Edward_R_Murrow
While I can appreciate some people's preference towards knowing about certain issues, so that they may avoid having them screw up their current run, I think it's very much part of the DkS experience. I don't see much difference between advancing the game in a certain direction and potentially losing out on some spells, for example, and levelling your character's stats unwisely and rendering them ineffective because of it. These things make up part of the gameplay of Dark / Demon Souls and, personally, I think you'd be losing out on what makes the game fun if you only played it once and perfectly.
There are certainly some matters in which I would've liked clarification - I was surprised, too, to find the Pyromancer glove doesn't scale with any attributes, but a careful player might've noticed earlier on that the Mag Affect only increases as you upgrade it and not with stat gains, unlike any other caster item that depends on attributes. But after it became apparent that I had made mistakes during the development of my first character, the Pyro, and I started another one, that felt part of the gameplay too. Because my new fledgling, despite having less HP and magic and weapons than my previous character, performed much better because it was now directed by a player which had one incomplete playthrough tucked in his belt. There isn't anything in the game which can substitute the importance of the player in De/kS.
It is, therefore, my belief that keeping yourself from enjoying such growth will only affect your enjoyment of the game. A new player will already miss on a HUGE part of starting out if he rushes for the Crescent Falchion, because it's unrivaled as a starting weapon in killing 90% of all enemies. Where's his incentive to try out different weapon types, to see how upgrading a weapon helps them, to improve on his tactics, if he can skip past these things? None, but that's what the Souls games are about.
Your mileage may vary, of course.
). But a 3rd person RPG? GTFO.
