Is there a worry that people may be over-exposed to the franchise? Over the last few years we've had a lot of Souls games: Dark Souls 2, Scholar of the First Sin, Bloodborne. You don't have to worry about that.īy clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's It certainly won't be the case where the feeling you had with the beta will continue into the entirety of the game. The creation of the game began by working on the very standard elements and achieving a balance there so we can all be at the same starting point. The worry is that it may have become a bit too familiar, and the game overall may be more of the same.Īctually, the slice of the game shown in the beta is one of the most standard parts. I felt quite comfortable in it, which is not what I'd usually get from a Souls game. I ask because I played it quite a bit and felt that there weren't very many surprises in there for veterans of the series. In that sense it doesn't represent the total experience. It was primarily used to test multiplayer and obviously it was designed so corrections and adjustments could be made based on feedback.Īs far as the map, the enemies, and number of choices you have for playing characters, fighting styles, and that kind of thing, it's only a very small slice of the entire game. So from a design perspective there's a lot of different aspects you could mean. How representative of the overall gameplay do you think it was?

In our interview, Miyazaki discusses his ambitions to move away from Souls, along with the recent beta, the advent of many other Souls-like titles, and a surprising new obsession.ĭark Souls 3’s network test beta drew a mixed response. Such actions speak for themselves, but his words are just as illuminating. Really now, Miyazaki-san, you can delegate this stuff. Possibly the best testament to this is that our interview took place in a sound-dampened studio where Miyazaki had just finished work on some Dark Souls 3 audio. And yet the father of the Souls series appears to have little interest in stepping away from design and settling into a management role.

In May 2014, Miyazaki was appointed as the head of From Software. In an industry where it’s commonplace to stretch the popularity of franchises across annual iterations, that may be hard to believe, but he thinks it’s critical to the future of his studio, From Software. Hidetaka Miyazaki says he’s ready to close the book on Dark Souls.

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