I have smashed my face into the Souls series and its weird Appalachian family tree enough times to disqualify me from doing diving headbutts in the ring.
I get it, they're incredibly solid, tight experiences with majestically built worlds, but I'm not good at them one iota. And I can't commit myself to very granular levels of improvement in a game like that, a game where I'm solely fighting myself to improve, as opposed to a game with a larger ecosystem in which I can use /other people/ to learn as much as I can learn from myself.
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