If you come here and spam, "Too easy" and trash the game, you are one of three things. Ignorant to what challenges purpose is, and how you have control over it, a silly person trying to puff their chest, or simply stupid.
If you are happily ignorant to why challenge excites you, I"ll answer it for you. Engagement. Challenge is simply a FORM of engagement with the game, that forces you to dig in, master its systems, and perfect its demands for your success. Intelligent developers have to tread a careful line. Too hard, its not engaging. Too easy, its not engaging. The tolerance and demands for difficulty vary wildly between people. Fortunately, SoM is a broadly engaging game for different lovers of difficulty, and offers a nice bit of challenge across the bat. A balance between twitch gameplay, planning, careful action, and execution.
Now those who have enjoyed challenge for a while understand that when a certain aspect of the game trivializes something you once found engaging, you stop doing it. Its why I don't use cheat codes. There are certain abilities and unlocks in games which designers throw in that ARE easy, or trivialize certain portions of game. THIS. IS. SMART. This allows players to ignore difficult portions of the game that frustrate them, while people who like a challenge are aren't ignorant or morons, say, "I won't use that".
I don't use magic in Dark Souls because it trivializes the game. If I used magic in Dark Souls and said, "Too easy!" I would be ignoring the challenging and engaging melee combat the game presents. Some might say, "Well I HAVE to use the optional unlock that makes things easy, its the game's design." No. No you don't. The developers actually believe you're an intelligent person who can decide not to use something that ruins YOUR engagement of the game. Don't be dumb.
And of course if you're just saying "Too easy" to brag on the boards, please understand that you don't impress anyone unless you're doing it with severe restrictions or with flawless execution in a small time frame. In that case, I want a youtube vidoe so I can gawk at your legit awesomeness. THEN you can brag.
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