Malenia dead. Fuck this cunt. Never coming back here. Took me about 3 hours. Finally gave in and swapped from powerstance back to RoB and summoned black knife bitch. Dead in 2-3 pulls. Still. Didn’t have to summon someone in. And even then I bet I fucked up waterfowl dance and the initial scarlet aeonia a lot. Even on the death pull I still got lucky on the initial scarlet shit just not outright killing me. I dodged back then ran back the tried to dodge as she hit me but I usually got gutted. Regardless.
Ive got the demon souls remake here but I gotta admit I don’t have the fucking patience for these games. I want a happy medium between Ubisoft amusement parks and From nut busters. Like can you just thump my left testicle a couple times? You don’t have to squeeze.
Demon Souls Remake is probably the easiest version of any of the seven modern From games besides Elden Ring, and I'd say it's easier than ER. It's also the shortest of the bunch...I think. It's worth a run. Probably the most gorgeous-looking video game I've ever played.
Couple things to keep in mind:
-Get the Cling Ring in the first level and keep it on, like, all the time.
-Every time you defeat a boss and get your life meter expanded, DO NOT continue the game. Go back to Nexus and kill yourself to put you back into the nerfed state. You have to play the whole game in the nerfed state (which the Cling Ring mitigates). Dying in stages in un-nerfed form will gradually make those stages tougher, and some (World 4 comes to mind) get almost impossible. So long story short, just suicide in Nexus after every boss so that you're in nerfed state during the actual levels, and they'll stay at base difficulty.
-The game has a stage select of sorts and you can bounce around between levels, not unlike in ER when you can try a different area if you fail at one area. Staying in one area, it'll get tougher as you go (each world has two stages, then a boss stage). So for the easiest route, do all of the Stage 1's first, then all the Stage 2's, then all the bosses.
Difficulty-wise I'd rank them: Demon Remake > Elden Ring >>> Dark 1 > Demon PS3 > Dark 3 > Bloodborne >> Dark 2 >> Sekiro. That's me though, and I'm probably wrong on Dark 3 because I haven't played much of it or Sekiro yet.
In any case, since you've got it, play Demon Remake and marvel at how good it looks. The rest of the From gang are way above that one in difficulty so I wouldn't begrudge someone for moving on at that point.