In the last post, I rambled all over the place about Elden Ring in general because that’s my style. I know that the DLC is going to be over-the-top in terms of difficulty because that has become FromSoft’s trademark, but I really hope it doesn’t. Starting with Sekiro, I was hitting the top of my ability. Actually, starting with Dark Souls II DLC, really. You know what? No. It’s just every goddamn game. But I will say that the DLC of Dark Souls III was when I really noticed it. Then, with Sekiro, it just became very obvious that I sucked at the game. “When it clicks–” oh shut the fuck up. It never clicked with me, and I went trhough the game, stony-faced and teeth set, grimly beating each boss by whittling down their health. My nibling’s spouse messaged me (after I said that the combat hadn’t clicked with me) to say, “I didn’t think it was possible to beat this boss (Genichiro) without deflecting. I wrote back and said, “It’s possible, but it’s not fun.”
I will just say it. I disliked playing that game and now, I can’t play it at all. Again, not will not, but cannot. I am simply not able. I mean, I may be able to whittle down every boss’s health again, but I don’t want to do that. And I’m not even sure I could do that, actually. After my medical crisis (months later), I tried to fight my nemesis, Father (Owl), and he just handed my ass to me over and over again. And again. I cheesed him the first time I fought him, but I couldn’t even do that. And I know that I could not beat the last boss again without a lot of blood, sweat, and tears. If I could even do it!
I love the FromSoft games. I’m sure I’ve said that a time or twenty. But I do not love how they inevitably buy their own hype so that the last quarter of every game is just tears. Actually, in this game, it’s the second half of the game. Starting with the (oh, obviously, *SPOILER WARNING* for the whole game and the whole post) Mountaintop of the Giants until the end of the game, it just…
How do I explain it?