Asklemmy

It's not so much button mashy vs not; it's the responsiveness. Take a step back from videogames even: if you were some medieval knight or w/e in a sword fight IRL: your sword is raising as you're initiating an attack, and you notice your opponent moving his blade toward a vulnerable spot you just left exposed.

So do you just follow through with the attack knowing there's a blade closing in on your axillary artery, accept your fate, take the blow, bleed out and die? Or, do you abort the attack in favor of a defensive move like lifting your shield or turning a bit so the blade hits your armor instead?

The former is what combat is like in DS (and MH... haven't tried the others).

It's unsatisfying flavor of difficulty... again comparable to sabotaging the controls of an otherwise not difficult at all experience (sponge taped to gameboy). Or like... say you need to do the dishes, and up the difficulty of the task by tying a toothbrush to the end of a 5' stick and scrubbing them with that from the far corner of the kitchen. The task is difficult now, but that doesn't make it fun, just tedious.

Just pulled up Remnant - I don't think I've ever seen that game before. The Steam pics/vids look pretty great: I'm getting VERY strong Secret World Legends vibes (which is a fantastic game despite having god-awful combat). I'll throw it on my wishlist and see if I can snag it on a good sale.