The Souls Games Ranked Easiest to Hardest

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  • @enol1466
    @enol1466 6 місяців тому +6

    "And its the worst" christ people cannot stop this shit. We fucking GET IT you dont like Ds2, its been nearly 11 years, just talk about it as a GAME. Also i love when people shit on ds2 for things other souls games ALSO have in droves like bad hit boxes, large groups of enemies, and bad endgame areas ( cough cough ds1 and ER) also sorry ds1 fans, dont get me wrong im a big ds1 enjoyer as well but Ds2 makes thay game feel outdated and ancient by comparison. By the way, the dlcs have too many enemies? Well then learn not to agro all of them? You do realize if you fight through the alonne knights as intended you wont get ganked right? Also the second room is way easier to surpass as the archers wont be able to take their swords out to hit you in time. Also when you get to Alonne's boss room the enemies dont follow you to his door. I certainly dont think ds2's runbacks are any worse than ds1's if im being honest, and even then the harder part of ds2 arent all just bad game design. This ds2 segment comes off shallow and petty, like youre coping after getting ur ass kicked. The slower playstyle isnt for everyone but that doesnt make it bad. Theres a youtuber making a series debunking alot of criticisms about ds2, i suggest you check it out as your criticisms of ds2 seem to be plucked out of the same tree as the other ds2 criticisms. The UA-camr is Domo3000

    • @gagetherage98
      @gagetherage98 6 місяців тому +4

      Nobody’s reading that big dawg

    • @epsilon1372
      @epsilon1372 6 місяців тому +4

      bruh. bro made such a joke of himself he got pinned

    • @jarlwhiterun7478
      @jarlwhiterun7478 6 місяців тому +4

      DS2 sucks

    • @kasper-jw2441
      @kasper-jw2441 4 місяці тому

      just get gud.
      apart from ds2 ofcourse, because ds2 sucks.
      the only good thing about ds2 is majula.

  • @epsilon1372
    @epsilon1372 6 місяців тому +20

    Elden ring is the most generous in terms of how easy it is to break the game even by accident but in return has some of the most oppressive bosses in the series

    • @Sargatas
      @Sargatas 6 місяців тому +1

      And to be honest they are easier to fight exactly because of that. This game rewards you for being aggressive in return because you are able to hit a boss right during his attack, circling him and forcing him to beat the air. For someone like me, who played the fast-paced games for my whole life, it is very good boss design...at least because I'm used to it. On the other hand I started to play DS1 now and Jesus mothercrispin' Christ, if it isn't the most inconvenient game I've ever played...

    • @rogerroger5283
      @rogerroger5283 6 місяців тому

      Well, I wouldnt call ER bosses opressive. Only Maliketh, Mohg, Godfrey, Malenia and Radagon are fast enough to not let you take a long break, while other bosses.... They are as fast as DS2 bosses

    • @epsilon1372
      @epsilon1372 6 місяців тому

      @@rogerroger5283 I couldn't disagree more unless we're talking about many cave bosses and some overworld bosses. I cant compare them to ds2 as ive never played them, but i find the crucible knight more challenging and complex than most things in ds3. Bosses like morgott and radahn still require me to stay focused.

    • @rogerroger5283
      @rogerroger5283 6 місяців тому

      @@epsilon1372 Maybe its because most ER bosses have shlt tone of HP? Of course, youll loose eventually who has triple more HP than final boss of DS1 and has higher dmg resistance than Gael himself. At least DS1-3 bosses have normal HP pool and theres almost no boss that requiers for you to chop-chop him for 10-15 minutes (hi Ancient Dragon DS2 and GIANT MIDDLE FINGER to Fire Giant)

    • @epsilon1372
      @epsilon1372 6 місяців тому

      @@rogerroger5283 i dont think bosses have a ton of hp. I find that bloodborne, ds3, and even some ds1 bosses to feel more tankier than most elden ring bosses. There are exceptions like some of the dragons, maybe elden beast, and the fire giant, but not only do those bosses also have weakpoints, but those bosses are the bosses i tend to find the least oppressive.
      I find some bosses in elden ring to have too litle hp, the worst offender probably being morgott as he blows up if you have a decently upgraded weapon. Also i dont see how directly comparing hp values between ds1 and elden ring does anything useful because they are different games. You have access to more ways of dealing damage and are way faster than in ds1. Of course bosses are gonna have different levels of hp between games.
      And again i am also talking about raw movesets. The misbegotten warrior, one of the first minibosses you can encounter, is essentially a more complex version of Gael phase 1 (mechncially that is). The crucible knight has a lot of ideas dragonslayer armor had, but is more complicated to figure out. Morgott is one of the most complex and aggressive bosses in the series. Godrick, while not too hard, took me longer to figure than nearly every early game boss in the other souls games. Single knight enemies in some of the legacy dungeons feel more complex than even a lot of bosses in ds3. So i still whole heartedly stand by my point that elden ring has the most relentless enemies and bosses as a whole. Trust me, hp or damage resistance has nothing to do with how i feel

  • @GodOfAI_
    @GodOfAI_ 6 місяців тому +30

    Finally someone who understands how hard Elden Ring really is in terms of AI aggressiveness and unpredictable attack patterns it shouldn’t be even a question.

    • @CosmicEye597
      @CosmicEye597  6 місяців тому +5

      Elden Ring has always been super tough for me lol. I remember trying Maleina solo for hours on end before I finally beat her.

    • @bjeurn2273
      @bjeurn2273 6 місяців тому +5

      Even tho ER has some of the hardest bosses, I still think it is one of the easier fromsoft games just because you have so many ways to play the game or break the game. The summons are super broke and it's so easy to overlevel. Also when you're stuck you can just go somewhere else unlike let's say DS3.
      This doesn't mean it's an easy game at all tho. Even by breaking the game and also using summons, bosses like Melania are still super hard, but overal I feel ER is one of the easier ones

    • @ales6305
      @ales6305 6 місяців тому +1

      Elden ring players when the game designed around spirit ashes and summons is hard 😮

    • @sebastianstew581
      @sebastianstew581 6 місяців тому +2

      ER is very forgiving, and the amount of damage the player can do so early on just makes it easy compared to ds1, 2 and 3

    • @bjeurn2273
      @bjeurn2273 6 місяців тому +1

      @@sebastianstew581 totally agree

  • @alcoholicbasketcase
    @alcoholicbasketcase 6 місяців тому +14

    Whichever you play first

    • @epsilon1372
      @epsilon1372 6 місяців тому +1

      Not entirely true imo. Ds1 was my first and while ten learning experience was definitely hard, I found elden ring and sekiro’s endgame bosses to be way harder as well as some bloodborne areas

    • @falcoon_f_zero9450
      @falcoon_f_zero9450 6 місяців тому

      Doesn't always go that way. DS2 was my first actual souls game and it ended up being much easier time compared to what DS3 or the later games throw at you. Things get so fast and aggressive in the newer games. I'm always confused when people consider DS3 easy when a souls newb back then had an easier time with DS2 without even knowing what adaptibilty did and went through the game with a useless dodge 😂

  • @C_O_N_C_E_P_T
    @C_O_N_C_E_P_T 6 місяців тому +7

    About time that someone knows how to judge difficulty correctly.
    When people say Elden is the easiest I always judge the way they play and ask for a video of their Malenia fight.
    Honestly sekiro I didn’t find that hard when I got into the mechanics. The flow/rhythm it has you either click with it or you just struggle forever.
    Isshin took me a little over an hour. I did demon bell and charmless on my ng+3 run for the platinum.
    I still put dark souls 1 right over demons souls. Ds2 around what ds3 is for the area’s and mobs not bosses. But dlc bosses in 2 is a nice step up.
    The bosses ai is way more advanced than the old games. Ds3 dlc bosses can feel similar. They can be very complicated to learn hitless. Positioning is very important as well. Really learning the bosses well in Elden is pretty complicated compared to the old games.
    Our list is pretty close to the same.

    • @CosmicEye597
      @CosmicEye597  6 місяців тому

      I am glad most of the comments are understanding my point of view on elden rings placement lol. When Shadow drops it may even be number 1.

    • @OG-es3hn
      @OG-es3hn 6 місяців тому +1

      I also did most of the bosses in all souls games withouth summons and I agree on this ranking, I have my malenia Video and a few other boss fights but malenia was the hardest boss for me

    • @davidnewhart2533
      @davidnewhart2533 6 місяців тому

      Judging Elden Ring's difficulty on just Malenia is not a good argument. One could easily argue that Malenia is the exception.

  • @Messmerrized
    @Messmerrized 6 місяців тому +5

    I agree with Elden Ring - in could be the easy if you just use summons and meta weapons, but if you play just by yourself it's really hard at least because some bosses requires more than "roll and hit at the time". Best Fromsoftware game so far for me.

  • @gravekpr
    @gravekpr 6 місяців тому +3

    For me, the hardest was Bloodborne, as this was the first FROM game I was stubborn enough to finish. 😄
    Then I played all of them, and besides BB most troubles gave me DS2 I think. Oh, and also, I did plat in DS3 which was hell. 😅
    Awesome content you make!

    • @CosmicEye597
      @CosmicEye597  6 місяців тому +1

      Bloodborne was my first fromsoft game, too. I remember being stuck in Central Yharnam for two full days lol. Thanks for the awesome comment :)

  • @brutusmagnuson315
    @brutusmagnuson315 6 місяців тому +3

    To be honest, I really don’t care that much about difficulty. Even though my favorite bosses tend to be harder, I don’t think it’s just because they’re hard.
    I find Midir to be a thrilling spectacle that you master with time, similar with Manus. I almost love Malenia, but there’s a few things about the fight that annoys me. I honestly prefer Radahn and Godfrey over her.
    Despite that, there are some easy bosses, like Vordt and the Dancer that I still find to be a fun back-and-forth

  • @davidkamps9879
    @davidkamps9879 6 місяців тому +14

    DS2 bosses: 😴
    DS2 boss runs: 😱

  • @neondouble_
    @neondouble_ 6 місяців тому +3

    Here's the thing about Elden Ring... it CAN be either one of the easiest games you ever play or one of the hardest games you ever play...

  • @BasketCase-rr7tx
    @BasketCase-rr7tx 6 місяців тому +3

    I think it’s kinda weird to put Elden Ring so high for its enemy attack patterns when you put DS1 above DS3. DS1 is my favorite game of all time, but I’d be lying if I didn’t say that 90% of the enemies have very simple move sets that just require you to circle and back stab them/whack their asses.

  • @c.g2766
    @c.g2766 6 місяців тому +2

    I love this video, ofc the opinions resonate with me heavily, but even outside of that the general editing pace and vocal delivery feels like it's coming from a much larger channel. All that being said I can't help but laugh at 8:09 ragadon

    • @CosmicEye597
      @CosmicEye597  6 місяців тому

      Thank you so much for the kind words :]

    • @eliasfigarzon9813
      @eliasfigarzon9813 3 місяці тому

      ​@@CosmicEye597lmao you put elden ring as hard? Hahaha you poor f king @$#
      Elden ring is objectively speaking the easiest souls game. How bad are you, you @$#@ 😂😂😂

  • @dark__angel__9150
    @dark__angel__9150 6 місяців тому +6

    Ds2 is frustrating rather than difficult

  • @leobro6398
    @leobro6398 6 місяців тому

    Sekiro is hard but for almost every boss there is a way to either cheese it completely or make it much easier.
    For gyobu you can use firecrackers.
    For lady butterfly shurikens and sidestepping to hit her repeatadly.
    Genichiro is one of the bosses where I cant think of a cheese which is why many people struggle at him first.
    Guardian ape you can first use firecrackers, mortal blade and then the spear.
    The monk fight can be skipped completely by using snap seeds, ash and firecrackers to stunlock her.
    Owl again is a git gud kinda fight.
    True monk same thing like with the false variant.
    And then the final boss is not cheesable again. So in total there are 3 bosses you cant cheese, which is why these 3 are the biggest roadblocks for most players.

  • @pigeon2820
    @pigeon2820 5 місяців тому

    I get saying elden ring is hard without guides or summons and no magic but I did the same and still found it way easier then ds1 and blood borne. I think it’s cause of how it’s an open world game. I would often be overlevelled without realising and would stomp through bosses within a handful of tries. Apart from that, I think ur list is great

  • @DZB666
    @DZB666 6 місяців тому

    DS2 gives me a feeling that the itherbgames don't. The majula music is so good and the intro with the women in the hut and stuff and even the text used for the subtitles makes the game seem like it was made 10 years earlier than it actually was, I love DS2 honestly. I can't help but think I enjoy playing it more than 1 and 3.

  • @ZombiezKey
    @ZombiezKey 6 місяців тому +1

    I understand that the difficulty is subjective and completely relies on your build and whatever. but even considering that, sekiro is STILL the easiest of all of them. literally just spam L1 and you’ll block 90% of attacks. you don’t need to know attack patterns, just click L1 over and over as fast as you can and the game basically plays itself. I first tried like 80% of the bosses in that game.

  • @whodatiscody
    @whodatiscody 6 місяців тому +1

    I think Sekiro only having one way to play makes it easier, in the other games you can totally screw yourself by making a bad build. Like leveling resistance in ds1 or not leveling adp in ds2. Plus the parrying is much easier in Sekiro than the other games, tbh I would put Bloodborne at the top

    • @talentroller4413
      @talentroller4413 6 місяців тому

      eh bloodborne base game is a lot easier than sekiro. sekiro actually requires a lot of the mediocre players struggling to git gud. you say one way but the time it takes for people to actually get effective at it is pretty long

    • @whodatiscody
      @whodatiscody 6 місяців тому

      @@talentroller4413 maybe I had an easier time with it since I liked parrying in all the souls games. I can definitely see Sekiro feeling extremely difficult if you played sword and board before starting it

  • @krossoverBR
    @krossoverBR 6 місяців тому

    i completed all the fromsoftware souslike games (including sekiro) and for me ds3 is the hardest by far, idk if my version is different from the others but the bosses in Dark Souls 3 frustrate me in an absurd way lol

  • @crazyfriend50
    @crazyfriend50 6 місяців тому +1

    Hardest: sekiro
    Easiest: elden ring
    Most bullshirt: dark souls 2
    Most replayability: dark souls 3 or elden rint
    (Never played bloodborne or demon souls due to playing xbox and steam)

    • @CosmicEye597
      @CosmicEye597  6 місяців тому +1

      Hopefully sony puts demons souls and BB on pc one day lol. Exclusivity is so annoying

    • @crazyfriend50
      @crazyfriend50 6 місяців тому

      @@CosmicEye597 really hope so
      Ive got all achievements for all but demon souls demon souls remake and bloodborne

  • @ryandavid1277
    @ryandavid1277 6 місяців тому

    Did you play Demon's Souls at launch? Or at least before you played any other Souls or Soulslike?

  • @tryyiam
    @tryyiam 6 місяців тому

    The thing about Elden Ring is.... it's easy if you use spirit summons and broken stuff but i don't do it because it feels wrong because i played all the old games without summons... but i feel like Elden Ring is designed with spirit summons in mind. Some bosses are just straight BS if you ask me.

  • @cincameron
    @cincameron 6 місяців тому +1

    Sekiro is the easiest, followed by Dark Souls 1. I don't see how anyone ever got stuck on these games unless they suffered from performance issues due to a terrible PC or early gen console (DS1 Blighttown on PS3/360 was hell).
    Sekiro is WAY too forgiving. Deflection mechanic, calling out unblockable attacks, and revival. The enemies and most bosses are way too simple as well on top of the prosthetic being way too easy to cheese. Dark Souls lets you get overpowered way too easily. Whether that be accidentally getting high upgrade materials early, finding powerful weapons, or getting a pyromancy flame. I have never struggled with either of these games on my first playthrough.
    Obviously Demon's Souls is arguably the easiest in terms of magic playthroughs, but chances that someone is going to get fire storm on their first run within the first half of the game is very low.

  • @travis7756
    @travis7756 6 місяців тому +1

    DS3 as 2nd easiest is crazy its fs top 3 hardest with Sekiro and Bloodborne plus idk elden ring is only really difficult at the end tbh mid game you just slap any boss you see.

    • @falcoon_f_zero9450
      @falcoon_f_zero9450 6 місяців тому

      Thought I'd never see someone who thinks that way. Yeah, if someone says DS3 is some of the easier of these games I always wonder if we played the same game.

  • @soldierswag4884
    @soldierswag4884 4 місяці тому

    How about Lies of P ? where would you put it

    • @CosmicEye597
      @CosmicEye597  4 місяці тому

      in between ds1 and 2. lies of p is a great game

    • @soldierswag4884
      @soldierswag4884 4 місяці тому

      ​@@CosmicEye597 Interesting I tought lies of p is harder than Bloodborne

    • @CosmicEye597
      @CosmicEye597  4 місяці тому

      @@soldierswag4884 I would have to sit down and think about it further. it was harder at launch tho

  • @AHaber007
    @AHaber007 6 місяців тому +1

    No way ds1/2 are harder than ds3. Maybe when it comes to the map progression because sometimes you dont know where to go. So going in blind mayyybeee ds1/2 are harder than 3, but once you have played through these games atleast once, ds1/2 are super easy. Ds1 = Super easy to get max weapon upgrades / Ds2 = Farm Rotten with BAs and overlevel a fuck tone(also easy max upgrades). Ds3 bosses are 100% more difficult than ds1/2 bosses.

    • @whodatiscody
      @whodatiscody 6 місяців тому

      Most of the bosses in ds3 can be staggered which made it a lot easier for me. It took me more tries to beat Kalameet or Fume Knight than any of the toughest bosses in ds3. Plus being able to roll spam made even the craziest boss combos a joke, compared to the first two games where you really had to be deliberate with every action

    • @AHaber007
      @AHaber007 6 місяців тому

      @@whodatiscody Ds1 was my First soulslike. Every Boss was a joke to me. Legit only artorias and manus where decently hard. The amount of people that needed days to beat namelessking / friede / gael/ midir speaks for itsself.

    • @whodatiscody
      @whodatiscody 6 місяців тому

      @@AHaber007 that is you, when I played ds3 for the first time I felt the same way about its bosses, Gael, Midir, and Nameless all went down first or second try. I will say Friede took about 4 or 5. Finished the game at level 88 with a claymore

    • @AHaber007
      @AHaber007 6 місяців тому

      @@whodatiscody Did i say i struggled agaisnt them?, again read what i said lmao.Its about the average player and iam 100% certaint that the average player has a harder time with ds3 than they will have with ds1/2.

    • @whodatiscody
      @whodatiscody 6 місяців тому

      @@AHaber007 ds3 is well known as the easiest souls game in the community

  • @shortsamurai1213
    @shortsamurai1213 Місяць тому

    i went from ds1 to ds3 without playing ds1s dlc because i didn’t even know about it my first blind playthrough.(how would anyone) and ds3 WHOOPED my fucking ass. bloodborne was so easy i literally parried everything to death and lady maria is actually a joke. orphan is mid difficulty but definitely not harder then midir or friede or gael

  • @hhcq
    @hhcq 6 місяців тому

    elden ring will be hard if it was your first souls game other than that i think it should be one of the easiest

  • @christopherwilson-sz6hm
    @christopherwilson-sz6hm 6 місяців тому

    Demon souls is easy till you get to ng+

  • @shortsamurai1213
    @shortsamurai1213 Місяць тому

    how is bloodborne harder then ds3 this list is actually a joke

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    @niteshanthony2324 5 місяців тому

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  • @corryskylord3177
    @corryskylord3177 6 місяців тому +1

    “Elden Ring is actually hard if you don’t use the things the developers provided to you” nah, still a sleeper game, get better at timing rolls

  • @StonexRanger
    @StonexRanger 6 місяців тому +1

    sekiro isn’t a souls game. that’s like saying armored core is one just bc it’s made by fromsoft but idk that’s just me

    • @chainsawvsgod384
      @chainsawvsgod384 6 місяців тому +4

      What a boring thing to comment.

    • @rigorm136
      @rigorm136 6 місяців тому +2

      Yeah it isn’t, it’s its own thing. I don’t know why people keep misnomering it as one of

  • @Sargatas
    @Sargatas 6 місяців тому

    Elden Ring? The same Elden Ring that has an option to take summons almost everywhere and amount of broken weapons larger then all previous games combined? Are we thinking about one game?)
    If a game has options (for every stat btw) to wipe out every boss with a sneeze, it can't be hard by defalt.

    • @nyquilfilthy7557
      @nyquilfilthy7557 6 місяців тому +1

      Did you watch the video?

    • @Sargatas
      @Sargatas 6 місяців тому

      @@nyquilfilthy7557 I did. And he placed it on the second place before sekiro (with which I disagree too, but I can at least think about why it's there).