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Blade 22 Aug @ 4:39pm

How demanding is this game?

I'm currently struggling with visual problems. I'm being stubborn about going to the doctor since times are tough right now but by moral of the story, my vision is obstructed because my left eyelid is dropping half-way over my eye causing me to have trouble focusing my eyes. I'm hoping it's going to get better but for the time being I'm trying to stick to less demanding games that I can just enjoy until it gets better. Whatever it is.

The game was free on PS5 plus so I downloaded it and as soon as I started a new game I realized it was another souls clone immediately. But I read that the difficulty has been severely nerfed with easier difficulties. I'm also seeing lots of posts that the difficulty is just all over the place and there are a lot of areas that even on the easiest difficulty, are comparable to some of the more difficult souls bosses requiring upwards of 30 attempts on the first play through.

If you're really good at this game now, but died to several bosses 30 plus times on you first play through, the game isn't "easy". So put yourself in my shoes as someone who hasn't played it before.

With all the adjustments they've made, is the difficulty somewhere around Rise of the Ronin or something like that?

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Plumber

22 Aug @ 5:17pm

the threads offering negative opinions on difficulty are generally confined to the DLC which is substantially more difficult than anything in the base game

the lower difficulties don't change enemy movesets or attack patterns, but they do drastically reduce the amount of damage you take, making it much easier to survive strings of mistakes and win fights via attrition. Major fights can be redone at any time once you've cleared them, though the difficulty in the refight system isn't exactly the same as the normal scaling for the fight; it's generally around the highest / normal difficulty.

however, what you're really asking isn't whether you can win, it's whether you can enjoy it - and that's harder to gauge in a way that can't be solved by spewing platitudes about difficulty or infodumps on the variegation of defensive options the player has at their disposal. If you had a decent time with Rise of the Ronin, I think you'll do just fine though

Last edited by Plumber; 22 Aug @ 5:19pm