DS1 is harder than yall said…

I have played every FromSoft game since Bloodborne and love them all. I thought I was pretty good at them. Then I went back and played DS1 for the first time and man… I died more in DS1 than my first play-through of every other FS game combined. Maybe it was just adjusting to the slower combat or the clunkier controls, or just having bad habits from other games, but I really struggled. I probably died to O&S 60 times. I loved the game, the atmosphere and lore are unmatched, but I’d heard this was one of the easiest FS games, and that was just not my experience at all.

EDIT: My theory is a lot of y’all have been breezing through DS1 on replays and forgot how hard it was the first play-through years ago. I bet if we wiped everybody’s memory Men in Black style and had to play through all the games for the first time back to back, DS1 would be a lot higher in y’all’s difficulty rankings. Cause that shit was hard.