u/Excellent-Beat-9717

A weird question but I have clocked in 577 hrs in nightreign so far and I mostly play at 9k+ d5. I main spell duchess and can play reasonably well with her. I got so used to being careful to not get one shot, I was surprised when I wasn't getting one shot in old games lmao.

I hadn't finished the ds trilogy, much to my shame, I went back and started from DS2 for some reason. And I found the bosses super easy, I think at best i died once to one boss but finished the game smoothly. Same with DS1, besides Manus and artorias, gwyn no one gave me much trouble. In DS3, sister friede was the hardest, taking 6 tries, rest I steamrolled through them at best taking 2 tries.

Dancer took me 6 tries as well because I was trying to defeat dancer at lvl 41 by using what I had learned playing nightreign. I was just shocked? Because I went in thinking I would be struggling quite a bit considering how fast paced ds3 bosses are and the jank of ds1.

Now I am playing bloodborne and reached nightmare of mensis, the bosses weren't that hard here too compared to when I first played bloodborne.

I wonder if others also had a similar experience?

For example, in trails, there's the Hamel tragedy that set the stage for God knows how many stories and influenced so much. I just recently finished suikoden V and in that game there was the Lordlake tragedy. I am looking for other similar games where alot of plot points that are happening can be eventually traced back to that one central tragedy. I am sorry, if I didn't explain it well.

The tragedy shouldn't be something happened in the distant past but something that was relatively recent and fresh in the minds of the people that live there. Hamel happened 20-25 yrs ago and lordlake happened 2 yrs ago in game time, people remember and still feel the aftermath of it. Events that happened not to the protagonist directly, but that were inevitably a huge reason WHY things were set in motion.

Platforms can be any, though I would prefer if you could avoid games from before ps2, no dislike towards those great ps1, snes JRPGs but I don't exactly want to play them right now. I am okay with turn based and action combat. As stated above, suikoden V i just recently finished and I really really enjoyed it. If possible, recommend me more politics heavy games as well. I have finished FF tactics and triangle strategy before anyone recommends those.

I am tagging it spoiler just in case.

Many of you must have defeated him at lower lvls by now but this was my first time playing ds3 and it's dlcs. But wow, I can see why he's the favourite souls boss because I really really enjoyed the whole fight. He was hard but very very fair unlike sister friede who's phase 3 was bullshit, took me 6 tries to defeat her. Ringed city exploring was tough as shit jesus, the difficulty spike is massive.

I was doing like 200 dmg per hit even with a sharp LKS+10, I persisted, dodged and boom defeated him with 0 flasks left. I like how he punishes you for healing but it's not too egregious, you can heal safely. The uneven terrain made this fight even more enjoyable. With this, I have finished the dark souls trilogy at last as that was the only series left to finish as I had already finished bloodborne, demon souls, elden ring and nightreign as well as sekiro.

This game hands down my favourite among the souls trilogy and on par with sekiro for my one of fav games of all time. I really really enjoyed it.