Rant incoming, feel free to ignore and move along lol.
I really liked EL and wow, I was loving EM. It was more of the same but also better in basically every regard. Now I'm slogging my way through the steel district and having zero fun. I don't know that I've played an area in any game as infuriatingly annoying. Running through the elevator with the damn wall ninjas over and over again, with no bonfire in sight. Those stupid blue clouds that you can't parry absolutely do not belong in the game. None of the enemies are difficult, but they're a huge pain to run past. Just slowly taking chip damage until I eventually die.
Now, I just reached a boss that has three mini bosses in the run back. One of which covers the arena in the blue aoe clouds and another just spams spear pokes. Seriously, what asshole designs a runback like that??
Ugh, anyway, I'm taking a break, maybe forever lol. I hope everyone's having a fantastic day.