Talk:Dark Souls III/@comment-29413910-20160914225633/@comment-3236835-20161126065748

Well, once you learn how to play effectively in a Souls game, one notices the same basics apply to all of them. For example, after you have played DSII and DSIII, and then you return to DS, fights that at the time looked almost insurmountable, like Smough & Ornstein's, now feel ridiculously easy. Same with Black Knights, they are a joke after fighting the Lothric Knights from DSIII.

And the same concept applies the other way around, if you have played the first two games, from the very first instant you will feel like a fish in the water on the third one, so it's not surprising that veteran franchise players are able to progress that much without dying even once on their very first playthrough.