Uploaded July 2016 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Alice explores the troubling link between difficulty and quality, the stigma of éasy mode', and why Dark Souls is a bad game, it just is. She does it (almost) without a single dick joke.

Alice Bell is a games writer and player with Opinions. Read these and more on her Twitter @babygotbell.
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