is a hard game—no, not just hard, sometimes downright unfair. It's in a way that's incredibly charming, mind, but as our own , it's "player hostile" or, in other words, occasionally "such bullshit". I had my own taste of this recently as, while playing with a couple of other PCG folks, we got a boss down to around 2% HP, decided to try and finish it off, and got insta-gibbed by a muddily-telegraphed AoE. Nightreign'd.
However, combat director Junya Ishizaki wants you to believe in yourself, especially in the face of a capricious game that mostly hates and wants to murder you. That's per an , wherein Ishizaki says:
"I can hopefully give you reassurance to 
know that I have beaten all of the game's bosses. I've seen everything it has to offer, both in multiplayer and as a solo player. So I want you and [[link]] players to know that this is very possible, and I want you to have the confidence to give it a try yourself."
Phew, alright. Well, you'd hope that the combat director of Nightreign is good at the combat, given he's directing 
it and all. Even though , it tracks he'd be able to pull off some lone ranger runs. At the very least, he's making use of the game's systems to do so, right?
"Yes. And without relics." Aw, man.
Bless Ishizaki—he's trying to be motivational here—but I've never heard a more polite, perspective-shifting clarion call to git gud since Bandai Namco tweeted out in the early days of : Shadow 
of the Erdtree.
It's certainly possible if you're absolutely cracked at soulslikes, mind. It's not exactly sans-relics, but someone's already beaten the game solo —and every single time I've thought a game was a bit spicy, [[link]] some kung-fu master's rocked up to Twitch armed with only a controller and a level of patience and focus forged in the mountains of some far-flung monastery and done a before I can blink.
Mark my words, Ishizaki won't be the first person to depress you with his accomplishments. Here's my prediction: Not only is Ishizaki right, we're about two months maximum from someone doing a full Nightreign [[link]] solo level one run, blindfolded, armed with only a , no-hit, while underwater with their hands tied. It'll happen.