The surprise announcement of Dark Souls II has pleased the hardcore gaming masses but now some are questioning the decisions of the new director for the series, Tomohiro Shibuya. He says that everyone should be able to complete the game.
In an interview conducted with 1UP, Shibuya admits that he has never finished the original Dark Souls and that his previous game experience is mostly in art assets.
“I watched [Hidetaka] Miyazaki (the original director) very closely when he worked on Dark Souls. I mostly know that this game is considered very difficult, but I want to take the series in a new direction,” he says, “I prefer that the game be completable by everyone. Even babies should be able to complete this game.”
“I recall the first game being very cryptic and vague about its story and I want everyone to understand the plot. I believe it should be made more explicit and that the cutscenes should be at least 10 times longer than the original,” he pauses and then says excitedly to the interviewer, “There might even be a love interest for the main character.”
“Gameplay is something that I find almost secondary to the story,” he continues, “I tried playing the game for the first time last week. I could not get past the first boss! I will make sure that even someone as bad as me can complete Dark Souls II. Besides, I mostly find my talents in art and this is where the game will truly shine.”
“Some fans might feel outraged by my decisions, but at least they have a new game to play. That is what truly matters, right?” he concludes.
He leaves the interview on a final note, “At least they’ll have the original one to play for the rest of eternity.”
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No, the trailer showed dragons.
It sounds like someone is taking a jab at Mass Effect “Cutscenes should be 10x longer”, “the main character should have a love interest”, and (gamplay is second to story”.
It sounds like someone is taking a jab at video games.
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Nice one
I see this as a good thing for the series. Considering illiterate people like myself can’t even distinguish quotation marks on certain gaming sites, I will not enjoy an overly, artificially made difficult game as Dark Souls. Story is the most important part of a game, and I would like that presented to me in cutscenes, not in vague ways like on items scattered everywhere. How else will I know what I’m striving for, killing all these enemies for, my overall goal in the game? If From Software can deliver on creating a game that’s more catered to a casual audience that doesn’t want too much gameplay interfering with story or good-looking environments, they have a winner on their hands. Just look at Dragon Age 2!
I absolutly think this is the worst thing that can happen to the series. The first two games were meant to be cryptic and difficult. It was meant to be left up for interpretation and you got more info to complete and rationalize your theories by defeating those hard bosses. The gameplay is what attracted me and I’m sure many others and the story was great because it was so vague. This is like Fable 1 moving to Fable 2 and 3, we lose the series focus and it get’s turned into a game that the fans hate and simple bystanders think that they’re experts at by beating an easy game.
And then my friend tells me that this is a troll site. God dammit Dylan.
“troll site”
Is there a single person who both plays video games and has heard of satire
Average mainstream gamers don’t have the word satire in their vocabulary. Everything that bothers them is considered “troll”
If this is real then I will not be buying the game. Darksouls and its predecessor demon’s souls are known for being outstandingly difficult and beautifully convoluted. I loved the fact that one would have to go out of one’s way to truly understand and discover the lore behind the mysterious world of Lordran and Boletaria. This made the game unique and made the aspect of replayablilty flourish. Do not ruin this game.
Hey! Let’s take everything that made Demon’s Souls and Dark Souls a success and throw it out! :D
Seems like a good idea for a sequel, right? :D Right guys?
This reminds me of the Legend of Zelda crisis when Eiji Aonuma got into the series and made everything easy because he couldn’t beat the original The Legend of Zelda.
This series was like a reminiscence to the first game of that series. Full of secrets, unforgiving, fairly open and free… Now the Souls Series will turn into a hand-helding series that you play mashing the a button to skip dialogues and cutscenes without much replay value.
I’m divided between wanting an enjoyable game out of this and wanting it to fail hard to prove the point of what the Souls Series is about. Can I have a good game then we go back to the first two games style? :<
Thank you for reading.
this is a joke right?
For those incapable of realizing that this is the equivalent of the Onion: it’s not real.
Pretty sure onions are real, dude.
Onions are completely real!
I totally agree.
THE ONION ISNT REAL?!?!?!?!