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Dark Souls First Trailer Will Send Shivers Down Your Spine

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Posted February 2, 2011 - By Nikole Zivalich




Dark Souls, the spiritual successor to Demon's Souls, was shown off at today's Ignite 2011 presentation. It will be published and produced under the newly formed partnership between FromSoftware Inc and Namco Bandai. The game's producer, Daisuke Uchiyama, introduced to us the first trailer for the game. Before the trailer began he promised us it it would "send shivers down our spines." Maybe it was because we watched it in a basement in balmy San Francisco but it did give me chills. See for yourself.

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NEWS: Demon's Souls Sequel Announced

The same team who worked on Demon's Souls have been working on the next dark fantasy RPG, Dark Souls. The game has a sophisticated style of gameplay that relies on strategic and tactical swordplay to defeat increasingly challenging enemies. Dark Souls will be building off what Demon's Souls created with an even more explorable world and thousands more ways to die. No really, Uchiyama and his design team wanted to design a game that would "make you laugh" at the amount of times you die.

Dark Souls will ship worldwide Holiday 2011 for both the PS3 and Xbox 360.

Dark Souls First Trailer Will Send Shivers Down Your Spine
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  • cacdac20

    can't wait... Bless the developers for another great game!

    Posted: June 17, 2011 7:59 AM | Reply | Report
    cacdac20
  • Zirus91

    Hell Yeah!!! Coming for Xbox.

    Posted: February 3, 2011 11:23 PM | Reply | Report
    Zirus91
  • GunslingerD7

    God this looks amazing! I want this now! I loved Demon Souls.

    With this & Cursed Crusade there are gonna be some awesome swords & sandals games this year.

    Posted: February 3, 2011 7:03 PM | Reply | Report
    GunslingerD7
  • asteroth

    Shivers indeed, but not because of fear but anticipation. If you didnt get any shivers then you didnt play the original demon souls.

    To those that didnt play the original, Demon souls is a dark fantasy sigle player game with so really awesome twist.

    -First, THE GAME IS HARD! Not awful hard but intentionally hard, meaning that every faliure comes with huge rewards and satisfaction. Example: you are faced with a long treacherous road that will have you smashing your face to a wall and you are warded with not only souls and epic loot but also a really convinient shortcut. Another one are really intimidating bosses that offer you death, only when you shed your fear will you ever succed. In this game victories are EARNED not given.

    -Second, when you die the game doesnt throw you a bone, in fact the dificulty is RAISED! WTF? you say, well indeed but with stronger enemies yield better rewards. Again victories are EARNED not given.

    -Third, its a single/multiplayer experience. If you are connected to PSN (or live for Xbox) you see the ghost of other players that are roaming the world the same as you, while you cant talk to them it made for a unique expirience. BUT WAIT, THATS NOT ALL!!! Players can scrible premade messages to each other sharing hits or lies, lies in most cases lol. Also a bloodstain apears on the floor when someone dies showing the player who touched it how that player dies.

    Also adding to this unique multiplayer was the use of phantoms. player can write special mesages that allows other to summon them to their world as BLUE phantoms to aid them in their quest. BUT IN WHAT MAKES FOR ONE OF THE MOST AWESOME TWIST OF THE GAME! If you're loged in PSN another random player can INVADE your worls as a BLACK phantom and try to steal your soul!!!!

    Hope this sheds some unintended ignorance about the game, but I tell you the game is an EXPERIENCE AND SHOULD NO BE PASSSED so I really hope that Xbox user apreciate it as much as we PS3 users did.

    Now about the trailer, OMG Phantoms ARE BACK! the trailer showed Blue ones (although they looked sorta white) and OMFG was that a BLACK Phantom at the end!!! He did give out the iconig red flame look of black phantoms!

    I WANT IT NOW!!!!!!!

    Posted: February 3, 2011 2:57 PM | Reply | Report
    asteroth
  • dukeletoatreides

    Still waiting for that shiver...oh wait a moment! Off to play more Deadspace 2.

    Posted: February 3, 2011 9:30 AM | Reply | Report
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  • NeoHumpty

    Holy crap that is beautiful. I refuse to abuse myself with the kind of difficulty Demon's Souls brought, but it looks damned sweet for masochists.

    Posted: February 3, 2011 9:04 AM | Reply | Report
    NeoHumpty
  • seph384

    I see the graphics inproved or the whole quaility did. i wish was only ps3 exclusive so standereds wouldnt be lowered but Im sure it got more funding because of this since its on xbox too of course there gonna add co-op and all the stuff to make it more multiplayer friendly. it already dosent look the same or fighting style they made it more dramatic i guess to get a bigger crowd if you get what im trying to say.. over all im sure this game wont dissapoint i loved demons souls just the graphics were just the issue with me animation too but im sure it was cuz lack of money since didnt know how well it was gonna do.

    Posted: February 3, 2011 7:18 AM | Reply | Report
    seph384
  • ninenightmares

    it looks very good never heard of it but i would love to play it as to sending shivers down my spine im not trying to be ignorant but was it supposed to scare me or get me joyed up to want to buy it because i do want to buy it now but its didnt look to scary again not trying to be ignorant.

    Posted: February 3, 2011 6:25 AM | Reply | Report
    ninenightmares
  • MikesTheGreatest12

    im glad xbox peoples can enjoys the demen hunting. Any way this looks really good and those who say its a sequal its not sony has the rights to demon soul's so FromSoftware calls this a spiritual successor to demon soul's but yea can't wait to get this.

    Posted: February 3, 2011 4:56 AM | Reply | Report
    MikesTheGreatest12
  • RickyRevolver

    Well, this game will officially suck.
    They are gonna downgrade the game just to make the 360 community happy...

    Posted: February 3, 2011 4:51 AM | Reply | Report
    RickyRevolver

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