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On Soulsring Worlds: Narrative Complexity, Digital Communities, and Interpretation in Dark Souls and Elden Ring

On Soulsring Worlds: Narrative Complexity, Digital Communities, and Interpretation in Dark Souls and Elden Ring

Caracciolo, Marco

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Advances in Game Studies

Games & Activities GeneralGeneral ComputersGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1032683996
ISBN13: 9781032683997
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Feb 26 2024
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

The first book-length study devoted to FromSoftware games, On Soulsring Worlds explores how the Dark Souls series and Elden Ring are able to reconcile extreme difficulty in both gameplay and narrative with broad appeal.

Arguing that the games are strategically positioned in relation to contemporary audiences and designed to tap into the new forms of interpretation afforded by digital media, the author situates the games vis-à-vis a number of current debates, including the posthuman and the ethics of gameplay. The book delivers an object lesson on the value of narrative (and) complexity in digital play and in the interpretive practices it gives rise to.

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