I'm a very competitive person by nature, and I like a good challenge. That's a big reason why I play video games, and why I particularly enjoy games by FromSoftware, the powerhouse developer behind Dark Souls, Bloodborne, and Elden Ring. (Especially Bloodborne.) These games are hard—brutally hard, intentionally hard, hard to the point of creating a semiannual debate about whether This Boss Is Too Hard.
