Board Thread:Dark Souls/@comment-25106727-20140626034651/@comment-25173123-20140721065020

Bowser is at the end of the level. He doesn't just suddenly appear in odd transition points for no reason.

As to the story. Not being close minded at all. It just isn't really there. Simple as that. And Shadow of Colossus is a grat game that even had more story then this. But it too wasn't story driven it was boss battle driven. Having an emotional attachment to a character or not does not dictate a story. Dark Souls story would be less then cliffsnotes of cliffsnotes.

And if you have to look for the story then that is like opening a book and having to look for meaning. Dark Souls is an Action movie where everyone seems to imagine it as War and Peace. No story here... just kill and kill again. You can think up a story about how the villain in Nakatomi plaza might have been married to a princess that died at the hands of murderous Slavic dogs. But he was just a guy you had to kill at the end to feel good about yourself. :D