If this is a random difficult spike somewhere in the middle of the game and everything past that is much easier, then it's surely not a good thing and reviewers will punish it for that if it really takes multiple tries.

They should patch that quickly.

If it's one of the last encounters.... probably still not good, but not as dramatic.

High 80s meta confirmed? :P

you are wrong, demon's souls design was perfect.  the only design flaw was your inability to L2P.

This is making me nervous, how does it take 3 hrs to complete a puzzle? =/

Reviewers are usually the biggest noobs around.
They play a lot but that doesn't mean they have anything you can call skill.

This is why games like CoD,Halo and other casuals franchises get high scores...You can jump in and be a MLG Pro.
For some people this is great so they can clap themself on the shoulder but REAL GAMERS don't like that.
But in reality this is just like liking your own post on facebook....
Im pretty sure that section in God of War is pretty easy if you know how to play the game.

Today they would give a UT,PK,Quake or so a low 30 score cause they aren't able to qualify for the World Finals with only playing 5 minutes a day.

@Demon/Dark Souls

Those games are perfect.
The game is always fair - If you die it is YOUR fault.People are just so arrogant to admit they just suck.
Oooh im so good online in some random casual game and then this game is beating the crap out of me?Bad game confirmed :D

There was a puzzle in God of War 1 that made me quit for a few months. I eventually came back and beat it. I then came to a combat section that made me quit for a few more months lol.

EDIT: Also, Adam Sessler looks more and more like a meth head everytime I see him.

Pussies.... and of course they're playing on "normal", the so-called videogame veterans.

A game should not make you replay a section (a good 30 minutes worth of a section) when you've clearly demonstrated that you can go through it perfectly.  Also I beat like 10 of the bosses and didn't die too much but honestly I just got annoyed with the targeting and replaying of the easy parts just to get to the hard parts.  There should be a checkpoint before the final boss.  If you want to give me just as much health as I had before then fine.  I don't mind a challenge.  I've platinumed a lot of games (most require you to beat on hard).  I've beaten really difficult 8 and 16 bit games, but damn I hated that lack of checkpoints.  It just felt like they were artificially extending the game's hours by making me replay easy parts again and again so that by the time I got to the boss I didn't remember the right strategy (eventually I found that most of them had easy ways to beat them with the environment).  Bottom line is I didn't stop because of difficulty.  I had just beaten a giant dragon that you to harpoon and when I did I basically thought to myself "I am not having fun with this" and sold it.

More like mid. I've predicted 86 and I stay by it as much as I love GoW.

So it was a simpLe puzzle they couldn;t figure out for 3 hours because it was so obvious. I'm gonna remember that for when I get to it ha.