Wait, I don't know if anyone's ever said this to you before, but did you know that FromSoftware games are actually considered extremely difficult? Yeah, I've been trapped in a Smithing Stone mine for the past three years and wasn't aware. This is a phenomenon invading the globe like wind – even beloved composer Yuka Kitamura, whose music encouraged FromSoftware bosses to be at their most soul-crushing for 12 years before she left the developer in 2023, has trouble playing the games she helped create.
"During composition, I would often watch the gameplay in debug mode," Kitamura says in a new interview with French site PlayStation Inside, translated by the publication, "partly because I couldn't beat the boss myself! Experiencing the game directly like that helped me time the music in a way that felt more authentic and emotionally synced with the player."
