There’s legitimate issues with DS2 (no game is perfect) but a lot of the initial griping came from DS1 players who had to learn new timings and cope with reduced i-frames, and griefers who hated the soul memory system.
My brother spent a decade hating DS2. I talked him into taking another crack at it with me recently, and once I explained Adaptability to him, the game went from “compete bullshit” to “mostly bullshit.”
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There’s legitimate issues with DS2 (no game is perfect) but a lot of the initial griping came from DS1 players who had to learn new timings and cope with reduced i-frames, and griefers who hated the soul memory system.
My brother spent a decade hating DS2. I talked him into taking another crack at it with me recently, and once I explained Adaptability to him, the game went from “compete bullshit” to “mostly bullshit.”