recently, I popped in Bloodborne again to replay it because (so far) it's the best souls game I've played. I think it's probably the hardest to adapt to, since you need to be more aggressive and there aren't any shields, but once you understand the mechanics of the game, it feels really good.

The Kirkhammer is the best weapon. Smashing the shit out of monsters feels really good.

The only other games I've played in the series was Dark Souls and Dark Souls 3. I tried 2 and Sekiro, but I only played those for a couple days before I put them down, for some reason they never hooked me.

Dark Souls 2 I thought was especially bad because the early game seems to simulate difficulty by just throwing you into entire hoards of enemies that aren't hard by themselves, but instead are difficult because there's so many of them. After a few days of seeing that mechanic over and over, I thought Dark Souls 2 wasn't really for me, but tbh I didn't really give it a chance.

just beat amygdala and feeling like he was very easy

Omg Bloodborne! I absolutely adore that game (as well as the rest of the DS lineage) and hold it as my favorite game of all time. The atmosphere, music, gameplay mechanics and monster design are just the best.

You're right about DS2 in some sense - Scholar of the First Sin, the rerelease of the game for eight gen consoles, added a ton of areas where there are just like 20 mobs that rush you and beat the snot out of you. This isn't present in the original game, but there are other tradeoffs (most notably NG+ mode not being as fleshed out.)

I've been working through DS3 personally recently, since my friend is also playing through it for the first time. DS3 feels like returning to an old friend, I can blast through the entire thing and both of the DLCs in less than a week.

you're not alone with that assessment of DS2 - it does get better in the late game imo, and the dlc is amazing. the multiplayer scene was also really fun, but idk how active it is these days