{"id":3033,"date":"2025-10-27T08:59:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T09:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/?p=3033"},"modified":"2025-10-29T15:14:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T15:14:32","slug":"like-it-or-not-its-time-to-admit-dark-souls-is-a-horror-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/27\/like-it-or-not-its-time-to-admit-dark-souls-is-a-horror-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Like it or not, its time to admit Dark Souls is a horror game"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wager that when you think of FromSoftware, you probably don’t associate horror with the likes of Elden Ring or\u00a0Dark Souls. That honor is typically bestowed upon Bloodborne or the low-poly haunts of King’s Feld. But Dark Souls is different; it still gets under my skin like no other experience in the genre that FromSoftware continues to innovate within. Underneath the thrills of intense battles and sense of adventure, there’s no denying it: Dark Souls is a horror game at its core.<\/p>\n

Read the full story on Pocket Tactics: Like it or not, its time to admit Dark Souls is a horror game<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wager that when you think of FromSoftware, you probably don’t associate horror with the likes of Elden Ring or\u00a0Dark Souls. That honor is typically bestowed upon Bloodborne or the low-poly haunts of King’s Feld. But Dark Souls is different; it still gets under my skin like no other experience in the genre that FromSoftware…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3034,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033\/revisions\/3034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}