Know About Dark Souls

FromSoftware developed this well-appreciated game Dark Souls. The game is widely known for its challenging gameplay, perfectly woven lore and most importantly the atmospheric setting of the game has been the major thing contributing to its popularity.

Important characters of Dark Souls

The Dark Souls series is the characters that stay in our minds forever. It also has perfectly designed unique back stories and motivation with each character.

Dark Souls:

• The Chosen Undead: The player character, is a hollowed undead who must link the First Flame to prevent the world from descending into eternal darkness.
• Gwyn, Lord of Sunlight: The former king of Lordran, who sacrificed himself to keep the Age of Fire burning.
• Anor Londo: The twin goddesses who protect the Lord's vessel, the vessel that holds the souls of the lords.

• Seath, the Scaleless Dragon: A dragon and one of Gwyn’s knights who rebelled against Gwyn and wanted to bring a new era of the dragons.
• Artorias the Abysswalker: Knight rising from the Abyss one of the best knights that serve his kingdom turned into an evil one.

Dark Souls 2:

• The Bearer of the Curse: The player character is an undead destined to turn into a hollow.
• King Vendrick: The former king of Drangleic, who is now lost in the Curse.
• Nashandra:  She is the queen of  Drangleic. She is also secretly going for Abyss.
• Sir Alonne: A powerful knight who guards the King's Crypt.
• Lucatiel of Mirrah: He is a knight who is searching to get relief from the curse.

Dark Souls 3:

• Ashen One: It is the character of the player. The characters are required to link with First Flame once again.
• Lord of Cinder: The former lords of the kingdoms of Lothric, who have become hollow and must be defeated.
• Aldrich, Devourer of Gods: A monstrous creature that feeds on the souls of gods.
• Yhorm the Giant: A giant king who guards the Painted World of Ariandel.
• Sister Friede: A powerful nun who guards the Cathedral of the Deep.

Main elements of this game

The game is a mixture of action sequences and a good storyline. It has all the elements of a perfect engaging game.

Gameplay

• Intense Combat: Dark Souls is renowned for its demanding combat system. Tough enemies require precise timing and a strategy with proper skill to defeat them. The counter is designed to test the patience and reflexes of the character. It helps to understand the ability of the player.
• Exploration: Its world’s design is realised as a single interconnected space with gory details being cleverly hidden from plain sight combined with shortcuts, hidden passages and powerful items. There is potential of earning something from every region on the map but there are always risks involved.
• Character Customization: Games can have specific game characters employing specific classes and attributes so the players can build diverse characters. You might want to be fast and sneaky, or you might want a big tank that’ll take all the hits, or perhaps you want to hang back and cast.
• Permadeath: Death is a permanent consequence in Dark Souls. When you die, you lose your souls (currency) and all items dropped at the point of death. This adds a significant level of tension and risk to the gameplay, as every mistake can have dire consequences.

Lore and World

• A Dying World: Dark Souls is set in a dark world and is designed like in a setting where the Age of fire is fading. Thus, an undead, a Hollow, starts his journey to find what happened to his people, and the world. The environment in the game has such a depressing feeling as the environment which slowly degenerates around the player.
• Intricate Storytelling: The game pays a great attention to the story and its telling is quite non-linear and can be found within items’ annotations, scenery and main characters’ speaking. It means that players have to select the parts of a story by going through different pieces of information.
• Atmospheric Setting: Dark Souls setting is bleak and sinister, with of course, a great deal of ruined structures, barren territories and eerie monsters. Our main goal in creating the game was to make the player feel lonely and scared – and the oppressive atmosphere has been a huge step towards achieving that.

Key Themes

• Mortality and Loss: The game has a serious exploration of death law and other human conditions. Ap_TEXTURE Some characters are even familiar with death and the whole gameplay enforces players to experience death.
• The Cycle of Life and Death: Dark Souls once again provides themes that were mentioned earlier about how the Age of Fire will eventually be replaced with the Age of Dark. This theme is graphically represented in the game also whereby through playing the game citizens are forced to confront the ninja forces of decline and increase of entropy.
• The Nature of Humanity: The game may provoke thinking about what it means to be human, and whether a person has a soul, and whether it matters what we do. The game makes the characters choose between difficult choices so that they can reach their different consequences.

Popular Dark Souls series games:

• Dark Souls (2011):  It brought the series’ combat, exploration, and difficult gameplay mechanics to the forefront.
• Dark Souls 2 (2013): Located in the world of Drangleic cursed, this game offers more diverse areas and freedom of movement, while the new ideas here are covenant and weapon and armour can be upgraded multiple times.
• Dark Souls 3 (2016): The third game in the series of Dark Souls, happening in the land of the kingdom of Lothric. It offered faster combat when compared to the last games of the series, and the game had a more dark and oppressive environment.
• In addition to these main games, there are also two spin-off titles:
• Demon's Souls (2009): Antecedent of the Dark Souls game: Boletaria. It is not easy, but many important things are introduced and the working of the game which is necessary to improve the Dark Souls series are found here.