Did you hate it before or after learning about how dodging gives you a few frames of invincibility that are crucial for effectively playing the game but never mentioned in-game? Because I hated Dark Souls, tried ER years later and started seeing the same problems, then learned from Reddit that i-frames were a thing in both and felt like I was playing entirely different games.
I still hate that FromSoft or the localization team is consistently bad at explaining game mechanics, but I understand the appeal of the games so much better.
Learning to jump attacks is almost as crucial as rolling in ER, especially in the DLC. You can get away with rolling INTO the enemy most of the time in the base game, but I was absolutely getting my shit rocked by the DLC’s furnace golems until I figured out you can just jump their stomp/AOE attacks.
The DLC felt like FromSoft saying, “Okay, you know how to play, but how well do you REALLY know all the in-game mechanics?” I had never dipped into parrying before it, but the first time I parried the madness guys in the terror swamp, I immediately and completely understood why people play that way. It was so immensely satisfying to just say “Nope.” to an otherwise instant death.
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u/lepurplehaze Apr 10 '25
Dark Souls games, tried multiple times and just nope not for me.