So, I started Dark Souls 3...
Wow. What a game. Its exactly as I expected, tough as nails, challenging, brilliant, beautiful and terrifying all at once. The world so masterfully crafted that I can't help stopping sometimes to just stand on a cliff and gaze out into the distance.
Its tough but not hard, challenging and even brutal but fair. A well defined, perfected formula, striking a balance between them all without making the game seem "cheap." It has a difficulty that challenges players to die and learn, play smart, know your advantages and disadvantages, find an opening and punish enemies for it, and if you must, run.
Combat is a brilliant dance of strikes, dodges, blocking and parrying, luring, baiting and other terms and techniques. Then there's the world to explore and experiment. There's so much to this game and I'm only just 10 hours in. I can easily see myself running, dodging, slashing, and dying many more times and I'll still be hooked. Dark Souls 3 has something to it that keeps me coming back, in a way Bloodborne couldn't keep my attention.
I'm definitely going to be playing Dark Souls 3 as long as I can. I'm obsessed and want to talk to someone about it. I want to gush about it as much as I can without learning too much, no spoilers. Anyone who wants to gush with me, hit me up in the comments.