Object-ive review: Dark Souls’ Transient Curse

This here Object-ive Review is the first in what I aim to make a supporters-only series in which I take a look at small, unique, or specific game objects, and talk about them in more detail than is likely sensible or interesting. Or, at least, use those objects as a springboard to write about personal experiences with games in ways that might not otherwise occur to me.

Much like the danger of continuing to take ecstasy at the weekends well into your late thirties in a vain attempt to recapture the euphoric bliss of the single, spectacular night in which you once accidentally enjoyed yourself multiple decades ago, my own Soulsian undead curse is an eternal, fruitless odyssey to reignite the same cold flames of dreadful trepidation I felt when first taking the elevator from Dark Souls’ Firelink Shrine down to the mournful grief-pit that is the New Londo Ruins.