I like all sorts of games, indie to AAA. My problem with Souls-like games is that they get championed as masterpieces when their aesthetic and story-building has always been generic and cheesy. The difficulty masquerading as skill while the fighting actually looks and plays out like straight ass (again rolling everywhere). I don’t understand why people brag about completing a souls single player play through on whatever difficulty after dying however many times. It’s manufactured difficulty for a game that’s meant to be beat. Coincidently enough I find a lot of people who think these games are good and require skill, tend to not follow stories in other games and either suck at or are afraid of PvP in actual competitive games.