Games are ruined. Playing, finishing and replaying Dark Souls has given me nothing more than a pervading sense of ennui around the majority of action games, with action RPGs being particularly affected by the fallout of recovery from throwing myself so completely into the world and mechanics of this wonderful gift of a game from … [Read more…]
There is really no shortage of stunning vistas in Dark Souls, and it’s something that FROM were clearly aware of in the course of development given the potential to leave Orange Soapstone messages that point out of pulchritude of the scenery of Lordran. The first visit to Anor Londo and the descent down the myriad … [Read more…]
I had somewhat of a crisis of conscience having left Blighttown and reached Firelink Shrine again. I’d made the wonderful mistake of reading a great deal of wonderful criticism about Dark Souls from some far more astute writers than myself and I, somewhat inevitably, ended up on a Dark Souls wiki that serves as testament … [Read more…]
Blight is a terrible thing. Just ask any Irishman: the legacy of Phytophthora infestans lives on to this day in the populace and is the root cause of any explanation worth its salt of why it is difficult to get served in a pub in the Republic with any accent from Cornwall to Cumbria. That’s real … [Read more…]
Well, as I said in our previous installment, any feelings of satisfaction over finally defeating the Capra Demon were to be short-lived. As it turned out, they were to be incredibly short-lived. Having headed back to the Undead Parish to purchase weapon and armour smithboxes, I headed down to the Depths from Lower Undead Burg. … [Read more…]