The player who wrote the walkthrough:

Me at the gimmick dragon boss in Demon's Souls. It's supposed to be super easy to just run in, time your movements to be behind some walls to avoid the flame attacks and hit 2 switches. But my game appears to be bugged, and it hits me with the flame attack before I even get down the hallway to the actual room the dragon is in. I can't find anything else showing this happening, can't figure out a solution to fixing the bug, and there's no alcoves or anything to hide in while trying to get across the hallway, and no matter what I do to try and mitigate the damage to try and tank through I still die in one hit to it. 😬

I have even started a new game TWICE since hitting this part and I get the same shit every time. Becsuse of this, it is the ONLY Fromsoft game I haven't completed.

Look up a walkthrough: dodge his attacks and counter. Oh jeez thanks never thought of that

This has not been a problem since YouTube became a thing.

Now I can watch someone beat it to see if I'm doing something wrong. Sometimes I am, and sometimes the boss is actually hard, but now I know which.

Play an Ocarina of Time when it first came out, which means I was playing straight through with no sleep, until I finally came upon the volcano level and got stuck. I got so frustrated that I went to the GameStop and picked up a strategy guide. Only to discover that the section I was stuck on was actually super easy and I was just sleep deprived. So I went to bed and came back the next day and I overcame that obstacle in like 3 seconds.

I think the cheese strats are the funniest

Then theres the opposite where you tear through a bunch of hard bosses on accident because it turns out that you should really play outside of the genre. Or with me and the MGS:3 remake where I wish European Survival was unlocked from the start.

On Sunday I got to Kearush, an infamously hard boss in Crimson Desert. I was immediately crushed by him and wondered how long I'd be stuck on this damn boss before I could progress the story. Then I see there's an update. Lo and behold, they nerfed him and I beat him first try. First and probably only time I've been assisted by the developers in realtime to beat a boss!

This is how I feel playing Hollow Knight. Git gud, I guess?