Whoops! Long weekend - lost track of time, sorry.
I’m stuck in a perpetual vortex of League of Legends and watching Death Note when I’m not playing League. I also haven’t played TUNIC in over two weeks T__T I suck at sticking with new games. I have tried out Gambonanza tho, but it’s not a soulslike. 🤷🏻♂️
Soulslikes are notorious for their difficulty, often at the expense of scaring away potential new players who can’t or don’t want to wade through the early steep difficulty curve. Nevertheless, bar any physical/cognitive disability that could hinder your gameplay, do you think anyone can beat a soulslike if they just set their mind to it?
Inspired by a post I saw on reddit where OP mentioned that they had previously only played mainstream “cookie cutter” games, like CoD, GoW or Uncharted and decided to try out Bloodborne. At first, they struggled a lot but got better over time and started enjoying their time.
Unless you’re actually new to gaming as a whole, maybe there isn’t really any genre you’d need to have played prior to be successful in soulslikes? Will of determination, perseverance, seeing things through to the end are all values explored in soulslikes - implicitly or explicitly - so it would make sense.
Thoughts?
The first hours of a game are so important. Many companies front load fancy cutscenes interspersed with tutorial bites, when it’s so important to actually get to the gameplay to get the player hooked. I stand by my 5 hour estimate to get a grasp on the gameplay, not a firm grasp, but in that time you get a feel for it. That would be about the time it took me to get to the Scrapped Watchman in LoP, and that feels about right. Real insidious gets it when you actually completed 2+ playthroughs and mastery feels ever further away because you have now such a firm understanding of the gameplay.
Person of Interest. It’s a decent show with a very 2010s outlook on surveillance and AI. The show has it’s ups and downs, some better than I remember and some a bit worse.