You have to understand, i was the story first when i was young (and umployed), i played a lot of JRPGs with terrible combat and enemy encounter rate.

Those days, i rather have a game with a shallow story but a awesome fun gameplay, i definitively not in Soulslike anymore, and stop playing all my games on hard or expert.

If the game is make me do a lot of extra effort to play it, it simply doesn't woth my time