If the Dark Souls series managed to seduce players and journalists, it was mainly by word of mouth. It was such a great success that Dark Souls 2 was named “Game of the Year” 2014 by the vast majority of gaming magazines and websites. To date, this saga is one of the most important in the gaming industry. The odd thing is that these games are well known for their difficulty and their cryptic universe. This publication narrates the epic success story, but also describes its gameplay mechanics and its specific lore across more than 300 pages. Characters, plots and the scenario of the three Souls (Demon's Souls, Dark Souls and Dark Souls II) are deciphered by Damien Mecheri and Sylvain Romieu, who spent a long year studying these dense and enigmatic games down to the smallest detail.

These two authors are video game journalists with a lot of experience. Damien has already written three books and Sylvain has a very famous blog dedicated to the Souls saga.

Passionate about films and video games, Damien Mecheri joined the writing team of Gameplay RPG in 2004 and wrote several articles for the second special edition on the Final Fantasy saga. With this same team, Damien continued his work in 2006 for another publication known as Background, before moving his career to the Internet in 2008, with Gameweb.fr. Since 2011, in addition to working as a radio journalist, he has written articles on music for a number of books published by Pix’n Love, such as Zelda: Chronicles of a Legendary Series, Metal Gear Solid: Hideo Kojima’s Magnum Opus, The Legend of Final Fantasy VII and IX, Castlevania: The Cursed Manuscript, and BioShock: From Rapture to Columbia. He is also the author of Video Game Music: A History of Gaming Music.

Curious by nature, a dreamer against the grain and a chronic ranter, Romieu is also a passionate traveler of the real and the unreal, the world and the virtual universes, always in search of enriching discoveries and varied cultures. A developer by trade, he took up his modest pen several years ago to study the characteristics and richness of the marvelously creative world of video games. He writes for a French video game site called Chroniques ludiques, particularly on the topic of RPGs, his preferred genre.