Different playstyles result in different journeys. How would you rank the difficulty of each game? (This is the part you get offended by personal opinions.)
Yea, not taking offense as we all have our personal preferences, but I think putting ER down so low because if you can't beat the first boss, you can go grind for 50+ hours until you can finally beat him yet putting DS2 so high while ignoring how it gives you the most souls to spend in the franchise and is the easiest to upgrade things is laughable. DS2, with the exception of a few areas, is very easy to play, as long as you take your time and not treat it as a boss rush game. Also, the early game of DS3 for those who are new to it is actually very brutal and some of the bosses are terrible. The late game bosses seem to really ramp up the quality and look amazing to fight (I say it that way as I only got up to Pontiff my first time and when I tried again recently, just got bored with the junk boss fight of the tree). As for Sekiro, I agree with you there. I think the hardest part is that it really feels like an action game but the combat is purely a rhythm game. Also, technically you do level up but you don't gain levels per say but you use the experience to unlock more skills.
What do you mean by that? Do you mean keep DS2 lore/story but update the gameplay to match later games? Or is there something about the lore itself that you think is wrong?
I feel like Sekiro holds the title relatively easily since there is NO other choice than “git gud” you HAVE to learn the bosses, you can’t run around and come back over-powered/over leveled, you are funneled into that spot and the most you can really do is try to find prayer beads and get some more skill points/upgrade the prosthetic. At the same time, Sekiro becomes the easiest game and kind of plateaus once you have the rhythm down. Isshin to me is just a fun really well crafted boss that I can beat 99% of the time since I’ve beat the game 4 times and learned everything. I even beat all the inner forms, and I would say Inner Father is right at the top of souls boss difficulty, and even rivals Prime Consort Radahn, who I also beat without any sort of spell/shield cheese.
When you get a grip on sekiros combat it gets easy tho. Isshin and owl father aren't that hard of you've gotten good at the combat during your playthroughs and later playthroughs become jokes
@@pandim8035 but thats only once you get gud at it (which usually may take like 1-2 playthroughs of it) other games like dark souls 1-2 or like elden ring or bloodborne are piss easy from the start
Am I the only one that thinks sekiro is easy ? Like obviously not easy every soulsborne is difficult but it’s not the hardest in fact it’s the second easiest soulsborne I’ve ever played elden ring is way more difficult and everyone says that there is NO way other than getting gud uhh what about prosthetics ? Ako’s sugar ? Combat arts ? Man mortal blade cheeses most of the bosses if you actually abuse everything the game gives you the game is not that difficult and I didn’t even abuse absolutely everything
Sekiro is extremely forgiving, and once you figure out what the game wants from you, it becomes extremely easy. I've watched my friend play through both sekiro and shadow of the erdtree, and he had 6x more deaths in shadow of the erdtree lol
@@frostyobama2583 yeah no, Sekiro gets extremely easy after Genichiro. If you learned the game properly like the developers wanted you to, you should have learned the combat by then.
Yes, can we please get a Dark Souls 1&2 remake. Not that games aged bad or anything, I just want to see those rushed parts in their full potential. Second half of Dark Souls 1 is one thing seeing the artbook and concept arts of Dark Souls 2 makes me wonder how different each game could be. Even Profaned Capital in Ds3 was rushed when it was suppose to be a full underground city like Shulva.
Strength bonk builds make the game so easy. Never understood why all strength users say any other type of playstyle is cheesy. I mean with melee just grab a big ass weapon or two and keep poise braking and stun locking everything lol
Pure melee is imo easier than ranged seeing as bosses hard counter the encouraged ranged playstyle as you get farther into the game. It’s really clutch that int builds have the mlgs because comet don’t work so good against bosses built for the melee flow
Sekiro and ds3 are still harder even with that, Elden ring has the hardest bosses that way but the level design is so much more forgiving, u could argue bb is still harder too just bec of the levels, and it isn’t just the levels bec bb dlc has even harder bosses than Elden ring
@@MattDean-o1tyea with input reading from bosses especially bosses like malenia sorcery doesn’t really feel cheese to me . . I’m talking if you’re playing like a regular sorcerer just glintstone shard/cometshard spam etc none of that 20 buffs/terra magicka/glass cannon comet azure stuff . .
Maybe I’ve just played Bloodborne so much but the game is so easy to me. Literally once you get past the first part of the game and get your blood vials up the game is a cake walk
9:35 Based! You have this guy saying it is okay to cheese and play however you want right after he shows an incredible RL1 clip and then there are those edlords all over the internet telling people how they enjoy the game is wrong and they should be ashamed.
So true. Though some styles does lessen the enjoyment of the fight, if you at least enjoyed it, then it served its purpose. However, if you don't do certain things that the game sets up and then complain how hard it is, then we got a problem (e.g. trying to solo the co-op areas in DS2 when they were set up to be played as a team and then go complain how unfair they are or complaining how difficult the first guy in ER is after just going straight to him without really exploring the open world).
Plus they are easily doable while solo just extremely hard. No one cares when we say they were highly optional areas that aren't even in the main path of the game you gave to actively seek them out@@Ironica82
@@Ironica82All the ds1 players were complaining about not enough challenge and Fromsoftware listened and added these torture areas for all the veterans of the games and then they turned around and complained about it lmao dweebs
Im giving it to 2 personally. It crushes people who dont know about the ADP stat, and NG+ 7 Blue Smelter put hair on my chest. But i mean all these games are super easy once theyve been out a few months and people figure out what weapon just melts all the bosses
Two is not that hard if you take your time and don't treat the game as a boss rush. I find that people make it hard by trying to run past everything or fail at soloing the co-op areas and then complain on how hard it is.
Hardest in the series if you don’t know about ADP and the merchant selling infinite life gems. Easiest in the series if you do, imo. (Not including Sekiro)
Dark Souls 2 is definetly the easiest. 99 lifegems and you don’t even need to roll most of the time. Considering many people have beaten the game without ever leveling adp it’s very doable
Ds1 is way harder bro, without the soul glitch ds1 is a nightmare with the longest runbacks and distance between bonfires. Ds2 isn't meant to be solo played in the frozen outskirts and iron passage, even the whole eleum loyce 3rd world dlc was created with coop in mind which is where everyone loses faith in the game. The run through eleum loyce is by far the hardest in any souls game especially before Ava the kings pet. You have to kill 90% of everything and they chase you forever without stopping. That's all meant to be coop too
"Dark Souls 2 has the hardest" in regards to SL1 Interesting hearing that statement after watching another video showing how SL1 isn't that hard due to all the stat boasting items and how DS3 has a higher SL1 difficulty.
I'm more and more hyped about Sekiro. Just give me straight line. Tons of bosses that will make scream at my monitor. System where I dont need to upgrade inv every hour. Just pure fast and reactive combat that's about learning bosse's moves and countering them
@the3xit762 out of ds1, LoP, ds3 and ER, Lies of P is my favorite. So I think Sekiro will suit me. I'm probably on the other side of the spectrum, compare to you Currently I'm sort of burned out and dissapointed with ER. I haven't finish it yet and I even have to force myself to play. I just want to be done with it
A list idea that would be interesting to do is: Which game has the best early level grinding spot. You can divide it into different categories (quickest to get there, quickest to repeat the process, which one gives the most xp each round, which ones are the easiest to use the grinding method, etc.). For DS1, it would probably be the bridge spot where you let the dragon burn them, get 555 (I think) souls, rest at the bonefire, and repeat. For DS2, it would be the ledge at Heides Tower where the big knights can fall off and all you need is a shield (and only need to roll if the one with the big sword does his horizontal attack). Not sure about the other games, though. However, not only would the video be interesting to watch, but it would help those who are struggling with the early game for each game as well.
Interesting opinions I’ve only beat Dark Souls 3, Bloodborne and Elden Ring. 1.) the healing system 2.) mobs are harder than the bosses 3.) the DLC mainly because I played on NG+ and accidentally kill Gehrman with the assumption it would ask me if I’d roll over to NG+. Orphan wasn’t as bad as everyone says to me at least. Laurence and Lady Maria along with Ludwig were a pain Honestly asides from Laurence and some NG+ enemies it wasn’t that bad So my Ranking would go easiest to hardest: Bloodborne Dark Souls 3 1.) Midir and late game mobs 2.) Sister Friede, Demon Princes 3.) Lorian and Lothric 4.) early game is very unforgiving at low levels and no upgraded weapons I found DS3 NG+ to be veeeerrrryy unforgiving late game but that’s to be expected, Midir had me tweaking when I one shotted him on NG Elden Ring (no summons) Ah my first souls game…. Souls VETS and Snobs… REAAALLLYYY want to say Elden Ring is easy. Yes you can summon a tanky mimic of yourself with bleed proc cheeses and you can cheese the boss yourself with some spells. Buuut if you had to play it organically the bosses are absolutely more ridiculous than any other souls game bosses asides from Sekiro. They fight like Devil May Cry characters. Dodging is hell. The DLC even proves that. So if you play without cheeses and summons I guarantee Elden Ring and Sekiro tie (I’ve heard Sekiro is insane). Bosses: Messmer, Malenia, Consort Radahn, Bayle, Scadutree Avatar, Radagon and The Elden Beast. Rellana, Astel Stars Of Darkness, Mohg, Morgott, Fire Giant. Hell, Starscourge Radahn and Commander Niall. ALL of These bosses…. Are immensely harder than 60% to 80% of Dark Souls 3 and Bloodborne. Honestly I found a lot of bosses in Bloodborne and DS3 to be jokes and they are designed to be FOUGHT SOLO. Elden Ring is definitely designed with summoning in mind, I mean, look at all the different summons. Elden Ring may be more accessible but you can also farm and level in DS3 and BB, so I find that argument bullshit. Elden is by far the hardest FromSoft game and that’s me being bold not even playing Sekiro. I was stuck on Malenia, Messmer, Chadahn, Chadagon and many other bosses for days and hours. just because it’s a lot of people’s entry into souls, doesn’t make it easy. The only reason I haven’t finished DS1 is the mobs and run backs. DS2 I’ll pass. Sekiro, I’ve seen enough on it and that one doesn’t interest me.
@@yeahnahmate7 only the self proclaimed ‘vets’. The souls community is one of the most fun communities to be in, no matter what butthurt critics like joseph anderson try to tell you. The only negative is the self proclaimed ‘souls vets’
Demon souls was the last souls game I played out of all of them but despite the fact that you tend to find each game easier as you play more of them I struggled with this one so much. The irony is that I beat flamelurker on my first try while I tend to see people say he’s the hardest boss in the game. It’s so interesting how different peoples experiences are.
That's the second boss in the second area, right? I got stuck there in the PS3 version with my knight character, I barely did any damage to it so I gave up. In PS5 version I learned it is weak against magic so I made a mage character and totally annihilated it first try. ... Then I came to that third area, after you kill the false idol or whatever it name is, the next boss after that is so bad to fight against as a mage that I'm reconsidering to restart the game a THIRD TIME to make another knight
Perfect timing on the vid, I just downloaded the demon souls remake, and dark souls 1 remastered after beating elden ring and loving it (I played these 2 back when I was a kid but didn't understand anything about them and because I had them through gamefly I decided not to keep them for very long)
Nothing still beats the super massive jump in difficulty in between NG and NG+ for bloodborne. Nothing also beats how hard the defiled chalices were 💀. Though optional, was very much one of the hardest I've went through.
Might’ve mistaken it for some of the chalices, but I didn’t do the dlc, any online chalices, or grind the blood gems. most ng+ bosses straight up 1 to 2 shotted me. Especially Micolash and Rom’s adds.
I still truly feel like Dark Souls 1 is the hardest, even after playing every Soulsborne game. I felt this way when I played it for the first time and I still feel this way. It wasn’t even my first Soulsborne game, it was my last (this was when the newest one was Dark Souls 3). The environments are hellish. Blighttown, Sen’s Fortress, Anor Londo, Tomb of the Giants, Duke’s Archives…they’re all major gauntlets to overcome. Taking Sen’s Fortress as an example, there’s never been anything in the series as punishing as that gauntlet. The environments want you dead at all times. Environmental hazards are at an all time high for the series, everything wants you dead, from the ground, to the walls, to the rocks. And let’s not forget the hardest non boss section in the series…the Anor Londo archers. It’s ridiculous, man. Even going back to play DS1 now, I never feel safe in this game. Elden Ring? Pffft bosses are tough but the world is easy to navigate. Sekiro? Tough combat, but again the world is easy to navigate. The only one I would compare to DS1 in difficulty is Bloodborne, but in that game you always have the Hunter’s Dream to warp back to. You don’t have anywhere to go in DS1 until you get the Lordvessel. No idea how DS1 has the reputation of being one of the easiest. Play DS1 and then play DS3 for example. Night and day difference. In DS3 you feel mobile, you feel SAFE, you don’t feel like the entire world is out to get you.
I honestly agree. I ranked those games the same as you did. Even when reviews and some people claimed that new Elden Ring DLC have hardest bosses in From Soft history I was like "do you remember what tarnished is capable of?" because you have so much freedom and so many obvious ways to make fights easy, while Bloodbourne and Sekiro design is really tight and you have way less options to deal with enemies in some straightforward cheesy way, unless there is some bug exploit you can find online. So yeah I came to same conclusion that Bloobourne and Sekiro are still most difficult FromSoft games.
My memory of most games are not so fresh but here you go Easy to hardest (boss difficulty+environment difficulty) = elden ring (l2 spam ftw, even without summons), demons, ds1, ds3, bloodborne, ds2, sekiro.
I've only played (and platinumed) Elden Ring, Bloodborne and most recently, Sekiro. Demon's Souls is next. I'm also not looking forward to DS2 but I'm up for the challenge haha
I feel like Elden ring is the easiest fromsoft game, there’s just those nerds online who tell you “you’re not playing the way miyazaki intended” for using mechanics that were added with a purpose
Hardest thing on Bloodborne was the combination of Giant Beasts where you can't really see what they hin you with and 30 FPS... that hurts. Sekiro is not easy, but doable as soon as you get the hang of the parry/combat system. I struggeled most with the hard Elden RIng bosses like Prime Radahn or Malenia (solo, with the mimic they're also more doable)
I agree that Sekiro is the most difficult. By the time I reached the first mini-boss, I thought the game was genuinely impossible until I figured out the rhythm of the game. It's extremely difficult to initially learn, turns into a challenging game when you figure it out, and becomes the easiest by the time you beat it. Among Souls, Bloodborne, and Elden Ring, I'd say Demon's Souls was the hardest for me. I played Demon's Souls Remake after getting the platinum trophy in all the other games. I didn't cheese a single one. Demon's Souls felt the most difficult because I'd end up in pure black world tendency sometimes and make the game impossible for myself. Also, it was the most difficult in the first stages of every area. Once I killed the first boss in every area, it would typically take me 30 minutes at most to finish the last segment.
I remember using the Moonveil in Elden Ring and literally breezing through the game. For my 2nd playthrough i used a regular Katana just to purposely make the game more difficult.
The clip of you beating maliketh with those stats and the stuff you had astonishes me your amazing man and keep up the good work you just gained a sub 😁🫡👍
Sekiro has zero cheese and is by far the hardest because of that. Every other game can be made easier with the right combination of playstyle, gear and OP weapons. You can beat them without learning the mechanics or the bosses, especially Elden Ring, but that is impossible with Sekiro, because even with Shinobi tools, you will eventually hit a roadblock that cannot be overcome with anything other than getting good.
There's a lot of cheese just not in the normal sense of "I hit enemy 50% bar, he hits for 2%". Name a boss and there is a way to cheese it, or make fight trivial. A lot of bosses are looped, other lot are scripted. There's still some skill involved in cheesing but same can be said about soulsring cheeses.
I agree with the statement of difficulty being subjective. What i mean is for me the game itself isn't difficult, the system is fine, but for me, doing runbacks and excessive exploring is hell, which is why DS2 is the hardest for me.
This is a nice video and some valid opinions. I wouldnt really agree with you on some of these but you bring up some good points. A playstyle can definitely impact your experience, as it did mine. I really like parrying which is why I breezed through sekiro. This would be my current ranking (I havent played ds3 yet) 6. Demons Souls 5. Dark Souls 1 4. Dark Souls 2 3. Sekiro 2. Elden Ring 1. Bloodborne The games just got easier for me over time, as I learned the timing for each game, but I'll never forget the struggle on cleric beast and vicar amelia
Dark souls 2 is very easy because you can level up quickly, but forest of fallen giants and tower of flame are insanely difficult for early game areas, and i wont mention dlc areas
It's funny to see bloodborne so high. That was the game that really got me into the souls genre, I tried DS1 but it didn't grab me. Then Bloodborne became my life for about 6 months. I used to think it was really hard, but now going back to it after playing relatively restricted builds on Elden ring, and having played DS3 as well, I think it's pretty easy. You can spam Dodge like crazy and bloodborne and be just fine. I'm glad Elden widened the scop of strategies, the DS3 and BB roll spamming was pretty out of control, glad Elden made it more difficult while still making it reasonable for a new player to clear the game.
I’ve played Elden Ring, Bloodborne and Sekiro (currently playing ds3), and tbh they’re all difficult in their own respective ways (except for Elden Ring, that game was just really easy for me), Sekiro is rough but really easy once the combat clicks, and Bloodborne’s base game is really easy but the later chalice dungeons and dlc are extremely tough, so it’s hard to rank them to me
Difficulty on first playthrough: 7) Dark Souls 6) Dark Souls 2 5) Elden Ring 4) Demon Souls 3) Bloodborne 2) Dark Souls 3 1) Sekiro Difficulty on repeat playthrough (not NG+): 7) Sekiro 6) Elden Ring 5) Dark Souls 2 4) Dark Souls 3) Bloodborne 2) Demon Souls 1) Dark Souls 3 Most difficult for a Souls virgin: 7) Elden Ring 6) Bloodborne 5) Dark Souls 3 4) Sekiro 3) Dark Souls 2 2) Dark Souls 1) Demon Souls
I remeber watching bloodborne videos for years moving to souls videos, never playing. Then trying Elden ring and still being like, aight this is fuckin tough 😭🤣
Demon souls might have easy bosses, but the levels were so frustrating that I didn’t finish the game. On the other hand, I loved Elden ring and got the platinum trophy within a few weeks of buying it
DS2 is unironically decent if your goal is getting good, just level ADP and don't aggro every single enemy unless you can take them out. It's not DS3 nor ER, where you can just run through areas without being severely punished. I agree with the difficulty placement, it's not that difficult if you take your time with the enemies. I don't think Sekiro is hard, the parry window is too generous. Only Demon of Hatred made me struggle a little bit.
I still consider Elden Ring to be the easiest in the franchise by far, just for the fact that the game gives you an INSANE amount of tools to use, and the fact that it’s open world and you can do a million things before facing the boss. Still a 10/10 masterpiece for sure.
I've only played Elden Ring, but out of all the others I feel like Sekiro would be the one that would clap me the most. From what I hear, parrying is a must in that game and I'm not good at that.
I pretty much agree with everything! But i toggle bloodborne and sekiro as the hardest. You are SOLO in sekiro. You don't just "get-gud", you have to master it to get past genichiro, then turn mastery into an art with subsequent bosses. But upon mastery, like you said, it became something else, even "easy" like a realist painter easily copying the Mona Lisa. Bloodborne, however, has more of one thing that all other From games don't. Serious fear factor. The content is much closer to home, in a more modern urban environment. And the fear alone had me being CARRIED by my partner in blood-ministration. There were times i had to stop playing just from a lack of will to face my own nerves. I eventually mastered Amygdala and Rom. The beast on the bridge and vicar amelia are my pets now. But everything else still chills my blood. So where i stand now... if i started a new game with any of these titles, bloodborne is currently still harder than sekiro, excepting the fact that i have no shame in being carried 😅 sekiro makes me feel like an accomplished mall ninja and it's great! (AC6 honorable mention: it was like sekiro, only you had a ton of gadgets you could play with, and it cut allll the fat so it feels almost like a boss run, and a much faster pace learning curve. AC6 supports my reasoning for giving bloodborne the ruling difficulty helm)
I don't know man. BB and Elden Ring were incredibly easy with the exception of certain bosses. You just have to make sure you don't pull aggro on massive mobs. Remove the mobs from BB and it's a fucking cakewalk until bosses like amygdala and orphan. The hardest thing about BB is the ledges and ladders.
For now I have only played Elden Ring, ds3 and sekiro and here's my ranking: Elden Ring is definitely the easiest, if you summon a mimic every fight and use the tools that are given to you, the game just becomes a cake walk, I beat the first part of the game with summons and quit them at farum azula, and that made farum azula the hardest area for me and maliket the hardest boss, and whwn I eventually caved in and summoned for malenia, me and my mimic tear first tried her. Summoning is just so op, and I'm sad that it's in the game because fighting without it is just twice as fun. Next hardest is ds3, early game was pretty easy, but I had the experience from elden ring, so that's to be expected, but the game really gets hard at the end and with the dlc, midir is maybe not the deadliest, but definitely the lenghtiest, and Gael is the best boss I have ever played. The hardest for sure tho is Sekiro, the game is just so thight that many times parrying is harder than dodging and there's no way to gring, I mean yeah you could farm ako's sugars to up your attack but you still have to eat it mid-fight and the posture dammage doean't even change. it's also the only game I have abandonned, but I returned to it and am now heating it in hard mode
I always play with a great sword and the heaviest armor, I’d say with this build from easiest to hardest ds1-ds2-Elden ring-ds3-bloodborne(cause it doesn’t have my standard build)
Dark Souls 2 was definitely the most frustrating to begin with due to the ganks and adp stat. For DS I watched guides non-stop so I can't really compare that (I'm older and it was my first proper bit of gaming in years). Stopped using guides once I understood the game to a sufficient degree. DS3 and Bloodborne felt easier to navigate and more fluid so in my mind they are remembered as being easier. Elden Ring has the hardest bosses I feel for melee; especially as I can't master incorporating jump into my gameplay to a high level. Not played Sekiro (have had it for 2 years).
I guess I'm helping with the algorithm here also I'll just post one another comment look at my banished knights 10:30 getting the riposte left and right
6:35 god bless dude finally someone that gets it. why the hell do you need to lvl str/dex with a +0 wep. lvl that vigor and you wont have to touch the stat again until the 2nd half of the game same thing in ds2 ironically, but with adp. lvl your str/dex to use your weapon, then adp to 99agi and youre good. theres no reason to level a damage stat when your shitknife +1 has a D scaling with Dex
Hardest: Dark Souls III. They put enemies with the agility and aggressiveness of bloodborne in a game where you're functionally the same as DSI. Then Sekiro: Maybe too high for the people good at this game, but you do literally have to get good. There's no other way. Then Bloodborne: Enemies have a real hatred for you existing, but you have the moves. Then DSII: Every encounter being a gank, and every enemy being tied to one another's awareness so you can't aggro one at a time is aggravating no matter how many times you play. Then Elden Ring: There's just too much variety. You'll find something busted, eventually. Plus there's always summons. Finally DS1: Magic, parrying, and great shield builds make this actually easy.
Spot on list. Bloodborne is the best game, and probably the second hardest. Elden Ring is difficult. It does so, so much right, and so, so much wrong. I wouldn’t mind if Fromsoft carried on with Elden Ring in mind, but wouldn’t mind if they strayed from it either. And yeah, Idc what people say, Sekiro is the hardest.
My first dark souls game was blood borne and i would rank them in this order easy - hardest: darksouls 1 remastered, bloodborne, darksouls 2(never finished), dark souls 3 and eldan ring (pretty even), sekiro, and for me demon souls as my hardest. Demons souls is my weakness yet i fly through every other game Favorite: Bloodborne and sekiro This is under the idea on not using summons and melee only since thats how i like to play im going to beat there ass and they are going to KNOW when i do cuz it wont be from far away
Seeing that you have 10 healing gourds for Genichiro means I did something wrong. I only have two, I would of beat both forms a long time ago with 10 heals
You haven't really done anything too wrong, I think I had 4 gourds when I beat Genichiro. But this is a ng+ something save, you can tell because of the so called "Shura skin" he has on sekiro. Also I just noticed this is *Inner Genichiro* so don't worry about it💀
I always find the areas far more difficult than the bosses, in this case I would say DS1 may have the hardest areas but easiest bosses and Elden ring has easiest areas with hardest bosses
I think elden ring s the most "potentially easy" game, because you have to many tools to be overpowered. Streamer Bushy proved that with right gear you can beat the game without reacting to bosses attacks. (And killed Malenia that way) GinoMachino maximized his defense and ended up taking chips damage from the most powerful attacks. No other game gives you such options.
In my experience they are all very challenging at low level… once you know the games, it’s way more manageable… DS3 has the hardest bosses in my opinion!
11:55 the ds2 dodging system is different then in any other game. Rolling has only start i frames so if you want to dodge you will have to dodge really late.
Demon's Souls was considered difficult at (western) release when the gaming market focused almost solely on casual audience. Getting something completely different was quite shocking. Also - World/Player Tendency not explained propery when it is a big deal. Dark Souls 2 vanilla (not Scholar of First Sin) had bosses that hit like a truck to the point of making most armors useless. Guess that's where people started going using no armor? Both versions can get easier because you gain so much souls to level it's not even funny. Dark Souls 1 - could agree, but Tomb of Giants suxxxxxxx even after n-th playthrough.
Yeah, Blight Town is not all that at bad on PC and modern consoles, but its abysmal reputation comes from the 7th gen consoles. It was horrendous on 360 with way less than 30fps, but the ps3 version was absolutel hell with 15-20 fps. Playing wit 15 FPS makes it quite a bit harder than with 60fps. The 7th gen consoles were really bad at handling volumetric effects and from software was never a really good studio on the technical side. Even today elden ring had a horrible launch on PC and the console versions don't run with consistent 60fps to this day (not even with the ps5 pro game boost).
Damn xD Sekiro as the hardest ? Am I one of the few that would put sekrio as one of the easier soulslike ? You only have to learn block and attack timing with your sword. All the other things can mix up your style a bit sure. But overall, your block timing and when you can follow up with a attack is the only thing you really have to learn. And since you only have the 1 sword, the timing doesn't change. But to make it ez. Rolling or dodging out of danger is harder than blocking.
Not only dark souls 2 boss run kinda bullsh*t but they also hide some of the closest bonfire to the boss behind illusory wall or blocked by stone statue. My first time playing dark souls 2 without guide from the wiki was just pure pain.
I started with dark souls 3, then Bloodborne, then ds1, then Elden ring, then Sekiro, then ds 2. Haven't played demon souls yet. I'd say, Sekiro is harder than dark souls 1 is harder than dark souls 3 is harder than Elden Ring is harder than Bloodborne is harder than dark souls 2.
Different playstyles result in different journeys. How would you rank the difficulty of each game?
(This is the part you get offended by personal opinions.)
personally I'd only swap Demon's Souls and Dark Souls 1
Yea, not taking offense as we all have our personal preferences, but I think putting ER down so low because if you can't beat the first boss, you can go grind for 50+ hours until you can finally beat him yet putting DS2 so high while ignoring how it gives you the most souls to spend in the franchise and is the easiest to upgrade things is laughable. DS2, with the exception of a few areas, is very easy to play, as long as you take your time and not treat it as a boss rush game.
Also, the early game of DS3 for those who are new to it is actually very brutal and some of the bosses are terrible. The late game bosses seem to really ramp up the quality and look amazing to fight (I say it that way as I only got up to Pontiff my first time and when I tried again recently, just got bored with the junk boss fight of the tree).
As for Sekiro, I agree with you there. I think the hardest part is that it really feels like an action game but the combat is purely a rhythm game. Also, technically you do level up but you don't gain levels per say but you use the experience to unlock more skills.
for me
Demon's Souls
Dark Souls 3
Elden Ring
Dark Souls 1
Dark Souls 2
Bloodborne
Sekiro
Out of the seven i played 5 (no DS1-2)
Boss difficulty: Sekiro
Area/level difficulty: Demon souls
Mechanics difficulty: Your first souls game
Sekiro : Hardest bosses
Demon's Souls : Worse Runbacks
Dark Souls 2 : Hardest dlc maps
Elden Ring : Hardest dlc bosses
the hardest souls game is your first one
Only valid take on this
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I have a dream. One day we will get a lore accurate Dark Souls 2 remake.
What do you mean by that? Do you mean keep DS2 lore/story but update the gameplay to match later games? Or is there something about the lore itself that you think is wrong?
You already did Lil bro. It's called Scholar of the First Sin
@@rigorm136That's a repackage, not a remake
@@rigorm136 That's more of a lore update/DLC.
Nit even lore acurate, I want to see it come to life as tge first itteration was suppose to be
I feel like Sekiro holds the title relatively easily since there is NO other choice than “git gud” you HAVE to learn the bosses, you can’t run around and come back over-powered/over leveled, you are funneled into that spot and the most you can really do is try to find prayer beads and get some more skill points/upgrade the prosthetic. At the same time, Sekiro becomes the easiest game and kind of plateaus once you have the rhythm down. Isshin to me is just a fun really well crafted boss that I can beat 99% of the time since I’ve beat the game 4 times and learned everything. I even beat all the inner forms, and I would say Inner Father is right at the top of souls boss difficulty, and even rivals Prime Consort Radahn, who I also beat without any sort of spell/shield cheese.
When you get a grip on sekiros combat it gets easy tho. Isshin and owl father aren't that hard of you've gotten good at the combat during your playthroughs and later playthroughs become jokes
@@pandim8035 but thats only once you get gud at it (which usually may take like 1-2 playthroughs of it) other games like dark souls 1-2 or like elden ring or bloodborne are piss easy from the start
Am I the only one that thinks sekiro is easy ? Like obviously not easy every soulsborne is difficult but it’s not the hardest in fact it’s the second easiest soulsborne I’ve ever played elden ring is way more difficult and everyone says that there is NO way other than getting gud uhh what about prosthetics ? Ako’s sugar ? Combat arts ? Man mortal blade cheeses most of the bosses if you actually abuse everything the game gives you the game is not that difficult and I didn’t even abuse absolutely everything
Sekiro is extremely forgiving, and once you figure out what the game wants from you, it becomes extremely easy.
I've watched my friend play through both sekiro and shadow of the erdtree, and he had 6x more deaths in shadow of the erdtree lol
@@frostyobama2583 yeah no, Sekiro gets extremely easy after Genichiro. If you learned the game properly like the developers wanted you to, you should have learned the combat by then.
Yes, can we please get a Dark Souls 1&2 remake. Not that games aged bad or anything, I just want to see those rushed parts in their full potential. Second half of Dark Souls 1 is one thing seeing the artbook and concept arts of Dark Souls 2 makes me wonder how different each game could be. Even Profaned Capital in Ds3 was rushed when it was suppose to be a full underground city like Shulva.
Elden ring without summons pure melee is by far the hardest
Strength bonk builds make the game so easy. Never understood why all strength users say any other type of playstyle is cheesy. I mean with melee just grab a big ass weapon or two and keep poise braking and stun locking everything lol
obviously its going to be harder if your purposely handicapping yourself 🙄
Pure melee is imo easier than ranged seeing as bosses hard counter the encouraged ranged playstyle as you get farther into the game. It’s really clutch that int builds have the mlgs because comet don’t work so good against bosses built for the melee flow
Sekiro and ds3 are still harder even with that, Elden ring has the hardest bosses that way but the level design is so much more forgiving, u could argue bb is still harder too just bec of the levels, and it isn’t just the levels bec bb dlc has even harder bosses than Elden ring
@@MattDean-o1tyea with input reading from bosses especially bosses like malenia sorcery doesn’t really feel cheese to me . . I’m talking if you’re playing like a regular sorcerer just glintstone shard/cometshard spam etc none of that 20 buffs/terra magicka/glass cannon comet azure stuff . .
Maybe I’ve just played Bloodborne so much but the game is so easy to me. Literally once you get past the first part of the game and get your blood vials up the game is a cake walk
Orphan kind of stills gets me some of the time
9:35 Based! You have this guy saying it is okay to cheese and play however you want right after he shows an incredible RL1 clip and then there are those edlords all over the internet telling people how they enjoy the game is wrong and they should be ashamed.
So true. Though some styles does lessen the enjoyment of the fight, if you at least enjoyed it, then it served its purpose.
However, if you don't do certain things that the game sets up and then complain how hard it is, then we got a problem (e.g. trying to solo the co-op areas in DS2 when they were set up to be played as a team and then go complain how unfair they are or complaining how difficult the first guy in ER is after just going straight to him without really exploring the open world).
Plus they are easily doable while solo just extremely hard. No one cares when we say they were highly optional areas that aren't even in the main path of the game you gave to actively seek them out@@Ironica82
@@Ironica82All the ds1 players were complaining about not enough challenge and Fromsoftware listened and added these torture areas for all the veterans of the games and then they turned around and complained about it lmao dweebs
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okay now I want that Rl1 blindfold, inverted controls, 5000ms input delay, handsome squidward run
Already did that last year. Absolute child’s play
I have beaten Sekiro Charmless+Demon bell twice, but that still feels easier than Promised Consort Radahn without my summons :(
Im giving it to 2 personally. It crushes people who dont know about the ADP stat, and NG+ 7 Blue Smelter put hair on my chest. But i mean all these games are super easy once theyve been out a few months and people figure out what weapon just melts all the bosses
Two is not that hard if you take your time and don't treat the game as a boss rush. I find that people make it hard by trying to run past everything or fail at soloing the co-op areas and then complain on how hard it is.
Hardest in the series if you don’t know about ADP and the merchant selling infinite life gems. Easiest in the series if you do, imo. (Not including Sekiro)
@@DasqalEven without infinite life gems the bosses are a joke 😂😂
Dark Souls 2 is definetly the easiest. 99 lifegems and you don’t even need to roll most of the time. Considering many people have beaten the game without ever leveling adp it’s very doable
Ds1 is way harder bro, without the soul glitch ds1 is a nightmare with the longest runbacks and distance between bonfires.
Ds2 isn't meant to be solo played in the frozen outskirts and iron passage, even the whole eleum loyce 3rd world dlc was created with coop in mind which is where everyone loses faith in the game.
The run through eleum loyce is by far the hardest in any souls game especially before Ava the kings pet. You have to kill 90% of everything and they chase you forever without stopping. That's all meant to be coop too
"Dark Souls 2 has the hardest" in regards to SL1
Interesting hearing that statement after watching another video showing how SL1 isn't that hard due to all the stat boasting items and how DS3 has a higher SL1 difficulty.
Sekiro for me… then dark souls 2… had no issues finishing the rest of the soulsbornering games
I'm more and more hyped about Sekiro. Just give me straight line. Tons of bosses that will make scream at my monitor. System where I dont need to upgrade inv every hour. Just pure fast and reactive combat that's about learning bosse's moves and countering them
Sekiro is the only souls game I hated.. I found it too difficult the combat was not my thing at all and I wasn’t a fan of the levels either
@the3xit762 out of ds1, LoP, ds3 and ER, Lies of P is my favorite. So I think Sekiro will suit me. I'm probably on the other side of the spectrum, compare to you
Currently I'm sort of burned out and dissapointed with ER. I haven't finish it yet and I even have to force myself to play. I just want to be done with it
@ that’s fair enough, each to their own! I haven’t played lies of p yet though I want to!
A list idea that would be interesting to do is:
Which game has the best early level grinding spot.
You can divide it into different categories (quickest to get there, quickest to repeat the process, which one gives the most xp each round, which ones are the easiest to use the grinding method, etc.).
For DS1, it would probably be the bridge spot where you let the dragon burn them, get 555 (I think) souls, rest at the bonefire, and repeat.
For DS2, it would be the ledge at Heides Tower where the big knights can fall off and all you need is a shield (and only need to roll if the one with the big sword does his horizontal attack).
Not sure about the other games, though. However, not only would the video be interesting to watch, but it would help those who are struggling with the early game for each game as well.
Interesting opinions I’ve only beat Dark Souls 3, Bloodborne and Elden Ring.
1.) the healing system
2.) mobs are harder than the bosses
3.) the DLC mainly because I played on NG+ and accidentally kill Gehrman with the assumption it would ask me if I’d roll over to NG+. Orphan wasn’t as bad as everyone says to me at least. Laurence and Lady Maria along with Ludwig were a pain
Honestly asides from Laurence and some NG+ enemies it wasn’t that bad
So my Ranking would go easiest to hardest:
Bloodborne
Dark Souls 3
1.) Midir and late game mobs
2.) Sister Friede, Demon Princes
3.) Lorian and Lothric
4.) early game is very unforgiving at low levels and no upgraded weapons
I found DS3 NG+ to be veeeerrrryy unforgiving late game but that’s to be expected, Midir had me tweaking when I one shotted him on NG
Elden Ring (no summons)
Ah my first souls game….
Souls VETS and Snobs… REAAALLLYYY want to say Elden Ring is easy. Yes you can summon a tanky mimic of yourself with bleed proc cheeses and you can cheese the boss yourself with some spells. Buuut if you had to play it organically the bosses are absolutely more ridiculous than any other souls game bosses asides from Sekiro. They fight like Devil May Cry characters. Dodging is hell. The DLC even proves that. So if you play without cheeses and summons I guarantee Elden Ring and Sekiro tie (I’ve heard Sekiro is insane).
Bosses: Messmer, Malenia, Consort Radahn, Bayle, Scadutree Avatar, Radagon and The Elden Beast. Rellana, Astel Stars Of Darkness, Mohg, Morgott, Fire Giant. Hell, Starscourge Radahn and Commander Niall. ALL of These bosses…. Are immensely harder than 60% to 80% of Dark Souls 3 and Bloodborne. Honestly I found a lot of bosses in Bloodborne and DS3 to be jokes and they are designed to be FOUGHT SOLO. Elden Ring is definitely designed with summoning in mind, I mean, look at all the different summons. Elden Ring may be more accessible but you can also farm and level in DS3 and BB, so I find that argument bullshit. Elden is by far the hardest FromSoft game and that’s me being bold not even playing Sekiro. I was stuck on Malenia, Messmer, Chadahn, Chadagon and many other bosses for days and hours. just because it’s a lot of people’s entry into souls, doesn’t make it easy. The only reason I haven’t finished DS1 is the mobs and run backs. DS2 I’ll pass. Sekiro, I’ve seen enough on it and that one doesn’t interest me.
Souls vets call ER easy, then call a boss unfair and ‘unintuitive’ when they’re stuck on it. Pathetic people
Souls community in a nutshell 😂
@@Stanzbey69 oop meant to reply to you
@@yeahnahmate7 only the self proclaimed ‘vets’. The souls community is one of the most fun communities to be in, no matter what butthurt critics like joseph anderson try to tell you. The only negative is the self proclaimed ‘souls vets’
@@Stanzbey69 not sure, I see a lot of people arguing who don't mention being souls vets. But yeah they can be good as well.
Couldn't agree more Demon's Souls becomes walk in the park as long as you have enough grass in your pocket
Guess you're shoving all the grass into your pocket while walking through that park 🤣
You haven't done pure black have you 😂
Demon souls was the last souls game I played out of all of them but despite the fact that you tend to find each game easier as you play more of them I struggled with this one so much. The irony is that I beat flamelurker on my first try while I tend to see people say he’s the hardest boss in the game. It’s so interesting how different peoples experiences are.
That's the second boss in the second area, right? I got stuck there in the PS3 version with my knight character, I barely did any damage to it so I gave up. In PS5 version I learned it is weak against magic so I made a mage character and totally annihilated it first try.
... Then I came to that third area, after you kill the false idol or whatever it name is, the next boss after that is so bad to fight against as a mage that I'm reconsidering to restart the game a THIRD TIME to make another knight
All of them are challenging in their own ways and all are absolutely amazing
I want to level vigor but my toxic trait says just don’t get hit.
With sekiro you have to practice and when it clicks you will have the most fun i swear my favorite game ever
Perfect timing on the vid, I just downloaded the demon souls remake, and dark souls 1 remastered after beating elden ring and loving it (I played these 2 back when I was a kid but didn't understand anything about them and because I had them through gamefly I decided not to keep them for very long)
Nothing still beats the super massive jump in difficulty in between NG and NG+ for bloodborne. Nothing also beats how hard the defiled chalices were 💀. Though optional, was very much one of the hardest I've went through.
BB Ng to NG+ was incredibly easy. You’re basically overpowered unless you’re being sarcastic.
Might’ve mistaken it for some of the chalices, but I didn’t do the dlc, any online chalices, or grind the blood gems.
most ng+ bosses straight up 1 to 2 shotted me. Especially Micolash and Rom’s adds.
I still truly feel like Dark Souls 1 is the hardest, even after playing every Soulsborne game. I felt this way when I played it for the first time and I still feel this way. It wasn’t even my first Soulsborne game, it was my last (this was when the newest one was Dark Souls 3).
The environments are hellish. Blighttown, Sen’s Fortress, Anor Londo, Tomb of the Giants, Duke’s Archives…they’re all major gauntlets to overcome. Taking Sen’s Fortress as an example, there’s never been anything in the series as punishing as that gauntlet. The environments want you dead at all times. Environmental hazards are at an all time high for the series, everything wants you dead, from the ground, to the walls, to the rocks. And let’s not forget the hardest non boss section in the series…the Anor Londo archers. It’s ridiculous, man.
Even going back to play DS1 now, I never feel safe in this game. Elden Ring? Pffft bosses are tough but the world is easy to navigate. Sekiro? Tough combat, but again the world is easy to navigate. The only one I would compare to DS1 in difficulty is Bloodborne, but in that game you always have the Hunter’s Dream to warp back to. You don’t have anywhere to go in DS1 until you get the Lordvessel.
No idea how DS1 has the reputation of being one of the easiest. Play DS1 and then play DS3 for example. Night and day difference. In DS3 you feel mobile, you feel SAFE, you don’t feel like the entire world is out to get you.
I honestly agree. I ranked those games the same as you did. Even when reviews and some people claimed that new Elden Ring DLC have hardest bosses in From Soft history I was like "do you remember what tarnished is capable of?" because you have so much freedom and so many obvious ways to make fights easy, while Bloodbourne and Sekiro design is really tight and you have way less options to deal with enemies in some straightforward cheesy way, unless there is some bug exploit you can find online.
So yeah I came to same conclusion that Bloobourne and Sekiro are still most difficult FromSoft games.
My memory of most games are not so fresh but here you go Easy to hardest (boss difficulty+environment difficulty) = elden ring (l2 spam ftw, even without summons), demons, ds1, ds3, bloodborne, ds2, sekiro.
In ds2 you can get overpowered with bonfire aesthetics but I haven’t played it so I’m definitely not qualified to say anything
It is very easy to get overpowered in DS2, even without bonfire aesthetics.
When the bonfire is aesthetic 😩
I've only played (and platinumed) Elden Ring, Bloodborne and most recently, Sekiro. Demon's Souls is next. I'm also not looking forward to DS2 but I'm up for the challenge haha
Lore accurate tarnished 8:09
I feel like Elden ring is the easiest fromsoft game, there’s just those nerds online who tell you “you’re not playing the way miyazaki intended” for using mechanics that were added with a purpose
Man I forgot how broken Demon's Souls claymore was.
i’m gonna say it, it’s elden ring. i’ve never struggled more with bosses then the bosses in dlc specifically
Hardest thing on Bloodborne was the combination of Giant Beasts where you can't really see what they hin you with and 30 FPS... that hurts. Sekiro is not easy, but doable as soon as you get the hang of the parry/combat system. I struggeled most with the hard Elden RIng bosses like Prime Radahn or Malenia (solo, with the mimic they're also more doable)
I agree that Sekiro is the most difficult. By the time I reached the first mini-boss, I thought the game was genuinely impossible until I figured out the rhythm of the game. It's extremely difficult to initially learn, turns into a challenging game when you figure it out, and becomes the easiest by the time you beat it. Among Souls, Bloodborne, and Elden Ring, I'd say Demon's Souls was the hardest for me. I played Demon's Souls Remake after getting the platinum trophy in all the other games. I didn't cheese a single one. Demon's Souls felt the most difficult because I'd end up in pure black world tendency sometimes and make the game impossible for myself. Also, it was the most difficult in the first stages of every area. Once I killed the first boss in every area, it would typically take me 30 minutes at most to finish the last segment.
I remember using the Moonveil in Elden Ring and literally breezing through the game.
For my 2nd playthrough i used a regular Katana just to purposely make the game more difficult.
The clip of you beating maliketh with those stats and the stuff you had astonishes me your amazing man and keep up the good work you just gained a sub 😁🫡👍
Whichever one you play first
Sekiro has zero cheese and is by far the hardest because of that. Every other game can be made easier with the right combination of playstyle, gear and OP weapons. You can beat them without learning the mechanics or the bosses, especially Elden Ring, but that is impossible with Sekiro, because even with Shinobi tools, you will eventually hit a roadblock that cannot be overcome with anything other than getting good.
There's a lot of cheese just not in the normal sense of "I hit enemy 50% bar, he hits for 2%". Name a boss and there is a way to cheese it, or make fight trivial. A lot of bosses are looped, other lot are scripted. There's still some skill involved in cheesing but same can be said about soulsring cheeses.
I agree with the statement of difficulty being subjective. What i mean is for me the game itself isn't difficult, the system is fine, but for me, doing runbacks and excessive exploring is hell, which is why DS2 is the hardest for me.
This is a nice video and some valid opinions. I wouldnt really agree with you on some of these but you bring up some good points. A playstyle can definitely impact your experience, as it did mine. I really like parrying which is why I breezed through sekiro. This would be my current ranking (I havent played ds3 yet)
6. Demons Souls
5. Dark Souls 1
4. Dark Souls 2
3. Sekiro
2. Elden Ring
1. Bloodborne
The games just got easier for me over time, as I learned the timing for each game, but I'll never forget the struggle on cleric beast and vicar amelia
15:30 *That Tree in Demon of Hatred Arena:* am i a joke to you?
Dark souls 2 is very easy because you can level up quickly, but forest of fallen giants and tower of flame are insanely difficult for early game areas, and i wont mention dlc areas
lol I love that transition between RL 1 and overleveled bullgoat characters
It's funny to see bloodborne so high. That was the game that really got me into the souls genre, I tried DS1 but it didn't grab me. Then Bloodborne became my life for about 6 months. I used to think it was really hard, but now going back to it after playing relatively restricted builds on Elden ring, and having played DS3 as well, I think it's pretty easy. You can spam Dodge like crazy and bloodborne and be just fine.
I'm glad Elden widened the scop of strategies, the DS3 and BB roll spamming was pretty out of control, glad Elden made it more difficult while still making it reasonable for a new player to clear the game.
I’ve played Elden Ring, Bloodborne and Sekiro (currently playing ds3), and tbh they’re all difficult in their own respective ways (except for Elden Ring, that game was just really easy for me), Sekiro is rough but really easy once the combat clicks, and Bloodborne’s base game is really easy but the later chalice dungeons and dlc are extremely tough, so it’s hard to rank them to me
DS3 is the game where I really got stuck on bosses the most after Sekiro, don't understand how DS2 and bloodborne are considered easier
Storm King run back is like 20 feet.
Difficulty on first playthrough:
7) Dark Souls
6) Dark Souls 2
5) Elden Ring
4) Demon Souls
3) Bloodborne
2) Dark Souls 3
1) Sekiro
Difficulty on repeat playthrough (not NG+):
7) Sekiro
6) Elden Ring
5) Dark Souls 2
4) Dark Souls
3) Bloodborne
2) Demon Souls
1) Dark Souls 3
Most difficult for a Souls virgin:
7) Elden Ring
6) Bloodborne
5) Dark Souls 3
4) Sekiro
3) Dark Souls 2
2) Dark Souls
1) Demon Souls
"Demon's soul is the easiest..."
Yeah i won't believe that until i see you beat that dreaded double gargoyle fight.
Can't decide between Prime Consort Radahn and Inner Isshin.
I remeber watching bloodborne videos for years moving to souls videos, never playing. Then trying Elden ring and still being like, aight this is fuckin tough 😭🤣
With promised consort radhan alone I feel like eldin ring should be considered the hardest
Demon souls might have easy bosses, but the levels were so frustrating that I didn’t finish the game. On the other hand, I loved Elden ring and got the platinum trophy within a few weeks of buying it
DS2 is unironically decent if your goal is getting good, just level ADP and don't aggro every single enemy unless you can take them out. It's not DS3 nor ER, where you can just run through areas without being severely punished. I agree with the difficulty placement, it's not that difficult if you take your time with the enemies. I don't think Sekiro is hard, the parry window is too generous. Only Demon of Hatred made me struggle a little bit.
I still consider Elden Ring to be the easiest in the franchise by far, just for the fact that the game gives you an INSANE amount of tools to use, and the fact that it’s open world and you can do a million things before facing the boss.
Still a 10/10 masterpiece for sure.
I've only played Elden Ring, but out of all the others I feel like Sekiro would be the one that would clap me the most. From what I hear, parrying is a must in that game and I'm not good at that.
I pretty much agree with everything! But i toggle bloodborne and sekiro as the hardest. You are SOLO in sekiro. You don't just "get-gud", you have to master it to get past genichiro, then turn mastery into an art with subsequent bosses. But upon mastery, like you said, it became something else, even "easy" like a realist painter easily copying the Mona Lisa. Bloodborne, however, has more of one thing that all other From games don't. Serious fear factor. The content is much closer to home, in a more modern urban environment. And the fear alone had me being CARRIED by my partner in blood-ministration. There were times i had to stop playing just from a lack of will to face my own nerves. I eventually mastered Amygdala and Rom. The beast on the bridge and vicar amelia are my pets now. But everything else still chills my blood. So where i stand now... if i started a new game with any of these titles, bloodborne is currently still harder than sekiro, excepting the fact that i have no shame in being carried 😅 sekiro makes me feel like an accomplished mall ninja and it's great!
(AC6 honorable mention: it was like sekiro, only you had a ton of gadgets you could play with, and it cut allll the fat so it feels almost like a boss run, and a much faster pace learning curve. AC6 supports my reasoning for giving bloodborne the ruling difficulty helm)
I don't know man. BB and Elden Ring were incredibly easy with the exception of certain bosses. You just have to make sure you don't pull aggro on massive mobs. Remove the mobs from BB and it's a fucking cakewalk until bosses like amygdala and orphan. The hardest thing about BB is the ledges and ladders.
For now I have only played Elden Ring, ds3 and sekiro and here's my ranking: Elden Ring is definitely the easiest, if you summon a mimic every fight and use the tools that are given to you, the game just becomes a cake walk, I beat the first part of the game with summons and quit them at farum azula, and that made farum azula the hardest area for me and maliket the hardest boss, and whwn I eventually caved in and summoned for malenia, me and my mimic tear first tried her. Summoning is just so op, and I'm sad that it's in the game because fighting without it is just twice as fun. Next hardest is ds3, early game was pretty easy, but I had the experience from elden ring, so that's to be expected, but the game really gets hard at the end and with the dlc, midir is maybe not the deadliest, but definitely the lenghtiest, and Gael is the best boss I have ever played. The hardest for sure tho is Sekiro, the game is just so thight that many times parrying is harder than dodging and there's no way to gring, I mean yeah you could farm ako's sugars to up your attack but you still have to eat it mid-fight and the posture dammage doean't even change. it's also the only game I have abandonned, but I returned to it and am now heating it in hard mode
I always play with a great sword and the heaviest armor, I’d say with this build from easiest to hardest ds1-ds2-Elden ring-ds3-bloodborne(cause it doesn’t have my standard build)
Dark Souls 2 is my introduction to souls games, and imo is the hardest.
DS3 bosses design are walk in the park compared to ER bosses
Jokes on you, in Elden Ring, I beat each boss extremely under leveled because I hate grinding 😭😭
3:30 I see you’re also playing on RPCS3 emulator hehehe “compiling shaders”
After beating every games several times, Bloodborne still manage to give me hard times
I was watching this without video and knew you were talking about gwynevere
Dark Souls 2 was definitely the most frustrating to begin with due to the ganks and adp stat. For DS I watched guides non-stop so I can't really compare that (I'm older and it was my first proper bit of gaming in years). Stopped using guides once I understood the game to a sufficient degree. DS3 and Bloodborne felt easier to navigate and more fluid so in my mind they are remembered as being easier. Elden Ring has the hardest bosses I feel for melee; especially as I can't master incorporating jump into my gameplay to a high level. Not played Sekiro (have had it for 2 years).
Elden Ring without summons and without broken builds for sure
Dark Souls 2 at launch was brutal. But the hardest is elden ring but just because FS started huffing their farts and forgot how to balance the game.
elden rings main bosses are the best in From's catalog save for sekiro.
I guess I'm helping with the algorithm here also I'll just post one another comment look at my banished knights 10:30 getting the riposte left and right
This is a good list, i like the way you think
6:35 god bless dude finally someone that gets it. why the hell do you need to lvl str/dex with a +0 wep. lvl that vigor and you wont have to touch the stat again until the 2nd half of the game
same thing in ds2 ironically, but with adp. lvl your str/dex to use your weapon, then adp to 99agi and youre good. theres no reason to level a damage stat when your shitknife +1 has a D scaling with Dex
Sekiro, and it's not close. No summons and no insane cheese builds like other games.
They’re called “great”swords for a reason, that’s all I’m saying.
Hardest: Dark Souls III. They put enemies with the agility and aggressiveness of bloodborne in a game where you're functionally the same as DSI.
Then Sekiro: Maybe too high for the people good at this game, but you do literally have to get good. There's no other way.
Then Bloodborne: Enemies have a real hatred for you existing, but you have the moves.
Then DSII: Every encounter being a gank, and every enemy being tied to one another's awareness so you can't aggro one at a time is aggravating no matter how many times you play.
Then Elden Ring: There's just too much variety. You'll find something busted, eventually. Plus there's always summons.
Finally DS1: Magic, parrying, and great shield builds make this actually easy.
There isn’t a single boss in DS3 that would be a top 5 difficult in Elden Ring. It’s much, much harder minus summons and cheese.
Which Souls game is the hardest ❌
Which Souls character make me the hardest (Is ER Finger Reader)✅
relatable
hit me with that manus dussy 😩
Spot on list. Bloodborne is the best game, and probably the second hardest. Elden Ring is difficult. It does so, so much right, and so, so much wrong. I wouldn’t mind if Fromsoft carried on with Elden Ring in mind, but wouldn’t mind if they strayed from it either. And yeah, Idc what people say, Sekiro is the hardest.
Maliketh's roar does damage!?
no but it stuns you
My first dark souls game was blood borne and i would rank them in this order
easy - hardest:
darksouls 1 remastered, bloodborne, darksouls 2(never finished), dark souls 3 and eldan ring (pretty even), sekiro, and for me demon souls as my hardest. Demons souls is my weakness yet i fly through every other game
Favorite:
Bloodborne and sekiro
This is under the idea on not using summons and melee only since thats how i like to play im going to beat there ass and they are going to KNOW when i do cuz it wont be from far away
Seeing that you have 10 healing gourds for Genichiro means I did something wrong. I only have two, I would of beat both forms a long time ago with 10 heals
You haven't really done anything too wrong, I think I had 4 gourds when I beat Genichiro. But this is a ng+ something save, you can tell because of the so called "Shura skin" he has on sekiro. Also I just noticed this is *Inner Genichiro* so don't worry about it💀
it's Inner Genichiro from reflection of strentgh, not the early game version.
@@LourdessApekatt I see. I finally beat him today. I forgot how to play the rest of the game I’ve been stuck at this boss so long
I always find the areas far more difficult than the bosses, in this case I would say DS1 may have the hardest areas but easiest bosses and Elden ring has easiest areas with hardest bosses
I think elden ring s the most "potentially easy" game, because you have to many tools to be overpowered. Streamer Bushy proved that with right gear you can beat the game without reacting to bosses attacks. (And killed Malenia that way) GinoMachino maximized his defense and ended up taking chips damage from the most powerful attacks. No other game gives you such options.
I’d say DS2, but not for the well designed bosses…
In my experience they are all very challenging at low level… once you know the games, it’s way more manageable… DS3 has the hardest bosses in my opinion!
11:55 the ds2 dodging system is different then in any other game. Rolling has only start i frames so if you want to dodge you will have to dodge really late.
The hardest souls game is whichever souls game you play first
This guy gets it
If you play elden ring like dark souls it’s the hardest one. If you ay elden ring like elden ring then it’s the hardest one. That’s how I see it
Elden Ring blind play through, case closed
Yeah BB is way easier for me than all but perhaps Demon Souls and DS1.
what a lovely channel
Demon's Souls was considered difficult at (western) release when the gaming market focused almost solely on casual audience. Getting something completely different was quite shocking. Also - World/Player Tendency not explained propery when it is a big deal.
Dark Souls 2 vanilla (not Scholar of First Sin) had bosses that hit like a truck to the point of making most armors useless. Guess that's where people started going using no armor? Both versions can get easier because you gain so much souls to level it's not even funny.
Dark Souls 1 - could agree, but Tomb of Giants suxxxxxxx even after n-th playthrough.
Yeah, Blight Town is not all that at bad on PC and modern consoles, but its abysmal reputation comes from the 7th gen consoles. It was horrendous on 360 with way less than 30fps, but the ps3 version was absolutel hell with 15-20 fps. Playing wit 15 FPS makes it quite a bit harder than with 60fps. The 7th gen consoles were really bad at handling volumetric effects and from software was never a really good studio on the technical side. Even today elden ring had a horrible launch on PC and the console versions don't run with consistent 60fps to this day (not even with the ps5 pro game boost).
Damn xD Sekiro as the hardest ? Am I one of the few that would put sekrio as one of the easier soulslike ? You only have to learn block and attack timing with your sword. All the other things can mix up your style a bit sure. But overall, your block timing and when you can follow up with a attack is the only thing you really have to learn. And since you only have the 1 sword, the timing doesn't change.
But to make it ez. Rolling or dodging out of danger is harder than blocking.
Elden ring is by far the easiest souls game, and I've played Ds3, Bloodborne and Sekiro before it, and just it being open world makes it the easiest
Not only dark souls 2 boss run kinda bullsh*t but they also hide some of the closest bonfire to the boss behind illusory wall or blocked by stone statue. My first time playing dark souls 2 without guide from the wiki was just pure pain.
I started with dark souls 3, then Bloodborne, then ds1, then Elden ring, then Sekiro, then ds 2. Haven't played demon souls yet.
I'd say, Sekiro is harder than dark souls 1 is harder than dark souls 3 is harder than Elden Ring is harder than Bloodborne is harder than dark souls 2.
How about the demons souls ps5 remake?
i would say before the learning curve, sekiro. without summons or bleed,probably elden ring. overall, probably ds3 imo
What's the weapon he's using in the ds3 section?
ringed knight spear, frayed blade
@@Brollo_ thanks! Just started only my third run so the timing is good
Elden Ring is only hard when you run intentionally trash builds. And is the opposite when you run anything remotely good.