After the real ending of the game, players who have a deeper understanding of this aspect began to post articles and carried out in-depth analysis and thinking about this game.

Like what.

Tang Yunpeng who went to work to fish.

"Dark Souls, a magnificent but destined to be a tragic journey of fire"

Note: The following content involves spoilers throughout the whole process, and viewers who have not yet played the game should watch it at their discretion.

The overall flow of Dark Souls is still very distinct.

The undead protagonist walks out of the Northern Immortal Courtyard, and after ringing two awakening bells in the Immortal Church and the Sick Village, he successfully meets the world's great serpent Lammut at the Fire Transmission Sacrifice Ground.

It tells the player that it is an old friend of the Sun King, Gwen, and that the purpose of appearing here is to guide the undead to obtain the royal weapon, collect the king's soul, spread the fire, and continue the world.

When the undead go to the ancient city of Seon and defeat the Iron Giant, they will be sent by the flying imps to the royal city of "Arnor Lund", where the undead will defeat "Onstein" and "Smoker" and successfully see the huge treasure chest...... No.

Gwen's daughter, the Sunshine Princess Gvi Evia.

After she handed over the royal weapon to the undead, the mission of the undead was to go around the world to kill those bosses who held the king's soul.

The Four Kings of Little Lund, the Witch of Izaris who has become a hotbed of chaos, the Tomb King Nit, and the White Dragon Hiss......

Those players saw or did not see in the Ancient Dragon War, as long as there is a "King Soul" in their hands, they are the objects of hunting by the undead.

Eventually, after successfully defeating Gwen, the Dark Salary King, the player will choose to spread the fire and renew the entire Age of Fire.

And in the process, players will also learn about the backstory of Dark Souls, as well as the deepest despair and helplessness contained in this world.

Mr. Luo's creation of the atmosphere and the construction of the world in Dark Souls can be said to be breathtaking, and it is completely a lesson for the industry.

Note that the industry I'm talking about is not a domestic game circle, but a lesson for all game producers in the world.

At the beginning of the story, in the opening CG, the old woman who told the story has clearly told us that the fire will go out and the world is about to come to an end.

First of all, it sets a main tone for the atmosphere of the whole world.

Right now, we are in the last days.

It is also in this situation that the undead controlled by the player, a guy who was supposed to wait for the world to come to an end in the Immortal Courtyard, but because of the incurrence of a knight, we learned some of the most basic information about this world, and then inexplicably took on a mission.

To be honest, the shape of "knight" at the beginning is not uncommon among many knights throughout the ages.

The main purpose is to increase the player's immersion in the game, which is a bit old-fashioned, but you can't deny that this creation is very easy to use.

But the difference is that in the general game, after this knight has completed the guidance of the protagonist, he should have received the lunch box thoroughly.

In the following plot, the only chance to appear may be the stimulant used to explode when the protagonist encounters setbacks.

However, in Dark Souls, when the player successfully clears the elevator from the Undead Diocese outside the city to the Flame Rite Ground, we will be able to reach the upper part of the Fire Rite Ground, where we will find the Raven's Nest that sent us from the Immortal House to Rodland.

It only takes thirty seconds to huddle here, and the crow will be able to take us back to the Northern Immortal Courtyard.

A digression here.

Mr. Luo, what do you think in that head? The shortcuts in Dark Souls are outrageous!

Do you know how surprised I was when an elevator came directly from the parish to the fire ceremony?

I even started 3D modeling myself trying to draw the entire map of the Black Soul!

It's amazing, I never thought the map could do that.

Straight to the point.

When the player returns to the starting map, we go back to the little room where the knight entrusted everything to us.

He has turned into a ghost and is attacking us players.

When I killed the knight with my own hands and obtained his shield, Luo wanted to scold him severely.

But after the mood eased for a while, I suddenly felt a little empty.

This ghost world.

As long as the undead lose their faith, they will become a fucked world of ghosts.

The opening knight who guides us is just a microcosm of the vast world of Dark Souls, and in fact, there are many more tragedies hidden in this world.

Solar, a sun knight who wants to shine and become the sun to bring warmth to others.

Ever since we first met him in Immortal Town, he's been helping us.

The twin gargoyles of the bell tower, the gluttonous dragon on the ground floor, and the twin bases of the royal city of Arnorn Lund......

He is like a beam of light that warms all the players who are tormented by the design of the old thief Hades, and it is also the only light we have in the world of Dark Souls.

But in the end, because he couldn't find his sun, he was eventually eroded by the sun worm and lost his humanity.

I remember that when this plot came out, the old thief was immediately searched (laughs).

The discouraged brother who has been persuading the immortal from beginning to end actually hides a trace of unwillingness in his heart.

And as the undead successfully challenged more and more areas, after ringing the two awakening bells that represented the mission of the undead.

He would also say, "Alas...... Shall I try to work harder......"

However, when the player later sees this guy in the ruins of Little Lund, he also loses his humanity and becomes a ghost who will attack wildly at the sight of an undead.

The world is such a fucked thing, but in a world like this that is about to die, it doesn't seem incomprehensible that all this is happening.

Using the experience of small people to reflect the times, Mr. Luo's use in this area can be said to be quite mature.

And in terms of immersion.

It can only be said that Mr. Luo is Mr. Luo after all, and he hides all his secrets in the backstory of Dark Souls.

The fire will be extinguished, the world is about to be destroyed, and the first thing that needs to be considered is not the undead, but the top of this world.

For example, the Sun King Gwen, the Witch Izaris and so on.

That is, when the sky falls, there is a tall man on top of it.

What did Gwen do? He chose to throw himself into the first fire, turning himself into firewood and delaying the arrival of the end of the world.

It seems romantic, but we also have to see the price behind romance.

The dilapidated royal city, under the situation of the exile of the eldest son of the sun and the marriage of the sun princess, can only rely on the second son "Shadow Sun" Gwendrin to use illusions to support and maintain the dignity of the gods.

The Witch of Izaris tried in vain to create a new primordial fire with humanity and the fire of chaos.

But the experiment failed, and the fire of chaos was completely out of control, not only was she engulfed by the flames, turning into a hotbed of chaos, and constantly breeding demons to bring disaster to the world.

Her younger brother was reduced to a "creature that continued to fester", and her seven daughters died or fled.

White Dragon Hiss was even more crazy about his own crystallization experiments in the big library, completely losing his reason.

Look at the entire world of Dark Souls.

The top is perpetuating this era in its own way, even at an unimaginable cost.

That's how the epic sense comes about.

Why, then, do I say that Dark Souls is destined to be a tragedy?

On the surface, the player succeeded in obtaining all the king's souls, and re-transmitted the flames in place of Gwen, who had already been incinerated out.

The age of fire can be continued, and the world is saved.

But what we need to know is that even the first flame will be extinguished one day, let alone this flame that is perpetuated by our player undead?

Eventually, the flame will be extinguished, and all efforts will be in vain.

The story of Dark Souls is destined to be just a tragedy......

But I still thank Mr. Luo for being able to present such a work of art to all of our players who love games.

I would also like to thank Mr. Luo for being able to teach a valuable lesson to all of us in the game industry. ”

And under this blog post by Lao Tang, countless players who have personally experienced the journey of Dark Souls are also inexplicably emotional.

"Yes, as long as it's fire, there will be a day when it will be extinguished, Gwen can't stop it, the witch of Izaris can't stop it, and the undead can't stop it.

The so-called journey of spreading the fire is only a futile and a complete tragedy after all.

Maybe Brother Gray Heart's approach is right, sitting in the Immortal Courtyard and waiting for the end of the world is good. ”

"I have a different view, the wheels of history are rolling forward, who can guarantee that no one will be able to really develop a way to completely continue the age of fire in the future?

As long as the world exists, there is hope, and hope is the most precious thing. ”

"The problem is, this is the age of fire, and since Mr. Luo used the intention of fire, the meaning of the expression is already very obvious.

Have you ever seen a fire that burns all the time and never goes out? What if you put everyone's soul into it? In the end, it will definitely be burned to the ground.

When there is no burning left, the age of fire will still end. ”

"Passing the fire? I can't pass it on a little! ”

(End of chapter)