Yeah reminds me of when that one person notified Cyberpunk 2077 devs that the flashing lights on the sim chair section could trigger seizures and then peeps sent her emails to content meant to trigger it. Capital G Gamers are pieces of shit

I remember similar issues with The Witness having sections that colour blind or hard-of-hearing or even just tone-deaf people could not even in principle solve. And the same bastards came out with the same excuses. It’s not just a hardcore Action-RPGer problem.

A good way is to either allow the visual/aural equivalent of subtitles to be toggled, or to better yet have less obvious cues in other ways to solve the puzzle. A clever designer might even put in ways that someone with different abilities might more easily solve a puzzle (this is trivial with colour blindness.)

the weird ass issues are the same weird ass issues in basically any fromsoft game in the past decade… in other words if you’re used to them they don’t bother you, but if you are new to fromsoft games you go “wtf why is this a thing in the year of our lord two thousand and twenty two”

It’s a solid souls game that generally does what the franchise does well better than previous titles, and what it does bad about the same or a little better than they did. There are tons of optional bosses absolutely everywhere and generally more of the short NPC storylines than previous titles so far, and the combat is smoother than ever. I haven’t run into anything it does worse than previous souls games, just downgrades from some of Sekiro’s improvements (though some parts of its combat system made it through under the hood, like the poise break staggers from just whacking enemies hard enough).