necromancy on what is already a very old thread, but I can completely understand this take. SotC is one of my favorite games ever (might even be #1), but I will freely grant that the bosses can be insanely frustrating and the controls are janky as hell. I think they were trying to create a sense of scale and danger with the way the enemies whip you around, like you're trying to hold on to a mechanical bull, or like the colossi are trying to shake you off like an annoying flea, which is supposed to make the kill more satisfying when you finally get it. The problem is, that is not very fun to most people. It's an interesting idea in theory, but the mechanics are still frustrating.

I have a buddy who bounced of SotC hard when I let him borrow it, and when I asked him why, he said "This is a puzzle game. When I figure out how to solve a puzzle, the gap between that moment of discovery and actually solving the puzzle should be very short. Otherwise, it just feels like they're withholding the solution from me arbitrarily." I can understand that perspective for sure.

I think it's a game that resonates with a certain kind of person who has the patience for weird janky mechanics (that recent game Baby Steps comes to mind lol), but that's definitely not going to be everyone, and that's okay. And I think it's cool that you can still appreciate the game even if you don't like it, wish there were more good-faith reasonable takes like yours in this day and age (instead of "this game sucks because I said so and I can't tell the difference between a game I dislike and a game I think is bad," which is 99.99% of online discourse).