This is comical, did DSII not have increased difficulty by merely boosting enemy stats and nerfing the player?????? I think it's funny how no one against the OP's argument has addressed this.
Dark Souls 2 wasn't a Miyazaki game, so the design philosophies behind it were different. It's the odd man in the souls closet, and something FROM just silently acknowledges happened.
There's a reason a whole lot from DaS2 didn't carry over into Bloodborne/DS3, and that's because Miyazaki came and and said "nah" to a lot of those things. He budged on respeccing, and making harder for twinks, but that's basically it.
What kind of meaning does it have now? Or are you really one of those people who believes Dark Souls is one of the hardest games in existence? Because it's not.
Oh, you beat Dark Souls? Good job, so have millions of other players.
Congrats on discrediting the personal achievements of millions of people.
Dark Souls was heavily marketed and publically accepted as a challenging, rewarding game, and beating the game was an achievement in and of itself. The challenge marks the core identity of the game and adding an easier more destroys that entire identity. The director of the game sees this, and that's why he won't allow an easy mode, because he doesn't want to damage that identity.
People who beat the souls games know exactly the feelings i'm talking about, those of personal achievement, ending the suffering, in some cases being shocked that all of my hard work was thrown away by something that happened to the main character, overcoming. These are the emotions and feelings that define Souls to its very foundation. It's very dear to the game. You're supposed to suffer. You're supposed to die. You're supposed to
overcome.
This is the fundamental reason there will never be an easy mode in this franchise as long as Miyazaki's in the chair holding these principles on whatever chalice he's using.
