I've been playing dark souls remastered on switch lately and I have been having fun with it but I don't quite understand how people can call it a master piece. I found the game started extremely strong and was a very amazing experience but as I progress farther into the game it just gets worse. Currently I'm at the Dukes archives and it felt cheap how you just have to die your first encounter with the boss, I went in hoping to play defensively and learn his moveset before engaging but you're supposed to die there. The bosses are definitely the best aspect of the game but lots of the game feels unfair not difficult. Most bosses only take a few tries but my main complaint is that the late game doesn't feel rewarding, it feels like a competition of who has the better way to stun lock and one shot. Curse in the great hollow also is another example of something that felt unnecessary. It didn't affect my ability to proceed through the area at all, it just felt unfair throwing a new status with an incredibly small threshold that instant kills you. Toxic I also think is kind of pointless with poison already in the game but at least both of those don't kill you and you get moss before encountering it. I felt curse was sort of just thrown in there. The last example I'll give is the boars at the entrance of Dukes archive, I'm doing a melee only play through and thought I was doing something wrong because I couldn't get the backstab on either of them. I googled it after because I killed them first time and they don't respond but it turns out if I wasn't using a great sword I probably would not have got past them. I like the game a lot, I just think it's been a bit over hyped. I was expecting more from everything I heard over the years I guess. I still think it is a very good game, just not a masterpiece. It feels as if you are supposed to watch a walk through of the game before playing it but I always enjoy going into games as blind as I can. If anyone actually read all this, thanks for listening to my little rant lol.
TLDR: I think dark souls is really good but not a masterpiece and that some parts of the game feel unfair for the sake of being unfair not because it's difficult
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