Since every attack in a Dark Souls game (and Bloodborne and Demon's Souls) is meaningful, getting hit, and not quite managing to hit back at the right time, makes combat stressful and deaths frequent. I'm not great at action games, and my inability to stay calm in any circumstances (I once had a panic attack at a yoga retreat) means I will probably never achieve the kind of zen flow you need to roll magnificently through even the nastiest of attacks at exactly the right time. Now back to everyone else, which includes me. It's wonderful that they can enjoy the game that way, diving into the constantly shifting meta to find the best combinations of attributes and equipments to increase their deadly grace. Good for them! They're very skilled, either through natural talents or long practice. They'll often complain that everything but PvP is just too easy. Those who master the balletic action combat of high level players - dodging with perfect timing, parrying and riposting, always landing backstabs - can sail through the game's PvE content with ease and then throw themselves into humbling each other in PvP. Despite all the masochistic preening of Bandai Namco's marketing throwing yourself at the game in self-flagellation is - not actually that fun.

There are shitheads all over the Internet who will tell you Dark Souls isn't actually hard and you just need to Git Gud. After years of games polished to uniform smoothness, slick surfaces offering no traction as scripted events gently play themselves, to find yourself struggling with a story campaign is confronting. Should Dark Souls 3 be made accessible, so everyone can enjoy it? Dude: it already is.ĭark Souls 3 is a challenging game, and that's something of a shock to the system.

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