{"id":356330,"date":"2014-04-08T01:00:18","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T01:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/356330\/"},"modified":"2014-04-08T01:00:18","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T01:00:18","slug":"critical-close-up-dark-souls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/356330\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical Close-up: Dark Souls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4_ZLoHl5UH8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nDISCLAIMER: This is a revised version of the Dark Souls Critical Close-up, with errors related to &#8220;strategy games,&#8221; &#8220;aural decoy&#8221; and the aqueduct wormhole corrected. Unfortunately YouTube doesn&#8217;t allow re-uploads onto vidoes with the same URLs, stats and comments, so you can find the old version with your old comment threads here: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hcBCCVGbVfA <\/p>\n<p>Dark Souls: a game about life, love, and learning how to hurt yourself.<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s a 35-minute in-depth review about how and why Dark Souls is so challenging, vague and macabre. This video is less lore and story speculation than it is *about* lore and story speculation. <\/p>\n<p>Special thanks for machinima help &#038; lore consulting:<br \/>\n https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/VaatiVidya<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/HellkiteDrake<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SunlightMaggot<\/p>\n<p>Further reading:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/text\/fearoffailing\/<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/digm.drexel.edu\/jzhu\/publications\/Zhu_ICIDS13_StoryJam.pdf<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/erikkain\/2012\/12\/12\/the-wonderful-archeology-of-dark-souls-lore\/<\/p>\n<p>This video uses sound effects from audiomicro.com<br \/>\nThis video also lives at http:\/\/www.superbunnyhop.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DISCLAIMER: This is a revised version of the Dark Souls Critical Close-up, with errors related to &#8220;strat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":356331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[212,2518,28444,6132,15,1757,209],"class_list":{"0":"post-356330","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-video-game","10":"tag-old-school","11":"tag-retro","12":"tag-rpg","13":"tag-the-legend-of-zelda-series-video-game-series","14":"tag-video-game-industry"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356330","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=356330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}