Dallinor said:
Did Naughty Dog confirm this or are you forming your own conclusion? Was UP the first instance of this character arc? |
It's a joke from the article:
"Man loses loved one, becomes a bitter old man, years later he’s put into a situation where he must work with a kid he initially dislikes, and they eventually fight a crazy old man and his lackeys. You’d be forgiven if you thought I was talking about The Last of Us, which people have been heralding as the greatest story in gaming, but I was actually describing Up."
There's also the fact both love a girl named Ellie. ILLUMINATI!
Don't get me wrong though, I'm not saying that the story of Dark Souls is the best. I'm saying the way in which the story is told is a cut above the rest. It actually uses the interactivity of a video game to its fullest while most games like TLoU for example, rely on scripted events and cut scenes almost exclusively. The game fades into the background when it's story time, when the game pretends to be a movie. On the other hand we have Dark souls where virtually everything, even the difficulty of the game, plays into its narrative.
By using everything at its disposal, the game can rapidly shift your perception of events with a handful of words, as seen by Talisman of beasts in Demon's Souls (spiritual/secret prequel to Dark Souls) or Darkmoon Seance Ring in Dark Souls.
