It's one of the best games of the last decade. You'll lose 150 hours to it easily. Don't be discouraged by the difficulty, Souls games can be hard to get into at first. Once you understand it, it gets easier.

There's only a dozen or so mandatory bosses, the rest are optional. So if you decide you just want to wrap it up and finish you can, long before you explore everything.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Difficulty is something that definitely discourage me and many people from playing any game. I rather have the sensation of the game getting easier being tied to the characters leveling up than to my horrible dexterity and hand eye coordination.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To each their own. Myself, and many people, grow tired and bored of a power fantasy any time you play a game with 0 skill involved.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For me a game is mainly a story medium with a big focus on interactivity and world building. Playing a game you become part of that world. A character in the story.

Narrative driven games use the challenge to simulate the characters struggle so advancing the story feels rewarding. Soul games needing you to reply the same boss for several hours to beat it doesn't make narrative driven games less of a challenge because they don't cater to the same public: one is casual and the other extreme and they don't spend nearly as much the same amount of time playing games.

Narrative driven games want to mainly tell a story and it's ending is the main reward, soul games want you to suffer through each battle and beating them is the main reward.

[–] iforgotmyinstance 2 points 1 year ago

You really couldn't be more wrong. Especially since ER has the clearest narrative of all the Souls games.

[–] nebula42 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

At the beginning of the game i can't really tell what parts are supposed to be hard but fair at my current level and what parts are purposefully hard as to tell me to "come back later when you're stronger" so to speak

[–] iforgotmyinstance 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you're not getting one shot very often and able to overcome challenges with ingenuity and grit, I'd say you're doing it right.

Once you start running into enemies/bosses that one shot you, that's when you may want to consider going and farming and leveling up your Vigor until you can take a hit or two. Other than that just keep dumping points into skills you need for the weapon you want to use.

Don't worry about screwing up your talent points, you can unlock respect pretty early in the game (second great rune holding boss).