Not at all convoluted, dark souls seemed very simple, just deliberately constructed to prevent player progression or exploration without any good reason to.

Here is a game. Do not play the game.

The controls were not great, as far as I remember. The first zombie I encountered could just tap me out unless I dodged it correctly and I hit it like 10 times and nothing happened and then it got boring.

I guess 11 strikes kills it? Yeah I’m not going to do that for 3 hours without any reason to.

There was no lore or intro to show why I should care about the game or it’s characters or anything.

Does the story get interesting? Because the gameplay was trash and nothing indicated that it was going to get better as the game progressed.

What do you mean by the idea of soulslikes?

What is the idea that you like about them if you don’t like the slog?

Is the slog not the idea of souls likes?

And what did you like about the three games you mentioned that made you slog through their entire games that was different than elden ring?

I’m believing it now that so many people have explained how much they like the games to me and why.

Even watching the beginning of this playthrough to see how far I got through dark souls 1, which was just to the asylum demon, it looks awesome.

I think I just really would have liked some explanation of any of the gameplay mechanics in a summarized form that I didn’t have to hunt for.

But I’m going to start with elden ring, because I do like open worlds, and I’m just going to see how that grabs me.

Did you play DS1 remastered on the switch?

I definitely didn’t judge it on the boss fight.