Dark Souls - ???

A revised version after I realized there are people who probably like the game lol.

I just got done with Dark Souls, and I was wondering what people thought on the game? If anyone has played it? I see a lot of 9.5 and 9 reviews. But honestly it just eludes me how it got such a good review. It's not a bad game, and it's certainly aimed at a very select audience.

But I mean even within that audience surely they must realize that the only hook to it is that it's challenging, in which case the only thing challenging is the lack of information, not knowing monsters with melee weapons can extend their arms in some graphical glitch type way to send unblockable attacks at you that do half your health in damage. And then you die and fight back through a bunch of easy mobs since you already know what they do up to your corpse and do the same thing again with the next ridiculous enemy you find.

To me it seems more like one giant grind then a actual game honestly, even listening to the voice acting felt like a grind to me, lol, sounded like the game developers did the voice acting after spending 5 minutes practicing then read directly from a script.

Maybe i'm missing something here, but it seems to me more like they just ran out of money and released a half finished game onto the market and called it a hardcore game. Even the small tidbits of information on the ground to tell you the bare minimums like how to swing your weapon are poorly placed, looks like they were kinda drunk and just dropped them randomly on the floor because they didn't want to take the time to make some popup messages that say, hey press R1 to swing your weapon.