"The problem with it [the soul mechanic] is, if I want to swap out souls and try out different abilities, I need to go in to the menu, which is like trying to walk through a sausage factory with large dogs attached to each limb. It's not that it's badly designed and hard to navigate -- although it absolutely is that. It's just that I'd go in to check one thing, and notice an indicator going, "You have new rewards to claim in menu 27-F." So I'd go there and claim all of those, and, "Oh! Now you have upgrades to spend in menu 16-Omega-Flamingo." So I'd do that, and, "Hooray! You've succeeded at the 'Spend Ten Upgrades' mission! Claim your reward from menu Trousers-Gazebo-Fishslice! Now go to the convene menu and spend all the tokens we just gave you in the fruit machine, then take your subsequent pile of useless garbage for characters you don't use, and refine them into upgrades for the sword you actually have equipped!" And by the time I stumbled bewildered back in to game play with a whole extra two points of damage, night had fallen, wolves were stalking me, and I couldn't remember where I'd parked."