{"id":234912,"date":"2022-02-15T16:00:30","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T16:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/234912\/"},"modified":"2022-02-15T16:00:30","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T16:00:30","slug":"why-dark-souls-2s-narrative-design-feels-hollow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/234912\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Dark Souls 2&#39;s Narrative Design Feels Hollow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e-_mUhBAY8E\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nIn today&#8217;s episode JM8 &#038; Jack dive into the narrative designs of Dark Souls 2. How the series uses of Ludo Narrative Symmetry to tell its stories but how DS2 didn&#8217;t hit the mark&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If you want to see more game design content a new Anatomy episode will release every other week, or you can subscribe to JM8s personal channel for similar content: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/JM8GameDesign<\/p>\n<p>Join YouTube Memberships and support our content for Early Access to new videos, exclusive Discord perks &#038; more for just $2 per month \u25ba\u25ba https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCqg5FCR7NrpvlBWMXdt-5Vg\/join<\/p>\n<p>Join our growing Discord community: https:\/\/discord.gg\/A6T2gKrDwB<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to Escapist Magazine! \u25ba\u25ba http:\/\/bit.ly\/Sub2Escapist<\/p>\n<p>Want to see the next episode a week early? Check out http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com for the latest episodes of your favorite shows.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Timestamps:<br \/>\nIntroduction &#8211; 00:00<br \/>\nLudo Narrative Symmetry &#8211; 01:10<br \/>\nSubtle Souls Storytelling &#8211; 02:48<br \/>\nA Skew-Whiff Soul &#8211; 06:23<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>The Escapist Merch Store \u25ba\u25bahttps:\/\/teespring.com\/stores\/the-escapist-store<br \/>\nJoin us on Twitch \u25ba\u25ba https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/the_escapist_official<br \/>\nLike us on Facebook \u25ba\u25ba http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EscapistMag<br \/>\nFollow us on Twitter \u25ba\u25ba https:\/\/twitter.com\/EscapistMag<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s episode JM8 &#038; Jack dive into the narrative designs of Dark Souls 2. How the series uses <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":234913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[212,1382,7209,51669,138024,138025,138023,15,138022,14844],"class_list":{"0":"post-234912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rpg","8":"tag-dark-souls","9":"tag-dark-souls-ii","10":"tag-from-software","11":"tag-game-design","12":"tag-jm8","13":"tag-ludo-narrative","14":"tag-narrative-design","15":"tag-rpg","16":"tag-the-anatomy","17":"tag-video-essay"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}