https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZtfDcWIPshg
Is he making this game look way harder than it is? Stupid question, sure, but this is crazy even for him.
It's a combination of things:
1. He clearly wants to quit the game so he's sandbagging to "show the game is bad".
2. He is playing a game where you have many routes open to you at once instead of having a linear path, and when he finds a path is hard he doesn't even consider just going somewhere else first.
3. He completely and utterly lacks skill. He picked a weapon that is slow and hits hard but manages to miss most hits with it.
4. He puts no thought into what he's doing. The main gimmick of the game is your ability to tunnel around underground, you can see him do it all the time to get around faster. When he's getting hit over and over by enemies he's swearing they're impossible to dodge, despite never attempting to dodge by tunneling, which not only lets you move faster but means the enemies above ground can't hit you. It's literally like refusing to press the dodge button in combat in a Fromsoft game.
5. He doesn't consider strategy or his own skill level when making choices. You can see a constant .5X pop up when he misses, because he equipped some optional gear piece that sounds like it rewards you for accuracy and punishes you for missing attacks. He doesn't even consider the fact that he is clearly lowering his damage due to how poorly he plays.
6. He refuses to accept that he sucks. Mina The Hollower actually has an exceptionally in depth menu of difficulty modifiers, even plenty that make the game easier specifically for people like Phil. He of course quits instead of toning the difficulty down, then claims the game is only for tryhards. For the record he wasn't playing on tryhard mode either, there are LOTS of modifiers to make the game harder just like ones to make it easier. He just sucks at the baseline difficulty, he could have probably "had fun" if he toggled a dozen of the easy mode options on so he wouldn't be forced to think or plan and wasn't punished for his constant misplays.
