r u me?
Difficulty was never the point
DS2 spam enemies that have high hp, high poise and big hitbox together at you that you have no tool to defeat head on and you just have to run away or cheese them. DS3 in comparison throw enemies at you but sprinkle in mostly weak enemy that is stunlockable with a strong one and give you cover and option to quickly dispatch them to thin the herd, especially with weapon artes. Also, DS2 sometimes make the walk from from the bonfire to the boss simply too much. The hardest normal enemy encounter should be the ones prior to the boss bonfire, not between bonfire and the boss.
Ds3 bosses are fast but more importantly, have really diverse moveset and high aggression. The player have less stamina losson roll to compensate. Most bosses don’t hit you too ridiculously hard so you can have room for trial and error. Also, each have a gimmick you have to solve and adapt to. DS2 bosses are piss easy because they all very simple and clunky moveset. The only way the game know how to increase difficulty is to increase boss’s damage to ridiculous value, make them hp bloat, and/or stack multiple enemy/bosses together. Unlike many multiple enemies bosses in other soulborne, ds2 gank bosses seem to not design give a unique tool via environment or boss’s specific behavior that allow the player to take advantage of. The game constantly throw you in a flat enclosed empty room with boss gank with standard ai and have you deal with it. It get really bad in ng+ when they have shit like double pursuer, lost sinner with pyromancers, etc...where they throw multiple stuffs together with no rhythm or reason just for sake of being hard.
This nigger gets it.
Finally someone said it. The whole "prepare to die" marketing slogan with ds1 onward was cringy af .
god this
there's no better feeling than creating a naked obese woman character and running through these crazy fantasy worlds with a giant rusty sword hearing nothing but the sound of my enemies dying and the pitter patter of her obese feet stomping on the ground as I read a magical sign on the floor that says "Amazing view ahead" which happens to be some deformed obese demons exposed asshole then a message flashes on my screen saying "Being invaded by Buttholedestroyerxxx"
ADDITIONALLY, I NEVER SAW ANYONE GET LYNCHED, NO WHORES GOT RAPED, AND I DIDN'T SEE A SINGLE CROSS ON FIRE, WITH OR WITHOUT A NIGGER ON IT. ULTIMATELY I FELT THIS DETRACTED FROM THE GAME