I get your point, but I think Kings Field was made by the same company, as well as a PS2 game that had a feudal Japanese theme where you're a demon hunter that played exactly like Dark Souls, and also made by the same company. Demon Souls and Dark Souls is just where it hit mainstream. It doesn't seems surprising that a company would build upon what they've established in the past. But they are indeed obsessed with traditions and the use of tropes more than being progressive, imaginative, or inventive sometimes... possibly most of the time. Especially with their panty shots and underage moe sex goddesses