As if the original Dark Souls didn’t already put gamers in enough pain, during the 2012 Spike VGAs it was announced that Namco Bandai is working on Dark Souls 2 , the next go-to game to fulfill all of your masochistic desires.
Unlike that other big trailer shown off during the VGAs, the Dark Souls 2 trailer was not in-game footage. Instead, we were treated to a fairly lengthy–and rather pretty–cinematic trailer.
The trailer starts off showing a character–presumably Dark Souls 2 ‘s protagonist–dressed in full armor as he carefully makes his way through a forest. A forest full of things that want to kill him, we imagine.
“You are the undead,” a menacing narrator says during the cinematic trailer as we’re shown scenes of some kind of fortress, and a cave. “Forever without hope, forever without light.”
Afterwards, we’re shown scenes of a fallen dragon who, as it turns out, is not quite fallen. The protagonist is also seen fighting a masked figure, who gets the receiving end of the protagonist’s sword planted right through his head.
Sadly, we don’t know anything more about Dark Souls 2 . The debut trailer didn’t show us any in-engine gameplay, and the trailer didn’t say whether or not Dark Souls 2 is coming to any current-generation consoles, or if it will be for Microsoft and Sony’s as-yet unannounced next-gen hardware.
Should Namco Bandai share any information in the coming days, we’ll be sure to let you know. For now, go ahead and watch the Dark Souls 2 cinematic trailer from the 2012 Spike VGAs below.
