But that's the phrase the industry appears to have latched onto. I can already hear the collective intake of breath from Souls fans as they prepare to cry "That's not what Dark Souls is about!" And they're right. It's enormous, far-reaching and, I believe, not entirely what From Software would have wanted.Ī large portion of Dark Souls' legacy can be summed up in three words "brutal, punishing combat". Instead, I want to talk about Dark Souls' legacy, the cultural footprint it has left in the decade since its release. If there's one thing the world isn't short of, it's fantastic critical analysis on From Software's games. Heck, go pick up You Died, the last word on everything Dark Souls. If you just want to read great words exploring a great game, then go and read Rich Stanton's article on becoming the Dark Soul, or Andreas Inderwaldi's essay on Dark Souls' doomed heroes. I don't think I can tell you anything new about Dark Souls, not that hasn't been said better by other people.
But in terms of how both designers and critics think about game design, I don't think any other game has caused such a cascade effect on the idea of what the artform can be. Over the next three months, the video received more than 4.3 million views and 25,200 comments.Has there been a more influential game over the last ten years than From Software's masterpiece? Minecraft and Fortnite have bigger footprints, I suppose, and one could perhaps make a case for Skyrim's effect on the proliferation of open world games. Sane, in which he sarcastically repeated the "just like Dark Souls" joke (shown below, right). On July 17th, PewDiePie uploaded a video featuring Crash Bandicoot N. On July 14th, YouTuber Fungo uploaded a video titled "Has Crash Bandicoot Become Dark Souls?" (shown below, left). On July 4th, 2017, the video game news site Vg247 published an article criticizing the comparisons between Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy and Dark Souls. Sane Trilogy, which criticized the game's controls, saying "the controls just mean that Crash Bandicoot has become Dark Souls." On June 29th, 2017, the video game news site GamesRadar published a review of the newly released game Crash Bandicoot N. Within five months, the video gathered upwards of 2.7 million views and 9,200 comments. On May 20th, 2017, YouTuber PewDiePie uploaded a video mocking news articles referring to the video game The Surge as "just like Dark Souls" (shown below).
In January 2014, the Twitter feed was launched, which mocks video game news articles which publish similar comparison articles, describing the feed as "The Dark Souls of reductive comparisons.
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