That is the Dark Souls experience as intended 🤣ðŸ˜ðŸ¤£
But tell me, stranger: have you tried ... Sekiro? (think Dark Souls: Samurai-Ninja Edition) 😈
While the learning curve is just as brutal, the combat is designed to better mimick the back and forth of skilled warriors rather than the Dark Souls version which is mostly scuttling around a murderous edifice and slowly whittling it down to dust.
I'm first hoping to push through DS 2, then start playing Dark Souls 3 when I'm already actually good in it!
Sekiro is too fresh for me, I'm usually buying all the games with a few year delay so I can get good discounts on them. I don't even have enough time to play games nowadays, so I'm doing this also because I don't want to skip any older games before buying new ones.
But Sekiro has seemed interesting. Maybe I'll try to be quick and buy it 2020 or 2021 :D