Dark Souls, the popular action RPG game from Hidetaka Miyazaki, came out 13 years ago and has since seen the release of two sequels. The game had a positive reception, and its high-difficulty gameplay became the center of discussion. Moreover, the first game in the series is also considered by many to be the best of all.
As players begin their journey in the game by starting a new game, they are given the chance to choose a starting gift that can be of help in the game. The players need to choose their gift from a long list of useful things. However, among all of these items, the most iconic one was a pendant with the description, “Trinket. No effect, but fond memories comfort travelers,” which therefore had an element of mystery around it.
Hidetaka Miyazaki talks about the Dark Souls pendant
Dark Souls director Hidetaka Miyazaki said in a Famitsu interview from 2011 that he’d pick the pendant or nothing as the starting gift in the Dark Souls game. Therefore, according to this suggestion made by Miyazaki, the pendant might have a very significant purpose in the game.
Players, by reading the description, believed the pendant had no use in the game, but it quickly became the center of many theories and an area of interest for the fans of the game. For months, fans tried to find a hidden purpose for this item, ranging from in-game events to even unlocking hidden storylines.
However, all of the efforts by the community to find the purpose of the pendant turned out to be futile. Finally, after many years of speculation and debate, the game director during an interview with IGN said,
When it comes to the pendant, I actually had a little bit of an intention to play a prank.
This was nothing more than just a prank that the developers pulled on the players, and the pendant had no significant purpose at all.
New fan mod for Dark Souls 3
Fans wanting to play the Dark Souls game today can do so using the Dark Souls: Archthrones Mod. This is a fan mod for the last game in the trilogy, i.e. Dark Souls 3, and promises to offer a complete overhaul of the game which will be a retelling of the Dark Souls universe.
This mod has been developed by the Archthrones Team, and players can get it for free on NexusMods. Moreover, this fan-made mod takes its cue from none other than Demon’s Souls in terms of its level structure.
The Archthrones Team has taken some bits and pieces from other Souls games and FromSoftware games in general for better gameplay mechanics and animations. The Archthrones Mod brings new weapons to wield, new armor for the changed gameplay, and with it a host of new NPCs offering various side quests.
