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24 hour exclusive - Should Dark Souls have an Easy Mode? (Patreon)

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2016-04-24 09:32:07

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An innocuous question about adding an easy mode into Dark Souls lets us dive deep into how designers conjure up specific experiences, and how players can choose to set their own level of challenge.

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Game Makers Toolkit - Should Dark Souls have an Easy Mode?

It's the question that comes up every time FromSoftware releases a new action RPG - should Dark Souls come with an easy mode? To answer this question (sort of), we must first figure out why these games are so hard, and whether there are better ways to provide difficulty settings than a choice at the start of the game.