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Souls Game Recommendation? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by Stillhart@lemm.ee to c/gaming

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Okay so I have never been into the Souls games. The whole "brutally difficult" thing never appealed to me, and watching my friends play was enough to turn me off.

However I decided to take the plunge and try Elden Ring recently because of all the amazing hype. Tons of "I'm not a Souls gamer but I loved it!" kind of hype.

And it's pretty fun! I get why it got so much love.

But I also, after a week or two of play, have identified exactly what I don't like about Souls games. It turns out it's not the difficulty. I grew up playing in arcades and on the NES so I'm no stranger to trying things over and over until I get it right.

It's the damn death penalty. I cannot express the depth of my hatred of losing progress. Games with save points that are too far apart or games where you can lose items when you die, etc, are just the worst for me. And in Elden Ring, the stress that goes along with trying to get back to my corpse to get my money/XP back is stress I don't want or need.

So I ask you all this: can you recommend a Souls style game with the fun gameplay loop but without the punishing death penalty? Does that even exist or is it just not a Souls game without that? I'd love the carrot of [learn fight, get better, epic win] without the stick of [now go grind low level mobs for XP, loser].

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[–] Pseu 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

One of the satisfying things about soulslike games is the satisfaction that you did something because your personal skills developed, not because you got lucky with the random generation, or got a good crit in, but because you personally developed your skills into something impressive.

In that vein, I suggest Etterna, a free rhythm game I've been getting into. Some of the charts are hard and others will seem utterly impossible, but even if you lose you're never more than a minute or two from where you left off (and a single click away on practice mode). There's only your personal skill and mastery to get a AA or S rank on a song. The game is also deceptively simple. There's a lot of different skills to learn and combine together, and a jack chart will feel different from a stream or endurance chart.

As you develop your skills, you'll eventually reach the point were you're able to look back and remember a time when you didn't think a chart was humanly possible, but you just got an A on it. That feeling is super satisfying,