The Best Games at PAX East 2023: Highlights From My First Gaming Conference
If you couldn’t make it to PAX East this year, Flora has you covered. She discusses her overall PAX experience as well as her favorite games from the show.
Tagged: Dark Souls
Winding Down: Reflecting on Five Years of Games Writing
Flora Merigold reflects on five years of games writing, revisiting her favorite articles from Epilogue’s website.
Being Trans is the ‘Dark Souls’ of Gender: An Exploration of Parallels
Comparing anything to Dark Souls is basically a meme, but here’s one trans woman’s perspective on how Souls reflects her experiences since coming out.
Cheating the Challenge Away: My Experience With ‘Elden Ring,’ ‘Dark Souls,’ and ‘Returnal’
It’s no secret that Dark Souls, Elden Ring, and Returnal are brutally unforgiving games. But can you still enjoy them if you make them easier?
Understanding The Surprisingly Hilarious and Thought-Provoking Player Messages in ‘Elden Ring’
The cryptic player messages in Elden Ring are baffling riddles. Here’s my attempt to interpret what these messages mean and why they were written.
What Makes ‘Kena: Bridge of Spirits’ Special
Kena: Bridge of Spirits does almost everything right, from animation to combat to storytelling. Here’s what makes this game so special.
In Defense of Easy Mode
One of the first criticisms I read when I began my academic study of videogames was the idea that difficulty settings are bad game design. This article, insightful at the time, made me realize...
‘Dark Souls’ and Expert Boss Design
The boss progression of Dark Souls is an incredibly well-crafted one, teaching the player mechanics through the designs of the fights themselves.
The Top 10 Video Game Chests
Chests have become so commonplace in video games that they are almost expected to appear in some fashion, especially when games like Fortnite infest the waters with their multitude of generic loot chests, diluting...
Best Butts in Gaming: A Look at Lower Halves
Video games have become quite a prominent form of entertainment now widely accepted in pop culture. And since their inception, video games have grown quite alluring to the eye. One sense of appeal that...
Why You Shouldn’t Play ‘Vampyr’
Vampyr is an exhausting game. From annoying technical issues to an overburdened story, the game falls apart at nearly every opportunity. What seems like an interesting narrative-based action game that branches out in consequence...
‘Dark Souls,’ Depression, and Difficulty Settings
In the summer of 2013, I found myself on the wrong end of what had been a long battle with depression. The kind where getting out of bed seems like an arduous task, and...
Capcom is Back, Baby + Our Favorite Video Games
Epilogue takes on the difficult task of answering: “What are our favorite video games?”. Capcom lands another big hit with Devil May Cry 5 and EA bounces from its E3 press conference.
New Years and Sex Video Games
The Epilogue Crew talks about their video game resolutions for 2019 and breaks down sex video games. Are there any good ones? Ben, Dakota and Marcos break down the genre and its future.
The Ten Worst Tutorials Ever
One of the worst things in video games is the mandatory tutorial. It severs any chance of replaying a game and enjoying it in full (there will always be that part that you have to...
