What is the Dark Souls of literature?

What is the Dark Souls of literature?

Dante?

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I am interested in the answers of other anons as well but I suppose Dark Souls would be a mix of the following:

- Blood Meridian
- The Road
- Perceval
- Nag Hammadi Library

Dass all I got.

Well, Dark Souls is a pastiche of various Western literary and artistic tropes, deracinated from the Western historical contexts that made them sensible and meaningful to begin with, and deployed by Japanese people who don't really understand them in the first place even before their deracination, because they are themselves deracinated cultureless medieval peasants living in a top-down imposed post-colonial capitalist nightmare society.

Dark Souls throws together some gothic themes, some fantasy themes derived from romantic literature and its synthesis by figures like T.H. White and Tolkien, and Deviantart amateur artists' pictures of nonsensical megalithic architecture, and then weds these to a pointless non sequitur story that superficially appears, to retards anyway, to be deep and mysterious (a Japanese specialty!). Very similar to Japanese practice in other plotless, narratively disjointed heaps of miscellaneous tropes, like Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Ghost in the Shell, and Akira. Then it takes the gameplay of a mediocre ARPG like Diablo, baroquely complicates it without attempting to balance it, and glues the whole thing together into a mess merely large and intricate enough to confuse manchildren into thinking it is a coherent artistic expression.

These manchildren typically don't notice that they're fighting the same boss mechanics twenty times in a row, or that some of the biggest setpiece bosses are pushovers due to a failed implementation of some mechanic or an extremely simple moveset. But it doesn't matter. The manchild's brain can only process "LOTS OF THINGS ARE HAPPENING.. THIS GAME IS A BIG THING! I'M IMMERSED" and has no ability to abstract and judge the creation as a whole.

So basically you're looking for a stretched-out passionless paste made from rehashed, reheated tropes, and stuck together by the sheer will of a capitalist trying to trick you into thinking it's something new and dupe you into giving him your money. And you're looking to buy it and re-buy it multiple times, as they just release the same game year after year and your hollow eyes light up at the prospect of passively experiencing more kitschy filth.

If you play Dark Souls, there must be good in you somewhere. Deep down, you want to experience something good. You want to play the best. But Dark Souls has confused you. It has tricked you into thinking it's not a pile of shit. You should do some serious reflection, and try playing King of Dragon Pass, or Star Control 2, or Darklands. But no matter what you do, at least refuse to live as an animal. If you simply can't stop playing horrible garbage like Dark Souls, suicide is always an option.

The Waste Land
The hollow men
The Road

Finnegans Wake

The Waste Land
Parzival (Eschenbach)
Pelleas et Melisande

It's just a video game dude, calm down.

Book of Enoch

Lmao you definitey started with dark souls 2

Book of the New Sun

All wrong

Nice pasta tho

All you souls players are faggots.

>no one has actually argued against his points and just said he's wrong

Hello /v/

It would be like a grown man fighting with a midget woman, no one wants to stoop that low.

Book of the New Sun. Not memeing.

It's obviously a pasta, he could have actually made some better points but it looks like it's sacrificed for the format

Malazan Book of the Fallen

>"weds these to a pointless non sequitur story that superficially appears, to retards anyway, to be deep and mysterious"
>can't into environmental storytelling

what does dark souls have to do with gnosticism