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An analysis and retrospective of the Dark Souls series existential leanings and what that means regarding its narrative and gameplay's interaction.

When you make your character in a Dark Souls game you do just that, you put yourself into the game's world. What you're putting into Dark Souls is incomplete if you don't also invest yourself in your own journey. Dark Souls asks you to literally be your character both in and out of the game. That's what hollowing is truly about. There is only a single lose condition for the series, putting the game down and never coming back. Hollowing might be represented in various ways in game but you'll only ever be overtaken by it if you give up.

The series in this way is as much a fantasy story as an existential journey for you to go on. Little is ever told to you and so much is simply built around your own interpretation. Your own search for meaning. In spite of this Dark Souls is happy to give you purpose and because it's a game, you'll accept that. The series can also be seen as a commentary on our own need for meaning in our lives and each game in the series advances this critique with the third game finally allowing you to truly set off on your own.

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Chapters:
Part 1:    • Don't You Dare Go Hollow- Dark Souls ...  
Part 2:    • Don't You Dare Go Hollow- Dark Souls ...  
Part 3:    • Don't You Dare Go Hollow- Dark Souls ...  

Also please note that there is another video with a similar title (I didn't know this when I uploaded this video, sorry about that) discussing a different and equally interesting interpretation of Dark Souls here:
   • Don't You Dare Go Hollow - Dark Souls...