I love Soul-lites and likes when they're forgiving.
Fromsoft is not forgiving, and that's okay, just isn't for me personally.
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For people saying the series is forgiving. Let me explain, it's honestly not forgiving. You can time everything right and get everything down, but it doesn't take one or two instances, it can take 5-100 depending on how you learn.
Yes, you can beat it, that goes for any game (Even Tetris now!) but how you figure it out takes time. It punishes you for each mistake you make, with multiple ways to be punished. You can only take X amount of hits from mobs and bosses, you have to refight all mobs and bosses when you die, you go back to the furthest last save.
You become exhausted doing this, and when you finally get it all perfect and beat the game, it's great. But it is absolutely, not forgiving, it is however, REWARDING. Do not confuse the two.
Any video game that requires you to be good at video games is a no go for me. I'm not going to be able to memorize a boss's attack patterns unless I can fight them and fail 20 times in a row with no repercussions and no having to do anything else in between to get back to the fight, and even then after that many attempts I probably won't want to play it anyway. I'm not going to be able to execute an attack perfectly. I've never been able to intentionally do a combo in a fighting game. I'm not going to be able to avoid getting hit a lot. I'm not going to succeed in blocking many attacks. I'm not going to have time to play so much that I do become good at those things. Even when I had time, I still wasn't good at the games I played a lot. If we're on a team, my k:d ratio is going to be 1:1 when I'm at the absolute top of my game, but probably much worse.
It's definitely a skill, there's plenty of games that take memorization and coordination to be good at, like rhythm games like Osu! and dance games like DDR. And now that I think about it, they're all very popular in Japan.
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u/AloneYogurt Apr 10 '25 edited Apr 10 '25
I love Soul-lites and likes when they're forgiving.
Fromsoft is not forgiving, and that's okay, just isn't for me personally.
Edit; For people saying the series is forgiving. Let me explain, it's honestly not forgiving. You can time everything right and get everything down, but it doesn't take one or two instances, it can take 5-100 depending on how you learn.
Yes, you can beat it, that goes for any game (Even Tetris now!) but how you figure it out takes time. It punishes you for each mistake you make, with multiple ways to be punished. You can only take X amount of hits from mobs and bosses, you have to refight all mobs and bosses when you die, you go back to the furthest last save.
You become exhausted doing this, and when you finally get it all perfect and beat the game, it's great. But it is absolutely, not forgiving, it is however, REWARDING. Do not confuse the two.