Dark Souls 2 Ending Commentary
A lot of respect for the storyteller’s point of view, and a lot of respect for the souls games. To be honest to me they seemed quite short on story and narrative, yet their world seems quite full of...
View ArticleDark Souls 2, the love-hate generator
Ive stumbled upon some quite smart and deep critiques from people who actually love the game and the series, thought I’d share: and this video has some interesting points too, despite being at times...
View ArticleLost & found in translation [Dark Souls 2]
What an amazing job VaatiVidya did again. Spectacular! You know, sometimes I think the souls games were just hacked together as a series of fights and locations, and I ask myself why I like them… I...
View ArticleDemon’s Souls – impressions
Wow, I can’t believe we finished it. It came so close to never getting finished… a couple of times. But so very happy we did. Quick thoughts: +, +, +, + aaaaaaaaaamazing level design, the connections,...
View ArticleBloodborne – impressions
+, +, – pretty much another souls game. On the one hand that’s good, on the other after all the talk of it being different and special I was expecting something different. The much trumpeted lack of...
View ArticleDARK SOULS II: Scholar of the First Sin trailer
As cool as I find this trailer now I think it’s largely because of the many beautiful memories, because if I try to have a detached look at it I would probably dislike how empty/flat many of the...
View ArticleQueen of Want Story (Dark Souls 2)
Wow what a beautiful tragic story. I never saw it this way before and a lot of stuff had escaped me even of what i knew. Wow. And the whole humanity dark want link is philosophically superbly don. A...
View ArticleAztec style in Dark Souls 2
I was surprised and delighted to see this architectural style in DS2 expansion, way back then, and now too.
View ArticleDark Souls 2 Announcement Trailer
An old trailer that apparently I missed in it’s time. What an interesting mind/time trick to imagine this is just announced and inaccessible, cool but you have to abstain until next year for it to be...
View ArticleIn Defense of Dark Souls 2
He makes some very interesting points. Interesting design choices analysis. Also in terms of the story, including the impressive intro movie. Personally I have some mixed feelings towards DS2. On one...
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