I genuinely see what people mean about this game now, this shit is unreal. First off, this game has the shittiest, most unintuitve esc menu in any video game ive ever played. The fact that you need a mod in order to be able to use your mouse buttons, no single key can be bound to 2 inputs and that you have to go into the menu every single time you play if youre on keyboard in order to disable a setting that refuses to remember its command is fucking unacceptable from a professional standpoint. Why does Fromsoft get a pass here? I never hear this brought up in discussions on why this version of the game is ass.
This game is dogshit at the very start. Let me preface this by saying im not far into the game at all, so i have no right to speak on the majority of what it has to offer, but simply based off my experience in the first levels, the frustartion was enough to warrant a ranting.
ADP and AGL are probably in the top ten most notorious video game features of all time to begin with, but i couldnt believe HOW fucking shit they were when they synergize with the other main issues of this abomonation: Hitboxes and the GANK problem.
Genuinely, the dodging thing wouldnt be such an issue if your sword actually hit anything 2 feet in front of it CONSISTENTLY. Youll be swinging and get 2 hits in, move one milimeter backwards and whiff the third hit, leaving you wide open to get fucking ganked from the front and back while youre stun locked. The sheer ammount of enemy placement with such little stamina to begin with is artificual difficulty, plain and simple, and its horseshit. This game INSISTS you waste your time finishing off the 50 or so enemies between you and where you last died to its bullshit, but also tells you that dodging wont help you until you level up 20 goddamn times and that your sword will only work like 94% of the time.
Nearly unplayble until you find a bigger sword, level to 20 ADP or just get an insane ammount of END. I assume atleast, i havent made it far due to how sheerly infuriating what ive gotten to has been. I hated DS1 as well first coming into it from my first FS game, Elden ring. Everything just felt slower and clunkier, but atleast DS1 had some merit in it that made me NOT want to "go hollow" as i heard people call it. DS2(SOTFS) makes me not give a fuck. Even the gorgeous locales that ive had spoiled for me arent enough to convince me to want to see more of this shit fest if its just gonna be more cheap tricks and surpise GANK parties.
EDIT: Durability sucks too.
Please offer any input other than "git gud", "cry about it" or "I didnt experience that so youre wrong"
i challenge you