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Written by: Anna Moon Designed by: Alex & Mheer
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Similies. Metaphors.
compared to the Twilight
Generalizations. Analogies.
franchise, Anne Rice, or Dracula, and a
Comparisons are an important part of human knowledge and understanding — they are everywhere, because there’s no easier way to describe something
dichotomy has led people to use these games as a litmus test for game
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become “the next Harry Potter.” something like “If you liked Dark Souls, you’ll like this, because it’s really Music doesn’t escape this subtle hard.” Polygon has an excellent video generalization monster. Given the
that’s similar to something we’re
breaking down the “Dark Souls of
number of new artists appearing
things, and their usefulness is undeniable.
decades” and discussing the “Dark Souls descriptor” and how this descriptor is used to compare games to the Souls franchise.
A well-known example comes to us from the gaming community to
analysis and reveals the biggest
every year, arguably the music scene is one of the larger perpetrators of the generalization comparison than any other — how many times have we heard that a new artist sounds like someone else? Sometimes the
games. In the late 2000s, FromSoftware released the popular and divisive Dark Souls series, followed by a bevy of sequels and similarly-styled games throughout the 2010s. What has made these games so divisive and
argument against the usefulness of comparisons: they’re often used to compare things that aren’t especially similar. Any game that is viewed as being compared to Dark Souls, even if
descriptor is accurate, but as with all stereotypes, a comparison of this nature often glosses over the deeper facts in favor of shallow surface value and neglects subtle facets in favor of broad strokes.
the mechanics of the game and its Unsurprisingly, BTS has been
even controversial is their level of ask, they’re easy games, and if you’re struggling you just need to 1 | Apples to Oranges
comparisons also isn’t limited to the gaming world. For example, a series of books about vampires will likely be
to compare. Most notably, BTS has been compared to popular Western male groups, such as
