Dark Souls: The Story of Hidetaka Miyazaki
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Published 2017-03-24
Hidetaka's story is one of triumph through trial and error. After quitting a job at a prestigious technology company to pursue his dream of becoming a games developer, he had to work hard to find a new place for himself. But a desire to tell a powerful story through video games motivated him to change his entire life.
His first game, Demon Souls, was an enormous challenge, as the project was believed by his peers to be doomed to failure. Hidetaka had the odds stacked against him - but, if we've learned anything from the Dark Souls games, it's that tough challenges are worth fighting through in return for a more satisfying victory.
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Also, apologies for the ad break in the middle of this video, it was done deliberately to punctuate the story. This ended up being a very long video, and while we considered splitting it into two parts, we figured we'd rather do it in one big chunk. As a result, though, we felt like we needed a moment's pause in the middle to help let things sink in, and the perfect way to give it that moment of quiet seemed to be an extra advert. Sorry if it breaks up the flow too much - let us know if it bothered you too much, we're figuring things out at we go, so we're happy to change things up if necessary.
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Source for this video: www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/31/bloodbo…
Words by Breton Stripes twitter.com/bretonstriped
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Music: Wisps of Whorls by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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All Comments (21)
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Correction, Miyakai wasn't a bad reader in his native language, the issue he had was that he was reading books written in English.
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"Sometimes he'd read through an entire paragraph of text without having any idea of what was going on in the story" We did it, folks, we found the underlying principle behind Dark Souls lore.
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Miyazaki was the first to git gud!
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YouTube Recommended finally giving me something I actually wanna watch
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So... he got gud
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I didn't know they got Crossbreed Priscilla to narrate
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All these years later, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice won Game of the Year 2019, so there you have it
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is the narrator the firekeeper herself?
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Wow, that rare moment when you accidentally stumble upon some random content and it's actually good. Impatiently waiting for the next episode. You deserve success.
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not enough credit goes to that one friend with the ico game. HE STARTED THIS WHOLE THING
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He said "I really like berserk, I want to make an unofficial berserk Video game." And demon souls and dark souls were born!
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Dark Souls was a game that turned my life around. Thanks for doing this story!
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Myazaki revived gaming for me and each and every game with his name on it is and always will be pure solid gold. I can't hardly wait to see what he is working on with his team. Bloodborne, Demon's Souls and Dark Souls 1+3 are the finest video games I have ever played. He could make a farming simulator and I would pre order the crap out of this game at this point haha Thank you for the amazing story of an amazing and very interessting personality, all hail the gaming messiah Myazaki XD
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I’m so proud of him. He is my own personal hero. It may seem silly but I deeply share his love of storytelling and unfortunately, continuous failure. Dark Souls quite literally saved my life and reignited my love of games when it has almost completely evaporated. I owe him everything.
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believe it or not I'm actually crying watching this video after playing elden ring i decided to look who the person behind this amazing game and now i know who he is, Hidetaka Miyazaki you actually made me really excited playing a game again for very long time.
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I would pick up this man's suits from the dry cleaners, no questions asked.
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This was fantastic. Dark Souls is one of my favorite all time series. I had no idea that Hidetaka Miyazaki struggled so much. This gives me so much inspiration to continue working on my own creative efforts on my channel. It's been such a hard grind to get even 1000 subcribers - I'm sure you know the feeling as well. I subbed, looking forward to watching more episodes.
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I've gladly spent 10 minutes of my life on a story I already knew, just because of the narration. Exceptional job and I love your voice.
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Little did he know, that he would one day become one of the greatest game directors of all time.
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This channel is criminally under appreciated. This is another wonderful episode! Thank you for making this!
