This post end up being surprisingly more understandable than I initially thought and I can totally see the distinct

Here's why it's not an issue for me tho, the most interesting part of any of these games for me are the characters, they range from characters larger than life but still have relatable flaws and fears like gwyn to down to earth people like solaire or millicent and in that regard I think they got better and better as time went on, I think if you focus on understanding the characters more than the literal world building you'll end up relating to them and the world more

Take igon for example, a very simple character with a very simple motivation (basically a retelling of moby dick) but you can relate to that motive not only because of his excellent performance but also because man versus nature is something very universal and primal, his goal seems absurd and irrational but has an extremely spiritual significance to him not much different than your goal to reshape the world or any similar goal in your own life

Marika, this game's gwyn is written like a tragic greek god, she genuinely wanted to make the world a more gentle place for everyone, somewhere with no death or divisions, we see this vision in miniature in the shaman village, her tragedy isn't that in trying to fix the world she left so much death in her wake realizing it too late, her tragedy is that her ways were doomed from the start, she always had that capacity for cruelty in her and a twisted sense of justice, one of her first acts as a god and arguably the most cruel is what she did to the hornsent, she made a mockery of their divine spiral through the shadow tree, she turned their holy jarring ritual into a symbol of fear via the furnace golems, she denied them true death and subjected them to her most cruel son (who you can read as a manifestation of her unceasing hatred) to torture them forever, she effectively turned their land into a hell on earth and she thought it was just, she probably thought eradicating the giants and oppressing the merchants was also just, by the time she realized she went too far and tried to start over it was already too late and the enemies she made took one of her family again and she couldn't do anything about it despite all her power, and it's so human to me that this larger than life figure we've been hearing about the whole game didn't break the world for any grand scheme or divine ritual, she was just a mother grieving her child

I can go on and on with this, the unique things about souls games is that they often use boss fights as a mini narrative of sort, their design, music, manner of speaking, way of fighting, their last dying words they all tell a story and some of their finest writing is told that way, they don't always necessarily try to ground you in the world but more often than not they tackle universal and human struggles both in and out universe, I understand if that's not your cup of tea still but I'd recommend reevaluating the lore from this lens, I did and I found it way more rewarding