"Look at the map that the big guy posted online. Although there's no teleportation, there are various shortcuts, so it's still quite easy to travel!"
"Bah, what's the point of the map the boss sent? The bosses have already fought against famous bosses like Tomb King Nito, the Witch, and Artorius, and I'm still suffering in the Sick Village~"
However, these complaints did not become widespread, because most players basically understood what kind of game "Dark Souls" was.
It didn't surprise anyone.
After the prequel of "Dark Souls" was launched, it quickly caused a stir among the player community.
Major gaming forums were also flooded with news about the Dark Souls prequel.
After all, the topic of this game is still quite good, and it itself has the attribute label of hardcore masochism, which is also good for the live broadcast effect.
Although the prequel is more difficult than the previous one, its sales are not lower at all.
While ensuring the quality of the game.
Compared to the situation where "Dark Souls" relied on word of mouth to drive sales and continued to improve.
This time it directly jumped onto the sales list.
Likewise, online, the popularity of the prequel to Dark Souls is also on the rise.
Although it is not as grand as the previous League of Legends World Championship, which surpassed the gaming circle.
But in the gaming circle, the topic of "Dark Souls" is absolutely phenomenal.
Of course, the hardcore nature of Dark Souls also means that most players choose to watch rather than play it themselves.
Although the game has a reasonable difficulty curve, most players can complete it as long as they persist.
But persistence is itself a difficult thing.
However, for players who like "Dark Souls" and other style games, it is a carnival.
Especially those players who like the plot of "Dark Souls".
In the prequel, they finally sorted out the background world view of Dark Souls through fragmented content.
The entire plot and world background of the soul world have been perfected.
Of course, it's just a rough outline.
Because the background world view of the game itself does not actually have a truly clear definition.
This is the biggest feature of Souls-type games and also their greatest charm.
There are still a lot of gaps in the various fragmented stories.
These blank scrolls are left to the players to color themselves.
After all, there are a thousand different Dark Souls worlds in the eyes of a thousand people.
But there is some timeline content.
However, as the first batch of players completed the game and collected items, we have already figured out a general outline.
There are two core elements of the Dark Souls series.
One of them is fire, and the second is soul.
In the earliest period, the Dark Souls world was ruled by ancient dragons.
They existed long before humans, other races, and even the flames were born.
Then came the arrival of the First Fire, and intelligent creatures discovered the King Soul and the Dark Soul within it.
Among them, the recipients of the King's Soul are Gwyn, the Sun King, Nito, the Tomb King, and the Witch of Izalith.
Dark souls are obtained by so-called dwarves.
Due to the betrayal of the white dragon Seath, the ancient dragon was defeated by Gwyn, Nito and the witch.
Then came the Age of Fire.
The Age of Fire is also known as the Age of Gods.
But unfortunately, the power brought by the first fire could not last forever.
Instead, it gradually faded away with the passage of time, and the power of the king's soul possessed by Gwyn and others also began to dim.
After the war, Nito returned to the Giant's Cemetery and lived in seclusion, while the white dragon Hiss became a mad scientist and eventually drove himself crazy.
The witch tried to use the soul she held to create a new First Flame, but her experiment turned into a great tragedy.
The "New First Fire" went out of control and devoured her, her daughter, and her followers, mutating and twisting them into a "hotbed of chaos" and a "continuously festering demon."
The Sun King Gwyn chose to sacrifice himself to carry out the first generation of fire transmission.
However, combined with the story of "Dark Souls", players have different views on Gwyn's behavior and the subsequent passing on of the fire.
It is mainly divided into two factions, one of which believes that the fire transmission is a pure conspiracy.
The player played the role of an undead who rang two bells, just to prove that he was qualified to pass on the fire.
In addition, the protagonist is not the only undead. In the era of Lordran, the undead were sent to the distant Undead Asylum for imprisonment.
So many players think that this is just an excuse made up by Gwyn and other gods.
The Age of Fire symbolizes the era ruled by gods such as Gwyn, the Sun King.
That is why Gwyn and his men spread the fire at all costs, just to ensure that the Age of Fire could continue forever.
It is also to ensure that God's rule can continue.
And judging by the ending of Dark Souls' passing on the flame, the raging fire of the successful prequel passing on the flame is like a furnace.
But after that it was just a small spark.
It can be said that the power of fire will inevitably decline and go out.
But after it goes out, no one knows whether a new flame will be born or it will fall into dead silence.
Moreover, if you look closely at the NPCs feared in the game during the Dark Ages, you will find that most of them possess divine powers.
At the same time, there are also a group of players who oppose this view.
That is the World Serpent in the game, and he is not a good guy.
At the same time, Gwyn established the Age of Fire and built the Court of God.
But it also comes with three safety locks.
Bonfires, undead parades, and ringing bells.
This whole set of actions has only one purpose.
That was when the previous new king was almost burned out and the inheritance of the first fire was on the verge of extinction.
It gave birth to a group of new undead heroes who gathered soul energy in different ways and turned themselves into carriers of huge amounts of soul energy.
Then the heroes competed for supremacy, and the final winner killed the old fire king who had turned into a zombie and sacrificed himself to pass on the fire.
That's what Gwyn, the Sun King, did.
In addition to these two factions, there are some players who have different opinions, but no one can convince anyone else.
After all, there is really no conclusive evidence.
However, the various characters in the game have attracted countless players.
Solar, the Sun Knight, relies on ordinary equipment to pursue the sun and defeat Gwyn in his own world.
A gesture of praising the sun can be said to be the most brilliant existence in the world of Dark Souls.
He signed a contract with the monsters of the abyss just to go deep into the abyss and defeat the Lord of the Abyss, and save Artorius, whose world is being swallowed by the abyss.
Moved by the spirit of the players, he decided to do something, but he died in the ruins of Anor Londo.
Gwyndolin, White Spider, Ghirran...
Behind every NPC, there is a story that makes players feel deeply moved.
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