Personally, I get through them fine and enjoy the challenge, but I couldn't give a fuck less if in future games there was an easy mode added for players who want to experience the dark fantasy atmosphere and lore without the challenge.
Personally, I get through them fine and enjoy the challenge, but I couldn't give a fuck less if in future games there was an easy mode added for players who want to experience the dark fantasy atmosphere and lore without the challenge.
Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I would prefer a choice between "normal" and "easy" over more creative balancing decisions like the summons in elden ring.
I think the bell summons was an attempt to make an optional, more accessible, way of playing the game, but it turned into kind of a mess. As a long time souls player, using summons felt too easy in a lot of fights while other fights felt like they were designed around the player using summons. Just let people press a button saying how hard they want the game to be instead.
I just take an 'honorable' approach to it really. Fight me 1 on 1 and I'll do the same. If you get friends then so do I. Unless you're so weak that you need the friends to challenge me in which case I'll probably leave my buddies in my pocket.
Same reason I don't really care about the idea of difficulty settings either. The challenge is always self-imposed, I could just boot up cheat engine if I wanted the game to be easier.