FromSoftware and Elden Ring head Hidetaka Miyazaki doesn't feel pressured by competing Soulslikes: "Players seem to enjoy our games"
Hidetaka Miyazaki says competing games in the same genre is good for FromSoftware
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The Souls-like genre, or difficult third-person action games that use a specific type of checkpointing as others might call them, have been on the rise over the last few years in particular. We’ve had the likes of the greatLies of P, the excellentRemnant 2, and the enthrallingLords of the Fallenreboot, to name just a few stellar Souls-like games from 2023 alone.
“I think once you go down that avenue of making something purely because it’s successful, that’s when you may start to see less success,” the Elden Ring director continues. No one can accuse FromSoftware of repeatedly going back to its biggest successes purely for the sake of it - Bloodborne trends basically every other week on Twitter at this point, and there still hasn’t been aPS5remaster for the game or a sequel.
We’ve still got other Souls-likes on the …
