So Dark Souls II hit the shelves for console today, and I can honestly say I've never been more bummed to miss a game release. I've never played Demon's Souls, but I ran through Dark Souls to the point of borderline insanity. For real. I'd fall asleep and dream about the wall textures in the Undead Burg. I'd never played a game so violently dark and difficult, and it was honestly refreshing to delve into depths unknown. From my first few deaths in the New Londo Ruins, (before I figured out that I was quite possibly retarded for thinking that invincible ghosts would inhabit the first area) to the final, 30 minute showdown with Gwyn, rotating around a rock with Zweihander + 15, because I didn't have the reflexes to have a parry-down, I was completely hooked. I had also never raged so much in my life. The Bed of Chaos almost cost me a controller and plasma television.
But behind all the gruelingly irate moments, I was engaged. It took incredible focus, which my parent's just didn't understand. ("Why didn't you answer the phone?" "Woman, I was about to be speared off a goddamn ledge, what more you want from me?")
And it gave me a quality that stayed with me since, and it's actually something I'm glad about. Which brings me to the point:
Videogames can be helpful to society... they just often tend not to be. Dark Souls made me solve problems. It made me so damn irate when I didn't understand how to fix something that I couldn't put it down until I had made it ten times better than it was.
Perseverance is the heart and Soul (ahem...) of the Souls games, and, in my case, it showed. So for all the raging, the obsessiveness, and complete disregard for the happiness of my parental units, Dark Souls left me with something that made me better as a person.
Hey, thanks From Software!!
What about you? Do you have a fancy fond memory of the Souls series?
What about videogames in general? Have they left you anything positive?
I'd love to hear some stories!
-D.
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