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.
back in my day we rented westwood's lion king repeatedly from blockbuster and got stuck at the waterfall or throwing level.
For real though, there is good difficulty and there is bad difficulty. Clunky unresponsive controls and being hit despite not being in the shown area, do not make for 'fun difficult', and that was my expierience playing souls. For that matter, bullet sponge enemies doesn't make for 'fun difficult' either.
I'm fine with difficult, but have it be fast reaction difficult. That's where the fun is.