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.

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.

He's right about the healing items, though. They help ease the pain a bit. There's too many blood vials you can carry (they will always heal 40% of your health which is OP when you have a respectable HP bar), and then there's the fact that you can regain your lost health by attacking the enemy after a hit.

Let me guess. You've played the souls series before, I take it.