Gotta say if it has been your goal to make unpretentious and approachable boss analyses, you have succeeded. I definitely find your insights both fun and useful for casuals like myself. And it’s nice to hear that you spend a long time learning bosses :)
To kinda piggy back on your point. As a child I played these educational PC games called Jumpstart. And I swear to god I still remember the tune the days of the week song in spanish. At what point did we decide that learning and education was an assembly line? And that it must be boring? As an explanation im an indie game dev. In Raph Koster's book "Theory of Fun" he reduces games to abstracted learning. The truth is humans LOVE to learn but we've been taught to hate it. Gaming is learning. Learning systems, mechanics, movesets, etc. Highly recommend the book. Its short and easy to read. You could finish it in a day
Congratulations on 350. Your jardwork and dedication is beginning to pay off. I watch all the videos although I don't always leave a comment because I still haven't finished Sekiro myself. But the quality and presentation is really well done. Your channel will soon explode. All the best!
Well, I started dark souls because I thought of it as a medieval fantasy adventure action kind of game. I didn't know that it was a totally fictional world. I thought firelink shrine was kind of a motel that has fallen into disuse because of all the shit going on. (Yes I didnt understand anything by opening cutscene. I simply didnt know what to make of it). What really got me interested into dark souls was the approach to combat itself. A sword and shield which you can actually use like a sword and shield. Upto this point most games I played the sword and shield were just a way to increase your attributes. (Games like Dungeon Siege and a few others). PS: I have also studied history not as a PHD but as an interest. But the history I read was India Pakistan and some Islamic history.
videos have been so well constructed, specifically good use of deliberate phrasing goes a long way for driving your points home and also allowing us to better understand the topic of any given video. Keep it up homie have been thoroughly enjoying these videos and have been a source of enjoyment on my commute home 🫶
Ah yes. History. I’m proud to have a degree in history but it has been entirely useless to me professionally. Keep up the good work. I too am a mediocre Souls player but have managed some degree of competence with DS3 through perseverance and being ok with getting my ass handed to me. Cheers 🥂
