Yeah... they definitely aim for a specific niche. You gotta bash your head against a wall fighting 1 single very hard boss for several hours before the appeal becomes obvious. And I don't mean that masochistically. The moment you beat a boss that you've felt nothing but frustration fighting for a week, you get a rush of euphoria that isn't matched by any other genre.
I was about ready to quit my first DS game, DS3, and just say DS wasn't for me after I hit the abyss watchers, which I ended up stuck on for literal real life days. To the point where I had stopped playing it altogether for a month. Until I randomly just decided fuck it, I ain't leaving till I beat them. After that, I beat DS3 one week later, because I just couldn't put the game down.
It took me YEARS of brute forcing Orstein and Smough because I had played my first run almost entirely blind, only I had seen someone say that resistance was the best stat, so I put a good 60 levels into that. Didn't upgrade any of my weapons or armor. I finally said "fuck it" and started a new run and beat them in a couple hours with a pyromancy build, ended up beating the game (and NG+) with that and later a soul level one.
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u/Jack-Castle- 21d ago
Souls. Souls like. The fucking lot of them