Souls Conspiracy Theories: Why? (with Knight of the Orchards)

Описание: Marika is Velka? The Gloam-Eyed Queen is Oedon? Solaire is Mesmer's real mother? Probably not, but why do people never seem to let these ideas go?

In this episode, Sophie chats with ‪@knightoftheorchards‬ about how players drawn in by the conspiratorial aspects of Dark Souls couldn't accept the fire fading and kept searching for new, deeper levels of conspiracy that had increasing little to do with the actual game.

Velka, Oedon, Evangelion, Graham Hancock, and the Orientalist depiction of "Crafty Miyazaki" are discussed for 90 minutes (which was originally three hours; you got off lightly).

Demon's Souls footage from ‪@Setsumei00245‬
King's Field footage from ‪@10minGameplay1‬

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00:00:00 Start
00:00:45 Intro
00:02:44 Conspiracies in Dark Souls
00:12:59 Conspiracies in Dark Souls 2
00:16:54 Conspiracies in Dark Souls 3
00:21:13 Conspiracies in Demon's Souls
00:24:25 Conspiracies in Elden Ring
00:27:00 Conspiracies in Bloodborne
00:28:10 Conspiracy as Characterisation
00:37:55 "Miyazaki's Storytelling Style"
00:49:13 Everything is a puzzle, especially Velka
00:57:27 "Actually, it's ambiguous"
01:02:16 "Actually, it's a hidden code"
01:10:10 Schrodinger's Author
01:15:27 Pseudoexperts
01:21:16 Fork in the Empathy Machine
01:32:00 I was wrong about Blood Tendency