Namco on Dark Souls 2 marketing: "treating it as a massive AAA title, would be nice to attract Skyrim players"

[SvennoJ]

I loved Dark Souls but they do need to add some explanation of the mechanics to the game.

I abandoned my first game after 20 hours because I had leveled my character in a corner with the fast early leveling and couldn't progress any further. I wasn't realistic to fix my character since the amount of souls needed increases faster and faster. (reset option would have been nice)
It took another 10 hours to find out you can jump instead of grab something and die. You pretty much need a wiki to find out what stuff does or means, no bigger immersion breaker then having to resort to the internet.
And I never figured out the counter attack.

The new game+ play through went 10 times faster because of all the prior knowledge, but wasn't as much fun since exploring the unknown territory is the fun part. (Not exploring the unknown mechanics)

The difficulty is fine, having to start over or resort to the internet is not. Fix that instead.