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.
Tbf, some of those were hard because of bad design too. Souls games are hard but I'd argue always more fair
Eh, debatable. There is some pretty bad design in souls games too. The bad design choices being deliberate doesn't make them any less shit.
There is a lot of bad design in recent souls-type games where it strays from fair to guess-the-bullshit. Elden Ring was / still is fun but boy do I fucking hate some design choices they made in that game and that they have since spread to other games like everyone followed around whatever apple did with the iphone.