Chapter 156 The destined sad journey of spreading fire
After the actual ending of the game, players who were more in-depth about this aspect began to post articles one after another, conducting in-depth analysis and thinking about this game.
for example.
Tang Yunpeng is fishing at work.
"Dark Soul, a magnificent but doomed tragic journey to spread the fire"
"Note: The following content contains full spoilers. Audiences who have not played the game are advised to read it at their own discretion.
The overall process of Dark Souls is still very clear.
The undead protagonist walked out of the North Undead Yard. After ringing two awakening bells at the Undead Church and the Sick Village, he successfully met the world's great snake, Ramut, at the Fire Sacrifice.
It will tell the player that it is an old friend of the Sun King Gwen. The purpose of appearing here is to guide the undead to obtain the royal weapon, collect the king's soul, spread fire, and continue the world.
When the undead go to the ancient city of Thane and defeat the steel giant, they will be sent to the royal city "Anor Londe" by the flying imp. After the undead defeat "Ornstein" and "Smough" here, they will successfully meet To the giant treasure chest...no.
Gwen's daughter, the Sunshine Princess Gewiavia.
After she handed over the royal weapon to the immortal, the immortal's mission was to go around the world to kill the bosses who held the king's soul.
The Four Little Lund Kings, the Witch of Izaris who has become a hotbed of chaos, Tomb King Nite, White Dragon Hiss...
Those players saw or did not see in the ancient dragon war, as long as there is a "King Soul" in their hands, they are the targets of the undead hunting.
In the end, after successfully defeating the Black Fire King Gwen, the player will choose to spread the fire and continue the entire Age of Fire.
In the process, players will also learn about the background story of Dark Souls and the deepest despair and helplessness contained in this world.
Mr. Luo's creation of atmosphere and world construction in Dark Souls can be said to be breathtaking, and he has taught the industry a lesson.
Note that the industry I am talking about is not the domestic game circle, but a lesson for all game producers in the world.
At the very beginning of the story, in the opening CG, the old lady telling the story clearly told us that the fire is going out and the world is coming to an end.
First of all, it sets a main tone for the atmosphere of the entire world.
Right now, we are living in the end times.
It is also under such circumstances that the undead controlled by the player was a guy who was supposed to be waiting for the end of the world in the courtyard of the undead. However, because of the intrusion of a knight, we learned some of the most basic information about the world. , and then he shouldered a mission inexplicably.
To be honest, the "knight" at the beginning is not uncommon in many knight novels throughout the ages.
Its main purpose is to increase the player's immersion in the game. It's a bit old-fashioned, but you can't deny that this kind of creation is very easy to use.
But what is different is that in ordinary games and novels, after the knight completes the guidance of the protagonist, he should completely receive the lunch.
In the following plot, the only opportunity to appear may be the stimulant used to explode when the protagonist encounters setbacks.
But in Dark Souls, when the player successfully opens the elevator from the Undead Parish outside the city to the Fire Transferring Sacrifice, we can go to the upper part of the Fire Transferring Sacrifice, where we find that we will be transported to the Undead Yard. Crow's Nest in Lordland.
We only need to huddle here for thirty seconds, and the crow can take us back to the Northern Undead Yard.
Let me make a digression here.
Mr. Luo, what exactly are you thinking? Those shortcuts in Dark Souls are outrageous!
Do you know how surprised I was when an elevator came directly from the parish to the fire altar?
I even started 3D modeling myself to try to draw the entire map of Dark Souls!
It's amazing, I never thought that a map could do this.
Back to business.
When the player returns to the initial map, we return to the small room where the knight entrusted everything to us.
He has turned into a ghost and started attacking our players.
When I killed the knight with my own hands and obtained his shield, Mr. Luo, I wanted to scold you severely.
But after I calmed down for a while, I suddenly felt a little empty.
This ghost world.
As long as the undead lose their faith, it will become a fucking world of ghosts.
The knight who guides us in the opening is just a microcosm of the huge world of Dark Souls. In fact, there are more tragedies hidden in this world.
Solar, the sun knight, wants to shine and become the sun to bring warmth to others.
He has been helping us since we first met him in the Undead Town.
The twin gargoyles in the bell tower, the gluttonous dragon on the ground floor, the twin bases of Anor Londo's royal city...
He is like a ray of light that warms all the players who have been tortured by the old thief's design in the underworld. He is also the only ray of light we have in the world of Dark Souls. But in the end, because he couldn't find his own sun, he was eventually eaten by sunworms and lost his humanity.
I remember when this plot came out, the old thief was immediately searched for (laughs).
Brother Fengxin, who has been trying to persuade the immortals to retreat from the beginning to the end, actually has a trace of unwillingness hidden in his heart.
And as the undead successfully challenged more and more areas, the two awakening bells that represented the undead's mission were sounded.
He will also say "Oh...should I try to work harder..."
But when the player later saw this guy at the Little Lund ruins, he also lost his humanity and turned into a ghost that would attack the undead crazily whenever he saw it.
The world is so fucked up, but in such a dying world, it doesn't seem incomprehensible that all this is happening.
Using the experiences of small people to reflect the times, Mr. Luo's use in this regard can be said to be quite mature.
And in terms of immersion.
All we can say is that Mr. Luo is Mr. Luo after all, and he has hidden all his secrets in the background story of Dark Souls.
The fire is about to go out and the world is about to be destroyed. The first thing that needs to be considered is not the immortals, but the top of the world.
For example, Sun King Gwen, Witch Izaris, etc.
In other words, if the sky falls, there will be a tall man holding it up.
What did Gwen do? He chose to throw himself into the First Fire, turning himself into firewood to delay the end of the world.
It seems romantic, but we also have to see the price behind romance.
The dilapidated royal city, with the eldest son of the Sun being exiled and the Princess of the Sun marrying far away, could only rely on the second son "Shadow Sun" Gwendelin to use illusions to maintain the dignity of the Gods.
The Witch of Izaris attempts to create a new First Fire using the fire of humanity and Chaos.
But the experiment failed, and the fire of chaos was completely out of control. Not only was she swallowed by the flames, she turned into a hotbed of chaos, constantly breeding demons and causing harm to the world.
Her younger brother turned into a "crushing creature", and her seven daughters also either died or escaped.
Bailongxisi was frantically conducting his own crystallization experiments in the big library, completely losing his sanity.
Take a look at the entire world of Dark Souls.
The top leaders are using their own ways to continue this era, even if they have to pay an unimaginable price.
This is how the epic feeling is created.
So why, again, do I have to say that Dark Souls is destined to be a tragedy?
On the surface, the player successfully obtained all the king souls and passed on the flame again instead of Gwen who had been burned.
The Age of Fire can be continued and the world can be saved.
But what we need to know is that even the first fire will be extinguished one day, let alone the flame that is continued by our undead players?
Eventually the flame will be extinguished and all efforts will be in vain.
The story of Dark Soul is destined to be just a tragedy...
But I still want to thank Mr. Luo for being able to present such a work of art to all of us players who love games.
I would also like to thank Mr. Luo for teaching a valuable lesson to all of us practitioners in the game industry. ”
And under Lao Tang's blog post, countless players who have personally experienced the journey of Dark Souls feel incomprehensible in their hearts.
"Yes, as long as it is a fire, it will eventually burn out one day. Gwen can't stop it, the Witch of Izaris can't stop it, and even the immortals can't stop it.
The so-called journey to spread the fire is ultimately a futile effort and a complete tragedy.
Maybe what Brother Fengxin did was the right thing to do. It would be good to sit in the courtyard of immortality and wait for the end of the world. ”
"I hold a different view. As the wheel of history rolls forward, who can guarantee that no one will be able to truly develop a method that can completely continue the Age of Fire?
As long as the world exists, there will be hope, and hope is the most precious thing. ”
"The problem is, this is the age of fire. Since Mr. Luo used the idea of fire, the meaning is already very obvious.
Have you ever seen a fire that keeps burning and never goes out? So what if everyone's souls are invested in it? In the end, it will definitely be burned to the ground.
When there is nothing left to burn, the Age of Fire will end. ”
"Spread the fire? Can't spread it at all!"
(End of chapter)