It's really not, it's always easy if you know what to do. If you don't understand that dialogue between player and game designer, it may appear like it's just really punishing. The "difficulty" stems from the game developers anticipating how you will approach situations based on earlier situations, and adding new caveats to the rules. They are rewarding to play because it is rewarding to solve puzzles. Everything is a mystery, from the lore to the game play. The secret sauce is arguably that FromSoft makes puzzle games disguised as action games. I think the probably biggest mistake from other studios that try to replicate FromSoft's success is to try to make the games as difficult and punishing as possible. At thy twilight, old thoughts return, in great waves of nostalgia. Exhilaration, pride, hatred, rage… The dragons teased out our dearest emotions… Thou will understand, one day. > The dragons shall never be forgotten… We knights fought valiantly, but for every one of them, we lost three score of our own. There's a quote from one of the characters in Dark Souls that I think gives a hint as to why Miyazaki makes hard games: The difficulty is an important aspect of their design, but it's just one piece of the puzzle. I could name a bunch of games that are harder - including Nioh, a game that's partially inspired by Dark Souls, and has a similar combat system (but with a lot more complexity). The goal, from everything I've read about him, was to make difficult games where the difficulty reinforces the themes he wants to convey, and evokes the emotions he wants you to feel. And it was definitely never his goal to make "the hardest games". There are many games that are much, much harder than Miyazaki's games. > Miyazaki has created the most difficult games of the century. I think FromSoft's games (and specifically the ones directed by Miyazaki) will be among a small set of games released in the past 20 years that will still be played and studied in 50 or 100 years (or more). There's just an incredible amount of depth to their world building, and the gameplay, difficulty level, online mechanics, level design, characters, music, story, and themes all work to reinforce and complement each other. FromSoft has a holistic approach to game design that very few other studios manage to match. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.The popular discourse seems to focus on the difficulty of From's games, but that's just one part of the entire experience. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.
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