now in "work day" format

This is a supercut of the two souls videos I made. I did this last year with Persona, and I'm doing it again. The year isn't over for me - I have more stuff planned as usual, and Xenoblade Chronicles (per patron reward) is coming in February. Dropping this now because the two vids have finally chilled out.

These ones were fun to make. I can't believe I started playing them in like, April or something. Half my year feels like it involved Souls. I love these games, even the rough ones. It's not the best video on the subject, depending on your tastes and preferences, but it's the only KBash video set on souls, so I'm proud to say it's done.

This is my rough, mildly refined meditation on the games. They're among the best things I wrote about this year, alongside TWEWY, Valkyrie Profile 1, and Prince of Persia, among others. Stiff competition. You'll find, if you give them the time, that they're actually very forgiving and inspiring to play, more than some difficult games. Oh yeah, and I'm doing Nioh in 2023. Correctly, this time.

If you'd like to see the uncensored version or support me otherwise, find me on patreon here:   / kbash  

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Dark Souls is a dark fantasy action role-playing game series developed by FromSoftware and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. It began with the release of Dark Souls (2011) and has seen two sequels, Dark Souls II (2014) and Dark Souls III (2016). The series was created by Hidetaka Miyazaki and has received critical acclaim, with its high level of difficulty being among its most discussed aspects, while the first Dark Souls is often cited as one of the greatest games of all time. By 2023, the series had shipped over 35 million copies outside of Japan. Other FromSoftware games, including Demon's Souls, Bloodborne, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, and Elden Ring, share several related concepts and led to the creation of the Soulslike subgenre.

This Dark Souls review, Dark Souls critique, and Dark Souls analysis, covers the entire series. This Dark Souls series critique, Dark Souls retrospective, Dark Souls series retrospective, is a compilation of all my older Dark Souls reviews with all Dark Souls games ranked. Except I'm lying about it for keyword ranking. Ranking the Dark Souls games and deciding which Dark Souls game is the best was tough because the best Dark Souls game doesn't matter. Without any news on a new Dark Souls game we can look back on the series with my Dark Souls series review.
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0:00 PREMISE
2:32 gigabrain game
30:56 memelord
57:59 m̶i̶y̶a̶z̶a̶k̶i̶'̶s̶ trick
1:22:45 soft retirement
1:46:09 Bloodborne, my love
2:18:04 Sekiro - Harassment
2:19:32 Sekiro - Flirting
2:49:36 World of Warcraft

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