Name: 黑暗之魂設計--回顧展 (Dark Souls Design - Retrospective)
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Hey, what's up guys - I'm Dave Klein, and welcome to a new series of mine.

A breakdown retrospective of various games.

As people know me for the Souls series, I thought this would be a good place to start,

but I do intend to cover more games outside of Souls, as Game Design is a passion of mine.

Also, I'd love to know your thoughts on this type of video when it wraps, as I'm

So, that said, here's a critical analysis of Dark Souls - both its pros and cons.

What makes the game work, and perhaps, would could have been improved.

There will be spoilers, as I'd like to talk about the overall game in depth, so you have

Dark Souls starts the game simple enough, with a character creator.

Which, I think for repeat play throughs, and experienced players is a great place to start

- but can be kind of intimidating for someone new to a franchise.

While players returning from Demon's Souls will know what kind of character they want

to play - being immediately thrown a number of stats without ever having played a game

To be honest, on my first play through, I pulled up a guide as I already felt like I

I've never been a huge fan of presenting new players immediately with stat choices

to choose before they've even had a chance to play the game for this reason.

If you've never played a game before, you don't know what build you're going to

like, you don't know what works and doesn't work for that particular game, and it's

a lot to handle right from the get-go, before you have any investment in the game at hand.

I'm definitely a fan of RPGs, and love the ability to customize your stats, but my main

point is this can be intimidating, especially for a game that has the reputation of Dark

Souls, whether deserved or not, of being challenging.

One possible solution is to have a tutorial portion of the game where the player at least

learns base mechanics before they get to choose their stats - and in this case, that would

happen when the player arrives at Firelink Shrine.

However, that's really just a different choice, as it creates its own problems.

The character creator, at that point, would pull you out of the game - and possibly ruin

your sense of immersion as you should already have an idea of who your character is if you're

I don't think there's necessarily a solution to this problem, but do want to point out

my own frustrations with it, as I'm sure I'm not the only one who struggles with

From here, we get what I think is one of Dark Souls strongest aspects over Demon's Souls,

Dark Souls 2, and Bloodborne… and even to an extent - Dark Souls 3, which is its intro

There's a strong pull to take cinematics completely out of video games, as they take

you of the game, and at that point you're watching something happen as opposed to playing.

But, I think they can have their place, and this is the perfect example of that.

In the intro cinematic we find out about the creation of the world, and are given a little

backstory to the overall game, which will become essential to its story.

But the main point I want to focus on here, is what the cinematic highlights.

We're shown horrifying looking Ancient Dragons, and then 4 amazingly powerful lords fighting

off these Ancient Dragons and starting the entire world as we'll come to know it - Gwyn,

The cinematic makes them look incredibly powerful, and they absolutely stand out as they're

What this creates is an automatic understanding of who some of the major bosses you'll end

You don't know it yet, but as you progress further into the game, and realize you're

about to have to fight Nito… or Seath… or the Witch of Izalith… or finally Gwyn

- living legends who we witnessed creating the world and destroying the ancient dragons

These are characters we know, we might revere or fear, and know are insanely powerful.

They created the world you stand on, and you're about to have to go fight them.

And that's both intimidating and exciting.

In Demon's Souls, we're told the overall lore of the world, and given some minor backstory

about warriors who've disappeared - which works just fine but doesn't have the same

In Dark Souls 2 we get some cutscene about some weird world under the water… which,

despite all of my lore videos on the game, I still don't really understand.

It doesn't do anything for you other than make the world seem mystical and strange.

Bloodborne, sets the tone of you being in a creepy world where you seem to have just

screwed yourself - but not much beyond that.

And finally, Dark Souls 3 replicates what Dark Souls 1 did - giving us beings that we're

going to have to fight, and names that we'll know.

But, it's not as effective, as these are simply beings who became Lords and had sacrificed

themselves to extend the Age of Fire at some point in time.

That's not nearly as important or wild as the beings who created the entire world and

And I know I'm harping on this intro for a while, but I think it's just that good,

Finally, with the intro cinematic out of the way, we find ourselves in prison, and a character

It's worth mentioning this, as it's something I've heard other creators talk about before

in mentioning what makes you like an NPC.

We immediately like Oscar, and he's more important to us than most NPCs in other games…

simply by the virtue of its he who gives us the key that gets us out of prison.

Characters who help you, or do things for you, are the ones who you'll tend to end

If characters get in your way, such as Lautrec… we end up hating them - regardless of how

Oscar later on gives us Estus Flasks, which finally allows your character to heal themselves,

Once again, he endears himself to the players by being useful - and he tells you to leave

before he goes hollow… as he doesn't want to hurt you.

When we find him hollow and attacking you later, he's once again endeared himself

Oscar is also the one who tells you about the Undead journey, which within the lore…

is a trap created by Gwyndolin, Frampt, or Gwyn… to get an undead to unwittingly sacrifice

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