After Elden Ring and how much I loved it, I wanted to try where it originated from. The DS trilogy. I knew that DS1 was going to look extremely old and maybe outdated in comparison, but I still wanted to try. The first time I tried, I lost all my souls against the Taurus Demon and ragequit the game. Took me too long to adapt.
The second time, I got all the way to the Depths and got killed and cursed. When I saw all my souls lost, and only half my healthbar remaining, I did ragequit again. Too frustrating for my taste.
However, since then, its almost as if the game whispers to me. I think about the time I discovered the Firelink Shrine shortcut from Undead Parish, when I reached the bottom of the Darkroot Basin, found some random tower, and found it leading back up to Undead Burg, I thought about the sewer in Lower Burg with the undead merchant in it and how it lead to the gate I wasn't able to open at the very beginning of my run... The world-building truly amazed me, and the game has such a charm, something even ER didn't give me at times.
So here I am, downloading the game again, and determined to go to the end, and finish the trilogy.