recent: tears of the kingdom, or as i like to call it botw 1.2, its the same thing all over again just with one or two added gimicks, the open world is dead, npcs are boring and nintendo just got away with it like that
not so recent: i cant stand persona 5, joker and his entourage are annoying teenagers, the time management is a horrible gameplay addition and the artstyle is just a visual overstimulation
with that being said,~~ plz dont kill me~~
That could be it. I do have a controller I should give that a go… I usually prefer to play these harder games with kb/m though.
There are some games I can’t imagine trying to play with kb/m and getting anything like as good an experience - Psychonauts comes to mind, in particular, because there is that arrowhead collecting progress gate that is WAY easier if you have the controller vibration for your dosing rod, and the worst parts of the meat level are way easier with controller too.
But at the same time… I’ve had the apparently weird experience of finding platformers that “must” be played with a controller to, often, be way easier on keyboard, just because that’s how I grew up playing platformers, I guess. No amount of practice has changed that for me.
Tl;dr: I support your unexpected souls game controller preference.
Sometimes specific input method simply work better, there’s a reason most shooters on consoles have heaps of aim assist, those are inherently easier to play with a mouse, and those souls games with a controller.