There, Miyazaki shows that he is very much like Hideo Kojima, who enjoys turning the concepts that articulate his games (see the famous Sekiro step forward). This widening of the range of possibilities breaks with the drift of an author to whom places them that of subverting the player’s expectations. It is almost as if, after reaching the end of that conversation between kitchen and dining room, it was time to recapitulate and provide extensive conclusions that must contain delicacies to the taste of each of the guests. Now, from the mechanical funnel of my beloved Sekiro we go to a string of variables that seems almost infinite, and that is based on the experience that the team has accumulated over the last two decades. With each new installment the path to the success of the game was narrowed and, finally, customization was withdrawn to arrive at a unique character with whom to travel, with no possible alternative, the path of the katana. Until now, the drift of design by subtraction (typical of Fumito Ueda) had been the dominant trend From Dark Souls to Sekiro, each game offers the player fewer possibilities than the last. The fifteen minutes (of select exhibition) of the recent gameplay, give a good sample of the main playable proposals.

Elden ring is just around the corner, and is presented as a combination of familiar aromas and groundbreaking ideas that are most palatable. Now fed up with the single dish Hidetaka Miyazaki seems to seek surprise by varying the menu format, and has prepared a buffet where he combines his best recipes with his latest ideas so that we can combine the flavors to our liking. It is something like a dialogue, a conversation between a chef and his guests in which, game by game, the cook has been fine-tuning the dish based on what he saw reflected in the faces of those who were trying his creations. It is an evolution that always takes into account the previous experience of the player to build the next proposal. The journey that one can appreciate from the first Demon’s Souls to Sekiro himselfWhen it comes to video game design, I find it fascinating. His emphasis on authorial speech, which is behind each of the so-called Soulsborne, is what finally completely captured my attention. But none of that was enough and, due to the vicissitudes of life, the game was frozen in time, relegating the title to the corner of the earrings until a certain Adrián Suárez (who knows something about the saga and its author) got more heavy of the bill.

I liked Dark Souls, but it didn’t appeal to me because of its difficulty, I kept glued to the screen because of its cryptic approach and the successful feeling of loneliness. I entered the world of Souls late, although perhaps it would be more accurate to say that I entered early and, poor me, I was not able to connect with the first installment.

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