Anyone who played any beloved third-party NES game:
Oh, that's cute! 😏
Edit: Just so we're clear, I'm poking fun here, I like Demon/Dark Souls just fine.
but waay too many games get compared to them as though they're the first game with ball-retracting difficulty, lmao.
Lots of games, especially older games, have ''FAQ you'' difficulty.
Because you need to check a Frequently Asked Question or a Walkthrough to figure where to go or what to do. And I don't mean ''collect all the hidden characters'' ( Hello Fire Emblem ). Just the main story line.
God forbid you forgot 7 hours of gameplay ago and one week real time, there was a guy, in some town you forgot, who made glass jewels you must ask to craft a glass orb to use as a substitute for shattered orb to put in a tower pedestal. No quest log, no reminder.
And emulation with speed-up function + saved state are a sanity-saving comfort function. ( Often it's ''cheating'' ( platofmers ), many times you could use the normal save function but Save State takes half a second ).
Honestly most RPGs are a slog when I only get to game for a few hours a day.
Persona 3 Reload isn’t even that long and it still took me almost a month to complete