I have to add that that friend who plays -> number one fucking complaint was NOT being able to remap the controls as she hated R1 to attack and I sympathize.

To defend Tyjaer — I understand. The issue would be ‘name one game that is NOT from FromSoft that has produced anywhere near the same level of frustration.’ Off the top of my head I’d say ‘Alien Trilogy’ on PS1.

Hey, ‘Ol Jim Sterling had a very fine review —

Yes, play Ninja Gaiden in easy mode. It will kick the living shit out of you!

I agree to a point. The good thing about this game is that you can go very far and even fill out the map before you absolutely must defeat that boss. Now that I’ve beaten him it’s no big thing.

I do believe that there was an RPS article —

The big thing there was not clearly explaining that you can res all you want; if you die and respawn then it affects the world.

VaatiVidya got me hooked on Bloodborne lore.

The git gud thing is kinda real. As has been said, coming from Bloodborne to this was a huge shock and I had to get out of that dodge-whack-dodge mindset.

That’s a thing I could get behind. Like Deus Ex’ss’s’s’ story mode. It’s done right in that you still have to actually play but you’re not going to have hit your head against the wall if you didn’t build properly, etc.

That’s the thing, defeating the mid-bosses makes you better but then sometimes you just hit the wall. DS/BB you could grind, get better weapons, etc.

Yup, a schoolmate got into a bit of trouble because he was reading Stephen King in sixth grade. I forget which book it was.

I’ve played and beaten DS1/DS3 and Bloodborne lots of times. I’ve only just really adapted to parrying (hey I’m old!) but I’m doing just fine now. Some people just don’t like it, like a friend that didn’t like DS or Bloodborne but actually seems to enjoy Sekiro which is amazing.

But then you couldn’t soak in the agony (wif a fren) that was getting all the way to the top of the tower (ghost piranha) before fighting Murai only to have to go back down (ghost piranha) to get more potions and then back up (ghost piranha) to then beat the living piss out of Murai on Master Ninja after weeks of…

All I can remember was that bugs bunny-style episode with Scorpius so long ago!

Boffsides!

Ah yes, the treasured GlemGreenwald who is not for GlemGreenwald, by GlemGreenwald and uh for GlemGreenwald. Brilliant.

She’s wearing her mans/man’s chastity belt.

Look just put her in some leggings and body armor and nobody’s going to care. I mean you can’t quite get away with that getup at the moment but we’re almost there!

Really struggling to come up with a decent joke that isn’t just musk-bashing..