I'm always confused when I see this opinion. The same mechanism that gives you the freedom to criticise game design choices, gives others the freedom to criticise your criticism. A comment like yours sounds like it's trying to demarcate a space in which criticism is unilaterally valid and may itself not be criticized, but it's necessarily self-defeating.
Are you a veteran game developer who knows what's important and how accessibility options affect game development? If not, you're passing off your opinion as fact.
Speak for yourself. I read it. 'Cause, you know, I don't want to get frustrated by not knowing what I'm doing...
Is this a joke? That's exactly what Hanbei is all about, and he's almost impossible to miss.
Bamco's marketing meme for Dark Souls really did a number on these games huh.
If you're too smart to read tutorials about brand new mechanics why are you even complaining? I'm not sure anyone can come up with an accessibility option for you.
You only need seven of the eleven available lasers, which helps, as the game is non-linear, and not being able to clear a specific puzzle will not prevent you from beating the game.
Anyone can beat any game if they smash their head against them long enough.
It's pretty logical dude. Implementing difficulty settings is not trivial work. The more options, the more work, playtesting, etc. To give you an idea: how many indies do you know that have difficulty settings? I know of Cosmic Star Heroine and Fell Seal (and they're both turn-based, hmm), but most indies I played lately sure don't have it; Hollow Knight, Salt and Sanctuary, La-Mulana, Monster Boy, Indivisible, Sonic Mania, CrossCode, Kingdom Come, A Plague Tale.... hell even Cuphead (which has a training mode but it doesn't let you progress) don't have easy modes.
You don't have to be a veteran game developer to make such a statement when is pretty commonly know anything in game development takes time. He chose what he wanted to focus on and that's that. If you played Sekiro you would know why and readjustments would have to be made. But they decided not too and people have to respect that.
I mean, you just need to approach it similarly to a fighting game. That's where many action combat games have their roots from back when Capcom took their knowledge of fighting games and made DMC. The Sekisoulborne games are slower though and more methodical but all of the basics of action combat games similar to DMC or Bayonetta, and other similar games are still there. It's all about paying attention and looking for tells, and not paying attention is what gets you killed.
From Software has access to orders of magnitude more resources than any indie would, but to answer your question:
Because 1) The Witness, while popular, has probably sold one tenth of what Sekiro has sold, and 2) The non-linear nature of the game makes it so that fewer players just can't beat it. It also never *removes* progress and forces a player to redo the same section of the game, over and over. You simply calmly contemplate the puzzle, and you either eventually get it or you don't. It's a very placid game.
I just said he would have to remake most of the game to accommodate Easy Mode, and I have no problem if he doesn't want to, but that anyone arguing that if he *did* include an Easy Mode it would somehow ruin the experience for others is an entitled crybaby.
Also LOL
Maybe so but I still agree with many of the reasons given for why an easy mode is unnecessary in FromSoftware games. Take Dark Souls 1 for example:
Sounds like a personal weakness to me.
