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If you were to persist there'd only be so much the game could do to stop you. I don't think you can really back yourself into a corner unless maybe you got a truly terrible save file stuck in the Duke's Archives cell or used a single weapon until it broke without knowing where to find a blacksmith maybe. The game can't really stop you from powerlevelling, is it difficult if you can just boost your numbers?

I kept my distance from the series for a while because I thought when people said it was difficult they meant unfair, esoteric or reminiscent of I Wanna Be The Guy in general. When it turned out not to be the case it felt weird calling it a difficult game, I wasn't stuck exactly, I was playing a seemingly pretty fair game that made sense at my own pace. I had a big sword for staggering, a bleed weapon, Great Chaos Fireball and the option to run back to Darkroot Garden and even if I couldn't defeat those forest guardians I could lure them near the mountain and kick spam them off for souls.

It gives you too much to work with for it to feel like it's just straight up difficult. Something like F Zero GX I'd call difficult, it's more restrictive about how you can approach it, you either have the technique and precision to handle the track and 29 opponents or you're in trouble. DS1 you can just back off for a while, explore and come back more prepared. I don't deny that the "Heheh just run to the catacombs and get the great scythe even though you barely know the controls broooo" people are real and very unhelpful though. That or they're big fans of leaving unhelpful messages both in-game and out.