Dark Souls: The Demon's Souls Of Dark Souls

Level your browser’s STR/DEX by maining Opera at https://operagx.gg/Manley Here is another Dark Souls Video essay by a white guy with a checkmark. From Elden Ring to Demon's Souls, Dark Souls is legendary, but the franchise almost never made it out of blightotwn between Sony almost shutting the whole series down with the release of Demon's Souls, to the troubled launch of the first Dark Souls altogether. It took five years for the majority of creators to start even looking in this games direction to start writing video essays and retrospectives on what is one of the greatest, impactful games of all time. I hope you enjoy :) Hoping Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree DLC gives us more of that classic formula.

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Timestamps:

0:00 Dark Souls
1:49 Gxit Gxud
3:50 Dark Souls was not an instant hood classic
5:12 2011 and Growing Discomfort
7:27 Sony's Secret Deal to Beat Xbox (demon's souls)
10:21 Miyazaki takes over a failed project.
13:20 Farm To Table Game Development
15:44 How do you Sell Satisfaction
18:50 DS1 Day 1
20:52 Getting Lost
23:44 thE iNtRrcoNnEcted WorLd of Dark Souls
26:32 "The Dark Souls Gameplay Difference" TM
29:17 Someone's First Time Playing Dark Souls in 2024
30:47 Tongue butt whole

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