You may have noticed that previously I was complaining about how "Nioh" is an extremely difficult game and I truly think that it is.  This is a game for people that are far more dedicated to gaming than I am and I simply do not have what it takes to join their ranks.   I spent a week playing that extremely impressive (visually) game and barely...BARELY ever made it past the first boss.

I gave up... and because of that level of what i consider to be insane difficulty that is contained in NIOH, i was happy to return to games that previously I had abandoned.  

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This doesn't necessarily need to be about Darksiders 3.  We could insert just about any game here because the style of game that is *NIOH* and other games such as *Dark Souls* and *Bloodborne* are intentionally really really difficult. 

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These games like "Nioh" are intentionally really really difficult and there is a very real market for them.  I just don't happen to be part of that demographic.  Maybe I am too old or just don't have the muscle-memory skills or something.  

I tried to join their ranks but after a week of playing Nioh and needing to use Youtube **multiple times** to figure out what the hell to do on the very first level of the game.... I realized that I was out of my element.

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After nearly throwing my controller through my TV for the 78th time I decided to get Nioh off my PS4 and move on.  

It was a humbling moment:  I don't have what it takes to excel at a game that little kids are completing in what appears to be a relatively easy manor (at least on Youtube.)  

But there was some good news for me at the end of all this.

After playing a game so damn-near-impossible like "Nioh" I was all of a sudden very prepared for all the other games that I had walked away from because of "difficulty" in the past.  A game that I liked such as Darksiders 3 immediately seemed "easy" in comparison because in my mine EVERYTHING is easy compared to Nioh (F**K Nioh, by the way.)  

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I'm not saying Darksiders 3 is a fantastic game because I honestly don't know if it is.   For one thing, the load times are friggin ridiculous in this game.  However, after coming from a game like NIOH where one TINY little mistake can mean horrible defeat, this game actually seems **easy**.   

I regret trying to sink so much time into Nioh and I now realize that I simply do not have what it takes to excel at a game like it.   But the silver lining was that now all the old games in my library that I had given up on seem like something I have a lot of patience for.  

Therefore, if you ever feel like the game you are playing is too difficult and you need a break to get motivated to play it again I strongly recommend playing *NIOH*.  That game is so unimaginably difficult that all other games seem easy in comparison and honestly, it makes all of them more fun.  

I haven't deleted NIOH from my machine yet and I will keep it there for now because anytime i get frustrated in really any other game I will simply return to it in order to remind myself that the game I am upset with....really isn't that hard.  

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When i went back to Darksiders (which is just what I happened to choose) the stuff that i previously thought was difficult all of a sudden seemed exceptionally easy, even in boss battles.  So I suppose that is one thing that playing the ultra-difficult Nioh has done for me... I realize that my other games really aren't that hard.   

So thank you *Nioh*.... I have no desire to play you anymore but you made me like my other games so much more now :P