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Video Games · 2011

YOU DIED

— Game message • Dark Souls

An extinguished candle rests beside a small ember in a dark stone passage, with faint light beyond the arch.
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The death screen states failure without comfort or explanation. Repetition changes its effect: each return can become another chance to observe, adjust and try again rather than proof that the journey must end.

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