In a game with non optional multiplayer how is your move to easy mode optional and non affecting? Doesn't that just mean easy mode player gets invaded by someone who is twinking a low level high skill build? When that "easy mode"'player gets wrecked and throws their controller is that still an issue of game difficulty?
When "easy mode" player gets invaded with a collaborator and they both get wrecked, you gonna ask for an automatic offline mode nex...
I believe an easy mode compromises the gravity of the lore. After having died numerous times, and having mightily struggled against these powerful hollows, a player can more readily accept the tragedy or suffering of the core lore.
Knight Artorius wouldn't feel like a badass if the Four Kings fight were simple or easy. Gwynn and his lighting of the first fire wouldn't feel important at all if you'd just beasted the shit out of the game.
Bloodbor...
If you play this game with a hack, and eliminate the combat as a way to break up the story, it is the least sensible of nearly all the final fantasy games, and the story is outright boring.
That's awesome! Blizzard should officially support this rad remake!!!