Dark Souls
For the longest time, Dark Souls seemed incomprehensible to me. All the talk about how hard and brutal and how hardcore it is and how much you will suffer and die die die over and over made it seem like the most unappealing thing you could possibly pitch to me.
Somehow, though, I ended up playing it. And I finally got it. The main issue is the fanbase, which is awful at presenting why Dark Souls is a fantastic, phenomenal, absolute classic of a game. This is a game that presents a dark, desperate world. This world is hard to live in. It's full of things that are bigger, smarter, and more dangerous than you. You are an Undead, bound to resurrect if you die. If you give up, if you loose hope in this harsh, harsh world, you will go Hollow, you will become a mindless husk that just wants to kill to steal people's souls.
Dark Souls wants you to understand how hard it isn't to not go Hollow. It wants to put you through the ordeals of your character. It creates a magnificently fair, absolutely beautiful combat system, and subjects you to challenges that are difficult, but they're not difficult to be difficult, they're difficult because this is the way the world of Dark Souls is. Dark Souls encourages you to throw yourself at the rocks, and be frustrated, and it wants you to loose hope. It also wants you to persevere, to overcome these hardships, to push forward, to prove that you are human, and that humanity will not be broken by mindless beasts. We have POWER OF WILL, AND HOPE, AND YOU WILL NOT TAKE THIS FROM US. WE WILL PERSEVERE, BECAUSE WE ARE HUMAN, AND HUMANITY PERSEVERES, NO MATTER THE ODDS.
It's also simply enjoyable as hell to play, has an incredible world with phenomenal lore told in a way that puts the onus on the player. But what's important is that it's neither as difficult as it claims to be, nor about its difficulty. It's about the triumph of the will, the ability to persevere in the face of despair. The universe of Dark Souls is one that's dying, with existential dread creeping it, but the actual experience of playing Dark Souls is actually one of the most engrossing uplifting gaming experiences I've ever had. It's a testament to the quality of the games I've treated myself to this year that this is not number one. Dark Souls is easily in my top 10 games of all time.
It's prettyyyyy goooood.
For the longest time, Dark Souls seemed incomprehensible to me. All the talk about how hard and brutal and how hardcore it is and how much you will suffer and die die die over and over made it seem like the most unappealing thing you could possibly pitch to me.
Somehow, though, I ended up playing it. And I finally got it. The main issue is the fanbase, which is awful at presenting why Dark Souls is a fantastic, phenomenal, absolute classic of a game. This is a game that presents a dark, desperate world. This world is hard to live in. It's full of things that are bigger, smarter, and more dangerous than you. You are an Undead, bound to resurrect if you die. If you give up, if you loose hope in this harsh, harsh world, you will go Hollow, you will become a mindless husk that just wants to kill to steal people's souls.
Dark Souls wants you to understand how hard it isn't to not go Hollow. It wants to put you through the ordeals of your character. It creates a magnificently fair, absolutely beautiful combat system, and subjects you to challenges that are difficult, but they're not difficult to be difficult, they're difficult because this is the way the world of Dark Souls is. Dark Souls encourages you to throw yourself at the rocks, and be frustrated, and it wants you to loose hope. It also wants you to persevere, to overcome these hardships, to push forward, to prove that you are human, and that humanity will not be broken by mindless beasts. We have POWER OF WILL, AND HOPE, AND YOU WILL NOT TAKE THIS FROM US. WE WILL PERSEVERE, BECAUSE WE ARE HUMAN, AND HUMANITY PERSEVERES, NO MATTER THE ODDS.
It's also simply enjoyable as hell to play, has an incredible world with phenomenal lore told in a way that puts the onus on the player. But what's important is that it's neither as difficult as it claims to be, nor about its difficulty. It's about the triumph of the will, the ability to persevere in the face of despair. The universe of Dark Souls is one that's dying, with existential dread creeping it, but the actual experience of playing Dark Souls is actually one of the most engrossing uplifting gaming experiences I've ever had. It's a testament to the quality of the games I've treated myself to this year that this is not number one. Dark Souls is easily in my top 10 games of all time.
It's prettyyyyy goooood.
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