If there's one thing that players can almost certainly count on, it's having the conversation of difficulty in games being reignited following the release of a new FromSoftware title. Like clockwork, the release of Elden Ring's Shadow of the Erdtree DLC almost immediately divided players on the subject of its challenge, with FromSoftware even going so far as to provide players with a helpful reminder of the importance of Shadow of the Erdtree's Scadutree fragments and a useful map to their locations. Truthfully, though, regardless of how players feel about Shadow of the Erdtree's approach to scaling and progression, there's a case to be made that Elden Ring has resolved the Soulslike difficulty debate for good.