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Dark Souls

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Worldwide shipments of the series surpassed 39 million units.[1]

Making and release

The initial installment of the series, Dark Souls, is viewed as a spiritual follower to Demon's Souls from 2009.[2] Because Sony held the intellectual property rights for Demon's Souls, FromSoftware could not create a direct sequel for other platforms.[2] PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 were the platforms for Dark Souls' 2011 launch.[2] The Spike Video Game Awards in late 2012 served as the venue for the first announcement of Dark Souls II.[3]

Hidetaka Miyazaki did not serve as director for this installment, the sole one in the series where that occurred, though he remained in a supervisory capacity.[3] Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 saw the 2014 release of Dark Souls II.[3] Dark Souls III: The Fire Fades Edition, a complete package containing the main game and both expansion packs, was put out in 2017.[4]

What the cited sources add

A Polygon review by Kollar describes Dark Souls 2 as "the most intimidating game I have ever played"[5] Kollar also states that Dark Souls 2 is "unflinchingly ambitious in a way that few games are"[5] The same review notes that the environments in Dark Souls 2 "succeed more often at telling a story"[5] A GamesRadar article by Houghton argues that Dark Souls is "the friendliest, most benevolent, most enriching game I’ve played in many, many years"[6]

Houghton explains that the potential loss of souls "is an obvious catalyst that inspires careful play"[6] An NME article by Wilson observes that Dark Souls "doesn’t offer weightless forms of freedom, but instead continually staggers and knocks you back"[7] Wilson also states that "Dark Souls is about wrestling back bodily control".[7]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Dark Souls" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Fact Book 2025", Bandai Namco Group, 2025, p. 6 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Dark Souls" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Teti, "Retrospective: King's Field", Eurogamer, November 13, 2011; Matulef, "Demon's Souls still feels fresher than its "Dark" successors", Eurogamer, October 3, 2014; Jin Ha Lee, "Relationships among video games: Existing standards and new definitions", Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 2014, p. 1–11; Moriarty, "Dark Souls Release Date Revealed", IGN, May 11, 2011; Onyett, "New Dark Souls Content Coming to Consoles", IGN, May 31, 2012 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Dark Souls" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Dark Souls 2 a direct sequel to first title, may not make 2013", VG247, December 15, 2012; Matulef, "Miyazaki won't be directly involved in Dark Souls 2, doesn't want too many sequels", EuroGamer, January 29, 2013; Yin-Poole, "Dark Souls 2 PC release date confirmed", Eurogamer, March 6, 2014; Pitcher, "Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin Director Reveals New Details", IGN, December 29, 2014; mikemcwhertor, "Dark Souls 2 coming to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in 2015", Polygon, November 25, 2014; Kollar, "Dark Souls 2 Review: not the end", en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Dark Souls" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Talbot, "Dark Souls 3 sales hits the ten million mark – and the series tops 27 million", PCGamesN, May 19, 2020 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Kollar, "Dark Souls 2 Review: not the end", Polygon, March 11, 2014. facts only, no text reused. polygon.com
  6. Houghton, David. (March 5, 2014). "Why Dark Souls is the friendliest, most benevolent game of its generation" . GamesRadar. Retrieved July 19, 2015.. facts only, no text reused. gamesradar.com
  7. Wilson, "Ten years on, 'Dark Souls' is still corralling us through its hostile world", NME, 22 September 2021. facts only, no text reused. nme.com

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Dark Souls (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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