Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-187.60.100.111-20140629154705

After playing 150+ hours, reading countless wiki pages, watching many lore videos and looking into the precious few interviews with the creators of the game, I can't help but feel annoyed by the lack of concrete answers we have. People with this same feeling sometimes receive the answer "That's the point" from other players, but that's a really poor answer.

The main sources of information in the game are the items descriptions and dialogue from NPCs, but the items only give you small, unconnected hints about past events that you don't know when or why happened, and the half-mad NPCs only tell you objectively what you have to do next, while you don't even know who you are, who they are and what the hell is happening.

Don't get me wrong: I like what they have done with this. Gives you the feeling of constantly braving new (and deadly) lands, reaching for progress both as a player, seeking to be stronger and beat the challenges, and as the character of the story, trying to understand it while being part of it. The thing is, you will never succeed in the latter, since you will never get enough information about the world and the situation you're living in. After you get every piece of information given, check them twice and try to complete the puzzle, there are so many gaps you just feel confused and make something up.

To just dump pieces of an incomplete story and let the audience entertain itself with her own imagination is nothing new and also absurdly lame, but I don't think this is the case here. Well, there was an interview many years ago, when Dark Souls was just launched, that could hint to something like that, in which Hidetaka Miyazaki said the mechanics of the game didn't revolved around the story, actually the other way around (they first made a very good open world action RPG, with the main theme of death and the "demon souls feeling", and only after that came the story), but he also already said much about the way he is trying to tell the tale and how much of it he just left hidden to achieve his goal. He even said that he has a "Dark Souls bible", all the lore written down with most of the answers we want, which he won't show anyone because would reveal much of himself, in his own words. There IS a canon lore giving more background to this world, it's not everything up to interpretation. Why he denies that to the players who enjoy the ride but want the truth in the end? 