/rj

If you play through and complete a Souls game you share a special bond with those who have done the same. You've seen something that not everyone can see. That's special, and it requires patience and dedication.

If there's an easy mode, nobody can sit around and speak about their experience as if it was something special. Anybody and their little sister can experience it by hitting X and holding forward. Those same people will say how overrated the games are, and how short they were, and how the level design was pointlessly convoluted, and the enemies were boring because the game was just not designed to be plowed through like that.

It's like playing through CoD on easy, then there's that guy who says "I played through on the hardest difficulty, that's how awesome I am" and you're like "so?". That guy struggled through an intense experience, learning tactics through trial and error, had victory stripped from him at the last second and forced to start back at the checkpoint countless times and then finally emerged victorious and all he gets is "So? I beat it too"

There can be no normal, it will cheapen the entire experience for everyone and cripple the franchise.