Last semester, I played a game that told me less about the world I 'm playing in and more about what I am as a person. From this game I concluded that about one million people are sadist animals and about two million, including myself, are masochistic. Now let me explain why. There is a game series called Dark Souls and Bloodborne created by a Japanese company called FromSoft. This series is notorious for its difficulty; the back of the game box even says to “Prepare to Die”. For the older folks out there, who don’t play games anymore; take Contra and throw in some Mario with Legends of Zelda; and now multiply that by 12. Now, we have this macabre level difficulty that you will face. If you are asking yourself why are we playing this game if
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The other will lead you to a bridge that has a cottage on the other side. My curiosity got the better of me and I ended up following the footprints. Once I got past the rocky tunnel I entered a small clearing with no grass but trees acting like a fence to block me in. After walking around a fallen tree I see this hulking beast with rhino skin. “He” was facing the opposite direction of my character and at his feet was crumbled up armor. I knew that if I got a successful backstab I could at least get half of his health bar down. So I crouched down into the mud and slowly moved toward the monster. My finger carefully moved the joystick forward. Heart pounding, I pulled my broken sword out. My character silently raised her sword to strike at the monster, this will be easy, I thought. A perfect backstab I thought. Well, I thought wrong the rhino beast turns around. His one giant eye leered into my character’s; his mouth had sharp yellow teeth jetting out. After one second passed, regret filled me to the brim as the cyclope’s three fingered hands grabbed my character. That thing’s hand was about half the size of my body. The last thing I saw before the game over screen was the creature placing my head in its mouth then, a sickening crunch followed suit. “Welcome to Dark Souls” appeared on the right hand corner of my T.V screen. This was my very first achievement for the …show more content…
Of course like most games each level gets increasingly harder and harder. But that would not be a big issue if the currency system wasn’t so broken. In this world the currency is souls, you gain souls by killing what and whoever you please. But there is a catch if you die with souls on your person, you have only one chance to get them back; if not then they are gone for good. Which means you can’t improve your stats, weapons, potions and or armor. Not to forget that when you die and each time afterwards you lose some of your health till the point where you are at half health until you buy a humanity. Which will heal you up to full health. And what do you need to buy stuff with? Souls. But like I said before, when you die you lose all of your
The other will lead you to a bridge that has a cottage on the other side. My curiosity got the better of me and I ended up following the footprints. Once I got past the rocky tunnel I entered a small clearing with no grass but trees acting like a fence to block me in. After walking around a fallen tree I see this hulking beast with rhino skin. “He” was facing the opposite direction of my character and at his feet was crumbled up armor. I knew that if I got a successful backstab I could at least get half of his health bar down. So I crouched down into the mud and slowly moved toward the monster. My finger carefully moved the joystick forward. Heart pounding, I pulled my broken sword out. My character silently raised her sword to strike at the monster, this will be easy, I thought. A perfect backstab I thought. Well, I thought wrong the rhino beast turns around. His one giant eye leered into my character’s; his mouth had sharp yellow teeth jetting out. After one second passed, regret filled me to the brim as the cyclope’s three fingered hands grabbed my character. That thing’s hand was about half the size of my body. The last thing I saw before the game over screen was the creature placing my head in its mouth then, a sickening crunch followed suit. “Welcome to Dark Souls” appeared on the right hand corner of my T.V screen. This was my very first achievement for the …show more content…
Of course like most games each level gets increasingly harder and harder. But that would not be a big issue if the currency system wasn’t so broken. In this world the currency is souls, you gain souls by killing what and whoever you please. But there is a catch if you die with souls on your person, you have only one chance to get them back; if not then they are gone for good. Which means you can’t improve your stats, weapons, potions and or armor. Not to forget that when you die and each time afterwards you lose some of your health till the point where you are at half health until you buy a humanity. Which will heal you up to full health. And what do you need to buy stuff with? Souls. But like I said before, when you die you lose all of your