Please don't use the term 'triggered' unless you're suffering from post-traumatic stress. That term is meant to describe an event that 'triggers' a PTSD episode, not something that mildly annoys you and incites you to respond angrily. People who actually have very real issues with PTSD have not been all too appreciative that the term has been hijacked by terrible people with a desire to continue being offensive using it to devalue the suffering of others as unjust or 'snowflake' behaviour.

I'm sure you didn't mean it to belittle those with real problems, but it's still incredibly insensitive and rude. 

I have no rice left and yeah, I have to put it down, it is causing to much stress and I have stressful shit to do, I may pick it back up Sunday and have a try but if I die one more time to terrain that is that. I died countless times to the owl and The demon of hatred not by my owl fault but by either the camera of an obstacle.

That said, Isshan is easy until phase two and three where it just becomes too much to play genuinely, I have done it multiple times but it is so risky, his attacks are so OP that playing normally becomes less successful than running in circles and cheesing it which takes too much time and would not be a fun win at any rate plus I can not for the life of me get the counter on the lightning right and I have jumped off the cliff TWICE now because of needed to evade it one of which got me a death screen.

Thinking back on the last two weeks, the game has caused more stress in my life than anything in my actual life in the last two years. I will not buy FromSoft's new games again because of this until I am sure they hav'nt gone overboard with their difficulty fetishism, I'm too old for a video game to cause me undue stress, frustration and anger. Don't get me wrong, it is a fantastic game but late game bosses are beyond me, I simply am not good enough to beat the challenge they have created here in a timely enough manner for the wins to mean anything or feel good in any way. There is no euphoria, more like a solemn meloncholy for spending so long on something so obviously built beyond my capability  it is not fun at the end of the day or at least the fun outweighs the challenge by a large margin towards the end. The owl was the single hardest boss I have ever faced in a video game and I felt nothing but after but anger and a hint of relief after killing him.

The surge is pretty shit tbh, not helped by the fact that I just came off of Sekerio an sit feels like a game made in slow motion. Graphics are awful too and the rest of my download of Yakuza will take over 99 hours because of a storm so I am gameless until it lifts or have to pick up something in one of my folders. 

No, I am playing it properly and yes, Sekeio has brought me down enough to see FromSoft and associate stress enough so that I will be weary of any game they put out in the future. A day away from Sekerio and so much stress from the last two weeks has been lifted off of my shoulders, I don't agree they should put in an easy difficulty and can make the games they want however they went to far with this one which has solidified in my mind that these games are not worth it at this level and I most likely won't buy Bloodborne 2, A game I was looking forward too, or any future FromSoft game for that matter. I'm too old for that shit now and the Soulsborne genre has been utterly destroyed in my mind. Perhaps this is their intent and a way to break away from the formula as I see much of the same sentiment echoed around the web and less than 10% of players have finished the game. If anyone has issue with this read my signature below.

It would be impossible to keep close to him in phase 3 because of the lightning. At least for me as I can't counter it. 

On your scale it would be an 8 because of the niche subtitle but if you want to add that to 9 then on yours it would be a 9 but for niche audiences. On mine it's an easy ten, with the Janapese language of course. GotY so far, it's just a pity they took it too far with the difficulty near the end, the idols being so close negating the need to kill mobs by mid game and some of the camera work and frame pacing issues, actually for those last two I do have to knock off half a point because it did get be killed quite a lot and it would be unfair to give it a ten. A 9.5 is my final score in reflection and still GotY so far and the hardest boss of any game I have ever played, granted it was optional and all story bosses were easier but he was there for me to take on and broke me essentially destroying the genre for me through reflection and realizing the challenge in these games outweigh the pay off and the stress bleeds into my life makibg it not exactly the best form of escapism. I do suck at this game though, that has to be said. 

That said a fantastic game for those who have the will to see it through, great story, perfect sound work, visuals are great, core gameplay is unique and and immensely satisfying. On the note of difficulty though, I do get what the people asking for an easier version of these games mean now, perhaps they are incorrect in asking for an easier version but a version tailored so they can off set the difficult for themselves like they do in souls with grinding and all that, I've never been into that as the souls games were only ever truly difficult for the first ten hours when I started Bloodborne for the first time (and when I played Darksouls in 2011 for a bit) and never required perfecting precision with near zero room for fuck ups, I see how someone can feel now when they have paid for a game and it recks their will to play it by scaling the bosses so far beyond the player and their ability. 

Hopefully Days gone can top it and TLOU 2 is out this summer, fingers crossed.

There is a difference between not being able to do something and hating something, I can't fuck Rihanna but she is a solid ten and I don't hate her for it, same with this game. I can piss and moan about the difficulty and my ability not being high skill enough but it doesn't lessen the game any more objectively or subjectively, it's still great. 

The horse riding guy is the first main boss and if you use fircrackers and the grapple skill he is fairly easy. I just got up to mid game (second or third main boss depending) in less than an hour taking all the mini bosses on the beaten path down along the way only dying once to a camera issue in a confined room boss, so skill has a lot to do with it I guess and knowing the bosses patterns. Whatever you do, just don't return to Hiratta a second time and you should be fine and don't ring the demon bell or if you do use it for farming make sure to check the icons under your health bar before heading into bosses.