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Elden Ring creator Hidetaka Miyazaki on originating the Soulslike genre
Hidetaka Miyazaki didn't envision originating an entire genre. Yet such is the popularity of the Dark Souls games — right up to the more recent Elden Ring — that they've become collectively known in the gaming community as Soulslikes. That's shorthand for games with calculating combat, high levels of challenge and repeated death, though this is of course reductive of the awe and grim majesty Miyazaki's games evoke.