Seriously, this made me able to enjoy watching my boyfriend, who isn't a gamer at all, never played similar games, being able to play the game up to ending E, with difficulty on minimum. He got addicted to the game and we played it non-stop every night until we finished it.
While at the same time, it allowed me to play at the hardest difficulty on my own playthrough, where I was able to enjoy the game how I like
Many similar games have no difficulty options at all, specially soulslikes but also some kingslikes.
I think lunacid made him addicted to fake walls tho. Every other game we play now he tries to find fake walls.
He is really good at puzzles and secrets, but had a hardtime with spatial localization and combat. Playing on easiest solved the issue with combat, and I helped him navigate the mazes (it actually very fun to be his navigator)
I'm very proud of him beating the game. One of the things he said was that he appreciated how the game has a nice learning curve.
I do think the difficulty slider should appear on character creation because many people don't even know it exists, since it's on the "more settings" menu, so not easy to spot