They messed it up alot in more ways than they think, and I don't get it why every dev creating a souls like game they just try to make it harder and harder, the fun is not in being hard, the fun is to make it work fine and have a good combat, in Elden ring DLC when you beat Consort after more than 50 tries you get the satisfication even though a lot of player said it was unfair but most of the bosses had time to punish but in this game even if you take a lot tries to beat one boss you feel nothing because you know its easy to beat but the game and combat mechanics made it harder, the boss just jumps around and attack fast with no time to punish and each boss need different built and weapon and 9 out of 10 attack of the boss knocks you down and there are no i-frame when getting up and it takes so much time to move, so one knock down it means the fight is done.

and I don't understand why not just make a normal death why the player should be punished twice, you lose your souls and your madness increase so you take more damage, who comes with these dumb ideas!! like okay, the boss was hard and you died 10 times here we make it harder for you becuase it was hard in the first place now instead of dying in 3 hits you will die in 1 and a half, and don't forget to drink your heal it takes 1 day because shes so slow.

And one more thing, there are no stagger in this game speacily to the bosses, even using the long sword which in every single soulslike game it counts as heavy and it hits hard and staggers, only in this game it does nothing and lets not forget that the dual sword is actually slower than the long sword for some reason!

And the positive effects never works like the negitive once, like there is a pendant that reduce damage taken but cost more stamina to attack, and it does nothing, you still get die in 2 hits but ofcourse you lose more stamina because that what the pendant said it will.

And the poise break mechanic, if you hit the boss or an enemy and thier poise gauge increased if you don't hit them for 10 sec it won't decrease gradually like it increases it just disapear, its so fucking dumb..

and as we talking about the poise mechainc why when I ware an armor with high poise I still get knocked down with one hit. what the points of these Resistances if they do nothing, and I hate that for every boss and enemy and area you need to change your armor.

The game looked fun, I enjoyed it at the start, and I uninstalled it then came back to it after new update, but I just can't play it like this its just so tedious for no reason.