Critical Close-up: Dark Souls

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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:
/ vaatividya
/ hellkitedrake
/ sunlightmaggot
Further reading:
www.jesperjuul...
digm.drexel.edu...
www.forbes.com/...
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