Good point.

Old graveyards: Way too easy. No mass spawn.
New graveyards: Too repetitive, too much grind, not enough fun.

So what would make a better mechanic?

Alright. Lets get rid of the timer monster. Or maybe get rid of the timer function -- kill it, and it stays dead. Maybe there are some buried spirits that will behave like that when disturbed, but when dead, stay dead.

Mass spawns are a good touch -- no matter that you're trying to be careful, having 6 graves trigger because you touched that one does make for a moment of fright. But it's still "Recover, move back, kill them."

Hmm...

Well, you normally move into areas, spawn things, kill them, move into the next.

Maybe that's all you can get in a graveyard. Sure, skeletons/zombies/whatever they're called. Some spirits that move diagonally across the void. Sometimes you spawn only the graves you touch, and sometimes you spawn a group of graves at once.

But it would eliminate the rinse and repeat feeling.
It would eliminate the whole "Never mind all the side rooms, all the energy doors, just find the elevator as quick as you can" feel.

At First, i thought ninja gaiden was hard, then i played demon's souls.... Ninja Gaiden is not so difficult any more

Don't Be A Wimp!

As many others have said, graveyards are not that hard. Honestly whenever I go into one, I tell the other people to go ahead whenever the swordwraiths show up and I'll catch up. When they are charging their attack, they are leaving themselves extremely vulnerable, or if you aren't charged, you can easily outrun them. There's no party buttons to get in the way, and graveyards. The problems occur when you have multiple people fighting multiple wraiths, for target changing and immunity to being knocked out of attacks means someone's going to either a. jump in front of an attack when trying to attack, or b. shove the wraith to another person, and they get slaughtered.

I'm probably one of the few people that says, Aww man, another treasure room? I wanted a graveyard!

P.S. I didn't bring up the 10k zombies, cause if you can't kill zombies, you need to go up a tier till you learn how. (and stop wielding cutter/striker weaponry, it's not helping with it's huge chain before it's disrupt hit)

T1:Meh.
T2:Okay, this is slightly unpleasant.
T3:WHY?!
I enjoy graveyards very much. While my partymates are out there getting their butts kicked, i sneak around looking for crystals and heat. It would be a very fun business if only the place wasn't crawling with zombies. ): D

The thread should be retitled; "remove fun from the game".