Lynch agrees and says it's easy to become so consumed by what's in front of you, that it's important to pull on that experience to remember how you arrived at where you are today. We're back here again.' I love those sorts of interactions.'

'You could be exploring a new area, wind up in a labyrinthine passageway, open a door at its end and be like: 'Oh, I recognise this. But your ambition then says: what are we going to do with that? Right? Just you just work at it? Yeah! This applies to most games – the fact that you want to make the next more ambitious than the last, even though the last one was just an insane amount of work. Your experience also lets you know when you've made a mistake. He says: 'Experience can be great because it can make you feel wiser.

By his own admission, Silva has learned so much since starting out on Salt and Sanctuary the best part of a decade ago, which, in turn, has given him the appetite to push the boundaries of his games, his imagination, and his skill set more than ever before. Through this, another conundrum Ska Studios has faced on the developer side of things is maintaining an equilibrium between ambition and experience. Against the significant renewed interest in brutally unforgiving fantasy action RPG games levied by Elden Ring, Salt, and Sacrifice could just as easily have followed its forerunner as a pure and simple sequel, but by introducing online multiplayer and Monster Hunter-like Mage hunts, it's shaping up to be a different beast entirely.

Like its main source material, Souls games, and thus by extension Soulslike games, are unpinned by how their players balance ambition and caution, whereby, more often than not, fortune favours the brave. It seems fitting that one of Salt and Sacrifice's biggest challenges behind the scenes is so rooted in risk versus reward.

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