{
  "id": 87750,
  "title": "The Soulslike genre has grown stale after Elden Ring, and only FromSoftware can take it to strange new places",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/03/the-soulslike-genre-has-grown-stale-after-elden-ring-and-only",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-03T12:59:49.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Rock Paper Shotgun",
    "slug": "rock-paper-shotgun",
    "url": "https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-soulslike-genre-has-grown-stale-after-elden-ring-and-only-fromsoftware-can-take-it-to-strange-new-places"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Sometimes I have to remind myself that I’m a cliché, a person first compelled to write about games because I slew Dark Souls ’ Gwynn, Lord Of Cinder and sat quietly for a moment before thinking to myself, “Hit me, come on, hit me!”. No, I was not okay. But my understanding of games shifted in that tiny university room: they could be overcome, not just completed. FromSoftware’s dark fantasy…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}