ELDEN RING De-Makes For Old Consoles Seem Even Harder

From Demon’s Souls to Elden Ring: Inside FromSoftware’s approach to brutal video game difficulty

Explore FromSoftware's approach to brutal video game difficulty, and how fair design, learning curves, and player mastery define its iconic games.

ELDEN RING De-Makes For Old Consoles Seem Even Harder

Even three years after its release, FromSoftware’s Elden Ring remains the highwater mark for action RPGs with expansive open worlds. As with all games from director Hidetaka Miyazaki, this game had some of the deepest, darkest characters, intricate environmental storytelling, and hard as nails bosses. Like, seriously, Malenia was a nightmare and then with the DLC they upped the ante with Promised Consort Radahn. Ca-ripes. But all of this is on P…

FromSoftware head Hidetaka Miyazaki says games like Elden Ring and Dark Souls aren't about "simply cranking up the difficulty; it’s doing so fairly"

"We believe in difficult games, but not games that are unjustly or unfairly so."