Dark Souls III - Main Theme / Soul of Cinder
Added 2024-08-10 20:12:05 +0000 UTCA follow up??
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As far as the connection between Dark Souls and Elden Ring goes, the Dark Souls trilogy is a standalone complete story, and Elden Ring is its own thing that more or less builds off of the Dark Souls mechanics, world design, storytelling, etc. The Souls games do have stories, but they are kinda intentionally obfuscated and players need to piece it together themselves through environmental details, item descriptions, stuff like that. I think people mostly play them for the super tight combat and for the crazy good world design. Also yeah, the motif that you mentioned was the same piano line from Gwyn's theme that you heard a little while back.
Sp00ki
2024-08-12 03:01:25 +0000 UTCDamn that sounds so cool. Thanks :D
Jnn
2024-08-11 07:16:30 +0000 UTCWhen you did the Gwyn reaction I wondered if Soul of Cinder would come up eventually. Fitting it should be so soon. One thing to note about Dark Souls 3 is that it takes place after many, many generations of people giving themselves to the Kiln of the First Flame to perpetuate this age of light. The game takes place during a convergence of a sort with a bunch of old Lords who gave themselves up and about and time and the land itself is just kind of falling apart because the age of light, now the age of cinders, is way past its due. When you fight the Soul of Cinder he starts by using what is essentially different versions of player movesets/styles as a sort of amalgamate of all the previous lords' skills in a single entity. When you take his HP to zero though he gets back up and starts using Gwyn's old moveset with his piano theme coming in as the song eases down. As someone who played the first game on release it was a really great send-off for the series and always been a moment that's stuck with me in gaming for both nostalgia and the themes the game itself was presenting.
Nevermore084
2024-08-11 00:50:08 +0000 UTC
