James Alfred Burch III

This game is way too easy for even a casual gamer like myself. Where to begin? You can summon multiple NPCs to help you for almost every encounter. On top of that, you can also summon other players, pretty much at any time, AT THE SAME TIME as NPC summons. Over-powered much? This makes every fight one-sided in favor of the player. You can only be invaded when you've summoned a co-operator, so basically every random PVP encounter favors the one invaded. At every site of grace, there's a giant golden band in the sky that points you in the exact direction you're supposed to go. There are also statues scattered around that show you the exact path toward the "hidden" dungeons. The starting map shows you exactly where to pick up the other map fragments. Even the tutorial has a ghost in a chair pointing exactly at the spot where it begins. How am I supposed to feel like I have the freedom to explore anything, when the game is telling me exactly where to go and what to do ALL THE TIME? Also, I began as a Lvl 1 Wretch and was easily able to obtain a full armor set and several thousand souls at the first enemy encampment. Two extremely overpowered weapons were literally just sitting in chests on either side of this encampment. Upgrading weapons doesn't even require a blacksmith anymore, you can do it pretty much right away. You also get access to the horse pretty early on, which lets you literally just run away from every fight. If that's too slow for you, you can fast travel from anywhere in the overworld. Ridiculous. Where is the challenge? This game defaults to "VERY EASY" mode, and "EASY" mode only unlocks AFTER you beat the game, and go to NG+. WHY DON'T WE HAVE THE OPTION TO HAVE HARD OR EVEN NORMAL MODE IN THIS GAME? It's literally the current year, and this developer is making video games that don't have basic challenging features like weapon durability and survival management. Absolutely NOT for any gamer seeking a challenge, maybe give it to your three year old as his first video game. Way too easy. Any adult would have to have literal negative IQ to even marginally struggle with any aspect of this game.