blueylouis

Yeah that makes sense, i wasn't humming and haring over Dark souls as much when it came out because i was already used to that style of play. The first experience of playing a souls game is probably the best because it does such a great job at destroying your per-conceptions (No hand holding and unforgiving to those that don't pay attention). But the sucky thing with sequels is that you get used to it and it no-longer becomes challenging. Which is why i'm really looking forward to bloodborne. They seem to be changing up the game play a lot with the removal of shields and the steal your health back mechanic.

It's in the options settings. Its annoying because they give you the option to do so in the first place. If a boss is hard and requires some strategy, just flip the switch and its mega easy. You don't see final fantasy games do it so i don't know why they did it with this one :/ Probably to make it more causal if i were to guess. But like i said other than that its a faithful re-imagining of the old FF games like 3, 4 etc.