Category Archives: Editorials
Red Meridian: Part 1/4 – The Dead Wild Bunch
Before I even started writing this article I had already written approximately 10,290 words about Red Dead Redemption (this taken off my Microsoft Word drafts, not the pieces themselves that are often longer still). To put that into perspective that is over 200 words more than my final year dissertation at University, which I wrote [...]
Demon’s Souls as epic? The follow-up
Since it’s US release in October 2009* Demon’s Souls has been written on, raved about and still garners a slew of appreciative writings wherever you look. Praised for its graphical prowess, unique integration of online features and the blistering, yet fair, challenge unseen in mainstream gaming for some time, it seemed that whilst Demon’s Souls [...]
Posted in Editorials Tagged Atlus, beowulf, Dante, Demons Souls, Epic, Homer, Poetry, Sony 1 Comment
Demon’s Souls as epic poetry?
Edit: The follow-up to this work is now live and can be found here. A question which must be seldom asked by the majority who tackled Demon’s Souls since its release in 2009 is “Does Demon’s Souls contain elements within its design which borrow, or at least are similar, from the epics of Homer, Dante [...]
The Cigarette in the Wine Bottle