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.
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.