As a souls vet

[PityClassy]

Just pick up this game because the art style looks really good to me. Does it hold up to the souls like difficulty ?

[Kashra Fall]

Well, if you compare it to a souls game in terms of difficulty. This game is vastly harder. You'd have to compare to to something like Nioh on way of the demon to have an authentic difficulty comparison.

[Mike]

As Kashra has said this game is no slouch when it comes to difficulty. This is not a souls game where you can just mash light and heavy attack to kill 99% of bosses, in this game you NEED to get down its combo system or bosses will take forever to beat.

[Ectocooler]

Game is very brutal. It's more akin to Sekiro than a Dark Souls game (the game demands you meet it on it's grounds and you will learn to parry or fail).

Though, you get souls for failing a boss fight so even if you die over and over against a particularly tough boss (re: all of them) you'll still progress and feel like you're making it a little easier. Some don't like it but I do (you still have to git gud to get through).

[PityClassy]

Originally posted by Kashra Fall:

Well, if you compare it to a souls game in terms of difficulty. This game is vastly harder. You'd have to compare to to something like Nioh on way of the demon to have an authentic difficulty comparison.

Thanks I loved both of those games well I played nioh 2 not 1 and loved that game. So I’m guessing from what others said it’s built around parry then.

[Kannibale]

It's harder than any souls game. Imagine every boss felt like Fume Knight / Darkeater Midir in terms of difficulty.

[Freedom35]

Originally posted by Kashra Fall:

Well, if you compare it to a souls game in terms of difficulty. This game is vastly harder. You'd have to compare to to something like Nioh on way of the demon to have an authentic difficulty comparison.

Interesting because I thought both Nioh were very easy while souls games were much harder.. Though I agree this is harder than both.,

[ScowlEasy]

Every single main boss I've beaten leaves me shaking a little from the adrenaline rush. It's good

[Kashra Fall]

Originally posted by Freedom35:

Originally posted by Kashra Fall:

Well, if you compare it to a souls game in terms of difficulty. This game is vastly harder. You'd have to compare to to something like Nioh on way of the demon to have an authentic difficulty comparison.

Interesting because I thought both Nioh were very easy while souls games were much harder.. Though I agree this is harder than both.,

Nioh is easy, on the first playthrough. Way of the demon however, not so much which is NG+3. NG+5 is you either build right, or you just don't play lol.

[Mike]

Originally posted by Ectocooler:

Game is very brutal. It's more akin to Sekiro than a Dark Souls game (the game demands you meet it on it's grounds and you will learn to parry or fail).

Though, you get souls for failing a boss fight so even if you die over and over against a particularly tough boss (re: all of them) you'll still progress and feel like you're making it a little easier. Some don't like it but I do (you still have to git gud to get through).

I disagree with the Sekiro comparision, I have completely built my great sword build around perfect dodging and I parry very little. There was only one boss fight so far that seems like you needed to parry his super fast attack strings.


I do agree that this game does demand the player to play a certain way and that is learn to combo your enemies to death by chaining skills and attacks together or they are not dying lol. If you play this game like a souls game where you just hit and run, you will never take down a bosses stamina meter and if you don't learn combos for your weapon these fights will take FOREVER.

[Mikoto]

I would say this game is as hard as dark souls 1. It focuses more on combat than challenge though imo.

[Kannibale]

Originally posted by Mikoto:

I would say this game is as hard as dark souls 1. It focuses more on combat than challenge though imo.

DS1 isn't hard, it's a joke of a game. Literally has 1 hard boss (manus), the rest you can virtually just facetank and 5 shot with a 2 handed sword.

When I got to the DLC I killed Sanctuary Guardian in 3 hits. I killed Artorias on my first attempt, within 30 seconds. Cause I had 20 flasks. It's not a hard game.

[Dregora]

Originally posted by Kannibale:

Originally posted by Mikoto:

I would say this game is as hard as dark souls 1. It focuses more on combat than challenge though imo.

DS1 isn't hard, it's a joke of a game. Literally has 1 hard boss (manus), the rest you can virtually just facetank and 5 shot with a 2 handed sword.

When I got to the DLC I killed Sanctuary Guardian in 3 hits. I killed Artorias on my first attempt, within 30 seconds. Cause I had 20 flasks. It's not a hard game.

It was hard when it first came out back in 2011. It was hard because it was arguably the first type of game that became big (demons souls was niche and clearly a prototype) with that type of difficulty back when people weren't exactly used to that type of difficulty.

These days it's easy because it's clearly held back by how slow it plays (and it's bosses) if you've played other more recent souls like (dark souls 3, elden ring, Lies of P, lords of the fallen etc).


So yes obviously it's easy now, but it wasn't back then if you had no experience at all.

[Doctor Gitgud]

Way easier than souls games. Perfect block and stance-breaking is ridiculously overpowered and the game is already getting nerfed into the ground even before the official release. The difficulty is somewhere around "Elden ring with maxed out pre-nerf Mimic Tear wielding Sword of Night and Flame."

[Dregora]

Originally posted by JCD3nton:

Way easier than souls games. Perfect block and stance-breaking is ridiculously overpowered and the game is already getting nerfed into the ground even before the official release. The difficulty is somewhere around "Elden ring with maxed out pre-nerf Mimic Tear wielding Sword of Night and Flame."

You don't understand what nerfed into the ground means. Stop having a weird hateboner.

[PityClassy]

lol that yeti boss took me a couple of tries not going to lie lol…. Game is and ass though