Dark Souls is an infamous action role-playing video game produced by Namco. Set in an open-world environment, Dark Souls - like its spiritual predecessor, Demon's Souls - offers the player a formidable challenge while exploring the game's vast world. Both Souls were universally praised by critics and fans. In the words of Michael Thomsen for slate.com, “There is real beauty in Dark Souls. It reveals that life is more pain than pleasure, more failure than success, and that even the momentary relief of success is erased by new levels of difficulty. It also speaks to our perseverance in the face of this suffering, and it provides the comfort of a community of other players all stuck in the same hellish quagmire. These are good qualities. And you can get it all. of that from the first five hours of Dark Souls. The remaining 90 hours offer nothing but an increasingly absurd variation of that experience” – a quote that I think does a great job of describing a player's struggle throughout Dark Souls. I also heard a fan compare the game to having a girlfriend who is absolutely perfect in every way except she punches you in the face every 5 minutes. This I find very accurate - after playing the game for several hundred hours and falling in love with the gameplay and story myself, no matter how hard Dark Souls hits me in the gut, I come back without stop to find out more. The game will punish you for even the slightest mistake you make, meaning that pressing the controller in the wrong direction or failing to parry an enemy's attack will most likely mean the game is over for you. Dark Souls will sometimes make you feel like a worthless idiot, but on the other hand, will reward you ... middle of paper ... dragons with lightning bolts and witches creating large firestorms that burned and burned the lands. Now, after the fight against the dragons, Nito resides in the deepest parts of the Catacombs, in the Tomb of the Giants and is there to lead one of the Covenant, the Gravelorders. The Witch of Izalith is one of the first lords who helped Gwyn in battle. war against the Dragons. She attempted to replicate the First Flame of a soul but accidentally created a distorted being of Chaos and Fire. His power formed a bed of life that became the source of all demons. The Flame of Chaos also engulfed the Witch and her daughters and transformed them into distorted creatures, with only Quelaag escaping. The Witch of Izalith resides beneath the roots of the Bed of Chaos. Works Cited Various Dark Souls wiki (and the real wiki), reddit, Vaati Vidya story videos on Youtube