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It's 2024 and people still act like souls games are hard. Those games have often a pretty common platinum trophy and give you tons of cowtools from just over levelling to try different weapons and styles
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I have only beaten the original Dark Souls (I have Dark Souls 3 and Elden Ring on my backlog) and while the game can be difficult it never felt unfair. I just finished tunic and I did not like it at all. The whole battle system feels so bad and the last bosses felt very unfair. I think the problem with soulsborne games getting popular is that now every developer think that they just need to make them hard for difficulty's sake without understanding the concept behind the genre.
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Totally different beast from Dark Souls and DS2. I haven't played DS3 yet but the difficulty spike going from 2 to ER was incredible, the bosses frick with you mentally with weird attack strings and varied delays on certain attack wind-ups. I died more to single bosses in ER than I did my entire first run of DS2. Still the most fun I've had in a Souls game though. You get a ton of room in character building and equipment to adapt to everything.
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