Elden Ring director Hidetaka Miyazaki claimed he struggled to clear the main story of FromSoftware's critically acclaimed open-world Soulslike. Since its release in 2022, Elden Ring has garnered a reputation for its brutal difficulty. While many longtime veterans of FromSoftware's previous titles believed it was the most approachable Soulslike, that didn't stop some players from debating whether the game was too hard in the weeks following its debut.