hello Internet welcome to game theory where today get ready because I'm about to touch the darkness within you then touch the darkness within me that sounded so wrong and watch where your hands going their ashen one acting pretty fiery there for a nun kindled that's right theorists today it's time for Dark Souls what you only thought I looked at games built on cartoonishly overblown racial stereotypes Oh in fact Dark Souls is without question my favorite modern gaming franchise I've been eager to put it under the old fury microscope for a long time but the reason it's taken this long is that for as impenetrable as the mysteries of games like undertale and afar dark souls as a franchise is on a whole nother level because even the most basic information that we take for granted at other games is completely hidden away in these games there aren't any long-winded speeches from characters explaining their motivations there aren't books filled with game lore strewn about heck it's not even like destiny where the story is documented on a separate site let's face it what little dialogue there is is written like a riddle long story short you can play through the entire franchise and still essentially know nothing about these games story so tell me as a non-initiated gamer who is interested in these games what's the goal of Dark Souls a light a fire why does it's going out being extinguished why is that matter cuz it'll get dark I guess praise the Sun praise the Sun guys praise the Sun and steam thank you thank you I feel like my theater background really really came into play there and you know what it doesn't make these games any less fun Dark Souls is a franchise that is built on making you work for things and most of us associate that with the brutal gameplay that if you work at it you can absolutely master but it also applies to the story half of the game too because there is an incredibly rich in complex lore that from software created that NUMBER_PERCENTAGE_TOKEN of players will never really appreciate since most of it is hidden in obscure NPC dialogue level design and item descriptions you have to do some painstaking work to piece the random trivia bits together and I'm not exaggerating when I say painstaking I NUMBER_TOKEN pages of notes just for this video but that loyal theorists is what I'm here for to turn my video game fun time into meticulous boring research time so I can boil it down into a theory that'll give you all a newfound appreciation for the work that went into incredible game franchises like this one so now without any further ado onto the theory blender Dark Souls NUMBER_TOKEN there was a burning question that occupied the back of my mind and bugged the heck out of me like navi screaming hey listen who is the main character of the game who are you playing as because believe it or not I think that your character in Dark Souls NUMBER_TOKEN does have an identity a full backstory beyond that of unwilling murder puppet who rolls and attacks and praises the Sun but in order to figure it out I needed to cover a lot of ground and fit together a lot of puzzle pieces remember NUMBER_TOKEN pages of notes but standing on the other side of that research I think we found something really cool so squat a lot my friends hop aboard and join me on an incredible research journey through gaming's most depressing franchise first when
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