Demon's Souls is by far the meanest and most frustrating souls game

It's unforgiving nature makes it the only souls game I can play for short amounts of time a session. The bosses are a cakewalk compared to the others however the traps and level design is by far the most dickish I've ever experienced in more modern times. I admit the deaths are the players fault usually but because of how long the levels between archstones are one is bound to forget an ambush or two. I like how they've minimized the punishment of deaths in later titles because a death in demon souls feels like a huge waste of time.