Critical Close-up: Dark Souls
18,577DISCLAIMER: This is a revised version of the Dark Souls Critical Close-up, with errors related to "strategy games," "aural decoy" and the aqueduct wormhole corrected. Unfortunately YouTube doesn't allow re-uploads onto vidoes with the same URLs, stats and comments, so you can find the old version with your old comment threads here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcBCCVGbVfA
Dark Souls: a game about life, love, and learning how to hurt yourself.
Here's a 35-minute in-depth review about how and why Dark Souls is so challenging, vague and macabre. This video is less lore and story speculation than it is *about* lore and story speculation.
Special thanks for machinima help & lore consulting:
https://www.youtube.com/user/VaatiVidya
https://www.youtube.com/user/HellkiteDrake
https://www.youtube.com/user/SunlightMaggot
Further reading:
https://www.jesperjuul.net/text/fearoffailing/
http://digm.drexel.edu/jzhu/publications/Zhu_ICIDS13_StoryJam.pdf
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/12/12/the-wonderful-archeology-of-dark-souls-lore/
This video uses sound effects from audiomicro.com
This video also lives at http://www.superbunnyhop.com
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