>>715919248Souls games have gotten harder over time though, I've been replaying das2 and it's comical how many bosses fold to just staying close and circling them to their right, or in some cases left if the designer felt like throwing a curve ball and giving them a whack or two with your sword after every whiffed strike and they'll whiff a lot.
Normoids coming in are almost certainly the cause for From gutting pvp and kinda pushing it away into a sideshow though and just a general decline in how the game's playerbase interacted with the game.