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FromSoftware applied its difficult combat and indirect storytelling to a large open world, with worldbuilding contributed by novelist George R. R. Martin. The publisher reported sales above twenty million copies within a year.
A demanding, deliberately opaque design reached an audience of blockbuster scale, which undercut the assumption that mainstream success requires difficulty settings, guidance and constant reassurance. Freedom of movement, rather than lowered challenge, was what made the studio's approach approachable.
