It's been quite a while since I posted on my own sites, and even longer since I made any kind of memes. Well, I've been on a Dark Souls kick recently, and going over old movies for reference material for a project I've been working on. In doing so I came across a long-time favorite film from my childhood- The NeverEnding Story.
In re-watching the film I realized that Dark Souls has a LOT in common, and a lot of parallels with the film (and I suppose the book it's based on). I mean, right off the bat, Fantasia is being destroyed by an infection of darkness called The Nothing- whereas Lordran is being devoured by consuming dark called The Abyss. There's the great wolf Gmork and the great wolf Sif, and so on. There's the multiple gates on the way to finding a way to solve the problem besetting the land. I'm genuinely curious to know if Hidetaka Miyazaki has ever seen this and unconsciously drew any inspiration from the film.
I'd actually like to recommend people just watch the film again anyways, due to the tremendously meta work of the story itself- and in even more surprising recommendations, I recall the book being less impressive than the film- which is quite rare for me to say. Anyways, I laughed watching this scene and picturing this exact moment as if I were playing the game and experiencing it like this.
Have a laugh and enjoy. #NeverEndingSouls
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