Small correction, The Boletarian Palace isn’t necessarily the first proper area in Demon’s Souls and you go there after the Nexus, not before. The Vanguard Demon is the boss of the Forlorn Outpost (Tutorial area) and dying to him (Or the Dragon God, if you defeat the Vanguard) sends you directly to the Nexus (Hub…

Kind of a misleading headline, isn’t it? He says the game will be easier than Bloodborne and Sekiro, which were on the higher end of the FromSoft difficulty range, but he also says it will be about the same as the Dark Souls 3, which is the series most people will probably thinking of when they read the headline.