But none of them take 100 hours.Genuinely showcasing the difference between a remake and a remaster, 2020's PlayStation 5 version of Demon's Souls stands as the highest-rated title in FromSoftware's Souls series. At launch, critics adored the remake and found it to be as faithful as it was enjoyable. There’s no reason video games can’t provide that, and many do. The purpose of art is the opposite of this, to leave you with more at the end than at the beginning, to give you something you can carry with you. These are questions victims ask, people taken advantage of, left with less than they started out with. Why did I do that? Why did I keep playing? What was I after? Where am I now? Everyone who has played a game of this length knows too well the hollowness that waits at the end, brain numb, uncountable weeks and months piled on the trash heap at their backs, and no idea of what to do next. Dark Souls insists that players participate in their own undoing by burning hour after hour in search of the small burst of relief that comes after each round of punishment.
Hidetaka Miyazaki, Dark Souls’ creative director, said in an interview with the British magazine Edge that his game is intentionally “masochistic.” Indeed, more than any other medium, video games blur the distinction between a depicted act and participating in the act itself. Many aim for a kind of artistic holism, striving for breadth and sweep by creating worlds where, in addition to fighting lizards with scimitars, you can marry, become a merchant, pick flowers, gamble, unknot complicated political dilemmas through conversation, or just spend hours wandering through the wilderness in contemplation. (They also all keep track of how long you’ve been playing, an insidious part of each save file that persistently reminds you just how much time you’ve already invested.) One hundred hours is just the halfway point for an Elder Scrolls game, and in WoW that amount of time would barely qualify as a tutorial. While each of these games offers a unique experience, they are identical in their offering of a seemingly endless amount of terrain to wander through. Dark Souls is joined by time swamps like Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Fallout 3, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, and MMOs like World of Warcraft and Star Wars: The Old Republic. Encyclopedia-length games have flourished over the last decade.
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