How Dark Souls Perfected Difficulty in Video Games

OH AND BTW! This video doesn't include anything about Demon Souls, mostly because I still haven't been able to get a PS5 and I'm assuming I have to perform a dark ritual to even play one, so it didn't feel right talking about it. I'm sure the new Demon Souls fits my feelings towards the entire genre, but I figured I'd explain why I never mentioned it. MAN DO I WANNA PLAY DEMON SOULS THO :'(

“Dark Souls doesn’t have difficulty settings. It’s perpetually stuck on Fuck You.” I’ve never heard a better sentence to describe dark souls in its entirety.

“These games really make you feel like the loser” -IGN

"Great way of making it feel like you are the looser" Elden ring every 2nd npc: "unfortunately, u get no bitches"

3:02 “Without getting a hit” Immediately drinks estus

"You want skyrims? i got twenty" you visually killed me.

This is really the “Dark Souls” of animated video essays

it makes you feel like you're actually a human fighting these big and strong monsters

As a true souls vet currently getting kicked around, and bleeding everything in elden ring, I think you perfectly encapsulated the draw of the series. Thank you sir, and a hearty git gud to you all.

CircleToons animates. CircleToons fans: wait, that’s illegal

At times like these, I remember that he can draw more than just marshmallow people and actually animate them

omg the experience I had with dark souls remastered today is incredible. I wanna try a fist weapon only run, so I went with it. I got invaded on the Hellkite bridge, and the invader just dropped me some humanities and left. When I entered the Depth, I got invaded again. This time the invader saw that I only had two caestus, he also took off the weapon and used caestus! and then we began a pure fist fight and it was awesome! When I got to the bonfire in the Depth, I summoned a sunbro, who immediately dropped me 5 goddess blessings, mask of the father, a +5 giant's gloves, and the soul of Gwen???! Also on the way back from killing the caster I fell into the basilisk pit (casul, I know), but somehow made it back and reunited with the sunbro, and killed kirk when he invaded. I'm still having a hard time believing all this happened just this morning. This game and its community is incredible.

Circle You are the reason why I started playing dark souls.

Dark Souls hit him so hard he actually animated an entire 5 minute video

And somehow, farming a certain area you have completely mastered feels like the most peaceful and relaxing gaming experience imaginable. Almost like you're playing an instrument.

Just got Dark Souls and am playing it for the first time. I'm loving every second of it. Every moment is hell on earth and it's amazing. I've watched people play it for years, never once attempting it myself, and it really is something you have to experience to understand. I understand the hype

Very well done explanation of the Soul series, one of my favorite things is listening to a friend go through their first playthrough of any soulsborne game

“You learned his attacks” shows pontiff Yes I did Too many times

Skeletons in most games generic normal enemy Darksouls skeletons "SPIN THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE, YOU GOT DEATH!"

Excellently done, I like that you touched on the fact that it literally does change how you look at other games. I still remember playing Bloodborne, Demon/Dark Souls 1-3, all back to back and then playing Assassins’ Creed Syndicate and just feeling so differently about the Assassins’ Creed games which I had previously loved