

It’s a game built around exploration, many areas are available from the moment you fully escape the Asylum (more on that in a second) & it is up to you where you go. Lordran is a rich & interesting world & you shouldn’t want to miss a thing. The way to understand & fully appreciate the excellent story is to pay attention to things you pick up & the NPC’s you meet along the way. There you have your first major goal…ĭark Souls has few cut-scenes so while playing through the game it might become difficult to keep up with what exactly is going on. Released by a knight who dies shortly afterwards, you discover that a prophecy exists that says a chosen Undead will ring the ‘Bell of Awakening’ in Lordran. That is why the Asylum exists & why your character is locked up at the start. An Undead can’t die but their eventual fate is to become Hollow, which is when they become dangerous. The flame won’t last forever & when it begins to die the Undead begin to appear throughout the land. Your aim? To find out what happens to the Undead.Īn opening cut-scene details how the first flame of the world (Lordran) came to be & how 4 beings found the Lord Souls & became gods. You are a cursed human (you can create them but trust me, it’s mostly pointless as you’ll spend most of the game undead) chosen to leave the Undead Asylum, the starting point of the game. I happily fall into the latter half…ĭark Souls plot seems non-existent at first. Now this is where opinions divide, you see one half will say they gave up & hate the game while the other will say they preserved & discovered one of the most rewarding games ever. Have you heard of Dark Souls? Of course you have but what have you heard? I reckon it goes something like this…Dark Souls is one of the hardest games ever made.
