LogFAQs > #900681996

Dark Souls is a challenging game, but obviously its way overblown. Its not that hard, its just about as hard as games used to be in a time where most games coming out are piss easy.

And I would say Dark Souls has some "artificial difficulty". Like losing your souls when you die and having bonfires be a decent distance away from each other. Not that any of this is a bad thing. Its just most games are way more forgiving by comparison, even the newer Resident Evils have checkpoints around every corner.

And I have no exact definition for artificial difficulty, but I always just considered it as something that makes the game harder without really actually changing the core gameplay I guess.