I've just given up on this game and deleted it in frustration after trying to
I got to the third form and just died. I've gotten to the third form a few times and thats after many many attempts - 90 minutes at least! I really didn't want to carry on playing because i knew i'd have to keep repeating his other forms again too which are very hard anyway... and its just an act of patience and extreme frustration having to fight him again and again making less than like 3 mistakes and not dying. Reached his third form a few times and each time I'm like nope, he pretty much killed me straight away hardly scratched him.... this isn't really my thing and I don't have the time to sit here making zero progress on a game after 90 minutes. My time is precious.
Fuck this game though I really wanted to like it as I love From Software games and I can see its a well designed game, its not a crap game by any means. I normally only delete a game if its bad... This is probably the first time I've actually given up on a game and I've been gaming since Megadrive days...but something about this just didn't click with me from the start unlike their other Soulsborne games. It felt extremely unforgiving in general compared to anything else. It requires you to play very specifically and theres very little room for error or other tactics. Make just a few mistakes in a boss fight and you're pretty much dead for the duration of the fight.
I've beaten all their previous games and I don't normally give up on games either if they're too hard for me. But this isn't for me. I try to persevere but with this game I just dont want to or have the patience. Knowing theres probably tons more bosses that are gonna be much worse than this one I reached a point with this boss where I thought...am I actually enjoying this game anymore? I died 40 times or more on this boss and I wasn't enjoying it. I was getting better bit by bit maybe but I don't want to play games that way. Not even other Souls games did this. I managed to defeat nearly every boss within ten tries with a few exceptions on their other games. I liked the variety. In here its just either block, dodge or attack for bosses and it requires perfect timing. The skills are useless and just get you killed in a boss fight. They're more useful outside of bosses. The game has three moves pretty much for most scenarios. Deflect, dodge or attack. Not much variety. I just decided to delete it off the PS4 hdd because i just kept dying and thought If im not gonna do it now after learning his patterns in his first two forms I'm never gonna do it as I'll just forget what I've learned if I come back to it. I don't have the patience to keep doing this.
Like its taken me since launch to even reach this boss and that isn't because its actually taken me ages because of its difficullty (although I had lots of problems with Butterfly boss too) its because i havent really been drawn into the game and I've mostly been playing other games so I've been chipping at this one but not really mega keen on it as I haven't been sucked into it. Like after work I think of this game and I'm like oh do i have to do this or have to kill this boss...i don't really want to as it just feels like constantly dying and punishing. Not really something I wanna play after work. Whereas Souls games and Bloodborne I played nonstop until I beat them.
I just couldnt get into this one. I admit defeat but it's not for me. I don't have all the time in the world to constantly keep dying on very punishing boss fights or learn their attack patterns fully after the 50th attempt. I'd rather spend that time where I've actually made progress. It doesn't feel satisfying playing this game more an act of attrition and endurance.
