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The All-Star Japanese Game Developer Draft (with Ashley Day and Dave Scarborough)

The Back Page · August 29, 2025

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02:42:51 - 02:43:38

dungeon to the other guy yeah it was just it was just too much specificity i started licking my lips yeah that's me locked in and now i'm union from software so do your worst motherfucker it's okay well um dave that i guess demons dark souls two or three which were you taking kingsfield three yeah that's not gonna happen i'll go with uh dark souls three yeah that's the right choice here it's uh yeah it's it's the it's the final sort of mainline souls game um they did i played this just before um my daughter was…

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... this on ps5 and um dave so eloquently described it early on and i thought you know what yeah that's the stuff that game's got the stuff if i have a chance to somehow integrate that into my draft i will absolutely do that bathy loves the level where you become the the boss in the dungeon to the other guy yeah it was just it was just too much specificity i started licking my lips yeah that's me locked in and now i'm union from software so do your worst motherfucker it's okay well um dave that i guess demons dark souls two or three which were you taking kingsfield three yeah that's not gonna happen i'll go with uh dark souls three yeah that's the right choice here it's uh yeah it's it's the it's the final sort of mainline souls game um they did i played this just before um my daughter was born i remember very fifth oh don't tell me you've got a good story about this fucking game well it it was like a it was a ticking clock for me i had to complete it before she was born knowing that all my all my spare time was going to get completely wiped out for the foreseeable future and i just wanted to give it all my attention so it was something that consumed every spare minute of time i had for for about a month yeah i i genuinely think it is ...

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01:01:42 - 01:02:55

it was an amazing experience to like fall in love with that game without knowing anything about it before there'd even been any like reviews in in the wild it's it will always be special to me for that reason and i'm like really really dave pleasantly surprised that this is your favorite like i knew you loved dark souls um i didn't know that uh your love went this far back and that and that it remained your favorite so i'm i'm quite impressed if you liked it so much won't you steal this he's already got sakiro…

00:38:09 - 00:38:44

Software I'm going to take Sekiro. Interesting. I'm taking this purely on the grounds of it's the From Software game I made the most progress in which admittedly isn't an amazing accomplishment the order if you're interested is Sekiro, Elden Ring, Bloodborne Dark Souls. What I do like about Sekiro compared to their other games is the fact that it is a set character and I feel like there's something cleaner in that this is the guy this is the set of powers you've got to get through where in all their other games…

02:35:12 - 02:35:46

and end my turn there very good matthew okay dave we come to you and i have to kill something this is this is fun what do i what do i go for wouldn't it be funny if someone killed eldon ring so matthew couldn't pick another from i was because because i'm gonna take dark souls when it's my next pick so what would matthew pick after that he'd have to take three or two i'll have to take your dark souls too and hope for the best i don't want to attack don't don't do i mean it wasn't supposed to go this way it just…

02:21:46 - 02:22:20

still hung up on this game i think is the very specific lovecraft cosmic horror vibes of it and the you know victorian london um style kind of like art direction um that just makes it so visually distinctive from dark souls and eldon ring it really is a one of one um and i think that's why people are still just cannot get this out of their heads and are obsessed with the idea of it being remade or resurfaced in some way does feel like money on the table for sony if they ever do choose to do that nonetheless it…

02:39:20 - 02:39:55

kind of like variants of it just makes it a harder sell to me a bit more amorphous than the beautiful purity of um sakiro um but nonetheless um that has been picked and stolen already um so dark souls is a perfectly good entry because it's one of the um most uh acclaimed games ever made so perfectly solid way to end the draft here in theory um before we circle back to ash have you got any more picks ash are you done i think i'm done aren't i unless someone punishes yeah unless someone punishes you so it comes…

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