And the idea that every game should be for everyone is the reason why Elden Ring is... kind of a bad game. Great open world, beautiful scenery... bad boss design, which yes — that is the game. Like, think about this in the real world setting. Think about how this hyopthetical would play out, person becomes disabled and has to sit in a wheelchair. Everyone agrees 'it's not fair that they can't walk, no one should walk because this person can't'. Does that make sense to you? Because it doesn't to me, I'm sorry if there are people who can't beat these games — but damn, at some point you have to recognize life isn't fair and just enjoy the shit you do enjoy. If being good at a video game isn't important to you, *ok* that's your prerogative. Do not play the hard video game. But this constant whining about difficulty settings and nerfs is just obnoxious.

she clearly say "get dah", whatever that means

I wouldn't have beaten the 'true' final boss without them. No way in hell.

I have been pleading with my husband to do exactly this. But no, he will continue to bash his face off enemies until they die by some kind of miracle. He has 5 masks, does not use red tools (but uses the poison polyp in his one blue slot), does not pogo or hit enemies above him, not use running attacks, or heal in the air. Just straight on hit with nail while face tanking and ground heal. I am DREADING him somehow reaching Bilewater. I absolutely KNOW he is not the only person playing like this, and suspish this is the main source of the difficulty discourse...

That's entirely possible, that's who I said "you can avoid them" if you don't get in the far corner you never get in those situations but if you do you can get chain hit all the way to zero hp. You would have to be clairvoyant to see them coming which of course you can be by replaying the level so a hitless run is entirely possible but that doesn't make my it fair or good game play.

Too much of Silksong's difficulty is just numbers. Shitty peon enemies hit for two health because fuck you. Touching a boss *while it's stunned* hits for two health because fuck you. And then there's the whole shard system, which straight-up doesn't need to exist since it just makes you never engage with tools. Until you use them to nuke a boss in its final phase, of course, because the alternative is playing RNG roulette against the boss's 3 adds (that each hit for two damage, naturally). It's a great game, but it definitely isn't a perfect game. They need to remove shards, tweak (lower) the power of tools, and adjust outgoing damage (ideally through armor-like upgrades you earn). Oh, and crests were not the right call. We all just use the Reaper (unless we're further exploiting tools with that other crest).

The clip I watched the character was going through some Lion King game esque jumping sequence and I immediately knew the game wasn't for me.

I personally have 100% completion and only fell below half my available shards a couple of times. I probably still have most of my shard consumables to restore them when you get low if I had to guess. I used the fire tool a fair bit late game, and the boomerang early game for a couple of fights, but presumably since I was using a crest with only one tool slot I consumed shards slower than the average joe.

... I do? They're like the most basic manifestation of mastery over a particular section meaningfully impacting my experience. Not only does getting good at a run back let me focus on learning the boss more, but it also increases my general mobility throughout the map as a whole and drastically improves how cool it feels to replay the game and just blow through previously challenging sections.

Some things in the game definitely piss me off. But I avoid ranting about it because then the game would only be about the bad parts. It can still be a lot of fun if you take it slowly. Big tip for boss fights: turn off the music and it becomes 10x easier. For me the music is way too overdramatic and distracting during a boss fight.

Shards are my biggest problem with the game atm. They upped the difficulty significantly, and added this system of tools to compensate, and then punish you for engaging with said tools. Boy I tell you there's nothing I love more than grinding up to the maximum Shard capacity, getting my ass fucked by a boss times in a row, and then having to grind for another half an hour to build up my shards again

Sucks to be anyone who didn't realize how prohibitively difficult it would be until after the refund period

It's been 14 years since Dark Souls and yet the holy rebuke still stands: I have a fucking job

The bosses are fun The fucking mob wave rooms is way harder than any boss and can suck it.

https://youtu.be/REROOvrzy1o

The way we actually react to that situation is having wheelchair ramps and elevators. (i.e. difficulty settings in games) We don't say "Fuck handicapped people, life isn't fair, it SHOULD suck to be them."