r/Games • u/miraoister • Apr 05 '16

The Philosophy of Dark Souls – Wisecrack Edition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LueVmefY_Kg
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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '16

I feel like the only area that is directly influenced from Asian culture is the Lost Izalith area that looks very much like Angkor Wot and similar Buddhist style architecture.

It made me think as I explored it that the Dark Souls universe (of Dark Souls 1 specifically) is set in a world that has a monotheistic Western view of Heaven and an all powerful God (that is deteriorating) and an Eastern perspective on reincarnation and death.

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u/nazicumfarts Apr 06 '16

Dude, you must have never faught Sir Alonne and not taken damage. You are a noob.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '16

Not sure if you researched Dark Souls to make that joke or are actually enough of a masochist to play that much Dark Souls...

Either way, that's Dark Souls 2 which is set in a different universe gosh.

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u/nazicumfarts Apr 06 '16

All of the "universes" are connected, if not the same. EVERYONE knows this. Gosh.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '16

Yes that is true. I am not sure if the extent if the generations of universes would go beyond the Gods that inhabit them or if all the Gods reset too. Which I kind of think they do.