Miracle of Sound: You Died (Dark Souls)

[Simonoly]

A song about how difficult Dark Souls is, and no Bed of Chaos (The final step toward beating this boss is to jump a bottomless pit past the thing's two giant scythe arms and on to a fairly small platform that leads to the boss's heart), Stray Demon (ridiculous ammount of health, physical and magic damage, plenty of reach in a tight space) or Four Kings (has a lot of health, a magic sword, there's four of them, and they all gang up on you)? You didn't even show any of the horrors of blighttown! Then again, if you had shown any scene from BLighttown, no one would ever pick up this game.

I think the less said about Bed of Chaos and Blight town, the better. Those are the only two parts of the game I genuinely didn't enjoy for obvious reasons. I did heart this song though.

 

[ZombieMonkey7]

You listen to this song, AND THEN YOU DIE

 

[NastoK]

While the song is good (I especially like the lyrics), it was a tad too psychedelic for a Dark Souls song, and not enough dark. Though I've read someone say it's "very dark and foreboding", so I guess to each his own.

 

[Fumofu]

Love this song. It really captures how sudden and inevitable death is in this game. Also love this part:

Look to the sun's rays
Behold and offer praise
Look to the sun's rays
Comfort in the glow

To me it just gives the feeling of desperation that you sometimes feel when playing this game. Especially when you finally reach a safe place and realize how nervous and tense you've been the entire time. I also read what you wrote about how the flow of this song is designed to match the flow of the game and it makes me appreciate it even more. Good stuff, keep it up.

 

[Jang]

I did fell the tone in this one was a bit all over the place. The first bit did make me think that was a comedy song, but it seems to get a significantly more serious tone in the second half. I guess the criticism that I am bringing fourth is that, while I loved both the first and second half I think I would rather have one song that was focused towards the humorous aspects of the bazillion deaths and then one that focuses on the tone of the game (Disclaimer: talking (partially) out of my ass as I haven't played Dark Souls).

Still an enjoyable song though

 

[colostomizer]

Did anyone else read the title in the voice of Dooley from King of the Hill. You know, the little redheaded kid who only ever says two or three words at a time?

Good ol' Dooley...
"Your wife divorced you."
"You got soaked."
And of course, most fittingly in this case:
"You're dead." (Or "Está muerté").

 

[Bravo 21]

Love the troll-y hilarity of the song, Keep it up.

 

[Yeager942]

This song finally convinced me to go out and buy Dark Souls.


Thanks?

 

[Big Paja]

I find myself listening to this one regularly. My favourite line is "Humanity restored and then YOU DIED." because that's one of the more painful ways to die.

 

[phantom495]

i think that movie made most of us realize how often we actually do die in games like first person shooters and fantasy adventure games.

ouchie.

 

[renegade7]

I bought Dark Souls because of this song...it was written like a challenge, and I can't just refuse that can I?

 

[1jkm]

The last words aren't (taken from the text below video):
"Every soul spent
To doom sent..."

They are:
"Every soul spent
Once more you die."

 

[arcstone]

I've actually thought for a while that gollums song from lord of the rings would have been a pretty good miracle of sound sort of song for dark souls.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkXbzffVl44

Basically, just ignore the source material and forget it has anything to do with lotr, and imagine its called song of the hollow or something.