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How to purchase the complete game preassembled Downward Spiral: The game you really don’t want to play.TCU Treatment Readiness and Induction Program (TRIP).TCU Disease Risk Reduction WaySafe Intervention.Through looking at these games as a feedback loop between text, environment and ludic system, I connect the main conceptual motifs that structure the games as a whole with Osawa Masachi's concept of the post-fictional era and Hiroki Azuma's definition of the otaku. This expression of contemporary social anxiety is connected to the discourse of postmodernity in Japan.

It does this through a fractured approach to story-telling, that is interspersed with Buddhist metaphysics and wrapped up in macabre, gothic aesthetic depicting the last gasping breath of a once great kingdom.
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I argue that the Dark Souls series expresses in allegorical form an anxiety about living in a time where the meaning of our everyday actions and even society itself has become significantly destabilized. I argue that the game should be thought of as an emblem of the current cultural zeitgeist, in a similar way one might identify something like Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums as an emblem of the counter cultural 60s. A series of thoughts or actions which feeds back into itself, causing a situation to become progressively worse. This paper is about locating the meaning of a series of games known as the Dark Souls series in relation to contemporary social conditions in Japan.
