The Japan-based game studio FromSoftware, particularly under the leadership of auteur game designer Hidetaka Miyazaki, has a reputation for recycling assets from previous games and re-implementing classic ideas in its newest releases. The movements and animations of Elden Ring ’s giant crab enemies and skeleton enemies, for instance, were copied whole-cloth from Dark Souls 3 . At the same time, data-miners who peruse the code of games like Bloodborne and Dark Souls will frequently discover a tre...