{"id":358267,"date":"2021-09-22T17:52:54","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T17:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/358267\/"},"modified":"2021-09-22T17:52:54","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T17:52:54","slug":"philosophical-analysis-of-dark-souls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/358267\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophical Analysis of Dark Souls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xpf3KQBIoCY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nA thorough philosophical analysis of FromSoft&#8217;s Original Dark Souls, drawing on the field of existentialism.<\/p>\n<p>0:00:00 Introduction<br \/>\n0:03:28 Existence Preceding Essence in the Undead Prophecy<br \/>\n0:10:58 The Indifference of Reality and Malevolence of Beings<br \/>\n0:17:38 Hollowing, Motivation, and Authenticity<br \/>\n0:26:07 Restriction, Freedom, and Goals<br \/>\n0:37:01 The Physicality of Divinity, Souls, and Life<br \/>\n0:43:03 Kindling Flames, Energy, and the End of the World<br \/>\n0:51:54 Entropy, Pyromancy, and Chaos<br \/>\n1:00:44 Darkness, the Abyss, and Existential Despair<br \/>\n1:16:34 Necessity, Contingency, and the Painted World<br \/>\n1:25:40 Conclusion<\/p>\n<p>The Gemsbok site: https:\/\/thegemsbok.com\/<br \/>\nThe article that became this video: https:\/\/thegemsbok.com\/dark-souls<br \/>\nDark Souls on Steam: https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/570940\/<br \/>\nM.R.P.&#8217;s sketch print shop: https:\/\/mrpsketches.etsy.com<\/p>\n<p>Twitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/The_Gemsbok<br \/>\nFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thegemsbok<br \/>\nSteam: https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/id\/thegemsbok\/<\/p>\n<p>The media clips used in this video are expressly for review commentary, academic criticism, and comparison; their inclusion falls under the purview of Fair Use and does not violate copyright.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A thorough philosophical analysis of FromSoft&#8217;s Original Dark Souls, drawing on the field of existential<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":358268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3159,174141,174144,8614,174148,174136,174138,2507,151983,14059,212,32558,174133,174134,13405,4359,36232,174146,174135,32749,18628,6443,174145,7209,30006,4026,174143,15536,19003,84054,174139,99197,6444,174147,9346,5394,12836,32753,38544,174132,18578,40342,15,174137,174140,501,174142,14844],"class_list":{"0":"post-358267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rpg","8":"tag-abyss","9":"tag-academic","10":"tag-age-of-dark","11":"tag-artorias","12":"tag-atheist","13":"tag-authenticity","14":"tag-beauvoir","15":"tag-bonfire","16":"tag-camus","17":"tag-chosen-undead","18":"tag-dark-souls","19":"tag-dark-souls-1","20":"tag-dark-souls-analysis","21":"tag-dark-souls-meaning","22":"tag-death","23":"tag-demons","24":"tag-difficulty","25":"tag-disparity","26":"tag-existence","27":"tag-existentialism","28":"tag-first-flame","29":"tag-frampt","30":"tag-freedom","31":"tag-from-software","32":"tag-gods","33":"tag-gwyn","34":"tag-heat-death","35":"tag-hollow","36":"tag-humanity","37":"tag-in-depth","38":"tag-interpretation","39":"tag-izalith","40":"tag-kaathe","41":"tag-kindling","42":"tag-lore","43":"tag-manus","44":"tag-miyazaki","45":"tag-nietzsche","46":"tag-philosophy","47":"tag-philosophy-of-dark-souls","48":"tag-plot","49":"tag-religion","50":"tag-rpg","51":"tag-sartre","52":"tag-serious","53":"tag-story","54":"tag-unchosen-undead","55":"tag-video-essay"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358267","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=358267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}