Well, I've played DS2 for about 5 hours and I'm definitely not having fun lol. I'm sort of forcing myself to continue in the hopes that I'll feel different but so far I feel incredibly frustrated. Way, way, way more than I ever did in DS1, DS3 or BB. And I'm just in the first fucking area.
I've been trying to fight The Pursuer. I died a few times and then thought okay, I'll level up some stuff. So I tediously grind and grind to afford shards, then to afford armor, then to level up that armor, then to level up the weapon, then to level up myself. And I still can't do it. I honestly don't think it made any difference.
At one point he was nearly dead, and then he jabbed straight forward and I rolled behind him. But then the game snapped me onto his sword, which killed me. The same thing keeps happening when I fight the trolls. I won't be anywhere near their grabs but then the game snaps me into the grab. The hit boxes here are fucking insane.
I mean, does this one even have I frames? Feel like dodges don't really work. Sometimes I look up and I'm shocked to see I'm almost dead because absolutely nothing about my animations indicated I took damage. I literally don't understand how and why I'm taking damage a lot of the time.
And yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and agree with the complaints about enemy counts. Game feels so much cheaper than the first and third one. I dunno. It's sort of exhausting.
Glad I also bought Dragon Age because there's no way I'm spending my vacation with this game much. Ugh. I'm so frustrated, holy shit.
Also fuck life gems. I can't get anymore from vendors so I have to just farm them. I have four Estus heals and it's slow as fuck. Jesus christ.
Graphics look great though. Wish DS1 looked like this.