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[Other] The visuals misled me greatly (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 day ago by Skua@kbin.earth to c/soulslike@lemmy.zip

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A WARNING: Tunic is extremely spoiler-sensitive, and it's also very good. I recommend not reading much about it if you're interested.

Anyway, Tunic. Cool game that I played a couple of years ago. I was surprised to see several near-explicit Dark Souls references in it (the tearstone rings and bells of awakening, particularly) beyond just the more obvious gameplay similarities. Anyone else here tried it out?

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[–] Skua@kbin.earth 2 points 1 day ago

To be fair, Dark Souls itself does draw a fair bit from Zelda and its like. The plot themes of Tunic felt very specifically Souls-adjacent to me, though - a seemingly weak but indomitable protagonist facing off against the decaying remnants of a collapsed golden age, gradually finding out that it's part of a seemingly everlasting cycle, and the lore being revealed only through fragmentary text found throughout the world.