Dark Souls: Representing A Medium (AKA: Another Dark Souls Video Essay and Analysis)

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Intro: 0:00
Part 1: Knowing A Medium: 7:34
Part 2: A Videogame History In Brief: 23:27
Part 3: Basic Gameplay Overview: 55:11
Part 4: Story and Lore: 1:06:09
Part 5: Themes: 1:48:23
Part 6: Gameplay/Theme/Plot Coherence And NPCs: 2:03:50
Part 7: Online Features: 3:15:41
Part 8: Items: 3:24:44
To Conclude: 3:30:04

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Links for further inquiry(possibly more to be added later. let us know what's necessary for references for videoessays. we're a bit new at this.)

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Lore Master Himself--VaatiVidya--to fill in any needed Lore gaps we couldn't cover:    / @vaatividya  

Excellent videoessay on Dark Souls and Existentialism by TheGemsbok:    • Philosophical Analysis of Dark Souls  

Dark Souls Saved My Life:    • Dark Souls Saved My Life.  

Videos for further Information on the videogame crash of '83:
   • The Video Game Crash of 1983 - Gaming...  
   • CRASH: The Year Video Games Died  

If necessary, we can add a google doc for various articles referenced throughout the video.

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We made another long Dark Souls Videoessay! Even better, we even made one with a unique thesis! We'll keep it at that for the description, because our creative head talked a long time throughout the video and now needs his quiet time.

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