Because it asks you to do something very difficult: Be patient when a giant beast is tearing everything apart around you. Stay calm in the face of that fire-breathing dragon. It’s difficult for a lot of people to do, and will cost a lot of Souls.

I enjoyed all the RPGs you cited. But above all of them I love the Souls series. I was part of that group of people that played Demon’s Souls when it came out back in 2009. It was crazy hard, another level of gameplay that asked the player to get her/his game up a notch.
After all of these years putting 150+ hours to…