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I love to see a giant decaying tree in a fantasy game
The First Sin
https://theomeny.medium.com/the-first-sin-c8be873b0432
No other game studio has had such a consistency of narrative tropes as FromSoftware. This is a boon for those who have an interest in examining how FromSoftware tells and constructs a story, what fascinates them, and how they have evolved over the years.
This essay is a deep dive into the connected stories of the four games in the King's Field series. The author also touches on how the themes and motifs of this series resonate with other FromSoft games. I was especially interested to learn where the Erdtree in Elden Ring comes from.
As an aside, I appreciate when people write and publish actual prose essays about retro games. There's no way in hell I'm going to watch a three-hour video essay on YouTube, but I'm more than happy to spend ten minutes skimming a self-published article on Medium.
https://theomeny.medium.com/the-first-sin-c8be873b0432
No other game studio has had such a consistency of narrative tropes as FromSoftware. This is a boon for those who have an interest in examining how FromSoftware tells and constructs a story, what fascinates them, and how they have evolved over the years.
This essay is a deep dive into the connected stories of the four games in the King's Field series. The author also touches on how the themes and motifs of this series resonate with other FromSoft games. I was especially interested to learn where the Erdtree in Elden Ring comes from.
As an aside, I appreciate when people write and publish actual prose essays about retro games. There's no way in hell I'm going to watch a three-hour video essay on YouTube, but I'm more than happy to spend ten minutes skimming a self-published article on Medium.
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Just finished reading this— What a blast! Thank you for linking it :)
The way the author links trees to sapping vitality, this greedy, primordial desire for more regardless of the consequences made everything click so wonderfully. A real galaxy_brain.gif moment there, haha. It's very rare to see trees portrayed in such a sinister light like this, now that I think about it; to see them as taking instead of giving. Another motif to file away and gnaw over obsessively, heheheh.
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But it makes me incredibly happy to find a fellow connoisseur of botanical horror that overlaps with cosmic horror. Like, god is real, but it's nonsapient vegetable matter. It's rotting, and its rot is infecting the web of roots that form the world, and we have no choice but to let the cycle run its course. That's the good shit right there. 🥂✨