I haven't played Dragon Age, but I am deeply engrossed in Demon's Souls right now, and can't recommend it enough. Don't let the hype about its difficulty dissuade you; though it's certainly not easy, it isn't as hard as it's being made out to be. It's a similar experience to watching a challenging art film; once you accept it on its own terms and stop comparing it to everything else, things just click. It isn't like playing some other game with the difficulty ratcheted up--it has it's own paradigm for strategy, and dying is just a part of that structure. In that sense, I think it's misleading to call Demon's Souls "punishing".
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