Demon's Souls outline

So. I don’t normally plan out an entire game playthrough BEFORE I play it. I usually just go along with things and figure out what to do when the time comes.

However, when I went to record Demon’s Souls, I actually planned the entire game out. Start to finish. And I found my outline last week. It’s a REALLY basic outline, just the order in which I wanted to complete the levels and some notes here and there about things I would need. But it’s seriously the easiest way to complete that game. I only died twice (and that was due to my own stupidity, both deaths could have been avoided).

1-1

2-1
Get bow from 1-2 first (bring Shard of Archstone to leave 1-2)
Bring piercing weapon, +200 arrows
Have 18 strength

1-2
Bring 350 arrows for dragon and Tower Knight (350 is probably excessive)
Go back and get items from 1-1 by dragon

5-1
Learn Flame Toss before entering
Bring Fresh Spice and arrows

3-1
Use Soul Arrow on cthulhus

4-1
Bring arrows to kill tutorial boss
Have 18 strength, 13 dexterity for Uchigatana

2-2
Take shortcut
Learn Water Veil before entering
Learn Soul Ray before entering
Bring Purple Flame Shield

2-3
Bring Steel Shield
Unequip everything except shield

1-3
Save Biorr and Yuria
Bring Soul Ray

5-2
Bring arrows

5-3
Have 18 intelligence
Learn Warding before entering

4-2
Learn Firestorm before entering
Bring 200 arrows

4-3
Bring Warding
Equip Thief’s Ring

3-2
Equip any bow EXCEPT Lava Bow
Bring 200 arrows

3-3
Bring Firestorm
Equip Large Sword of Searching

1-4
Bring 600 arrows (600? Seriously?)
Have 30 Intelligence
Bring Firestorm, Warding

End
Kill Maiden in Black