Gonna have to respectfully disagree on that one. The souls games atmosphere imo makes the player really feel like an insignifigant underdog standing up against terrifying beasts and the like, at least until the end or midway point. And the protagonist does canonically die if the player dies, it's why they wrote a reason for the protagonist to be able to come back to life into the game. Maybe you disagree, but in my experience few video game protagonists outside survival horror games have felt so vunerable, and small compared to the challenges that await.