XVI and XIV implications

[NanaWiloh]

No of course no handicaps were used. But I absolutely felt the game was easier than it should’ve been. Button mashing was used as hyperbole for not having to know how to combo actions correctly and being able to spam Dodges and random abilities without thinking too much about it. This is why people think the game has no strategy it has a rather low bar of difficulty.

I’ll give you a small example. Even though casual, the burn in storm blood left a lasting impression on most people because that dragon would wreck you. It wasn’t super hard or anything but it did score kills. Party members had to collaborate a bit. Unfortunately, I already beat XVI and I can’t recall a fight ever making me feel like that or that I will remember because it took me a few tries. I will remember some for their cool effects.

But yeah. I just developed a very basic approach to the game early on and basically walked in and owned everything that stood in my way with little difficulty. I also haven’t heard anyone say the game is hard either.

I do know what you mean in the later bosses. Some of them did manage to cancel my abilities occasionally and i had to wait for the cooldown, but seldom enough that I could just keep doing the same stuff without having to rethink my strat.

Being a Fantastically stubborn person you have no idea how many bodies I threw at the first boss in elden ring though, and malenia. I would consider those on the higher end of the casual difficulty spectrum. There were ways to cheese but I legit ran in there with no magic and just straight up tanked and spanked them, after like 50 deaths.

If you died 50 times you are casual.

[Ath192]

If you died 50 times you are casual.

I am. Casuals rise up.