How Dark Souls Designs Humor
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Published 2024-07-17
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You’re laughing. A second gargoyle just entered the arena and you’re laughing.
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Honestly, the comedy starts even earlier than that. Even if you don’t out much effort into character creation; you pick a class, a gift, a name, and a basic default appearance… a few seconds later, you meet your character who has NONE of that and is a walking beef jerky! Amazing 😂
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Peak comedy is when you try to run back for your souls from Firelink to New Londo and forget that the elevator is no longer on the top floor 😂
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the sentient boulders are definitely the funniest environmental humor of elden ring
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That one man-serpent that gets FUCKING CREAMED by a boulder never fails to at least make me exhale through my nose.
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I love the man serpent scripted to run in front of a door before being clobbered by a boulder just as the player reaches them. Going from "an enemy! I must fight!" to "oh, boulder got him" is hilarious and a great way to show the player that they need to watch out for boulders
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It's all fun and games until a fifth king spawns in the Four Kings fight. Though it's neither an intentional joke nor a consistent phenomenon, it's undeniably funny. Lethally funny, even.
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Sekiro perfected this with the dive-bombing nightjar dudes
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Funniest Dark Souls moment will forever be the "I'm sorry" carving in Oolacile and how you obtain it. Elden Ring's reveal of the Two Fingers being literally two giant fingers is pretty great though.
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the best message in DS1 is the last note en the ground in the tutorial that says something along the line of "Well played ! keep moving forward". When you finish the tutorial it's just a pat on the back and giving you the next step. When you come back to the asylum later, you go forward into the building just for the floor to collapse under you. I laughed so hard the first time it happened to me.
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You see, the rolling boulder that breaks into Oscar's room is part of the healing tutorial! If you were at full health when he gives you the flask, you either won't try it, or try it and feel like you wasted it! It's like a less on-the-nose version of that part in Helldivers 2 where they just freakin' stab you!
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Eldenring definitely has fewer comedic moments, but Goldmask T-Posing in front of a crying Corhyn will always be hilarious to me. I've had so many playthroughs but I still always take a moment to join him T-posing and laugh at crying Corhyn
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One of my favorites are the magic bone boulders in Carthus, the experience of seeing it go down the stairs after dodging it and assuming your safe only to see it coming back up the stairs full speed a second later is indescribable the first time
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Oscar's family motto being a massive paragraph about a very specific thing you need to do always makes me laugh.
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I don't know about you, but I found "Random Lobster that transforms into a Grafted Scion" in Liurnia to be pretty funny all on it's own, for what it's worth. You deffo get set-up fighting the one in the tutorial that's deliberately meant as a showcase of "Wow this enemy is bs hard and not cool" and the lobsters reveal themselves to be similarly hard all throughout that part of the world, so getting an already hard enemy that turns into yet another hard enemy is just like. Yeah that does it for me
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The DarkSouls games feel both like a dark and depressing story about cycles and death, and a slapstick comedy cartoon from the 50-60s
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Mimics in Souls trilogy are comedy gold. Never get tired of that gag.
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The open world of Elden Ring gets its humor mostly from having weird little guys everywhere. Turtles, albinaurics, those stone worms. Goats that roll around like Sonic the hedgehog. Also putting merchants in ridiculous places. They're always like "business has been slow lately..." Yeah dude I wonder why! 😂
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Im glad you pointed out the humor element of these games. A couple favs are the two giant skeletons that team up to kick you off a cliff in DS1 and the swinging log trap that snaps off of its rope in Bloodborne. I also agree that that humor is harder to find in the open world of Elden ring, the funniest gags being the monsters that randomly turn into other monsters, although I find the open world of ER much more comfortable and even calming or sublime to explore then most dark souls locations.
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this is one of those things that soulslikes have trouble comprehending, and is what makes dark souls 1 stand out so much for me. this game achieves a tone/vibe that no other in the genre has come close to replicating, not even fromsoft's own subsequent releases
