Dark Souls and Existential Dread

Søren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher from the early to mid 19th century. His main writings were on dread and the nature of God. Rather intense, but his writing went on to influence Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre, and several others in the feild of modern philosophy. However, many have argued that he should be seen less as a general philosopher and more as a theologian. As his concepts of religion are more what his body of work is dominated by. Even if not very many theologians after him took off form his work and his most famus influence was on an atheist. Never the less his understanding of religion is actually very relivent in having a deeper understand of Dark Soul 1 released in 2011.

Like every pretenius review I must somehow tie in a simple video game from the 2010s in with some pertentous European philosopher. But I have a genuin point about this, it's been mentioned before that the game being a metaphore for deprestion but I believe it's more than that. It's narrative tells a story about human existence. .