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I love this game, and all if the different worlds have distinct themes and motifs, but what the gently caress does shrine of storms mean?? What is the themes of that level?? I don't get it at all
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Aug 16, 2015 12:36
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oldpainless posted:The people who lived there worshiped the flying manta-rays and the storms that accompanied them as gods. Its a shrine to their storms. Yes! I've looked a bit more into the shrine of storms and the lore is pretty funny. The inhabitants of the shrine worshipped legends of old, and with the soul arts, legends became flesh. (Someone said that maiden astraea was a legend made flesh, but that is grade A bullshit. She was a human who ventured into the fog, along saint urbain and others. Astraea swallowed a demons soul to save the filth-abortions.) New people go through the shrine to become heroes and legends, to rule the Storm Beasts (with that amazing badass sword), which the inhabitants worship. The adjuticator is a big fat demon 'body', with a golden bird on top serving as the 'brain', and if the adjuticator finds a new 'hero' unworthy, (i guess by killing the hero) the golden bird then, along with all of his crow-pals, gnaws on the bones of the hero. This is the cause of all the skeletons in the area. Numerous heroes who tried and failed. The inhabitants of the shrine of storms are alive within the souls, as a miasma of consciousness, and they enter skeletons at will to gently caress with new aspiring heroes. This maelstrom of souls is probably kept alive by the grim reapers, or black magicians. The old hero is probably an utimate test of aspiring heroes, now old and blinded and a shadow of it's former self. Why all this then? To protect the storm beasts! They worship the storm beasts. The shrine of storms is a shrine of Storm Beasts! The Storm Ruler is way too strong to be put into the wrong hands.
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Aug 22, 2015 17:48
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Neo Rasa posted:The most Haha yes. Its great! I love how all the worlds are self contained and work in their own ways. Different versions of soul magic and lust for souls. Like tower of latria has gargoyles with spiral rapiers to drive maximum pain out of the prisoners without killing them. And as we all know, pain = souls! Souls to power the king. Which brings me to another point: tower of latria is one big massive slam against the catholic church. A mad patriarch seeks to gain power from the ivory queen (known for her great knowledge, latria was a kingdom of knowledge until the patriarch came and hosed everything up.) Prisoners are kept in check with promises of redemption from their sinful ways. (But there is no redemption, and the false idol is just like opium for the masses). Souls powers everything, like human toil powered the church durin the dark ages. Gargoyles are reminiscent of statues on gothic churches. The big fuckoff arrow thrower is a statue of a priest- or angel-like figure. It looks awesome but opens up to show that all is death, all is war. No salvation exists. All the auffering of the masses exists only to power the tower (heh); just like christianity during it's heydays. Who is in control?? A mad man with a big loving flowing garb. Just like the pope. Lol Spreading false hope of redemption, trying to stifle knowledge with beliefs, breaking down scholars and exchanging enlightenment for worship. Its loving hilariously oppressive too, the darkest place in all of the games. I almost want to thank christianity for enabling the creation of this wonderful level. Japanese people must think the catholic church is weird as gently caress. [Edit]: of course the prison is called "the prison of hope". Curdy Lemonstan fucked around with this message at 11:11 on Sep 14, 2015 |
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Sep 13, 2015 19:57
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thing about this is that the Storm King itself according to the Archstone blurb is "...the embodiment of the thoughts of Shadowmen from hundreds of years ago." Which I figured we see some of in the game as the grim reaper type dudes, or maybe that the souls of the most badass warriors congeal into storm beasts and get to spend eternity cruising around the skies causing storms.
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World 4-1, get the crescent falchion, power slam the rest of the game
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Dec 9, 2015 14:19
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Zedsdeadbaby posted:Once or twice a year or so, I start this masterpiece of a game up and basically just blitz my way to a blessed mace/adjudicator's shield/regenerator's ring blessed setup and feel like a god. Once you get a blessed mirdan hammer, you are unstoppable. Oh my god yes. I did that duribg my last playthrough. It was glorious. Also strength builds in this game gets all the fun weapons. Demons souls has the best big weapons in the soulsborne series.
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Mar 23, 2016 00:26
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oldpainless posted:How did the chains in the sky in Latria even get connected? They are huge and moving them is a logistical nightmare. Then pulling them across to other towers and tightening and tensioning them not to mention the balancing. I don't see any construction equipment in Latria. Anyway that's been eating at me for awhile. Ok bye Maybe pain and hate twists man and beast, nature and culture. Uhm with souls as an aggregate for it i guess.
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May 27, 2016 13:14
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MonsieurChoc posted:I've been playing this game intermittently over the last two weeks and I loving love it. I never though I would, I'm usually not a fan of hard games. Well, ok, I'm a fan of hard games, I just suck at them. But now I've managed to defeat a few Bosses and completed Stonefang tunnel and got a few of the hidden items (like the Dragonbone Sword) and I'm having a blast despite dying all the time. Youre gonna wreck poo poo up when you get to dark souls.
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Jun 4, 2016 01:56
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esperterra posted:One might even say it's the best Souls game ........ Yes its the most arcane and interesting souls game (after youve played dark souls and bloodborne to death). The true trilogy is: Demons Darks Bloodborns
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Jul 25, 2016 00:47
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