Why does Dark Souls sound like Dark Souls?

The music of the souls games has a very specific sound that doesn't change much throughout the series, so in this video I take a look at some of the common elements that define the sound of these games. 0:00 - Intro 0:41 - No Music 1:27 - Orchestration 2:37 - Iudex Gundyr - Dark Souls 3 4:00 - Gehrman's Theme - Bloodborne 5:33 - Dominant V chords 6:31 - Firelink Shrine - Dark Souls 7:45 - Diminished vii chord 8:18 - Tower Knight - Demon's Souls 9:29 - Godskin Apostle - Elden Ring 11:19 - Great Grey Wolf Sif - Dark Souls 13:02 - Sinh, the Slumbering Dragon - Dark Souls 2 15:14 - Ornstein & Smough - Dark Souls 17:20 - Outro PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/8bitmusictheory Check out my album: https://8bitmt.bandcamp.com/album/lets-play DISCORD: https://discord.gg/8bmt TWITTER: https://twitter.com/8bitMusicTheory #darksouls #fromsoftware #8bitMusicTheory