One of my favourite part of dark souls is the "this HAS to be the bottom of the map" feeling.

the funniest part of the game is if you get back to fire link after blight town to find that Lautrec killed the fire keeper.

The true enemy of dark souls for everybody- gravity

I honestly don't find blighttown that bad at all. I personally thought Tomb of the Giants was much much worse.

"Those previous enemies are hard..."

Another reason that Blightown could be considered the litmus test for Dark Souls is that it's the final area that acts as tutorialisation in the game. If the Undead Burg exists to teach the player the fundamentals of Dark Souls, then the Lower Undead Burg through the Depths and finally Blightown exist to teach the player of status effects, ambushes, aggro control and the importance of thoroughly scouting an area.

The Narrator: Ah yes, philosophy, deep meaning and learning.

Blighttown always reminded me of (aesthetically) the goblin mines from the hobbit.

Blighttown is like the admission exam to prove you are worthy, but the real turning point where you become a Dark Souls player i'd say is Anor Londo.

What is our reward for descending through Lower Berg, The Depths and Blighttown? HELL. (Demon Ruins and Lost Izalith)

If you can survive Blighttown, you are now able to make it through the entire game.

That moment when you beat Quelaag, round the corner, go through a hidden wall and find a woman who, despite being turned into a horrid monster, is trying to help all of these fucked up people in blighttown even though it puts her own life at risk, and the only reason she's still alive is because her sister Quelaag goes out and finds humanity for her. And you just killed her.

Tomb Of the Giants makes blight town look like Disney world. I still find blight town to be my favorite place in the Game.

“If you make it through Blighttown, you are steeled enough to beat the game.” Lmao when Blighttown is a breeze for you but you die to the moonlight butterfly like 7 times

Going full on the metaphor, Blighttown is a baptism by poison and darkness. Once you descend into Blighttown and come out on literally the other side, you're now a part of the game. You ARE a dark souls player at that point instead of a player playing dark souls.

"and once you have learned that you can arguably handle anything the game throws at you"

And that feeling when you emerge back to light is something DS2 and 3 simply cannot do due to teleporting thru bonfires.