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For me this is the best open world game since Skyrim and ignites the same epic exploration feeling I had in the first version of WoW and Zelda Ocarina of Time.

That's because you have to figure out yourself where to go. No quest marks or quest helper. Just you and the open world.

As for hard, for me it is. The first boss took me 30-50 attempts. But it was awesome to slay it in the end.

I think you can play it somewhat as hard as you want. Nothing's stopping you from challenging areas with a higher level than usual. It just takes more time.

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Every time I think I'm convinced I might like this game, I read something like this.

> The first boss took me 30-50 attempts.

Oh. Nope. Wow.

Maybe it's a factor of 10 problem. Some people like this repetitive method of perfecting execution, but for me 3-5 attempts would be a much more ideal number.

I'd really encourage you to ignore that comment and give the game a shot :)

In ER you never have just one avenue of progression and this player decided to brute force the boss (which can be really fun if you want to level your own reflexes up), but that's not the only path you can take. I got stuck on the same boss for a bit, then just explored and came back when I was a bit stronger and got him on the 3rd attempt.

Sibling already said this, but you can go through most bosses with an easier time without getting extremely good at it. I've played through all 3 dks games and am not exactly good at them (ironically they are by far my favourite games), but in those games you had less opportunity to use adjuncts like summons or spells.

You might feel bad about using other means than pure combat skills (I certainly do) but the devs put those things in for a reason.

So far I've found (and heard) that if you avoid a boss until you 'finished' much of the content in a region, they can often be beating in much fewer attempts.

So far I just roamed and enjoyed myself for tens of hours, and I killed the first boss (who is apparently unusually challenging, relatively) in < 5 attempts.

I never got far in previous FromSoft games, but here the difference is that you can become quite overpowered for a boss without needing to do boring farming/grinding.

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