Dark Souls is easily one of the most important video games released in the modern era. The game single-handedly proved a solid and decisive point that most gaming studios at the time were failing to understand — that there was definitely a viable market for hardcore AAA video games that wouldn't hold a player's hand at every step of the way. Dark Souls was — and still is — a raging phenomenon that has birthed a genre in itself while simultaneously becoming a common comparison when it comes to analyzing difficulty in video games.