I'm too lazy to read everything, so sorry guys if you guys already said this.

But Dark Souls is not HARD. It is difficult, but it's not the controls that are to blame. The controls are very responsive and I have never felt that I've died because the controls would not react how I would expect them to.
Dark Souls is a game with RULES, very specific, very strict rules. If you take a wrong step, you die. If you let your guard down, you die. If you rush into battle, you die. And so on. It's game that punishes fairly the player if they do not adhere to the rules. So no, it's not hard...but you need to play carefully and always be prepared for an ambush, or for a door to not be what it seems to be, or for a trap. As long as you go about it very strategically and very patiently, it's a really fun game and you'll enjoy the ride throughout.

The controls are perfect. What makes the Souls series "difficult" is the fact that enemies will not relent when attacking in groups (unlike games like Assassin's Creed) and that death has a meaningful punishment, whereas most games just make you restart from a checkpoint.

The game itself is not "difficult"; it just makes you think twice between hurling yourself at bosses. no holds barred.