Demon's Soul coming to N.A. Options

[Riel]

Courtesy of Atlus...the game is getting praise on a lot of places,it's really hardcore and all but sweet game.Almost imported but it was way expensive.

http://kotaku.com/5263072/atlus-brings-pla...souls-stateside

[Crushinator]

I know AC is playing this, is anyone else on this game? I just picked it up tonight... and I thought "oh man hard game, yeah I can hang." But now I've put the better part of my evening in the game, made it to some part where there's a dragon just swooping over the castle and he just burned me to death and is probably raping my corpse as we speak.

The tutorial and in-game help is the most spartan I have ever seen. I need some protips.

1. Is the only way to use the souls your earn is to warp back to town from the fucking starting point? Is there some item like a town portal or something?
2. Is there an easy way to tell if you can wield a weapon? I finally made it to the first shopkeeper in the first area, and I ended up buying 2 weaps (a crossbow and a shortsword) that were both too powerful/heavy/complicated for my character to equip, but the game didn't seem to indicate this to me.
3. Is there a way to learn magic if your character doesn't innately have magic power? And can you sell items to get more souls? Or trade items with other players?

The targeting system blows in this game, makes it really hard to lock onto a guy you want to fight. But the combat and dodging is pretty fun, and the game itself is still compelling, but I feel like I'm really missing a lot of the experience, and the game itself if not helping me at all.

Also is there a superior class to roll as? I'm not opposed to starting over, seeing as I haven't made any god damn progress yet anyways, having wasted all my money on shitty items.

UPDATE: I beat the first boss, I think i'm starting to get this game. I still don't really understand how I progress my character or change my stats so I can equip better stuff, though.