Board Thread:Dark Souls II/@comment-1961216-20140429234542/@comment-1961216-20140430050201

BOSS SUKR wrote: Get the NG+ and face the Lost Sinner solo, you will regret saying the game was easy or the Flexile Sentry on NG+

Also the Demon fire sage is really easy because the attacks are so similar to the asylum demon (Staying behind him is a good tip) I'm not saying that you suck I'm only giving my experience on the Fireage.

But are right the game is quite easier than DS1 though still hard, once you get a staggerlock weapon the game becomes a breeze (at least for me)

For first playthrough the game will get hard thanks to screwed up hit boxes and nerfed rolling though most bosses will be a variation of "eh dude in armor"

And please just finish DS1 before comparing the 2 games I can't. I've got it on 360 and don't have Live Gold, so I'm stuck soloing everything.

Most likely a large reason I find DS2 much easier is because, especially since it just came out, it's a lot quicker to get a full party for any given boss. I had / have to do much if not all of DS1 alone, and DS2's only "hard" bosses heavily encourage or outright force you to go solo against multiple enemies (just like Capra Demon and other "bullshit" DS1 bosses.)

But another reason is that Dark Souls 1 is actually dark. In most levels it's hard to see what you're doing, and the light sources available in the game don't have anywhere near the range or brightness of the torch. Tomb of Giants even explicitly shortens your light source range. That makes it considerably easier for enemies to get within range before you react to them.

But in Dark Souls II almost everywhere is quite bright (or can be made so via torch) and you can see enemies a mile away.