true, i have never die that much to bosses in souls games , like margit, godfrey or mohg. But when i was tired to die like with melenia i use mimic spirit ashes and win so easly. what a great game, i lose my life with this one 😭😂
Right - have to call Elden Ring the easiest by far. Of course its harder if you don't summon - but thats a self-imposed limitation, it doesn't actually affect the difficulty of the game itself.
That’s true for literally all of the games That’s like saying demon souls is easier or harder depending on your world tendency in pure black most enemies one shot you on every level of the entire game
Sekiro for me. No way of cheesing by overlevel or any op build. Especially charmless just shows how imperfect your parries were all time. Definitely easy to learn and very hard to master
That fu@king ape almost gave me a heart attack when it stood up with it's head in his hand and what the f@ck was wrong with his sword style mofo was dancing rather than sword fighting.
Bloodborne was my first souls game it was harsh at the beginning but it was fun taking the platinum was very satisfying and now I'm into souls games because of this game
I find blooborne to be one of the easiest, but that has definitely given me some bad habits for other games. Bloodborne wants you to be really aggressive with its rally system and faster combat speed, and that strategy is so ingrained in me that I always do that whenever I play another melee focused game. More often than not, it gets me killed cause I should have taken my time. But hey, I’m a hunter at heart
Some of those chalice dungeon bosses (I’m looking at you headless, blood-letting beast) are the hardest bosses I’ve ever fought in all of video games. Harder than Manus, Kalameet, Midir, Sister Freide.
This crippled me when I tried playing elden ring, and it wasn't until I got to Friede in ds3 that I truly managed to figure out how to fight bosses in the other souls games. Still cant fight dragons, but I think that's unrelated. Fuck Midir.
Bloodborne was my first souls game. I died roughly 100 times in the first area till i finally started understanding how to play. I just wasn't used to playing games on which you had to dodge. After playing it, though, everything else related became not only easier, but lot more fun. It's still one of my most favoutite games, and i thank it for teaching me so much: mostly, to have a faster mind so i could learn enemies' attack patterns, and learn to notice enemies' movements with more ease and a lot quicker; helped me have a faster reaction time, even irl.
Bloodborne's difficulty stems from the fact that the rest of the dark souls games always put you in a passive position whilst this one expects you to do the exact opposite. Once you realize that you are the hunter and not the hunted you'll find out it's one of the easier soulsborne games
same concept with sekiro. the hardest part is the initial adjestment. after that both games become much easier. while ds3 and even ds1 are the same they still retain more challenge after you have learbed them.
I couldn't agree more with this comment. While I agree it's the hardest. I also find it easy because I am super aggressive with my play style. The DLC is possibly my favorite DLC of all time.
Its weird because it wants you to play aggressively but if you do it punishes you an attack that barrly tickled caught you in an attack there goes your healthbar
Sekiro was just sooooo good, its just way more dependent on you learning the game, because you can not realy get better weapons etc.. But there is way more to learn, to master. You realy get the feeling that you get better and not the character.
I agree I think it’s gotta be my favorite souls game. The game is probably the most “perfect” of all the souls games just because it does exactly what it intends to without allowing too much cheese or being unfair. It’s basically just attack, dodge, jump, mikiri counter, and parry/block with good timing.
I do not understand people saying Bloodborne is one of the hardest.. I had way more trouble with Sekiro, DS2/3 than I did Bloodborne. I always play very aggressively so maybe that’s why I found Bloodborne to be easy, but Elden Ring and Bloodborne were the two games in the series I found to be the most fun and the easiest. Edit: I also have never played with shields, so maybe that’s why this list is so bizarre to me. I always use two handed weapons, sometimes magic.
Bloodborne was mind blowing. Literally! This game was so dark, scary and hard, but at the same time the most addictive and awesome game. I will never forget this game. Yeah sure, the new ps5 games will beat bloodborne's graphics, but it will take something special (Bloodborne 2) to beat the dark and scary mysterious vibe it had. Nothing can explain the feeling and vibe bloodborne gave you.
Bloodborne (minus the DLC) was the easiest for me. Apart from the first few hours, which felt brutal. Past that, once you meet the game on its terms (mechanics) it felt like a fun breeze.
@@acts9835 for sure. When I finished the game, I remember feeling a little surprised about its ease. But then I started the DLC and got that satisfying balance of difficulty/fairness I was hoping for... i say that with the caveat: f%€£ Laurence - absolutely, forever, f÷$& Laurence.
Agreed. Cleric Beast and Father Guacamole are the two hardest boss' in the base game, everything that comes after is usually a cakewalk. With that being said, fuck Laurence.
@@acts9835 after gascogne and the wolf(i dont remember the name) the game become easier for sure BUT the boss of cainhurst martyr logarius is REALLY hard (considering the rng) and from my experience(i finished it like last week) the NPCs are surely one of the hardest of souls game (the one in the church and the 3)
🤔 It's always interesting to see someone's list like this cause different people struggle with different things. I find Sekiro the hardest cause it forces a playstyle on you.
I found sekiro as one of the easiest because after a while parrying becomes such a crucial thing to pull off on every enemy you see that it eventually became easy for me to adapt to new enemies. And not to mention when replaying sekiro the game feels almost like a breeze because u already fought genichiro who was at first time fighting realy difficult 3 times and the owl as well as the castledemon becomes much easy to handle.
IMO Sekiro is the hardest for 1 reason, no leveling. In all the others you can just farm some souls and over level. I also really liked the fighting with Kanji's. Where you could perform a counter based on the attack(grab/sweep/stab). It's the only game I felt like I was fighting rather than my character.
@@hikamsabilulungan8205 it's the most broken shit in most fromsoft games. The early kinda puts u off of it beacuse of the low armor and stamina that u have that makes u think it's useless but whenever you get some hours into ur playthrough you can effectively ignore some mechanics and by endgame it's just op.
I played elden ring, then Sekiro. So it took me FOREVER to learn that I can’t just spam the attack button on a group of enemies. Plus the main focus of combat is something I’ve never done in any game, parrying and blocking
Same here! I actually played bloodborne for a bit first before going to sekiro but I ended up loving sekiro so much, it ended up being my second souls game I beat haha (first being elden ring lol)
@@leofont6026my first was sekiro and it’s still my favorite. The key is to actually parry everything and it’s such a unique experience because you stop the enemies skill with your own. Unlike in other souls games, you can spam roll and wait for an opportunity where they cast a long incantation spell and beat them with barely any honor and health left. You can be a slow dude but strategic to wait for openings in dark souls and level up, but in sekiro you are what you are. Dark souls is like call of duty on console while sekiro is like playing csgo on pc. I love both though
@@emhyrvemrais7574 So the first Dark Souls game for me then lol it's true so I believe this is the correct way to think about it 🤣 Bloodborne was my second and it was easy to me compared to dark souls 1
Sekiro is definitely the souls game with the steepest learning curve. First playthrough destroyed me! But when it finally clicks, its truly exhilarating, and it goes from being the toughest to one of the easiest. Kind of hard to rank these, but i think Elden Ring and Bloodborne might be the hardest to returning players.
@ratchet2007 Yes they made it more accessible to casuals which is why it sold so damn well. But you're not forced into the cheese. I didn't use any cheese and I had a lot of fun. Point is just because you get to use stuff to make Elden Ring easy doesn't mean it's actually easy. That's like saying all their games are easy because technically you can just overlevel... If you play a normal build and use no summons you're telling me Malenia was easy? I played DS3 Cinders and I still didn't face a single boss as difficult as Malenia or Radahn. In Bloodborne most difficult boss for me was probably Gascoigne. Once I learned the game I beat the end bosses pretty easily. DS1 is easy as fuck and DS2 just has too many issues. But yeah Sekiro is my favorite game of theirs.
I think Dark Souls I or II would win this one honestly. You got Solaire, Siegmeyer, Laurentius, Andre and Gwynevere on one hand, and on the other you've got The Emerald Herald, Gavlan, Lucatiel and freaking Shalquoir.
Im 41 now and played a few. I love Sekiro. It teached me absolute patience. I replayed it 3 times and i love it. Currently play ,the surge'. Pretty though too😊
I would consider Sekiro as a difficult game only in the Fromsoft catalogue of games. For the rest, it is quite easy to over level and brute force your way. For Sekiro, you really need to get good. There is really no other option. Levelling up, and skills help a little bit but they cannot defeat the enemies for your.
I agree.... if you haven't mastered the fighting, 10% more health hardly ever grants you the freedom of making 1 more mistake in a fight and you can't just *luck out the bosses by them using predictable moves like in other souls games. I'd say elden ring is the easiest, due to the vast amount of resources available to you from the get go of the game allowing you to grind without any issue instead of being hard stuck at a boss
I honestly think ds3 got this right, at least in the context of souls. Overlevelling will help you a little but you still have to overcome the challenges the game throws at you instead of just coming back and not struggling at all like in elden ring.
I still think Sekiro is objectively the hardest since dodging is no longer a viable option to rely on, but overall you have a really solid list. DS2 and DS3 are almost interchangeable for me since 1 has harder areas and the other has harder boss fights. DS1 was my first fromsoft game yet I was shocked at how painful the learning curve was after beating 1 and then dying to Gundyr about 30 times immediate upon trying DS3.
I enjoyed Elden Ring's difficulty a lot since on my first play through I used non unique weapons and no magic or summons for the entire run. If you use all the tools available to you, the difficulty plummets so much I'd say its easier than DS1
@@_____Astral_____ well theres multiple factors, i think sekiro is the hardest but after the learning curve it becomes easy unlike bb, no shield, finite healing and insanley fast combat.
I think it’s because Bloodborne was my first game, but I NEVER use any shields in souls games. I was so surprised when it was the first thing he mentioned.
Sekiro bosses difficulty>Elden ring bosses difficulty (with OP build), Elden ring (overall game difficulty)>Sekiro (overall game difficulty). after combat clicks in sekiro and you remember boss patterns it's way easier than elden ring bosses. you can't learn patterns for bosses in elden ring as good as sekiro boss patterns.
Deadass. If you include dlc I think ds3 was WAY harder than bb and tbh until you get the hang of sekiros system that's way harder too. Elden ring also not inherently easy so I feel it was ranked too low. A new player can easily walk up on morgott with nothing and get obliterated. This list ain't it imo
@@thephoenix4093 Both learning how to drive a car and how to fly a jet/plane have a learning curve and that doesn't make them equal. Can you guess which one is "harder" ?
When I played Elden Ring, I was just overwhelmed by the amount of options I had in terms of exploration. I never would have thought that I would just get bored from exploring. I love the limited scope of Sekiro.
I know right, currently going through that as well and damn 5-1 was a nightmare... Before ng+ this was indeed by far the easiest game but this is brutal.
The ps3 version is harder, the team who rebuilt the game also made it way easier, I gave up on ps3 version. Also am I the only one who found the new flame lurker super easy?
No one can beat Bloodborne! In addition to being From's best game, it also has the best atmosphere and immersion. The whole gothic and dark vibe of this game is truly fascinating and unique. It also has the most aggressive and frenetic combat, where you need to be aggressive too if you don't want to die all the time and have to recover your health all over again. And to top it off, the game also has the BEST and most challenging DLC of all other games, with completely new weapons and each one with its own personality. Bloodborne is the GOAT 👑🐐 ❤️
Bloodborne was a massive W!!! However I loved Demon Souls atmosphere to. My personal favorite would be DS3 then Elden Ring. I always go back to those and try doing a lvl 1 run or a handicapped run in some way to make the bosses that much better. Absolutely Love it.
@@raphael1684I mean it's mid tier at best. Very easy, short, very few weapons, weak enemy and boss design. It has a good setting/atmosphere and is a perfectly good game, but easily the worst Fromsoft game to date
Nah bro nothing beats the nameless king or Isshin Ashina those two guys are much more tough than Ludwig. Dude was the easiest souls boss I ever fought.
I started with Bloodborne, then Dark Souls 3, then Sekiro, and finally Elden Ring. All of these games have fast paced bosses and combat. Every time I've tried to play the first Dark Souls between these games I get demolished. The slow paced combat actually makes the first Dark Souls the hardest one for me.
SAME! Played Bloodborne, then immediately afterwards DS1. quit DS1 even before O&S. Then Elden Ring came out, played it and thought "might give DS1 another try". Currently I am in Anor Londo and have just defeated Ornstein&Smough and oh my god is this game slow.... holy friggin cow
I first got Elden Ring, then Sekiro, now DS3. #1: Got Elden Ring #2: Beat Elden Ring #3: Got Sekiro #4: Beat Sekiro #5: Got the platinum for Elden Ring #6: Got Dark Souls 3 (A few days ago) Yet dark souls 3 is still pretty hard for me and I can't beat Owl (Father) in sekiro (Even after beating sword saint isshin and then restarting and beating all mandatory enemies before owl father) Doubt I'll ever beat him Elden Ring is my favourite so far though
Nah literally switching from bb to ds1 damn near made the game unplayable cause of the difference of pace and just gameplay in general like bloodborne is a much easier game to Navigate outside of combat
@@pump3rn1ckel I loved the original From Software games for that, it felt so "realistic" and methodical. Sometimes I am a bit annoyed by the fast paced combat of the more modern games.
I've played all the souls games 200 h+ each and can definitely say, that nothing trumped some of the Chalice Dungeons in BB in difficulty. I don't think there's any bosses I struggled as much against, as the Cursed Chalice Watchdog and Headless Beast. Even without the multipliers, some Chalices are insanely difficult.
Headless beast and watchdog were brutal. But imo, the single worst boss in the chalice dungeons is that bastard loran 'camera beast' darkbeast. Paarl was a bad joke at the time. But this monstrosity took me longer to kill than my first run of Kos
@@THE_BEAR_JEW Yes that’s all the “Cursed” dungeons, and the effect can stack. So there are dungeons (like the classic farming dungeons), where you will be oneshot by literally every hit
Elden ring was my first souls game and in the beginning I just rage quit it and put my foolish ambitions to rest .but now my opinion has changed about souls game and I really want to try sekiro and even tho I hear it is way harder… but ig that’s what makes me wanna try it . I can now understand why people love soul games ❤😂
I 100% agree with the list. I love how Sekiro & Bloodborne always stand out as “hard” just because it made you adjust your playstyle compared to how you would play all the other titles. I really hope moving forward Fromsoft replicates this formula more often.
I really hope after the Elden Ring DLC they do something different, fans would love a sequel to any of those games, but hopefully it’s a unique new title.
@@ttchme9816You can use the poison Sabimaru to do some decent posture damage on O'Rin, it also stuns her for a bit. As for the Headless, you can cheese them with the Lilac Umbrella and Projected Force ability. No Divine Confetti required.
@@OmarM626 I mean stunning her is great and all, but if you can't deflect all her attacks especially on Charmless runs, you're still fucked regardless.
Only because you spent much more time & effort mastering it than the other games. If I had to put the same effort into finshing the other games, the same effort I had to put into finishing Sekiro, the other games would be a cakewalk on NG+
I've never played any, only 1 hour of Bloodbourne about a year ago. But I always heard since the first game that Dark Souls (PS3) was the hardest. Demon's Souls apparently made it easier and got easier with the sequel then bit harder with 3? I forget. Then heard Elden Ring was hard enough but depending on how you chose to play. Lots of freedom. Bloodbourne seemed medium. I mean, in all games nowadays you can change difficulty I believe. But yeah Bloodbourne was always sold to me as more accessible than before. Haven't met anyone who's played Sekiro and never really read about it online, tbf. But yeah, might try Demon Souls (PS5) soon.
Blood Borne was for me always the easiest. I only needed 1-3 tries for every boss except Logarius (and the dlc but that was ng+). I see many people say that the more agressive games are the hardest but for me it's the opposite. The more agressive the game the easier it gets.
Pretty much, one of the reason Soulborne game considered difficult because it flips the usual action game priority (defense + survival first over all-out aggression). Bloodborne also give you some crutch to go along with the offensive mindset (rally mechanic).
Bloodborne is easy once you figure it out. If you want it to be hard use weapons that have very little stagger ability, completely changes the game. The parry system is easy, especially once you get the ability to heal from visceral attacks. I would say the hardest boss had to be Laurence from the DLC, with Ludwig coming in second. KOS was a joke, everyone that says he was hard never learned how to parry. As for main game, I would say Amygdala in the chalice dungeon, not in the Nightmare, or Rom in the Chalice dungeon. Only because for some reason in the chalice dungeon, Rom can get into an infinite loop where she spams the meteor attack, and there's nothing you can do except die to restart the fight, cause she also spawns spiders during this glitch. And Amygdala because unlike the Nightmare fight your stats are cut in half, and the Arena is much smaller which makes it incredibly hard to dodge his attacks.
@@mattevans1643 I have done all of that allready. In like 4 playthroughs. The dlc was ng+ the first time and that was pretty hard, especially Ludwig's first phase. I am not saying that it is bad or isn't challenging at all, I just found it easy (even chalice dungeons) at the time, because I have played all the others and it is just a playstyle that works for me
Bloodborne was my introduction to Souls games. It took me 3 tries to get into it, but once I was in, I was hooked. I still don't use shields much in the Souls games.
As someone who plays only melee, no shield and without summons, ER is probably the hardest imo, mainly because of the bosses. But yeah if you use all the tools the game has to offer it becomes way easier
I did that initially until I realized how broken some of the summons were - I think I legitimately spent the most time on Margit, godfrey and elden beast because the whole mid game I was slightly over-leveled because i did all of rannis quest early
@basedlander7836 I find Godfrey, Maliketh, Radahn (just did him rl49 it was more difficult than any ds3 or bb bosses I did, even in a first playthrough) and even Margit to be pretty difficult fight
I did that too, with mainly two handed weapon or two weapons in each hands and no bleed build, I didn't thought it was the hardest, but by far not the easiest
Would've still put Sekiro as the hardest, but I can agree with the order of this ranking still. Bloodborne is the most consistent in its difficulty and if you factor in some of the hardest chalice dungeon bosses I can definitely agree it's hardest. I may have given up on Sekiro, but you couldn't pay me enough to replay every single chalice dungeon of Bloodborne.
My problem with manys souls games is, when you fail at an area or boss you always think: "Is my level high enough? Did I miss an far easier part? Is this really a good weapon or must I go back farm 1 hour and forge a better one? But in Sekiro it's just: Here is your Katana, this is the boss, go ahead.
@@sigmundfreude4088 My first souls game I'm seriously playing through is Sekiro and I'm loving it so far. It's a really rhythm heavy game where deflects are everything but I love it, especially how subtle the cues are. I realized that the bigger the sparks during a deflect, the more accurate your timing was and the less deflects you have to land to get a death blow. And there's no levelling stats to worry about like in the other games where I worry about whether I'm building my character correctly or screwing myself over.
Yeah i would playthough any of them again. But i will never go through the chalice dungeons again. I did it for the platinum, there is nothing that could ever make me do that again. That Rom fight took forever cause it kept glitching out on me, and the Amygdala fight was torture. Then throw in the Pthumerian Prince, like why is this a thing. But all in all it is definitely my favorite game and the Chalice Dungeons were great, but I will 100% never do them again.
i remember picking up Sekiro back in lockdown of Covid, it's my first souls like game since Dark souls 1 (Which i never even finished), i remember playing it for atleast a few days, then i gave up, because it was too hard for me, then last March 2024 Rise of the ronin was released, i know it's not as hard as Sekiro but there's a big similarity, i beat the game in hardest difficulty, then i cameback to Sekiro and finally managed to beat it. i don't know if it's beating Rise of the ronin gave me the skill to beat Sekiro, or the 4 years of life after COVID pandemic.
I breezed through DS2, so I was pretty surprised to see it higher on the list than a lot of other games. But then I saw you flash Scholar of the First Sin, which is a bit different. Curious how you would rank the original though. (Also for those of you who don't know, get the ring of life protection so you don't lose life when you die. Better to repair a ring than to keep buying effigy.)
Came to a point where i felt border line invincible in sekiro. Then i came in contact with the corrupted monk. After i finally beat her i was feeling good. Then i found the demon of hatred. Its a very humbling expirence
😂😂😂 that feeling after beating a boss in sekiro is priceless...I gat 120 hours in and am stuck fighting the first raging bull you fight right after killing that general on horse
@scottbrownjr he was tough at first for me too 😂😂 when he charges in, u can parry it if u time it right. Staggers him and it's free hit. That is make him hit the wall and get staggered. Once u do that u should beat him easily
Most of them more or less let you pick your own difficulty. Elden Ring bosses are probably the hardest for a no hit/no summons/no levelling run but there are tons of tools available to make them significantly easier. It took me more tries to kill Margit at L15 with no summons than Orphan of Kos, but at L30 with a decent summon he’s not too bad.
you say Elden ring has the hardest bosses for a nohit/nosummons/no levelling run but won‘t consider bell charmless nohit sekiro? lol. if you define such a ruleset then sekiro is harder all the way
@@2nysThat's your opinion though, so was his. I've completed sekiro today without any tool or item except the healing gourds, and I can confidently say elden ring was harder. The demon of hatred took me 15-20 tries, isshin took me about 10 and that's it. Malenia and a few others were actual torture to fight with a pure strength build (granted that you don't farm and grind to be over leveled af)
@@arnavdass4695 did you even read what he and myself typed/wrote? we were talking about er/sekiro in a non vanilla scenario. nohit/nosummons/sl1… or bell/charmless/nohit charmless sekiro nohit wont give you free room of a normal parry, since the parry has to be perfect.
"If you disagree, I don't care." THANK YOU! Finally someone understands that our opinions are opinions, It wont effect anyone's view, Only to a hardcore toxic fan's ego.
For Maliketh, you just have to roll into him as mos of his aoe are outwards and in front of him. If you look into the fight from top down, you have ton of safety spaces just under him. Reminds me of Vordt when I first fought him where I keep dying then I realised you just hug his butt and junk 😂
I actually thought it was one if the easier ones. First playthrough with the hunters axe wasn't hard and it was only my second fromsoft game. Sekiro and dark souls 3 are both harder.
I just recently finished my first run thru of my first “fromsoftware” game, just finished bloodbourne. And since I see it’s the hardest, I feel more confident on getting into rest of the games 😎
@@sanxxxxPeople defend that game to eternity but it’s really not that great of a game. It’s world design is really interesting but it’s quality and actual gameplay is so lackluster compared to every other souls/borne game.
I think sekiro is by far the hardest making u actually learn patterns and perfect deflection where as for bloodborne a beast blood pallet and fire paper can get u through most bosses even when under leveled
It's funny, BB was my second (after a magic playthrough of Demon's Souls, so was still my first melee experience) and I've always found it the easiest. I'm very aggressive and reactive in these games, so the combat came naturally. Even Orphan of Kos only took 7 tries (and 10 tries in NG+)
I'm pretty new to souls games. I played through elden ring last year, as my first game that is in any way even similar to the souls games, and now I'm playing Sekiro. So far Sekiro is a lot more of a challenge to me. I'm planing to eventually play through all of them, excluding bloodborne, unless they get it on PC
The first release of Demon's Souls back in 2007 had a 4-way dodge which made the game harder than it is in the remake and something like this is worth mentioning at least.
Golden Vow + Flame Grant Me Strength + Flame Phisik + Fire Scorpion + Alexander Shard = trivial boss battle (even Melania) … The life steal is just so OP along with the damage from the buffs
bro the blasphemous blade is the best weapon in the game for pve, even better than rivers of blood, there is no way the game is difficult while using it, i know it because ive used it myself, its completely busted
@@GravelordWrust bro farming azula turns the game into a nightmare you have to fight the godskin duo, draconian tree sentinel, the immediately after that you have to fight malekith
Bloodborne makes it easier because you have 20 heals from the beginning, and you can upgrade that with runes, making it a total of 24 at the cost of a rune space. In Dark Souls you have 3 heals, you can upgrade the flask yes, but it will take time. The parry it's also faster and easier in Bloodborne so you don't need a shield to cover yourself with
20 blood vials but when u lose them they dont recharge. U need to farm or buy them. In Dark souls they recharging and that makes it easier for me cuz im so bored to do farming every time my blood vials are finished. Also in Bloodborne u spend them a lot of easier than Dark souls games .
For me, Elden Ring started off as the easiest, but became the hardest by the end. Sekiro was the hardest on my first run, but once you understand parrying, it’s one of the easiest.
I played Bloodborne for the first time after playing Elden Ring and thought it was a cake walk, way easier, and Elden Ring wasn’t my first Soulslike, I had already played DS1 and DS3
I mean at that point you are pretty much a veteran so yeah don't expect BB to be too hard then. For me ER was the easiest because I had finished any other fromsoft souls-like by the time I started ER.
This comment will probably get lost in the shuffle but your channel really helped me get into the souls borne genre and I can’t thank you enough. Elden ring was my first and about halfway through after immense frustration I went back and played through sekiro and bloodborne and demon souls and came back to elden ring and had a much better experience. Watching your videos while at work too and gaining knowledge has been a huge help! Also the crazy part was that Bloodborne was the first souls game I actually beat haha for me it was the easier plus I duped a lot
Welcome to the series. If you eventually beat all of the Soulsborne games that you're interested in, I highly recommend giving Nioh 1 and 2 a shot. It's realistically one of the only competitors FromSoft has.
Bloodborne was my first souls game, so no surprise I struggled to git gud. But when I went for DS1 next, I struggled much more. Not only the gameplay is drastically different, Dark Souls is much more slow paced. I got used to be quick rolls and movement during combat, then I had to throw that out the window and not have a mental breakdown over my character doing a slow-mo roll in heavy amor. Even with no clothes on the Dark Souls character is much slower than Bloodborne's.
@@gabrielsilvestre8491 for me, Bloodborne was much harder because you don't have a shield or real armor. It requires more agility skill and aggression, meaning you have to know the patterns more. It's different in that way to the souls games. The bosses in DS3 can be tough but it wasn't bad for me. Just take your time actually learning your moves and enemies moves. It's a game of patience. You will not plow through it. You will master it, so don't run away from tough fights. Don't sweat dying. And once u get good, n u will, you'll love it.
@@gabrielsilvestre8491 btw, Bloodborne was so good. So is DS3 but Bloodborne just sticks with me. It's like if Van Helsing was in a Lovecraftian nightmare.
@@Blackveil123😂😂bro took whole week to kill Orphan and still has the audacity to call BB was easy🤣I literally killed orphan in 40mins and yes the game might be difficult for beginners
Having started from Bloodborne and Sekiro, I find the traditional dark souls games to be harder due to the lack of QoL there is. Slower healing, slower dodging, walls bounce back your attacks. I am astonished to hear players call the games I played the hardest, but it was the challenge of those games that made me be at my best. Whereas the entropy vibe in Dark Souls just ruined my will to git gut. I am currently still trying to get back into those games, but they feel so slow and sluggish that it has been quite the challenge playing them.
I played Elden Ring how I played all the Souls games. Two handed claymore and medium armour. My God the game felt impossible at times. Using my typical Dark Souls build made Elden Ring by far the hardest game in the series. But my second playthrough I used moonlight greatsword and Magic. That made the difficulty much easier. It made it much more in line with the rest of the games, if not slightly easier most of the time
This is actually why I kind of dislike Elden Ring. I played a dex/faith build, same as I for for DS games, so I didn’t struggle too much. But then I saw how people playing Int and Arc+katana builds were breezing through like they were playing Skyrim and it kinda spoiled my love for the game. The other games (besides Sekiro) allow most builds a fair amount of viability. But Elden Ring blatantly favors certain builds and punishes others. It’s the only fromsoft game that I’ve played that I haven’t given another playthrough for that reason.
The wild build variety is both one of the best and worst things about Elden Ring. Tons of replayability to try new tools that will completely change the way you play, but the balance is awful. I did my usual "greatsword+a little faith on the side" strat and it felt borderline impossible at times. But use that invisible comet spell? Destroy everything ez pz. Use ANY OTHER SPELL?? The enemies auto dodge lmao. I have such a love-hate relationship with this stupid game, but in the future I definitely want them to go back to more limited options so that they can achieve some semblance of balance again.
First play through of Elden ring was rage inducing for me. Every corner I turned was terrifying. The knights with the huge shields were my biggest nightmare.. now I play it and I have no trouble with anything.. once you know you know.. same with sekiro
I recently bought Bloodborne as my first Souls game. I played it with a friend, which made it easier, but I see what makes this hard. A typical hit and run tactic often times doesn't work and timing is hard. That being said it's still really adictive and it's not really as frustrating as I expected it.
I think Sekiro is actually the hardest for the first two playthroughs because when I went into ng and played charmless it genuinely felt like I was playing a different game lol
Sekiro is the hardest on your first playthrough and after that it becomes the easiest thanks to muscle memory, a fight with a boss is kind of like playing a song on a piano or another instrument after you have learned it
I totally agree with you, I'm not very good at playing so I'm not that fast because I'm not young anymore, but Elden Ring was a game I completed, the main game and the DLC and it was hard, but not as hard as I expected.
Very surprised at your picks. For me, Bloodborne was maybe 2nd easiest. The beginning was tough, but once I got out of the starting area I was fine and found it very intuitive. Maybe it just fits my playstyle best, but once I got the Kirkhammer it was over.
@@Chad-bc9vi It has nothing to do with a Soulslike. Its a hard game but many games are hard. Its not an Action RPG, its an Action Adventure. You cant create a Charakter, you cant use different weapons, no magic no ranged attacks, no different ways, just parry. You cant grind to get stronger, you cant summon help..... From Demon Souls to Elden Ring these Games work in the same way. Sekiro is too different to be a Soulslike.
I breezed through Elden Ring which was technically my first of the serious bc I guess I'm pretty new. Then I tried out bloodborne and I'm kinda off and on with it. But, it crushed me when he said Demon Souls is the easiest because I have been struggling with that game now trying to beat it. It's not the bosses it's the normal enemies and I have no clue why.
one thing about Sekiro is how impossible it feels the first time. But mastery of Sekiro is the most satisfying of all the games imo. I mean just look at Ongbal
Wow my ranking would be very different. BB would probably be second easiest. Only hard part for me is central yharnam at the very beginning and a few of the dlc/chalice bosses. Elden Ring melee only with no ashes is the hardest by a large margin
Bloodborne has some rough areas that gave me trouble, but the speed of the game and being rewarded by being more aggressive makes it easier for me as well. I can count on one hand the number of bosses that took double digit attempts and so far they've all been either optional main game bosses or DLC bosses. I still rank Sekiro as the hardest for me personally, but I'm also still having trouble getting the parrying mechanic fully learned. I'm working through Elden Ring slowly as I burned out on it last year and I'm playing melee only but with spirit ashes since I'm offline only. Even then I have more trouble with the field bosses than any of the big named bosses except for Margit (was way underleveled for that fight).
Yeah, but that's still a self imposed challenge. It's a less extreme version of saying that the dark souls is harder than sekiro because you can do sl1 runs.
Bloodborne was my first one so I got used to playing aggressive and getting great at timing dogges etc so then going to Dark souls 3, 1 then 2after was so jarring as I had to play way more defensively- I really struggled with 2 lol I'd put the ranking as: (hardest to easier) 1. Dark Souls 2 2. Dark Souls 1 3. Sekiro 4. Dark Souls 3 5. Elden Ring 6. Demon's Souls 7. Bloodborne
Yeah, "Lord of Cinder form" is just human form from Demon's Souls with better marketing. You can't even use online features like summoning when you're not in LoC form.
DS1 was the first one I ever played and managed to 100% it. Now I'm playing through Scholar and just got through the Shrine of Amara. After Scholar, I'm looking forward to doing DS3. And still playing DS2 a bit for 100%
Valid list. I platinumed all of them, sekiro after 5 days of release. The 2nd playthrough felt way easier but the bloodborne 1hp dungeons will remain...a nightmare. Bloodborne made me way more aggressive when it comes to approaching.
would be interesting to compare the difficulty of these games to other Soulslikes - I can't think of a much harder game than Nioh 1 honestly... although Sekiro comes close as you can only "farm" to a certain extent to be able to overcome tough bosses/areas.
Nioh is not bad at all. Imo Dark Souls is tougher if only because Nioh's combat system is so good. Sekiro is definitely the toughest because you can't just become so overleveled that you become OP.
I'm always surprised by how big your health bar is in all of the games, I almost never level vigor so I'm most of the games my stamina bar is the same length as the health bar if not bigger
@@comeridewithmeAE you can have both wtf. If you generally prioritize vigor and strength/dex the most then endurance, by the time you're late game your health is huge and you also deal massive damage, especially when you use rings that boost both stats. That's literally how most people play. It's why the meme exists: "always level vigor!!!!"
It took me 6 years to complete Bloodborne. I couldn’t get past the one reborn so gave up and came back years later and played through with a different build and completed it. Just got Elden ring and I’m shocked at how different the combat experience is. So much slower, enemies using shields, I like the idea of blocking and parrying it’s just a shame you lose a lot of stamina doing it. I found healing can be so slow again enemies who just take away what you just gained during the healing animation. I’m determined to keep going and adapting tho 😅
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Did u actually fight sekiro bosses 1000 times wtf 😂
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Elden Ring can be one of the easiest or hardest of the series depending on how you play.
Elden Ring was the hardest for me, but the hardest to get through was ds2
true, i have never die that much to bosses in souls games , like margit, godfrey or mohg. But when i was tired to die like with melenia i use mimic spirit ashes and win so easly. what a great game, i lose my life with this one 😭😂
Right - have to call Elden Ring the easiest by far. Of course its harder if you don't summon - but thats a self-imposed limitation, it doesn't actually affect the difficulty of the game itself.
That’s true for literally all of the games
That’s like saying demon souls is easier or harder depending on your world tendency in pure black most enemies one shot you on every level of the entire game
Ok but it dark souls u can use havels armor and bk halberd and destroy bosses faster than with a sunmon
Sekiro for me. No way of cheesing by overlevel or any op build. Especially charmless just shows how imperfect your parries were all time. Definitely easy to learn and very hard to master
That underwater headless still gives me nightmares need more divine flowers😂
That fu@king ape almost gave me a heart attack when it stood up with it's head in his hand and what the f@ck was wrong with his sword style mofo was dancing rather than sword fighting.
that was easy doe cmon@@jaygopinath1694
not a souls game but yeah
ok?@@Matthew_Chaisson
The hardest game is the one you play first
I started with sekiro 😂 put it down immediately, picked it up months later and fell in love with games that give you no direction or help
DS1 was my first. Even though bloodborne and sekiro are technically more difficult, DS1 still humbles me.
I'm playing bloodborne first 💀💀💀
mine was sekiro haha then went on to complete bloodborne
@@alvarotovarmontesinos5556 same
Bloodborne was my first souls game it was harsh at the beginning but it was fun taking the platinum was very satisfying and now I'm into souls games because of this game
Same dude, I love that game.
Bloodborne also got me into souls games, absolutel masterpiece imo
Literally the exact same for me
Same. I still think it's the best. Not to short but not as long as elden ring or even ds3.
Same happened to me with Elden ring now I have lies of p and lords of the rings fallen I’ve beat all 3 looking forward to new games!
I find blooborne to be one of the easiest, but that has definitely given me some bad habits for other games. Bloodborne wants you to be really aggressive with its rally system and faster combat speed, and that strategy is so ingrained in me that I always do that whenever I play another melee focused game. More often than not, it gets me killed cause I should have taken my time. But hey, I’m a hunter at heart
Some of those chalice dungeon bosses (I’m looking at you headless, blood-letting beast) are the hardest bosses I’ve ever fought in all of video games.
Harder than Manus, Kalameet, Midir, Sister Freide.
This crippled me when I tried playing elden ring, and it wasn't until I got to Friede in ds3 that I truly managed to figure out how to fight bosses in the other souls games. Still cant fight dragons, but I think that's unrelated. Fuck Midir.
Yeah me too, i think Bloodborne was more easy of all this games.
Sekiro bring one of the most difficult, for the mecanics
@@bored_weeb1958 I was with you until you said that Midir slander. How are you fighting him? He’s such a well balanced and great fight
@@hybrid5860 I don't know. I've tried all the strats I've seen on youtube, etc, but somehow he has given me more trouble than orphan.
Bloodborne was my first souls game. I died roughly 100 times in the first area till i finally started understanding how to play. I just wasn't used to playing games on which you had to dodge. After playing it, though, everything else related became not only easier, but lot more fun. It's still one of my most favoutite games, and i thank it for teaching me so much: mostly, to have a faster mind so i could learn enemies' attack patterns, and learn to notice enemies' movements with more ease and a lot quicker; helped me have a faster reaction time, even irl.
I died to the executioner until I learned to lock on....
@@fidelostorga4550 i understand your pain
I relate to this
Love this, it was almost the exact same scenario for me. Planning in firing up my old PS4 again for some Bloodborne
Damn same here@@fidelostorga4550
Bloodborne's difficulty stems from the fact that the rest of the dark souls games always put you in a passive position whilst this one expects you to do the exact opposite. Once you realize that you are the hunter and not the hunted you'll find out it's one of the easier soulsborne games
same concept with sekiro. the hardest part is the initial adjestment. after that both games become much easier. while ds3 and even ds1 are the same they still retain more challenge after you have learbed them.
Slower souls games are harder. Bloodborne easiest, sekiro also easy except some bosses.
I couldn't agree more with this comment. While I agree it's the hardest. I also find it easy because I am super aggressive with my play style. The DLC is possibly my favorite DLC of all time.
Its weird because it wants you to play aggressively but if you do it punishes you an attack that barrly tickled caught you in an attack there goes your healthbar
@antx_soulsborne_meat_rider This is a typical git gud moment here. You still need to have pattern recognition. These games arent hack and slash
Sekiro was just sooooo good, its just way more dependent on you learning the game, because you can not realy get better weapons etc.. But there is way more to learn, to master. You realy get the feeling that you get better and not the character.
I agree I think it’s gotta be my favorite souls game. The game is probably the most “perfect” of all the souls games just because it does exactly what it intends to without allowing too much cheese or being unfair. It’s basically just attack, dodge, jump, mikiri counter, and parry/block with good timing.
I do not understand people saying Bloodborne is one of the hardest.. I had way more trouble with Sekiro, DS2/3 than I did Bloodborne. I always play very aggressively so maybe that’s why I found Bloodborne to be easy, but Elden Ring and Bloodborne were the two games in the series I found to be the most fun and the easiest.
Edit: I also have never played with shields, so maybe that’s why this list is so bizarre to me. I always use two handed weapons, sometimes magic.
Im having way more trouble in ds 2 than i did in bloodborne.
Elden ring is just waiting for the boss to do certain attacks and then getting a few hits in, repeat
@@Flowthro Not to mention all of the ridiculously overpowered builds you can make.
@@Flowthro You actually got a point
Elden Ring is still my favourite though
@@Flowthro you can basically 3 shot bosses in elden ring its easiest souls game by far
Bloodborne was mind blowing. Literally! This game was so dark, scary and hard, but at the same time the most addictive and awesome game. I will never forget this game. Yeah sure, the new ps5 games will beat bloodborne's graphics, but it will take something special (Bloodborne 2) to beat the dark and scary mysterious vibe it had. Nothing can explain the feeling and vibe bloodborne gave you.
We NEED pc port with updated graphics 😩
Overated but ok.
@@Rtlftr👽👽👽 actual alien moment
Couldnt get behind bloodborne like i did with pretty much every other Fromsoftware game.
It’s good for sure. But it’s a bit overrated. Like a lot of ps exclusives. It’s not the best FROM game though.
Bloodborne (minus the DLC) was the easiest for me. Apart from the first few hours, which felt brutal. Past that, once you meet the game on its terms (mechanics) it felt like a fun breeze.
exactly what i was thinking. I never understood why people called the game hard. Game became easy after the first three bosses
@@acts9835 for sure. When I finished the game, I remember feeling a little surprised about its ease. But then I started the DLC and got that satisfying balance of difficulty/fairness I was hoping for... i say that with the caveat: f%€£ Laurence - absolutely, forever, f÷$& Laurence.
Agreed. Cleric Beast and Father Guacamole are the two hardest boss' in the base game, everything that comes after is usually a cakewalk. With that being said, fuck Laurence.
@@acts9835 after gascogne and the wolf(i dont remember the name) the game become easier for sure BUT the boss of cainhurst martyr logarius is REALLY hard (considering the rng) and from my experience(i finished it like last week) the NPCs are surely one of the hardest of souls game (the one in the church and the 3)
I never played the dlc but I only died once to a boss the whole entire game. It was insanely easy and I only used the starter weapon the whole game.
Sekiro, when starting out, felt like doing a soul level 1 run in Dark Souls.
Sekiro on my 4th playthrough was so easy I didn't die till owl father.
🤔 It's always interesting to see someone's list like this cause different people struggle with different things. I find Sekiro the hardest cause it forces a playstyle on you.
Agreed. It's always so different. I died maybe 30 times in Bloodborne, but well over 100 in Sekiro.
I found sekiro as one of the easiest because after a while parrying becomes such a crucial thing to pull off on every enemy you see that it eventually became easy for me to adapt to new enemies.
And not to mention when replaying sekiro the game feels almost like a breeze because u already fought genichiro who was at first time fighting realy difficult 3 times and the owl as well as the castledemon becomes much easy to handle.
@@flashotaku435only the first play through of Sekiro is hard… because you hesitate (;
IMO Sekiro is the hardest for 1 reason, no leveling. In all the others you can just farm some souls and over level. I also really liked the fighting with Kanji's. Where you could perform a counter based on the attack(grab/sweep/stab). It's the only game I felt like I was fighting rather than my character.
@@TheInfluuencehesitate and you lose
I can’t help but feel like this list was made entirely off the basis of whether you could use Shields or not and how effective said Shield is
bruh i just realized someone actually use a shield in souls game. i always thought its ineffective in game
@@hikamsabilulungan8205 it's the most broken shit in most fromsoft games. The early kinda puts u off of it beacuse of the low armor and stamina that u have that makes u think it's useless but whenever you get some hours into ur playthrough you can effectively ignore some mechanics and by endgame it's just op.
@@hikamsabilulungan8205it's OP wdym
Shields make the game alot easier especially after you die a few times and know exactly when to parry
@@randupe2403 i use them because i like funny parry sound
played every souls game to 100% since the original, but demon of hatred and ishin ashina brought me the closest to giving up 😅 .... so far 😁
I played elden ring, then Sekiro. So it took me FOREVER to learn that I can’t just spam the attack button on a group of enemies. Plus the main focus of combat is something I’ve never done in any game, parrying and blocking
Same here! I actually played bloodborne for a bit first before going to sekiro but I ended up loving sekiro so much, it ended up being my second souls game I beat haha (first being elden ring lol)
@@leofont6026my first was sekiro and it’s still my favorite. The key is to actually parry everything and it’s such a unique experience because you stop the enemies skill with your own. Unlike in other souls games, you can spam roll and wait for an opportunity where they cast a long incantation spell and beat them with barely any honor and health left. You can be a slow dude but strategic to wait for openings in dark souls and level up, but in sekiro you are what you are. Dark souls is like call of duty on console while sekiro is like playing csgo on pc. I love both though
I love how almost everyone finds a different game the hardest😂
That's the magic of it
The hardest games is your frist dark souls game
Being good at Sekiro does separate the boys from the men tho
Right. This guy finds Bloodborne the hardest, I find it the easiest but haven't gotten to try Elden Ring yet tho.
@@emhyrvemrais7574 So the first Dark Souls game for me then lol it's true so I believe this is the correct way to think about it 🤣 Bloodborne was my second and it was easy to me compared to dark souls 1
I like how you pointed out your bias when ranking them. Take this sub brodie
Sekiro is definitely the souls game with the steepest learning curve. First playthrough destroyed me! But when it finally clicks, its truly exhilarating, and it goes from being the toughest to one of the easiest. Kind of hard to rank these, but i think Elden Ring and Bloodborne might be the hardest to returning players.
Its because Genichiro is a better margit than margit
@ratchet2007 Elden Ring is pretty difficult pre nerfs and without using any cheesing.
@ratchet2007I had an easier time with bloodborne than elden ring 😂
@ratchet2007 Yes they made it more accessible to casuals which is why it sold so damn well. But you're not forced into the cheese. I didn't use any cheese and I had a lot of fun.
Point is just because you get to use stuff to make Elden Ring easy doesn't mean it's actually easy. That's like saying all their games are easy because technically you can just overlevel...
If you play a normal build and use no summons you're telling me Malenia was easy?
I played DS3 Cinders and I still didn't face a single boss as difficult as Malenia or Radahn.
In Bloodborne most difficult boss for me was probably Gascoigne. Once I learned the game I beat the end bosses pretty easily. DS1 is easy as fuck and DS2 just has too many issues.
But yeah Sekiro is my favorite game of theirs.
Sekiro final boss is the hardest thing ever on a game
You should rank souls game by your favorite NPCs!
Elden ring solos, we got sir alexander
@@pharmazon291 but Dark Souls 1 has Solaire
PRAISE THE SUN!!!!
I think Dark Souls I or II would win this one honestly. You got Solaire, Siegmeyer, Laurentius, Andre and Gwynevere on one hand, and on the other you've got The Emerald Herald, Gavlan, Lucatiel and freaking Shalquoir.
@@graveslayer9666 Dam
HELL YES
Im 41 now and played a few. I love Sekiro. It teached me absolute patience. I replayed it 3 times and i love it.
Currently play ,the surge'. Pretty though too😊
I would consider Sekiro as a difficult game only in the Fromsoft catalogue of games. For the rest, it is quite easy to over level and brute force your way. For Sekiro, you really need to get good. There is really no other option. Levelling up, and skills help a little bit but they cannot defeat the enemies for your.
Yes i feel like inSouls games you can do mindless grinding and level-up and Sekiro is the best for me because it focuses on the pure gameplay
I agree.... if you haven't mastered the fighting, 10% more health hardly ever grants you the freedom of making 1 more mistake in a fight and you can't just *luck out the bosses by them using predictable moves like in other souls games. I'd say elden ring is the easiest, due to the vast amount of resources available to you from the get go of the game allowing you to grind without any issue instead of being hard stuck at a boss
I honestly think ds3 got this right, at least in the context of souls. Overlevelling will help you a little but you still have to overcome the challenges the game throws at you instead of just coming back and not struggling at all like in elden ring.
I still think Sekiro is objectively the hardest since dodging is no longer a viable option to rely on, but overall you have a really solid list. DS2 and DS3 are almost interchangeable for me since 1 has harder areas and the other has harder boss fights. DS1 was my first fromsoft game yet I was shocked at how painful the learning curve was after beating 1 and then dying to Gundyr about 30 times immediate upon trying DS3.
“Dodging is no longer a viable option”
Me: beat the game with barely any deflecting and relied pretty much entirely on dodging
@@smithychris8537 skill issue
@@smithychris8537 surely
@@servell2115
Bro how is that a skill issue? You literally don’t need to deflect. You can just run circles around bosses and slash their asses easily.
@@smithychris8537 some bosses "NEED" you to deflect or else you'll die with a single shot , stop capping
I enjoyed Elden Ring's difficulty a lot since on my first play through I used non unique weapons and no magic or summons for the entire run. If you use all the tools available to you, the difficulty plummets so much I'd say its easier than DS1
“You can’t parry many of the bosses”
*shows boss you can parry*
yeah, Bloodborne as the top hardest game is such a bad take. it's my favourite fromsoft game but nowhere near the hardest
@@_____Astral_____ well theres multiple factors, i think sekiro is the hardest but after the learning curve it becomes easy unlike bb, no shield, finite healing and insanley fast combat.
True but unless you play it yourself, some of them really are that difficult
I was waiting for this comment 🤣🤣
@@EmberPlays Yeah now that I’m thinking about it that might’ve been bait..
I think it’s because Bloodborne was my first game, but I NEVER use any shields in souls games. I was so surprised when it was the first thing he mentioned.
Sekiro bosses difficulty>Elden ring bosses difficulty (with OP build), Elden ring (overall game difficulty)>Sekiro (overall game difficulty). after combat clicks in sekiro and you remember boss patterns it's way easier than elden ring bosses. you can't learn patterns for bosses in elden ring as good as sekiro boss patterns.
I cannot believe he put bloodborne at number one. That is insane
Definitely the game I beat the quickest
I mean he says hes a shield user so its definitely his hardest lmao🤣
Deadass. If you include dlc I think ds3 was WAY harder than bb and tbh until you get the hang of sekiros system that's way harder too. Elden ring also not inherently easy so I feel it was ranked too low. A new player can easily walk up on morgott with nothing and get obliterated. This list ain't it imo
@@gamer8622 to say that until you get of Sekiro's system it's harder too is dumb. Because it applies to all souls games
@@thephoenix4093 Both learning how to drive a car and how to fly a jet/plane have a learning curve and that doesn't make them equal. Can you guess which one is "harder" ?
"Nooo difficulty is objective you can't say nothing😱🤓☝"
"I'm stuck in vordt's boss fight, help me🗿👍"
Always dodge behind him... Stick to his butt with fire attacks you'll succeed
I got you
Vordt is a dog that’s my tip also whenever the music gets crazy u want to spam dodge and freak out as much as possible
Just kill the dancer first and level up , hopefully this helps
@@internetbrowser1960 I already defeated dragonslayer amor and champion gundyr, I finally can defead vordt, thank you ❤
When I played Elden Ring, I was just overwhelmed by the amount of options I had in terms of exploration. I never would have thought that I would just get bored from exploring.
I love the limited scope of Sekiro.
I'm currently playing Demon's Souls and believe me it has the hardest NG+ out of all those games. With 30 Vigor almost everything can one-shot you.
I know right, currently going through that as well and damn 5-1 was a nightmare... Before ng+ this was indeed by far the easiest game but this is brutal.
Make sure to use warding. It helps immensely during ng+ run.
Even with 80 Vigor and in human form a punch from Dragon God nearly one-shots. Do not let him see you lol
im getting one shotted in ng Elden ring and i have a ton of hp :C
The ps3 version is harder, the team who rebuilt the game also made it way easier, I gave up on ps3 version. Also am I the only one who found the new flame lurker super easy?
No one can beat Bloodborne! In addition to being From's best game, it also has the best atmosphere and immersion. The whole gothic and dark vibe of this game is truly fascinating and unique. It also has the most aggressive and frenetic combat, where you need to be aggressive too if you don't want to die all the time and have to recover your health all over again. And to top it off, the game also has the BEST and most challenging DLC of all other games, with completely new weapons and each one with its own personality. Bloodborne is the GOAT 👑🐐 ❤️
Bloodborne was a massive W!!! However I loved Demon Souls atmosphere to. My personal favorite would be DS3 then Elden Ring. I always go back to those and try doing a lvl 1 run or a handicapped run in some way to make the bosses that much better. Absolutely Love it.
Bloodborne fans trying to not remind everyone that their game is the best game ever created every 10 seconds (impossible)
@@raphael1684I mean it's mid tier at best. Very easy, short,
very few weapons, weak enemy and boss design. It has a good setting/atmosphere and is a perfectly good game, but easily the worst Fromsoft game to date
@@vtubersubs3803 i think the same but that's my opinion. The problem with bloodborne fans is that they can't conceive that a game may be better
Nah bro nothing beats the nameless king or Isshin Ashina those two guys are much more tough than Ludwig. Dude was the easiest souls boss I ever fought.
I started with Bloodborne, then Dark Souls 3, then Sekiro, and finally Elden Ring. All of these games have fast paced bosses and combat. Every time I've tried to play the first Dark Souls between these games I get demolished. The slow paced combat actually makes the first Dark Souls the hardest one for me.
SAME! Played Bloodborne, then immediately afterwards DS1. quit DS1 even before O&S. Then Elden Ring came out, played it and thought "might give DS1 another try". Currently I am in Anor Londo and have just defeated Ornstein&Smough and oh my god is this game slow.... holy friggin cow
I first got Elden Ring, then Sekiro, now DS3.
#1: Got Elden Ring
#2: Beat Elden Ring
#3: Got Sekiro
#4: Beat Sekiro
#5: Got the platinum for Elden Ring
#6: Got Dark Souls 3 (A few days ago)
Yet dark souls 3 is still pretty hard for me and I can't beat Owl (Father) in sekiro (Even after beating sword saint isshin and then restarting and beating all mandatory enemies before owl father)
Doubt I'll ever beat him
Elden Ring is my favourite so far though
Nah literally switching from bb to ds1 damn near made the game unplayable cause of the difference of pace and just gameplay in general like bloodborne is a much easier game to Navigate outside of combat
@@pump3rn1ckel I loved the original From Software games for that, it felt so "realistic" and methodical. Sometimes I am a bit annoyed by the fast paced combat of the more modern games.
@@wurzelbert84wucher5 totally get what you mean. It feels so completely different. Not in a bad way though.
I've played all the souls games 200 h+ each and can definitely say, that nothing trumped some of the Chalice Dungeons in BB in difficulty. I don't think there's any bosses I struggled as much against, as the Cursed Chalice Watchdog and Headless Beast. Even without the multipliers, some Chalices are insanely difficult.
Headless beast and watchdog were brutal. But imo, the single worst boss in the chalice dungeons is that bastard loran 'camera beast' darkbeast. Paarl was a bad joke at the time. But this monstrosity took me longer to kill than my first run of Kos
I forget which one it was but the dungeon where it cuts your HP in half was just vicious lol.
@@THE_BEAR_JEW Yes that’s all the “Cursed” dungeons, and the effect can stack. So there are dungeons (like the classic farming dungeons), where you will be oneshot by literally every hit
Elden ring was my first souls game and in the beginning I just rage quit it and put my foolish ambitions to rest .but now my opinion has changed about souls game and I really want to try sekiro and even tho I hear it is way harder… but ig that’s what makes me wanna try it . I can now understand why people love soul games ❤😂
I 100% agree with the list. I love how Sekiro & Bloodborne always stand out as “hard” just because it made you adjust your playstyle compared to how you would play all the other titles. I really hope moving forward Fromsoft replicates this formula more often.
just stop being a shield weeb
I really hope after the Elden Ring DLC they do something different, fans would love a sequel to any of those games, but hopefully it’s a unique new title.
i love how sekiro goes from being the hardest in the whole series to being the easiest by a landslide
Correct. The left bumper is just so overpowered.
*Secretly cries in O'rin, Drunkards and Headless because can't deflect them consistently*
@@ttchme9816You can use the poison Sabimaru to do some decent posture damage on O'Rin, it also stuns her for a bit.
As for the Headless, you can cheese them with the Lilac Umbrella and Projected Force ability. No Divine Confetti required.
@@OmarM626 I mean stunning her is great and all, but if you can't deflect all her attacks especially on Charmless runs, you're still fucked regardless.
Only because you spent much more time & effort mastering it than the other games.
If I had to put the same effort into finshing the other games, the same effort I had to put into finishing Sekiro, the other games would be a cakewalk on NG+
I think its only thanks to reflection of strength. Being able to replay the hardest bosses over and over will make them easier eventually...
I've never played any, only 1 hour of Bloodbourne about a year ago. But I always heard since the first game that Dark Souls (PS3) was the hardest.
Demon's Souls apparently made it easier and got easier with the sequel then bit harder with 3? I forget. Then heard Elden Ring was hard enough but depending on how you chose to play. Lots of freedom.
Bloodbourne seemed medium. I mean, in all games nowadays you can change difficulty I believe. But yeah Bloodbourne was always sold to me as more accessible than before.
Haven't met anyone who's played Sekiro and never really read about it online, tbf. But yeah, might try Demon Souls (PS5) soon.
Blood Borne was for me always the easiest. I only needed 1-3 tries for every boss except Logarius (and the dlc but that was ng+).
I see many people say that the more agressive games are the hardest but for me it's the opposite. The more agressive the game the easier it gets.
Pretty much, one of the reason Soulborne game considered difficult because it flips the usual action game priority (defense + survival first over all-out aggression). Bloodborne also give you some crutch to go along with the offensive mindset (rally mechanic).
Bloodborne is easy once you figure it out. If you want it to be hard use weapons that have very little stagger ability, completely changes the game. The parry system is easy, especially once you get the ability to heal from visceral attacks. I would say the hardest boss had to be Laurence from the DLC, with Ludwig coming in second. KOS was a joke, everyone that says he was hard never learned how to parry. As for main game, I would say Amygdala in the chalice dungeon, not in the Nightmare, or Rom in the Chalice dungeon. Only because for some reason in the chalice dungeon, Rom can get into an infinite loop where she spams the meteor attack, and there's nothing you can do except die to restart the fight, cause she also spawns spiders during this glitch. And Amygdala because unlike the Nightmare fight your stats are cut in half, and the Arena is much smaller which makes it incredibly hard to dodge his attacks.
@@mattevans1643 I have done all of that allready. In like 4 playthroughs. The dlc was ng+ the first time and that was pretty hard, especially Ludwig's first phase. I am not saying that it is bad or isn't challenging at all, I just found it easy (even chalice dungeons) at the time, because I have played all the others and it is just a playstyle that works for me
Bloodborne was my introduction to Souls games. It took me 3 tries to get into it, but once I was in, I was hooked. I still don't use shields much in the Souls games.
Yeah, that's why Dark Souls 2 is the hardest.
bro really said bloodborne is harder than sekiro💀💀💀
Right I know clearly bros never played sekiro before without Kuro charm and using the demons bell.
As someone who plays only melee, no shield and without summons, ER is probably the hardest imo, mainly because of the bosses. But yeah if you use all the tools the game has to offer it becomes way easier
I did that initially until I realized how broken some of the summons were - I think I legitimately spent the most time on Margit, godfrey and elden beast because the whole mid game I was slightly over-leveled because i did all of rannis quest early
@basedlander7836 I find Godfrey, Maliketh, Radahn (just did him rl49 it was more difficult than any ds3 or bb bosses I did, even in a first playthrough) and even Margit to be pretty difficult fight
I did that too, with mainly two handed weapon or two weapons in each hands and no bleed build, I didn't thought it was the hardest, but by far not the easiest
I played dark souls with only my toe nail that means its harder than the other games
Fr using godricks axe and only the axe it’s painful as hell
Would've still put Sekiro as the hardest, but I can agree with the order of this ranking still. Bloodborne is the most consistent in its difficulty and if you factor in some of the hardest chalice dungeon bosses I can definitely agree it's hardest. I may have given up on Sekiro, but you couldn't pay me enough to replay every single chalice dungeon of Bloodborne.
My problem with manys souls games is, when you fail at an area or boss you always think: "Is my level high enough? Did I miss an far easier part? Is this really a good weapon or must I go back farm 1 hour and forge a better one?
But in Sekiro it's just: Here is your Katana, this is the boss, go ahead.
@@sigmundfreude4088 My first souls game I'm seriously playing through is Sekiro and I'm loving it so far. It's a really rhythm heavy game where deflects are everything but I love it, especially how subtle the cues are. I realized that the bigger the sparks during a deflect, the more accurate your timing was and the less deflects you have to land to get a death blow. And there's no levelling stats to worry about like in the other games where I worry about whether I'm building my character correctly or screwing myself over.
Yeah i would playthough any of them again. But i will never go through the chalice dungeons again. I did it for the platinum, there is nothing that could ever make me do that again. That Rom fight took forever cause it kept glitching out on me, and the Amygdala fight was torture. Then throw in the Pthumerian Prince, like why is this a thing. But all in all it is definitely my favorite game and the Chalice Dungeons were great, but I will 100% never do them again.
i remember picking up Sekiro back in lockdown of Covid, it's my first souls like game since Dark souls 1 (Which i never even finished), i remember playing it for atleast a few days, then i gave up, because it was too hard for me, then last March 2024 Rise of the ronin was released, i know it's not as hard as Sekiro but there's a big similarity, i beat the game in hardest difficulty, then i cameback to Sekiro and finally managed to beat it. i don't know if it's beating Rise of the ronin gave me the skill to beat Sekiro, or the 4 years of life after COVID pandemic.
I breezed through DS2, so I was pretty surprised to see it higher on the list than a lot of other games. But then I saw you flash Scholar of the First Sin, which is a bit different. Curious how you would rank the original though.
(Also for those of you who don't know, get the ring of life protection so you don't lose life when you die. Better to repair a ring than to keep buying effigy.)
All of them are difficult for me.
Came to a point where i felt border line invincible in sekiro. Then i came in contact with the corrupted monk. After i finally beat her i was feeling good. Then i found the demon of hatred. Its a very humbling expirence
😂😂😂 that feeling after beating a boss in sekiro is priceless...I gat 120 hours in and am stuck fighting the first raging bull you fight right after killing that general on horse
@scottbrownjr he was tough at first for me too 😂😂 when he charges in, u can parry it if u time it right. Staggers him and it's free hit. That is make him hit the wall and get staggered. Once u do that u should beat him easily
Most of them more or less let you pick your own difficulty. Elden Ring bosses are probably the hardest for a no hit/no summons/no levelling run but there are tons of tools available to make them significantly easier. It took me more tries to kill Margit at L15 with no summons than Orphan of Kos, but at L30 with a decent summon he’s not too bad.
you say Elden ring has the hardest bosses for a nohit/nosummons/no levelling run but won‘t consider
bell charmless nohit sekiro? lol.
if you define such a ruleset then sekiro is harder all the way
@@2nys Fair.
@@2nysThat's your opinion though, so was his. I've completed sekiro today without any tool or item except the healing gourds, and I can confidently say elden ring was harder. The demon of hatred took me 15-20 tries, isshin took me about 10 and that's it. Malenia and a few others were actual torture to fight with a pure strength build (granted that you don't farm and grind to be over leveled af)
@@arnavdass4695 did you even read what he and myself typed/wrote? we were talking about er/sekiro in a non vanilla scenario. nohit/nosummons/sl1… or bell/charmless/nohit
charmless sekiro nohit wont give you free room of a normal parry, since the parry has to be perfect.
@@2nys a no hit sekiro is NOT tougher than a no hit elden ring bruh 💀
My dad works at FromSoft and he said the Elden Ring DLC is getting announced tomorrow.
Alright bet. Hope you're right
Fingers-crossed you are telling the truth!
Def real
My mom works for the CIA and said JFK was an alien.
Wait what the fuck they actually did
"If you disagree, I don't care."
THANK YOU! Finally someone understands that our opinions are opinions, It wont effect anyone's view, Only to a hardcore toxic fan's ego.
For Maliketh, you just have to roll into him as mos of his aoe are outwards and in front of him. If you look into the fight from top down, you have ton of safety spaces just under him. Reminds me of Vordt when I first fought him where I keep dying then I realised you just hug his butt and junk 😂
Ranking Bloodborne the hardest is crazy. As if you people struggled with it.
I actually kinda agree tbh
Its the hardest but most enjoyable
I actually thought it was one if the easier ones. First playthrough with the hunters axe wasn't hard and it was only my second fromsoft game. Sekiro and dark souls 3 are both harder.
Sekiro definitely the hardest
@@HideoGojira same, I haven't beaten the game yet but so far I've beaten every boss without dying.
I just recently finished my first run thru of my first “fromsoftware” game, just finished bloodbourne. And since I see it’s the hardest, I feel more confident on getting into rest of the games 😎
I think I died more in Blighttown + Quelaag (mostly due to being cursed) when I played DS1, compared to the entirety of bloodborne base game.
@@sanxxxxPeople defend that game to eternity but it’s really not that great of a game. It’s world design is really interesting but it’s quality and actual gameplay is so lackluster compared to every other souls/borne game.
@@tominator028 That's how I feel about Bloodborne. Extremely overrated.
@@frogdeityskill issue
@@dummyddude08 How so? Because Bloodborne is by far the easiest Souls game.
i died a thousand times in previous games so i could cruise through bloodborne
I think sekiro is by far the hardest making u actually learn patterns and perfect deflection where as for bloodborne a beast blood pallet and fire paper can get u through most bosses even when under leveled
100% headless and guardian ape need I say more
Bloodborne is the easiest hence it’s the only FromSoft game I’ve ever actually finished/platinumed
It's funny, BB was my second (after a magic playthrough of Demon's Souls, so was still my first melee experience) and I've always found it the easiest. I'm very aggressive and reactive in these games, so the combat came naturally. Even Orphan of Kos only took 7 tries (and 10 tries in NG+)
I've never smiled when a TH-cam asks me to subscribe but the way you did it is really sweet
I'm pretty new to souls games. I played through elden ring last year, as my first game that is in any way even similar to the souls games, and now I'm playing Sekiro. So far Sekiro is a lot more of a challenge to me. I'm planing to eventually play through all of them, excluding bloodborne, unless they get it on PC
The first release of Demon's Souls back in 2007 had a 4-way dodge which made the game harder than it is in the remake and something like this is worth mentioning at least.
2009*
As someone who fought without summons in elden ring and only 1 op weapon(blasphemous blade) elden ring was pretty difficult
Golden Vow + Flame Grant Me Strength + Flame Phisik + Fire Scorpion + Alexander Shard = trivial boss battle (even Melania) … The life steal is just so OP along with the damage from the buffs
Yeah, the endgame got me pretty good. The game just really ramped up with Farum Azula. Maliketh just wouldn't let me breathe!
bro the blasphemous blade is the best weapon in the game for pve, even better than rivers of blood, there is no way the game is difficult while using it, i know it because ive used it myself, its completely busted
@@GravelordWrust bro farming azula turns the game into a nightmare you have to fight the godskin duo, draconian tree sentinel, the immediately after that you have to fight malekith
Finally someone who gets it... I personally think Sekiro is easier, but obviously learning it is the hard part. Good video :).
Bloodborne makes it easier because you have 20 heals from the beginning, and you can upgrade that with runes, making it a total of 24 at the cost of a rune space. In Dark Souls you have 3 heals, you can upgrade the flask yes, but it will take time. The parry it's also faster and easier in Bloodborne so you don't need a shield to cover yourself with
Being able to parry at distance is too op.
20 blood vials but when u lose them they dont recharge. U need to farm or buy them.
In Dark souls they recharging and that makes it easier for me cuz im so bored to do farming every time my blood vials are finished.
Also in Bloodborne u spend them a lot of easier than Dark souls games .
For me, Elden Ring started off as the easiest, but became the hardest by the end.
Sekiro was the hardest on my first run, but once you understand parrying, it’s one of the easiest.
Honestly! Elden Ring's endgame was very difficult, borderline impossible without running past everything...
then play sekiro with charmless and bell on
@ziscode1981 kind of like saying DS is hard if you play naked 😂 there's always more ways to make it harder on yourself
@Concerned.Citizen are u sure ur a concerned citizen because u don't seem like one 🤔 😭
@ziscode1981 I mean, like, have you even played sekiro blindfolded with 1 hand? You must be a casual
2:41 thats a crazy statement my dude. black knight halberd makes the game legit just a r1 spam simulator
The DLC better be announced tomorrow I’m telling you man 💀
It will be. My dad works at FromSoft.
If its not then there is no hope
My guess is March tbh
I played Bloodborne for the first time after playing Elden Ring and thought it was a cake walk, way easier, and Elden Ring wasn’t my first Soulslike, I had already played DS1 and DS3
I mean at that point you are pretty much a veteran so yeah don't expect BB to be too hard then.
For me ER was the easiest because I had finished any other fromsoft souls-like by the time I started ER.
This comment will probably get lost in the shuffle but your channel really helped me get into the souls borne genre and I can’t thank you enough. Elden ring was my first and about halfway through after immense frustration I went back and played through sekiro and bloodborne and demon souls and came back to elden ring and had a much better experience. Watching your videos while at work too and gaining knowledge has been a huge help! Also the crazy part was that Bloodborne was the first souls game I actually beat haha for me it was the easier plus I duped a lot
Good job powering through, man!
@@GravelordWrust Thanks man! Was a very rewarding experience
Can anyone help me with souls in dark souls 3? Im on ps4
Welcome to the series. If you eventually beat all of the Soulsborne games that you're interested in, I highly recommend giving Nioh 1 and 2 a shot. It's realistically one of the only competitors FromSoft has.
Halfway through? Where did you get stuck?
Bloodborne was my first souls game, so no surprise I struggled to git gud. But when I went for DS1 next, I struggled much more. Not only the gameplay is drastically different, Dark Souls is much more slow paced. I got used to be quick rolls and movement during combat, then I had to throw that out the window and not have a mental breakdown over my character doing a slow-mo roll in heavy amor. Even with no clothes on the Dark Souls character is much slower than Bloodborne's.
The problem for me was that poison enemy and nobody wanted to help me 😢
Currently playing my first souls type of game! Bloodborne is so fun! Turns out I'm pretty good at these things! I beat "The One Reborn" today 😁
That feeling you get from PREY SLAUGHTERED is amazing
@@MrTimberwolfsden I’m new to soulsgame is bloodborne hard?,I’m thinking if I should play it or go to ds3
@@gabrielsilvestre8491 for me, Bloodborne was much harder because you don't have a shield or real armor. It requires more agility skill and aggression, meaning you have to know the patterns more. It's different in that way to the souls games. The bosses in DS3 can be tough but it wasn't bad for me. Just take your time actually learning your moves and enemies moves. It's a game of patience. You will not plow through it. You will master it, so don't run away from tough fights. Don't sweat dying. And once u get good, n u will, you'll love it.
@@gabrielsilvestre8491 btw, Bloodborne was so good. So is DS3 but Bloodborne just sticks with me. It's like if Van Helsing was in a Lovecraftian nightmare.
@@MrTimberwolfsden Prey slaughtered is pretty good. But NIGHTMARE SLAIN is the real moment of bliss
I never really struggled with bloodborne, and it was my first souls game. I’d probably put it 4th in terms of difficulty
Not even with the dlc?
Did you complete the whole side content?
@@ey1615 the dlc isn't too hard you know I just beat it in like a month and orphan took me a week not too hard... I wish it was easy
@@Blackveil123😂😂bro took whole week to kill Orphan and still has the audacity to call BB was easy🤣I literally killed orphan in 40mins and yes the game might be difficult for beginners
@@ritiksingh1445 you realise i was being sarcastic right? The only boss that actually gives me trouble now is the orphan.
@@Blackveil123 lol bro wth by bad i missed that part "i wish the game was easy".We are hunters though all good🙌🏻🥷🏻
Having started from Bloodborne and Sekiro, I find the traditional dark souls games to be harder due to the lack of QoL there is. Slower healing, slower dodging, walls bounce back your attacks. I am astonished to hear players call the games I played the hardest, but it was the challenge of those games that made me be at my best. Whereas the entropy vibe in Dark Souls just ruined my will to git gut.
I am currently still trying to get back into those games, but they feel so slow and sluggish that it has been quite the challenge playing them.
I played Elden Ring how I played all the Souls games. Two handed claymore and medium armour. My God the game felt impossible at times. Using my typical Dark Souls build made Elden Ring by far the hardest game in the series. But my second playthrough I used moonlight greatsword and Magic. That made the difficulty much easier. It made it much more in line with the rest of the games, if not slightly easier most of the time
Yup exactly. Mechanics wise and design wise, it’s the hardest in the series BY FAR. But it’s just easy to be OP if you chose that.
This is actually why I kind of dislike Elden Ring. I played a dex/faith build, same as I for for DS games, so I didn’t struggle too much. But then I saw how people playing Int and Arc+katana builds were breezing through like they were playing Skyrim and it kinda spoiled my love for the game. The other games (besides Sekiro) allow most builds a fair amount of viability. But Elden Ring blatantly favors certain builds and punishes others.
It’s the only fromsoft game that I’ve played that I haven’t given another playthrough for that reason.
The wild build variety is both one of the best and worst things about Elden Ring. Tons of replayability to try new tools that will completely change the way you play, but the balance is awful. I did my usual "greatsword+a little faith on the side" strat and it felt borderline impossible at times. But use that invisible comet spell? Destroy everything ez pz. Use ANY OTHER SPELL?? The enemies auto dodge lmao. I have such a love-hate relationship with this stupid game, but in the future I definitely want them to go back to more limited options so that they can achieve some semblance of balance again.
Real Nigga for using claymore only real ones know it’s the best in DS1.
First play through of Elden ring was rage inducing for me. Every corner I turned was terrifying. The knights with the huge shields were my biggest nightmare.. now I play it and I have no trouble with anything.. once you know you know.. same with sekiro
I agree. My first hour on Ellen ring is absolute nightmare. :(
I was having so much fun until Margit gave me a rude awakening into what to expect from this game
I recently bought Bloodborne as my first Souls game. I played it with a friend, which made it easier, but I see what makes this hard. A typical hit and run tactic often times doesn't work and timing is hard. That being said it's still really adictive and it's not really as frustrating as I expected it.
I haven't played Bloodbourne yet, but considering I hardly ever use a shield I reckon the transition won't be all that difficult.
Oh boy.. You should get the DLC while you're at it!
Me: i can easily beat every souls game without dying.
Bed of Chaos: "HOLD MY BEER!"
😭
WAIT WHAT?! I only have beaten Sekiro and Bloodborne and stopped even thinking about Souls because I thought it’s much harder.
I think Sekiro is actually the hardest for the first two playthroughs because when I went into ng and played charmless it genuinely felt like I was playing a different game lol
Sekiro is the hardest on your first playthrough and after that it becomes the easiest thanks to muscle memory, a fight with a boss is kind of like playing a song on a piano or another instrument after you have learned it
Yeah i remember getting boned by genichiro but now i can do all 3 phases without a single hit. Truely a game you have to master
I mean 2-3 shotting any boss in NG+ is way easier? You don't need to do anything just get close, use best skill, win.
I totally agree with you, I'm not very good at playing so I'm not that fast because I'm not young anymore, but Elden Ring was a game I completed, the main game and the DLC and it was hard, but not as hard as I expected.
beautiful outro man, couldn't do it better myself.
i think the hardest game will always be your first. i used 2-3 hours on some bosses in elden ring while i used max 1 hour on a boss in sekiro
100% agree
5:19 what in the world was that dodge dude
Very surprised at your picks. For me, Bloodborne was maybe 2nd easiest. The beginning was tough, but once I got out of the starting area I was fine and found it very intuitive. Maybe it just fits my playstyle best, but once I got the Kirkhammer it was over.
Did you go through the chalice dungeons and get the platinum trophy though?
kirkhammer is easy mode, it was my weapon on first playthrough too
@@悪臭-p9p I haven't touched the chalice dungeons
@@poomar then you didn't actually beat the game.
@@悪臭-p9p OK my no true Scotsman
Sekiro is just become one of my favorite game of all time, it's so satisfying and fun to play, the enemies and bosses are just amazing
But Sekiro is not a Soulslike, it's very different to souls games.
@@Stefan-1978 the concept is the same, the gameplay mechanic isn't
@@Chad-bc9vi
It has nothing to do with a Soulslike.
Its a hard game but many games are hard.
Its not an Action RPG, its an Action Adventure.
You cant create a Charakter, you cant use different weapons, no magic no ranged attacks, no different ways, just parry.
You cant grind to get stronger, you cant summon help..... From Demon Souls to Elden Ring these Games work in the same way.
Sekiro is too different to be a Soulslike.
@@Stefan-1978agreed
I breezed through Elden Ring which was technically my first of the serious bc I guess I'm pretty new. Then I tried out bloodborne and I'm kinda off and on with it. But, it crushed me when he said Demon Souls is the easiest because I have been struggling with that game now trying to beat it. It's not the bosses it's the normal enemies and I have no clue why.
I love your outros
Thank you!
Thank you! this is what i needed:) keep up the amazing work
Thank you :)
I absolutely love how variously people rate the difficulty of Soulsborne games, and how their first FromSoft game affects it.
one thing about Sekiro is how impossible it feels the first time. But mastery of Sekiro is the most satisfying of all the games imo. I mean just look at Ongbal
ongbal?
@@lastboss4268 A sekiro pro .
Wow my ranking would be very different. BB would probably be second easiest. Only hard part for me is central yharnam at the very beginning and a few of the dlc/chalice bosses. Elden Ring melee only with no ashes is the hardest by a large margin
Facts hardest part of bloodborne is the beginning rest of the game really isn’t that bad besides a few dlc bosses
@MinecraftLapsedd I understand everyone's experience is different but you struggled with Rom more than Ebrietas? Interesting
Bloodborne has some rough areas that gave me trouble, but the speed of the game and being rewarded by being more aggressive makes it easier for me as well. I can count on one hand the number of bosses that took double digit attempts and so far they've all been either optional main game bosses or DLC bosses. I still rank Sekiro as the hardest for me personally, but I'm also still having trouble getting the parrying mechanic fully learned.
I'm working through Elden Ring slowly as I burned out on it last year and I'm playing melee only but with spirit ashes since I'm offline only. Even then I have more trouble with the field bosses than any of the big named bosses except for Margit (was way underleveled for that fight).
Yeah, but that's still a self imposed challenge. It's a less extreme version of saying that the dark souls is harder than sekiro because you can do sl1 runs.
Did you finish Sekiro
Bloodborne was my first one so I got used to playing aggressive and getting great at timing dogges etc so then going to Dark souls 3, 1 then 2after was so jarring as I had to play way more defensively- I really struggled with 2 lol
I'd put the ranking as: (hardest to easier)
1. Dark Souls 2
2. Dark Souls 1
3. Sekiro
4. Dark Souls 3
5. Elden Ring
6. Demon's Souls
7. Bloodborne
Your health is also reduced in ds3 when non embered. The onky difference is how they present it
Yeah, "Lord of Cinder form" is just human form from Demon's Souls with better marketing. You can't even use online features like summoning when you're not in LoC form.
DS1 was the first one I ever played and managed to 100% it. Now I'm playing through Scholar and just got through the Shrine of Amara. After Scholar, I'm looking forward to doing DS3. And still playing DS2 a bit for 100%
Currently doing that now just made it to blightown
@@mp7vidz-700 cool
Valid list. I platinumed all of them, sekiro after 5 days of release. The 2nd playthrough felt way easier but the bloodborne 1hp dungeons will remain...a nightmare. Bloodborne made me way more aggressive when it comes to approaching.
would be interesting to compare the difficulty of these games to other Soulslikes - I can't think of a much harder game than Nioh 1 honestly... although Sekiro comes close as you can only "farm" to a certain extent to be able to overcome tough bosses/areas.
Nioh is not bad at all. Imo Dark Souls is tougher if only because Nioh's combat system is so good.
Sekiro is definitely the toughest because you can't just become so overleveled that you become OP.
I'm always surprised by how big your health bar is in all of the games, I almost never level vigor so I'm most of the games my stamina bar is the same length as the health bar if not bigger
Hahaha idk I like being able to make a lot of mistakes if I need to without dying
@@EmberPlays no shame in it! I just prefer DPS over tanking
@@comeridewithmeAE you can have both wtf. If you generally prioritize vigor and strength/dex the most then endurance, by the time you're late game your health is huge and you also deal massive damage, especially when you use rings that boost both stats. That's literally how most people play. It's why the meme exists: "always level vigor!!!!"
Throughout a playthrough, put 2 points into health for every 1 point you put into stamina.
I went from hiding behind Havel’s Shield for every boss to getting pounded by Laurence the first Vicar. It was a humbling experience.
It took me 6 years to complete Bloodborne. I couldn’t get past the one reborn so gave up and came back years later and played through with a different build and completed it. Just got Elden ring and I’m shocked at how different the combat experience is. So much slower, enemies using shields, I like the idea of blocking and parrying it’s just a shame you lose a lot of stamina doing it. I found healing can be so slow again enemies who just take away what you just gained during the healing animation. I’m determined to keep going and adapting tho 😅
Just don't leave it Elden will surely become one of ur all time favourites after the learning curve. This game is something else