After the release, the prequels of "Dark Souls" unsurprisingly swept most of the domestic live broadcast platforms and video sites. After all, there is the word-of-mouth support of the previous work, coupled with higher level design levels and more perverted game difficulty. It's hard not to think about the game.
Of course, this kind of popularity is more due to popularity than sales. After all, this game is really too difficult, and it will definitely affect sales on the vr platform.
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Those really hardcore gamers, though, are in for a treat, because the Dark Souls prequel fits their bills perfectly.
Although everyone feels despair in the constant suffering, the prequel of "Dark Soul" allows them to regain the long-lost pleasure, and let them regain the joy of being a cute newbie holding a shield carefully and constantly exploring the unknown world .
Even after playing "Dark Soul", many people will find it boring to play other simple action games.
Because after playing "Dark Soul", the players themselves have grown up, whether it is consciousness, reaction or game IQ, they have been tempered to some extent, so those simple action games have become unchallenging .
For many soul scientists, the greatest significance of the prequel of "Dark Soul" is that it complements the world view of "Dark Soul" to a certain extent, and also provides official answers to many unresolved questions before.
Of course, although this world view has been supplemented with a big framework, it is actually not perfect, and it can even be said to be riddled with holes.
Because at the time of design, this game originally had a lot of blank content for players to make up their own brains. It can be said that everyone has a "Dark Soul" in their minds, and different people will have different ideas. read.
But after building a solid enough framework, it not only expresses the spiritual connotation of the game well, but also makes a lot of blank space for the game, allowing players to have room for imagination and exploration.
As the game progress of the pioneers continues to advance, many doubts that have surrounded everyone before have dissipated.
The biggest doubt is, what is the so-called "Dark Soul"? What kind of story is this again? Is the player's mission to spread fire or become the king of darkness
In the prequel to Dark Souls, players will encounter the Serpent of the Abyss and learn the truth about the world.
It was mentioned in the opening animation before that there are four characters who have obtained the king soul. In addition to the three well-known gods, the Sun King Gwen, the Witch of Izaris, and the Tomb King Nit, there is also an unknown god. dwarves.
Obviously, this dwarf is the ancestor of mankind, and the king soul he obtained is the soul of darkness. The soul of darkness was distributed to many human beings, that is to say, in fact, every undead person has a soul of darkness more or less in him.
Many settings after that seem logical. In fact, fire represents the will of God, and the age of fire is the age of God.
The age of flames symbolizes the era in which gods like the Sun King Gwen dominate, so Gwen spreads fire at all costs, even willing to sacrifice himself, in order to allow the age of fire to continue forever.
But spreading the fire is actually a scam, the player playing the role of the undead, went to great lengths to ring the two bells, just to prove that he is qualified to spread the fire. After that, he will take back the power of the king soul from many gods for Ge Wen, and continue the first fire.
And the protagonist in "Dark Soul" is even worse. As the ashes of no fire, he obviously cannot become an undead man, but he has to be awakened from the coffin to challenge the powerful kings and replace him. Those gods continued the age of fire.
During this process, players will fight against many legendary characters, such as White Dragon Heath, Chaos Hotbed, Sun King Gwen and so on.
While players feel a great sense of accomplishment in challenging these heroes, they also cast doubt on the world as a whole.
These legendary gods have become like walking dead, so what is the significance of the Age of Fire that they want to maintain at all costs
In the final ending of the prequel of "Dark Souls", players can choose between passing the fire and extinguishing the fire. If they choose to pass the fire, the entire initial furnace will turn into a raging sea of flames.
On the other hand, looking back at the ending of "Dark Soul", there is only a small handful of flames burning on the player, and these two flames are not of the same magnitude at all.
Therefore, this proves that the power of the flame is inevitably declining, and it will be extinguished sooner or later, and the player's painstaking efforts to spread the fire are just delaying time, which is actually meaningless.
As for what the world will look like after the fire is extinguished, no one knows.
The reason why people are afraid of the extinguishing of the fire is only because of the legend that the flame will fall into eternal night after it is extinguished.
Many people mistakenly think that this represents the destruction of the world, but in fact, these rhetoric are spread by the Sun King Gewen and his children, and these people are nothing more than to continue the age of God and extend their rule over mankind.
After understanding that "Dark Soul" is actually the soul of man, many players also understand that the dark age is the age of man, and this is the end of the Lord of Darkness.
Therefore, the appointed ending of the prequel of "Dark Soul" should be the ending of passing fire, that is, to continue this reincarnation, otherwise there will be no more stories of "Dark Soul"; and the appointed ending of "Dark Soul" should be The ending of the Dark Lord represents the arrival of a new era.
At this point, the main mystery is finally clear, and players finally understand the meaning of the title "Dark Soul".
Through the prequel of "Dark Soul", Chen Mo finally told the whole story of "Dark Soul" clearly.
At the same time, the fate of many characters in the prequel of "Dark Soul" has also moved many players.
Abysswalker Artorius alone against the abyss.
Brother Onion and Sun Knight Solar.
Jin Yingying who killed the fireproof girl.
The persuading brother who embarked on the journey again but turned into a living corpse.
There are also colorful supporting characters such as White Spider, Blacksmith, Big Hat Logan, Gwendelyn, Wangcheng Shuangji, etc. There are NPCs and bosses, but behind each of them there is a wonderful story and a fascinating story. A sad ending.
Some people even replayed "Dark Soul" because of nostalgia, and found many traces of interlinkages with the "Dark Soul" prequel.
Although the two works are separated by a long time, and the production time of the prequel is later than the main biography, people are surprised to find a lot of easter eggs about the prequel of "Dark Soul" in "Dark Soul".
Playing "Dark Soul" again, it feels like a world away.
The white spider and Klara were finally reunited, and there were no more demons in the demon ruins, and the flames of chaos had been extinguished.
Pass through the fairy tale world of Cold Valley, and pass through the room where the portrait of the Sunshine Princess is hung, where there are still several knights guarding it.
Seeing the revolving mechanism that seemed familiar in the royal city, all the way up, the big characters of Yanol Londe came into view.
It's still the majestic royal city, and the tall and straight knights, but the dead giant blacksmith, the empty princess's boudoir, and Eldridge who ate the women's tycoon Gwyndolin are all reminding the player.
The world of "Dark Souls" has changed.
And this sense of vicissitudes makes many players feel sad, but also makes them firmly believe that the ending of the Dark Lord is the real ending of "Dark Soul".