Of course I've been reading all of the Dark souls 2 articles I could find and of course there's a flood of comments about how accessibility will ruin the series blah blah blah. But I've really seen comments saying how the series required, and I quote " a higher intellect to play ". This kind of statement makes me question any amount of gaming sklls you have honestly, because I feel like as long as your brain is functioning within any " normal " parameters, then this game shouldn't have been THAT hard. Now sure this game was challenging, I wouldn't dare say it was some sort of breezy walk through the park either. It did have its difficult moments, but its not as if the entirety of the game was just complete, unrelentless, non consensual buttplay.
Now as far as accessibility, how long would it really take someone to get the controls and feel down? For a new player it could definitely be a little overwhelming at first, but then after a few minutes you get used to it and you're fine. And for a Souls vet I imagine it would take even less time. So they do make it easier to understand, then any newcomer that for whatever reason wanted to play could understand, and any Souls vet would have just gotten it down fairly fast anyway, who gets hurt? Or do you value that 5 minutes of intro THAT much?
I mean, if Miyazaki isn't even worried about a new Dev team brutally **** his brain child, why should you be worried? So I don't know, do you feel as if there is a sort of elitism that comes with playing the souls games?