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I wanted to enjoy Nier Automata’s “astounding, award-winning story”, and so I slowly ended up using all automatic skills to fast forward the boss fights, frustrated that I’d ended up with a one-button character.

It was STILL a huge slog. Half the late game bosses were absolute bullet sponges that were rarely vulnerable and took 15-25 minutes to whittle down. There clearly could have been some RPG number disparity, but it wasn’t clear, and it wasn’t alleviated by the tools given.

To cap it off, story was abysmal. Literally the worst game I’d finished that decade.

CLANG CLANG WOOSH

Yeah, I'd be pissed too if I had to watch an armored up fatroller die over and over.

Wow only every fifteen minutes? What a legend

Beep is that you?

There is a pigtails hair option though

With mods, anything is possible. I'm certain you can play as a cute anime girl if you really want to!

As for difficulty, it really isn't that bad. Don't buy the hype. It's only hard if you want it to be. Just don't slam your head into a wall until it breaks. That's not how you're supposed to play. Once you hit a point you struggle with, you're supposed to go level and get new gear. It'll be easier when you come back.

Stellar Blade?

There are soulslikes with anime girls now.

I only played a bit of Monster Hunter Tri back then, but man that is harder than any souls game for me.

I gave up on Monster Hunter almost entirely because of Roars.

It’s one of two things; either it’s a non-forecasted dodge roll moment, boiling down all of Souls design to “Use roll iframes at the exact right moment 8 times in a row”…OR, it’s a flow-breaker to the battle where you and the opponent are both stunned for about 5 seconds. Doesn’t matter what combo you were eager to practice with your 8-foot tuning fork-crossbow, all goes on hold because the monster wants a break.

Sorry, probably not so relevant but it broke me off the series so much I wanted to mention it.

It's a FromSoft game with souls mechanics. I wouldn't call it a souls-like personally, but it's more of a souls-like than some other games I've seen use that genre name.

I wouldn't say the combat is an important part of the genre though honestly, even though it is one of the most recognizable parts of the games. I'd say the largest pillar is exploration, usually in a world that doesn't feel like it's designed for you. Another big one is, usually, that death isn't a failure. You don't reset and lose progress. Death, in itself, still is progress (but you usually need to collect your currency).

People will usually talk about the combat (which has changed a lot in the genre, so it isn't that important), or the difficulty (honestly, Elden Ring in particular is pretty easy, so I would say it obviously isn't critical). It's all the little things that really create the genre though. I could easily see a walking sim through a mysterious castle being a souls-like with no combat and only puzzles.

Sorry for the rant. Lol. I forgot what this was about for a minute. All of this is to say I could see AC6 being a souls-like, but I don't think it fits perfectly. I wouldn't argue with someone including it though.

I enjoyed Witcher 3 with a mod that let's you defeat each enemy in 3 slashes. Though the Vampire boss fight of the Blood and Wine DLC was a bit anticlimatic.

The talk of difficulty is overblown. You can always level up more and often bring a helper to difficult fights you're having trouble with.

If you can beat God of War, you can beat these.

Just takes a while to get out of the button mashing, checkpoint before every encounter mentality.

Don't sleep on DS2, it's worthy of your attention too

Yeah?