Breaking Down THE HORROR of FromSoftware Games 

I know this video was going be a banger the moment that Danny made up words, "Fromsoftyest"

For me what I think I enjoy the most about Fromsoft games other than the gameplay is always the art direction. The memorable and uniquely twisted way most things look in these games makes it a joy to explore and see what will scare me next. It is so good that I went out of my way to get the official art books for the entire series.

I was never a video game kid. Never played any of those games. But Danny is talking about it, so I will listen.

2:49 "....and that you'll encounter challenges you're not quite ready for and can come back to when you are. Also that most challenges won't lock you in to one path of success, whether it's using items you'll have access to or being aware of the environment, use whatever you can to your advantage and you'll overcome even this biggest screen sized challenges thrown at you."

Elden ring was my first fromsoftware game but i stiil remember the chills of exitment from seeing the map and world, running for dear life from the giant trolls in limgrave, the uncertianty when entering the concetrated snowfields, and EVERY SINGLE CATACOMB. truely on of if not the best game i played

Only danny can make me watch a game commentary channel (you’re doing amazing sweetie!!)

The hidden rats and shit things that jump us gives me nightmares

The stamina bar most definitely fits Dark Souls and Bloodborne for the horror aspects and Monster Hunter for the survivalist ones. Now I love Code Vein, but it clearly would’ve been far better to play without the stamina bar considering it’s trying to be more like Devil May Cry by comparison, and the stamina bar was also especially redundant since by the games’s own lore the player character cannot get tired or go hungry due to the vampire-like conditions they have (heck the characters in the game say it themselves).

The two kinds of horror I love the most is altered history annolog horror, like the Monument mythos series on Mr.Manticor. And the existential dread of being hunted by an unknown entity that is heather human nor animal.

My experience with Soulsbourne games is: there's probably an enemy hiding there.

For the longest time, I didn't know this was Dannys channel, I found this by complete accident

I, unfortunately, wasn't 12 when I played the first Dark Souls. I grew up on a diet of unforgiving 1980's video game mechanics and survival horror table top games ( D&D, Rifts, Call of Cthulu, ect). After the initial wtf moment of almost becoming an overweight demon's but plug I unloaded all my fireballs and bombs into the thing and got rewarded with a club that I wasn't going to be able to use for a Long Time. But it was too late, I was already hooked on the mix of adrenalin and dopamine that is the staple diet of the game. For a true sense of danger, you need at least a little bit of fear.

Agreed, I wish Dragon Rot in Sekiro effects whole world around you as story progresses, kinda like Bloodborne when you get too much insight and start seeing things humans can't, with different variety of enemies. They tried but all it affects was NPCs itself which you can restore back to normal with one item most vendors got😅

Just wait for the Abyssal Woods

3:49---I gasped a little lol. But in all honesty, I much prefer the old Zelda games.

…Wait weren’t there child experiments in Sekiro? Isn’t there an entire fucking war going on in Sekiro? Isn’t the one armed monkey that makes your arm in Sekiro, isn’t he becoming a fucking hate demon?

Theres also the FUCKING MIMIC CHESTS

I do think tears of the kingdom sort of remedied the lack of horror thanks to the depths. The sky was what all the trailers focused on but most people I've talked to agree the unnervingness of the underground was their favorite part 9f the game.

It's not the urge to jump, that's too kind, it's the urge to fall

so good have more videos from you

Dude keep it up you got a great sense of humor!

Fun fact, Sekiro began life as a Tenchu game

huh, what up !

I put off watching this for too long. This was brilliant, and I'm really excited to pick up Elden Ring over Black Friday.

Subnotica (I know i spelled that wrong 😢) scared the absolute shit out of me at times. Loved the game, did not love the anxiety that came with it. Funny enough i played it having a phobia to the ocean 😂

L take on sekiro that fucking ape fight is straight terrifying

The only souls game I think had some horror elements was bloodborne. I never felt scared in demons soul, dark souls 1, 2, 3, or elden ring.

Hey Danny do you play Elden Ring on Xbox? Im a lvl 238 battle mage on ng+12 and would be absolutely overjoyed to team up with you at least once if possible.

actually i was ten in 2011

I think I'm just a masochistic freak, tbh

agreed agreed agreed

bro youve never played demon souls? its amazing give it a shot

The only thing I really disagree on is that the game is designed to be difficult in a way that you have to constantly fight and die over and over to figure out enemies movesets. I don't like this as it reminds me constantly that I'm in a video game and takes me out of the experience a little bit. I prefer a game that is challenging but is possible to make it most of the way through without dying. That way you can truly feel like you are this character in a way. It's a subjective style of immersion that I prefer

𝓹𝓻𝓸𝓶𝓸𝓼𝓶 💯

I like big stick does big damage

I agree with your statements about the horrifying nightmare creatures... however, when your clawing your way through chests with mouths and multi-limbed monsters, there is nothing more scary than a normal looking dude, you've just spent your way clawing through monstrosities and then at the end your expecting this menacing creature but instead a dude just slowly turns around to look at you and it's like"i shouldn't be here!!". And then your turn around and your locked into a cage match with the mother fucker. It's beautiful

Not a fan of soulsborne games, but fallout games make me feel the same way, honestly

Sooooo, we gonna talk about Danny massacring the puffins?

I remember ds3 where I lost 6k souls and I was terrified

Eh I disagree with formsoft b World's being interesting

Bloodborne is my favorite.

Yes everyone was born in the year 2000s.

Best Review I watch yet

hall the bean god

Its my boyyy

lmao, how old is this video that he's talking about how elden ring "just came out" great vid tho

Spoilers ahead, but I wanted to share the capstone of the feeling that is described here that I had the luck to experience. Now, ive been playing these games since Dark Souls 1, I think I can count myself a souls veteran. This world sucked me in to its secrets and horrifying and juicy details. So much to explore, so many goodies to find, so many things to get killed by. I had to find it all. However the capstone I think, is rightfully, the final boss, which takes one HELL of a journey to get to in the first place, which if you wander as much as I did, could take you upwards of 200 hours to get to. Having searched high and low for every boss, secret area and dungeon I could reasonably find, I was ready. Seeing the twisted beauty of this long forgotten and destroyed figure half merged with the fragments of it's old religious icon, I was awed and intimidated, but most of all ready for a glorious fight. Now imagine my shock when I merrily wind up a lightning spear to start off the fight and chuck it, only for this man to SMACK IT OUT OF THE AIR LIKE DARTH FUCKING VADER. "Hey hold up man can we talk abo-" right before he impales me into the ground with his returning shot and hammering it in deeper like he's working at home depot. Have to say, only ever been quite in so much shock and horror respawning after finding a boss since my first attempt at Orphan of Kos. Which admittedly, ended about just as fast. The bosses, the challenge and achievement is most of my motivation for playing these games, but the sense of awe, horror, and curiosity at their nature is what draws me to find them where they hid away in their holes, and FromSoftware never disappoints me on the journey there. From the lowest Beastman to the Legends of Old, these games never cease to leave me eager to scoop out god's eyes with a spoon.

I agree with almost everything on here... except the idea nioh didn't have the same fear. Playing it blindly the "melt or be melted" mentality and the nature of yokai, human, and beast type enemies having such different combat approaches made me way more nervous than I was in sekiro or the surge.

Dude, the Surge and the Surge 2 were great games. REALLY clunky, but lots of fun.

Sekiro does feel less grim compared to FromSoftware's other games.