
Hello everyone! This is the first companion article to KAMP’s own film/game review show, Ludo-Musicology. There will be a new article each week to go with my Saturday broadcasts, discussing aspects of the review’s subject that I wasn’t able to cover in the main show, or elaborating on aspects that had to be truncated to…

This is less-so a review of Dark Souls 1 itself (a great game, play it) and more-so a review of the surrounding social conventions of playing the game. If there is anything the franchise – and, indeed, the rapidly growing genres of “soulslikes” which seek to imitate it – is known for, it is an…