Category Archives: Souls

Nioh Nioh Ni

Posted on May 28, 2019 by

Nioh was one of my favorite games of 2017, and the sequel announcement during last year’s E3 was a very pleasant surprise.  With From Software taking a well-deserved break from new Souls games, and Code Vein seemingly AWOL, it looks … Continue reading →

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Ashen: I couldn’t think of a funny post title.

Posted on January 6, 2019 by

Let’s be clear.  I had a wide variety of post titles to choose between, but in the end I couldn’t decide between making a funny play on words involving “ash” or making a Souls reference that would be ever-so-clever but … Continue reading →

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I’m ready for Nico-Nico-Nioh-Ni

Posted on December 28, 2018 by

Coming up on the end of the year here, and I’m ending 2018 in the exact way I ended 2017 – playing Koei Tecmo’s Nioh.  I bought the expansions in, oh, March or so and I had been putting off … Continue reading →

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Try Holding With Both Hands: Dark Souls on the Switch

Posted on November 6, 2018 by

Back in September, I decided to play the PS3 version of Dark Souls, since I’d never played the console versions and kind of wanted to see just how bad Blighttown really was. It’s bad.  Woo boy is it ever.  I … Continue reading →

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14:55:36

Posted on September 16, 2018 by

A few days ago, I mentioned that I had a habit of starting new Dark Souls playthroughs, ringing the first Bell of Awakening, and stopping there, and that this takes me about an hour each time. Well, this last time … Continue reading →

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On Cultural Exchange

Posted on September 15, 2018 by

A few days ago, I mentioned that I’d thrown in my Japanese copy of Dark Souls to unwind after a little bit of a vexing day.  It wasn’t one of my more accessible posts, since I was talking about trophies … Continue reading →

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The Dark Souls of Trophy Glitches

Posted on September 10, 2018 by

After finishing my Mass Effect trilogy replay – I’ll have a post about that in a few days – I was looking through my backlog for inspiration and realized that I had a bunch of games on the PS3 that … Continue reading →

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