I'm just glad it's not sewer levels. God so many games put level 2 in a sewer, for a while because of draw distance compromises more than love of sewers, I suspect
I know there’s the whole story about how he was inspired by Ico and the whole stuck car thing. But I stg the actual roots of this man has to be a cruel and demented DnD DM.
Ah! But THIS swamp is different, you see. After much soul-searching and meditation, Miyazaki-sama has made the brilliant creative decision to make this one MUCH WORSE
One of them is his work poison swamp, and the other is the vacation poison swamp.
Once he retires he'll be able to buy a separate poison swamp to winter in.
There are player messages on the ground outside several of the poison swamps now which say stuff like "no introspection ahead therefore praise the Elden Ring!"