Noah Caldwell-Gervais | I Beat the Dark Souls Trilogy and All I Made Was This Lousy Video Essay @broadcaststsatic | Uploaded April 2022 | Updated October 2024, 3 days ago.
This is a full spoilers critique and exploration of my quest to make it through all three of Dark Souls action role-playing games. The video focuses on how much more open, free, and fun these games are than I was led to believe based on everything I ever heard of 'Git Gud'. Over the course of five hours, the video tries to figure out how the games support or detract from one another, the ways they're connected, and how a clumsy fool like me can find not only victory but comfort in their strange, sad little worlds.
This video made with production assistance from Nate Greene.
___Table of Contents___
Dark Souls 1 Remastered-- 00:40
Dark Souls 2 Scholar of the First Sin-- 1:42:14
DS2 Sunken Crown DLC-- 2:13:20
DS2 Iron Crown DLC-- 2:33:15
DS2 Ivory Crown DLC-- 2:45:42
Dark Souls 3-- 3:05:05
DS3 Ashes of Ariandel-- 4:00:14
DS3 The Ringed City-- 4:10:08
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This is a full spoilers critique and exploration of my quest to make it through all three of Dark Souls action role-playing games. The video focuses on how much more open, free, and fun these games are than I was led to believe based on everything I ever heard of 'Git Gud'. Over the course of five hours, the video tries to figure out how the games support or detract from one another, the ways they're connected, and how a clumsy fool like me can find not only victory but comfort in their strange, sad little worlds.
This video made with production assistance from Nate Greene.
___Table of Contents___
Dark Souls 1 Remastered-- 00:40
Dark Souls 2 Scholar of the First Sin-- 1:42:14
DS2 Sunken Crown DLC-- 2:13:20
DS2 Iron Crown DLC-- 2:33:15
DS2 Ivory Crown DLC-- 2:45:42
Dark Souls 3-- 3:05:05
DS3 Ashes of Ariandel-- 4:00:14
DS3 The Ringed City-- 4:10:08
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If you enjoyed this video and want to contribute to the production of others like it, please consider donating through the crowdfunding website Patreon: patreon.com/noahcaldwellgervais
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