I feel like I’m going crazy. I love the nightfarers, their mechanics are absolute peak. The sekiro parry has never had more parry frames, the witch lady has a million spells she can combine and they all give me the wizard power fantasy I try to recreate in every game. The new bosses look amazing, it’s the weirdest shit I could have ever asked for because I love Fromsoft weird shit. I should love this game.

But I’m tearing my hair out because it’s just not fun. I remember feeling similar about Bloodborne when I first tried it but when somebody explained to me I was just interacting with the game’s economy wrong it turned it around to be my favorite. So I was hoping this would be similar and I would just need to adjust my expectations and reframe how I move through the game.

But I literally can’t with this time limit. I don’t like sprinting through the world at lightspeed trying to gobble up items. The play area diminishes as time goes on, I get to see and explore less as I play the game. When I fail against a boss, it’s not an opportunity to change and grow. it’s the timer starting over again as I hit the slot machine for another roll at some items.

I watched people like letmesoloher and saint riot play and it doesn’t seem like I’m doing it wrong, you’re supposed to move at a breakneck pace with your friends and blender enemies like Elden Ring co-opers do. I don’t know. Am I alone in this? Did anybody else sincerely try but fail to like it?