They could ease up just a tad with some of the encounters.

Garuda EX comes to mind. I have no problems with the fight at all other than the feathers coming down like half a second too fast - generally if you're not already moving, you're gonna get hit. Or what happens a lot is I am moving and dodge one feather but accidentally get it by another. You have only a split second to react to it and it's a bit much, that kind of response time is fine for an action-based game like DMC or GoW but it's a bit much. I agree with the OP 100% and have seen it myself where on my screen it looked like my team mates weren't even in the red zone and then WHAM landslide/weight/whatever to the face.

It's cheap and unfair, not challenging.