I personally avoided it until very recently for this exact reason. For the most part, the combat is fun but I really hate QTEs especially in my old age. That and all the end game balance seems to revolve around either being able to perfect parry for literally over an hour or around one shot Maelle builds for the express purpose of sidestepping the press X to not die aspect of the game. And of course you have a bunch of poopsockers who want the latter nerfed in a single player game. No, fuck off I am not spending over an hour making zero mistakes parrying just to get some story clip and another goofy hairdoo.
Lanx
You cannot turn them off (you are thinking of Dispatch), just increase the timing windows a small bit. And
Noodleface
Git Gud is not the issue, as someone who has burned through every single Souls game. Its not that I can't do the timing windows, it is that I don't want a turn based RPG to require laser accurate parry timing for over an hour because every boss in the game eventually becomes a giant damage sponge that does deliberately deceptive cues on the timing. It really starts with the Endless Tower fights and peaks with Simon (with literally over a billion hp) who will wipe you on a single fuckup and eventually just autowipes you at one point because fuck you thats why. Its an out of place mechanic in an otherwise near perfect game. The cues are fine early on when the timing is more ubiquitous, but by Act 3 the game is intentionally giving you bad camera angles, fakeout animations/soungs, and a bunch of other bullshit that sucks the fun out of their combat system.
You can't possibly defeat ME nephalism, you just got super lucky with the last guy, I am stronger!
oh, youre grouping any action as a qteThat is only for attack timings which are super easy and never change. Parry, Dodge, Jump, Super Parry QTEs stay on no matter what and only get slightly larger windows by dropping the overall game difficulty. The defensive QTEs (especially in engame and higher diff) that are the issue. Litterally says it in your screencap.
A required button press with precise timing in what is otherwise an entirely turn based RPG that impacts the combat mechanics. How else would you classify that? Again their own text box in your screenshot expressly labels them as such by excluding them being affected by that setting.
