Naomi

If they add difficulty modes, that's how it's intended to be played. That's why it'd make a difference and end this ridiculous discusion about 'how it's intended' - it doesn't matter.

Look, I'm not preaching "true gamer" shit and trying to gate-keep ppl, but the whole thing about putting a difficulty slider to souls games is dumb. There's only a perceived difficulty to them, if they're actually impossible, they wouldn't be fun at all.

They're impossible to a lot of people - my mom wouldn't be able to beat them. People with certain disabilities might not be able to beat them. People who don't have enough time to properly practice in a reasonable amount of time might not be able to beat them.

There's plenty of reasons to love Soulslikes that aren't just that they're really difficult. If that was true, people that are really good at Soulslikes wouldn't enjoy Soulslikes.

Not at all against accessibility. Souls games don't have difficulty settings, but you can grind and farm to your heart's content until you can cut thru every enemy like butter. If you don't have time for games why the heck would you even play them.

Bloodborne does not allow you to level up at all until you gain insight. This is done by either seeing the first boss, or acquiring an item which is found quite far in, off the beaten path. It is literally impossible to just farm until you're OP.

You're supposed to lose the first boss fight. If you don't like losing, that's not a problem with the game, that's a problem with you.

I'm not talking about fighting the boss fight. I'm talking about getting to the boss fight through streets of enemies. If you cannot do this because the game is too hard, you cannot grind through it as you were suggesting.