The same line of thought rushes through my mind every time I respawn, having been dispatched by the Black Knight for the seventeenth time in a row; "Why do they call this game hard? The Black Knight is hard, but the game?".
I cut my way through the same boring, cookie-cutter enemies, rushing forward as I do. As I do, a third enemy I know was somewhere in the background kills me. He did not kill me because I lacked the skill to deal with him, or because I was not aware of his presence. He killed me because I did not care, and I hoped that it would not matter.
You see, after getting killed by the one hard area in a level for the gazillionth time, you lose patience. This means you rush forward in order to try to get to the hard area again, so you can get some practice. But when you rush, you leave yourself open for attack, and you die.
That, my friends, is the very definition of tedious.
It's just a relentless grind that is no way near hard, but just drawn out and dull, and the one area that IS hard, the one area that IS fun, the one area where you need practice, is hidden behind all the tedious bullshit.
It's fake difficulty, and it's fucking NES-games all over again.
I'm only at the Undead Burg, and I am pondering quiting the game, simply because the few fun, challenging areas is spaced out with tedious, grinding bullshit.
I cut my way through the same boring, cookie-cutter enemies, rushing forward as I do. As I do, a third enemy I know was somewhere in the background kills me. He did not kill me because I lacked the skill to deal with him, or because I was not aware of his presence. He killed me because I did not care, and I hoped that it would not matter.
You see, after getting killed by the one hard area in a level for the gazillionth time, you lose patience. This means you rush forward in order to try to get to the hard area again, so you can get some practice. But when you rush, you leave yourself open for attack, and you die.
That, my friends, is the very definition of tedious.
It's just a relentless grind that is no way near hard, but just drawn out and dull, and the one area that IS hard, the one area that IS fun, the one area where you need practice, is hidden behind all the tedious bullshit.
It's fake difficulty, and it's fucking NES-games all over again.
I'm only at the Undead Burg, and I am pondering quiting the game, simply because the few fun, challenging areas is spaced out with tedious, grinding bullshit.