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Originally Posted by Kybosh
I honestly found Elden Ring to be one of the easiest of all the From Soft games but that could be because I had already played through Demon's souls, Dark souls 3, Bloodborne, and Sekiro before hand. Sekiro is the hardest game I've ever played and I'm still shocked I was able to beat it. I absolutely love Elden Ring though. It's a true masterpiece.
Demon's souls was really hard for me at the time but I think that was more so a product of it being my first experience to games like this. I'll revisit it in a bit and get a better idea likely for the difficulty. I think it was more challenging to get through the levels and unlock shortcuts in Demon's souls due to there not being any checkpoints or bonfires (i.e. starting right at the beginning again when you die).
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One of the challenges with Demon's souls is the fact it seems like it has deliberate timing that on occasion is a good 1-3 seconds slower than your instinct on auto pilot. After playing Blood Borne, Sekiro, Dark Souls (but not yet Elden Ring) and pulling up the game on PS plus extra, I started realizing that I often died if I tried to rush sections of the game rather than square up each enemy. You'll easily bunch up enemies and/or put yourself in a bad position to get hit multiple times. But I get it. I often kinda rush areas because of confusion due to lack of directional guidance. You have to kinda old school remember the layout and sometimes it's 10-20 minutes between progression saves vs other games that have the ability to progression save essentially every 1-2 minutes.
If Sekiro is the game you had to be frustratingly fast, Demon's Souls you have to be occasionally be frustratingly slow. Dark Souls and Bloodborne are in between. IIRC, when Demon's Souls first came out, one of the praises it got was that it was a major throwback to the old school style of challenge and sense of accomplishment that most games around that era completely lacked.
I'm aiming to finish off Horizon Forbidden West before going back to Demon's Souls. The style and mindset differences of each game are poison to each other. It throws off the controls if I bounce back and forth between those controls. After that, I was thinking either Alan Wake or Elden Ring.