had against Demon's Souls; the game's world was amazing, but you were very restricted in regards to what you actually saw.

I am definitely looking forward to this, whenever the hell it will come out.

Is anyone else out there excited for another Demon's Souls-like game? Or is the difficulty too off-putting?