They put a open world around Dark Souls and somehow people acted like nobody had ever thought of that.
Fun fact: George R.R. Martin wrote the background mythology but never played any FromSoftware game before or after.
They called it "die twice" but you'll die about four hundred times before you even get past the first boss.
Fun fact: FromSoftware stripped co-op, leveling, and classes from their formula and still won Game of the Year 2019.