souls games are super easy. and this coming from someone who took 6 hours to beat the first level in demon souls.
you can create range builds that let you shoot everyone with magic from 20 yards away. you can block pretty much every enemy attack with your shield and just wait for your stamina to recharge. you can summon NPCs or bring in real players to help you coop any level or boss fights. thats basically the easy mode. i didnt like dark souls 2 much so i decided to break the game by taking in 4 NPCs and online players to each boss fight. it was hilarious.
the biggest struggle most people have with these games is that they dont know you can unlock shortcuts that cut down or in some cases completely eliminate the need to go through enemies in that level. i had no idea there were shortcuts in souls games since this was my first souls game. by the time i played bloodborne, i was on the lookout for shortcuts and it made the game a breeze. for example, in both bloodborne and demon souls, the first level has over 30 enemies you have to beat just to get to the first boss. but if you find and unlock shortcuts you dont have to fight anyone of them. i have played and beat every souls game since and they are all super easy. learning some bosses might take a few tries but you can easily kill them in a minute or two if you know what you are doing.
Even sekiro which was actually very hard on the first playthrough despite checkpoints everywhere was actually a breeze on the second playthrough when you learned to parry and stop dodging and block like it was a souls game. i spent 8 hours on a boss because i was playing it like a souls game. on my second playthrough, i beat him in under two minutes without taking damage. From just wants you to learn the game instead of mashing buttons like its cod.
