Cuphead is much easier to read.
No, it's not.
And since we went there, there are plenty of Souls bosses I did at my first or second try since I played Dark Souls 1 the first time. Five repeats would be pretty close to the upper limit in most cases.
I can't remember once where it happened with Cuphead. When I got away with 6-10 repetitions was when the game was treating me with kid gloves.
I feel like this is some of ya'lls first difficult 2D platformer.
No, it's not? What the hell is this even supposed to mean?
And even if it was the case, "I'm incredibly familiar with this stuff so it comes easy to me" wouldn't be a particularly compelling argument, anyway.
It would just go to prove that it's not as as easy as you are making it out to be.
I'm not going to pretend my skill levels aren't skewed since I've played I wanna be the guy fangames and buster run Megaman games, but I feel Cuphead is pretty lenient and fair to me.
Well, good for you, but the question wasn't if you could overcome Cuphead (which I couldn't, so I gave up on it) but if it's comparable to Souls games in difficulty. Which it is in spades and then some more.
I don't even think their difficulty levels are anywhere near close, in fact. I find Cuphead entire orders of magnitude more punishing than ANYTHING From Software ever published. To a point where I'm simply NOT enjoying working toward the level of mastery the game is expecting for me.
That never happened with any From Software title.