A lot is said about the extreme difficulty of this "2022 Game of the Year" from From Software, but in fact it is a lot more of a borng grind than its predecessors from the Demon's/Dark Souls series with the most difficult thing not the mega bosses who can wipe out your character with a single hit, and not the fact boss fights string out one after the other in exhausting fashion (especially towards the end), and it isn't the item management which involves a dizzying array of items hard to know how best to use (and I still ended up using the same sword all the way through) - the hardest thing is the game's sheer and utter inanity with NPCs banging on about an inexplicable mythology from which it is impossible to discern a logical plot, and plot developments frequently hinge on impossible-to-predict NPC responses, as in one case when a conversation with an unresponsive NPC was required but the NPC would only respond after the player tried unsuccessfully to talk with the NPC four times.
★★☆☆☆
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