https://www.theguardian.com/games/article/2024/jun/26/pushing-buttons-meeting-hidetaka-miyazaki

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The famously challenging dark-fantasy epic Elden Ring was the world’s second bestselling game in 2022, and the release of its expansion Shadow of the Erdtree last Friday once again has everyone arguing about whether it’s too difficult. Every single FromSoftware-developed game since 2009’s Demon’s Souls has inspired this discourse, and I’m not going to get into it because it’s neither interesting nor particularly consequential: these games are what they are, and you can either get on board or, quite justifiably, walk away.