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Sam Winkler @ThatSamWinkler Follow Dark Souls revolutionized games, in the sense that instead of a story now you can just have some guy with a big SWord named Myrmidon of Loss who gasps "Zanzibart... forgive me" when he dies and then twenty YouTubers will make an hour long video about how deep your lore is
I think it’s like piecing together a mystery, which can be interesting as you find clues and tidbits. Most of the lore is hidden in the item descriptions and explains the details of your environment. I didn’t really pay attention to it much at first, most things I just reacted to like “that’s fucked up”, but it was kind of neat when I started to realize how some of these enemies had a history within the world. Then I started rereading some of those descriptions, and what was a jumbled mess started making more sense. It was like having a jigsaw puzzle come together.
That said, there’s still a lot I don’t get and I still go WTF… ok time for unga bunga
I'm over here just enjoying the memes, like the frog down in the red lake. That was a good one.
Oh basilisk of rot, what is your wisdom?
It's 100% this and I absolutely love the story-telling method of FromSoft's soulsborne games, makes you work for it instead of just handing it to you.
If you want to dive into the lore, its there, in the item descriptions, and that NPC that's absolutely no-where near the area you are currently in that you'd have to backtrack to in order to hear the the new snippet of conversation before they disappear.
There is something, but the top-level answers that would involve explaining the nature of and relationships between some of the forces involved in the setting are deliberately obscured. By paying attention to descriptions and dialog it is possible to learn specifics about a lot of characters and events, but you have to speculate a bit about cosmological questions.
It is like lost. Aka community outsourced lore.