100%d out of curiosity/lack of difficulty, never landed for me either, just "so-so." Figured its popularity for a media coup of capturing the "hardcore" souls market's cultivated taste for "safe jrpg," unashamed jrpg lovers who felt underserved by ff16, and popular game likers moving on from bg3.

been meaning to listen to more Sade

never forget booting it up for the first time, beating the stressful tutorial and listening to the serious narration:

"[...] an Undead shall be chosen to leave the Undead Asylum
In pilgrimage, to the land of the ancient lords...

Lordran" and my roommate busting out laughing at the name

just got my first true end clear on a "doomed run" where i lost all my extra lives early, and had to sell many of my trinkets in the final area to afford the required one extra life, but I clutched it. That arc doesn't happen without the pain points people are complaining about.

trust creators to label stuff so they continue putting content in your space instead of trusting and feeding procensorship factions who will never be satisfied even after they own the empty boring place. If they want a clean feed let them make it so by filtering what shows up like everyone else.

sure I'll hear some game reccs, thanks

repressed childhood memory just flooded back where i tried to use 'pak' in some scrabble-like game and the whole table of fellow nintendo-head kids said "no"

ima check those out too...