Dark Souls Dev Won't Stop Making Difficult Games Anytime Soon

Dark Souls II director Yui Tanimura said during a roundtable interview at the Tokyo Game Show this week that difficult games are now the "minority" in the video game industry. But this won't stop the Japanese studio from making games that might make you rip your hair out.

"Other than focusing on a dark fantasy world, we're focusing more on making players experience the sense of accomplishment," he said. "That's what we have been always pursuing for all games that From Software has created. We are aware that creating [games] featuring higher difficulty is becoming a minority in this industry. But that's what From Software has been working on. In order to bring a sense of accomplishment to the players, that's something we have to keep, stick with it, and keep remaining to do for all the upcoming titles that we will be creating."

[NovusTerminus]

Just return to Tenchu!

[Relientk77]

Damn we need to see the return of Tenchu

:-/

[NovusTerminus]

Right now I'd settle for Tenchu Z on next gen or PC... I just really want to play it again, but my 360 is dead...

[BullyMangler]

Hey! hi. Can anyone tell me, what is it about these games, that make them so "hard"?

are they hack-slash, where all you have to do is level up strong enough, and you eventually win? Or are these games creatively challenging, like Mike Tysons PunchOut, DKC Returns, Ninja Gaiden, etc type of challenging ?

Or are these Souls games a mix of RPG/head bogglers? Head Bogglers like The Water Temple in TLOZ: OT ?

[pwnsause_returns]

@bullymangLer

they are hard because,

the Enemies are Hard to kill,

if you die, you lose all of your Money (aka Souls) you use to level up, buy weapons,etc.

you also start from the beginning of the map.

there are also more reasons.

beating these enemies, not only feels good, but you get something out of it. Dying makes you create strategies to either avoid, or kill enemies.

What makes these games so special are the lore behind them. the stories and the enviornments are a bit frightening, but it makes you want to stay in that world as well.

Demon's souls is one game that just made me want to stay in there longer.

The games get harder even after you beat it too.

[KakashiHotake]

How about a Tenchu Stealth Assassins remaster? Now that's taking it back.

[Mega24]

My point of view

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[Gamer4life888]

music to my ears

[skydragoonity]

Tenchu is long overdue

[Darkfist]

cant wait for bloodborne

[pwnsause_returns]

1.Good.

2. Yes, Weed need a Good Tenchu game. Hopefully From Software comes back to it.

[Inception]

New Tenchu and Armored Core pleaseeee >.<

[kurochi]

Took me 120 hrs to get through Dark Souls. I'm on Dark Souls 2 now. I'm expecting another 120 hr saga. Don't ever change the difficultly. He is correct, you do feel a certain sense of accomplishment when you finish the games. Seriously, it's almost like a "back to basic" kind of game for the gaming industry as a whole. We need more of these instead of the 10-12 hr type of single player campaign games.

[thricetold]

Didn't disagree with you but have to ask one question, how many of those hours were spent farming for souls/items? I think you'd surprise yourself how long you actually spent on the "story mode".

Once you know the enemy placement and movesets you can steam roll thru each games "story" in just a few hours or less, depending on player skill level.

[kurochi]

quite a bit. I'm one of those people that rarely goes back to play a game a 2nd time around. Although there are a ton of replay value, I just prefer to try to get as much out of any game than trying to go back a 2nd time, especially on a game as massive as DS or DS2. Bottom line, I just don't have the time to go back a 2nd time. So I did farm quite a bit and try to get as many items as I could to make the game more enjoyable for me on the first play through.