I enjoy it a great deal. I feel like the strengths of Dark Souls especially come into focus once you've spent significant time playing all the FromSoft games that came after.

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I would agree with that statement. Having so much fun with this dlc, it's way better than I remember

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bump

*ceramic shard

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If this thread was in-game and you wanted to bump it you'd throw a ceramic shard at it, no?

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no, i'd throw an alluring skull. we were talking about ds1 get with the program!



lol for real tho i never used a single ceramic shard in my entire playthrough, i couldn't even remember what they did.

Dammit I thought that discussion had long since gone hollow
And lol ceramic shards = BB pebbles, so no surprise you never used them

"SEKIRO IS DIRECTLY RELATED TO DARK SOULS
So, the age old debate arises: is it a Souls game? The answer: obviously yes.
Miyazaki and the rest of the FromSoftware team have made it painstakingly clear that the two games are connected. But how are they? If someone spent 0.5749 seconds thinking about possible correlations, one would conclude the following:
Sekiro is the waking fever dream of a newly corrupted Artorias, who, in his failure, became an extension of the Abyss, completely devoid any cognizance as far as we are concerned as the player character. He even lashes out at creatures created by the Abyss, suggesting that he might not be “seeing” what is right in front of him, but rather an alternate reality clouded by his corruption.
The Abyss has completely corrupted Artorias, sending him into a fevered hallucination that is Sekiro, a world where he has the chance to redeem himself as the Wolf, a disgraced shinobi who loses his left arm in the service of his Lord, incapable of dying until his duty is complete, and corrupting the world around him as he exercises that power (sound familiar?).
Aside from obvious similarities (being called a wolf, losing his left arm, acrobatic fighting style), it seems that Artorias has brought fragments of his previous life into the world of Ashina as well. We see Owl, a large burly father figure who brought the Wolf into his tutelage, who died consumed by the fire of his ambition. The character not only bears a striking resemblance to Gwyn, but the manner in which the character perishes also bears resemblance to Gwyn being consumed by the Flame in his actual reality.
We also see Kuro, the Wolf’s charge, a child Lord who he had not only a professional loyalty to, but also a deeper spiritual connection. This could be the manifestation of Ciaran, another one of Artorias’ failures that has manifested in this “dream world” he is experiencing. Unable to protect Ciaran from the impending Dark, Artorias brought that insatiable regret into his corrupted vision, and will not rest until he sees himself redeemed.
There are plenty other Blouls references in the game, motifs and imagery that span the FromSoftware universe. Some may chalk them up to design homogeny, others may see them as Easter Eggs or playful references...
But we know.
Sekiro is a Souls game."

^reposted from a Soulsbourne meme page, but this made my evening

That's quite a long shot lol

But if it's not a hallucination
Then explain Fountainhead straw giantboi

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lol yeah that's a crazy stretch. i don't think the two are remotely connected and if they were that would be stupid for several reasons imo. HOWEVER, i do think it makes sense to connect bloodborne to dark souls and there's a good case to be made for that.

I'm quite comfortable keeping Bloodborne in a separate universe tbh, but which case do you mean (the painted world at the end of DS3?)

I think Miyazaki just likes using lots of the same themes in his writing

What are people's vibes on the now-confirmed GRRM collab?

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honestly, idc what they do, just give me more. fromsoft is one of the best devs around nowadays. love george rr though, so obv excited about this

I hope they keep it fast paced. Dark Souls 1-3 are good but Bloodborne and Sekiro we my favorite games by them. A more straightforward story with From’s usual gameplay is basically my dream game.

Something in ASOIAF universe would be pretty dope but I don’t think that’s what’s happening.

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the lore is what i love about their games. the worldbuilding is so damn strong, idk why you'd want it to be more streamlined. they're adept at telling stories through visuals