Off topic, I love how easy it is to get Souls Platinum trophies.

Yeah, the games are hard, but all you have to do in every game is beat every boss and collect all the goodies. There's no "Beat the Game Without Dying Like A Wuss" trophy (although you do get that tasty ring). It's just "Beat all the things" and "Collect all the things".

You're actually lucky to be playing this as your first "souls" experience because it's actually quite different. Stay on the attack, don't be defensive. You will lose less health by attacking after being hit, so defy your own instincts to run away unless you absolutely need to so you can heal up.

Don't underestimate how useful your gun is.

The game is not that difficult, actually I was kind of disappointed because I was expecting a much more difficult game. The abundance of health potions makes the game a joke in my opinion.

Imagine if there were nothing to heal, now that would be a challenge.

I haven't bothered to read this thread, but in case nobody has said it yet:.

SHORTCUTS!

Get decent at fighting enemies, explore, and make your primary focus looking for shortcuts. The unspoken, primary goal of this game, besides "just beating it"  is to cut the amount of BS you have to hack through between save points and bosses down to as little as possible.

Also, once you are able to, level up. Sure, you need to level your personal skill up, but frequently bumping stats can only help.

Plan on messing around with any online stuff like pvp or co-op?

Every souls game is very similar, bloodborne is different (a bit)

Similar in all:

- Dont get nervous, dying is part if the game.

- be smart: with every kill, you get experience points (souls). On every bonfire (souls) or lamp(bloodborne) you last rested at, you are set back after dying. Important is,  you can level up there (or warp to the basis and level there.) When you are a beginner, just use this feature. Level up and use your hard earned souls. If you die then, you dont loose anything. Just farm a bit, meaning, earn souls, level up and let the enemies respawn, level again. This gives you anadvantage and you learn the map and the fight patterns.

- get to know the map. The map doesnt change and enemies are reset at the same position (if you die or you use the lamp/bonfire. Use this and remember them.

- get to know the attack patterns and kill them smart. Every enemy has weak patterns. The easy enemies have many, the stronger later in the game have a few

Differences:

- souls: you have a shield. You play more defensive. Block, hit, hit, recharge your stamina, block, hit, hit ... repeat

- bloodborne: no shield, so no blocking. So, you dodge instead of blocking, the rest is the same. So, dodge, hit, hit, recharge stamina

- So, always let the enemy hit first in both games.

- bosses are harder, butin the end, just learn their pattern and kick some ass

- there is in both games a way to make a critical attack. Souls is interrupt the enemies attack with your shield in the right moment, bloodborne this is done with a gun. Then the enemy is in a “defenseless“ status and you have a second or so to hit him badly (trick: just do it when the arm of the enemy is on the highest point when he tries to hit you, or look at the shoulder. But, this is just for fun, a pro-tactics and absolutely irrelevant, just for fun.

If you consider all of this, souls and bloodborne are easy. My personal favorite is still demons souls, followed by dark souls 1. I make myself a run (not speedrun) in 5-8 hours till the endboss.

1 more thing: in bloodborne, you can level after you get 1 insight (a special attribute of the game). You can find 2 items in the 1st world which give you this, or, you also get insight when you meet the first boss.

It's alot easier than those games so everything feels less rewarding.

Somewhat unusual advice, but I'd suggest to forget all tips and enjoy the game.

Gotcha. I'll put everything in those slots. Thanks!