Dark Souls III: ‘I’m cursed to enjoy Miyazaki’s aesthetics, just not his video games’

Alex Mazey from GamersFTW writes:

"Speaking to the Guardian in early 2015, Hidetaka Miyazaki said he’d always felt an affinity towards Ico. Reading this, and it all begins to make sense to me. The isolation, the gothic landscapes, the uncanniness found in Dark Souls III, or really any game he’s made, including Bloodborne. Even the sparse use of narrative and storytelling is largely used from the realms of a game like Ico, and its celebrated successor, Shadow of the Colossus. I’m not going to pretend to enjoy a game like Dark Souls III, but I can appreciate its artistic design, and the ambition of Miyazaki."

[Shillmeister]

I'm cursed to love the aesthetics, but just plain suck at the game!!
The art books will have to do for me! :(

[seanpitt23]

I was bad in dark souls 1 but the more you play the better you become stick at it and it will reward you so much for the hard things you overcome in the game

[c00lvilKid69]

It seems like the main appeal of this game is the moment of catharsis players feel when they achieve something overtly difficult.

[Perjoss]

@c00lvilKid69

Its not just that. For me its many things, like the way the story is not force fed, you have to look for details about the world in the item descriptions and piece it all together yourself. It leads to a massive amount of discussion and theory crafting among the fans.

And then there's the atmosphere, soundtrack and a combat system that puts so many games to shame, everything just gels together so well.

[camel_toad]

I've said this before but the thing with the Souls games is that there is a wall that you have to get past. Once you do you'll understand and you're just hooked. There's really nothing else like it.

[nowitzki2004]

You just have to stop caring about death and worry about getting further than you did before. Learn your lessons each time and be careful.

As an old school gamer I love DS, I feel like games used to be harder back in the day but that had something to do with the way the gaming mechanics were back in the day as well. But games like DS that give you a challange are awesome because thats what gaming used to be, A challange. You make mistakes learn your lesson and move on.

[camel_toad]

@nowitzki2004

Yeh back in the old NES and SEGA Master System days there were tons of games I never did beat but I just kept playing the same ones over n over and had fun doing it - just on the hope of getting a little further each time.

[nowitzki2004]

@camel

Gradius 3 on SNES I never beat to this day and have played it using emulators and stuff recently as well. Play like the first 5 levels and then die and you have restart the whole game from the very beginning (a lot of games were like that back then). It was so much fun because when you were doing good you felt better knowing how hard the game was.

Levels like these. You touch anything once and you are done lol. and this is level 2.
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

[Master-H]

Watch some playthroughs, man. I'm certain you will pick something up and you will find yourself playing the games and enjoying them a crap ton afterwards.

[equal_youth]

The game not only looks beautiful but plays also beautifully once you get a grip of the nearly perfectly handled learning curve.

[Perjoss]

When I first started playing Demon's Souls I was one of those that played for about 2 hours and then made my way to the nearest forum to whine about the difficulty, obviously met by a barrage of the usual posts like "git gud" and "cry more" and "you're not the one giving up on Demon's Souls. Demon's Souls is giving up on you".

It wasn't until Bloodborne that it finally clicked. They sure are punishing at first but once you get into the swing of the combat and timing they really are not that hard, and you soon discover that these kinds of games are far more rewarding than all the press A to awesome games.

[nowitzki2004]

Dark Souls 3 is still hard, but I find it more fun than any of the previous games, including Bloodborne. Never played Demon Souls.

[GrimDragon]

For me this is turning out to be my favorite souls game edging out my long time favorite souls1.
Once again I find myself not being able to stop playing, staying up late losing sleep thinking about the last bastard that took my souls stash while iam at work, and plotting revenge, and wondering about all kinds of things I came across in the game so far. Every death literally as always is a dumb mistake a pitiful judgement call etc that drives me toward redemption and ultimate victory.

Just loving how it feels like an extended version of bloodborne as well. Awesome scenery and unbelievable fights. I've died a great deal of times and have not even got to unsettled village yet.
But there's no denying iam getting stronger and better with each resurrection.

One thing really has me upset though bordering on wanting to start all over and I know it's stupid but the curiosity is killing me. Below the fire breathing dragon is a room with a mimic treasure chest that iam sure must have had something cool I bumped into him only one and we fought for a long time as I really have no weapon that is strong enough to take him down quickly so at some point in the fight he just disappeared after almost killing him just a few more hits bam he vanished. I was pissed I was like nooooooooooo!!!! Come back dam you!! I looked around I restarted the level nothing gone forever leaving me wondering what treasure I could've had that the dam thing took with it when it vanished from the fight.

Did anyone else see it? Or fight it? If so can you tell me what he gives if you win? I feel like I really messed up here and maybe lost a valuable edge I could've had.

[EddieNX]

Ive got it on XB one and when I try to connect it to the interet in the main menu it keeps failing and telling me to continue playing offline. Anyone else have this problem?

edit- Just tried and it works now :)

New to the series, couldn't actually believe how had the first boss was lol. Satisfying when I beat the prick tho

[Der_Kommandant]

I'm gonna obliterate everything in my path

http://imgur.com/g0BsSc8

[SlightlyRetarted]

It looks like you are filming a nordic black metal music video.

[GamePeace]

The inspiration is clear, but Myazaki's games have enough own stuff to offer. The gameplay is nearly as good as the aesthetics, everything is on a really high level, not perfect, but it comes very near to perfection. But then again, what is really perfect, is there even such thing? Congrats to FromSoftware for another high quality production.