Just checked GameInformer and found these videos of some Japanese show playing through an early portion of Dark Souls.  If anybody knows any Japanese, can you hook us up with some basic bullet-points, if there's any interesting information to glean from these.
 
  Warning: Screeching Japanese Female ahead.

sweet. thanks for posting! 
 
And WOW, this looks SO much like Demon's Souls. That's partly a very good thing, but partly a little disappointing.  Then again, i only watched a few minutes of each so we'll see.   
Sorry I know no Japanese.

Cheers mate. While we're looking at these though, can anyone tell me why a lot of Japanese videos have a lot scrolling text on them?

@eroticfishcake said:

Cheers mate. While we're looking at these though, can anyone tell me why a lot of Japanese videos have a lot scrolling text on them?

It's a feature specific to the Japanese video upload site NicoNicoDouga. The site allows you to enter text and have it appear on videos at whatever moments you want it to. Watching a niconico clip in that fashion lets you see how other viewers are reacting to it at any given moment in that video through the text they upload. Call it a meta level of watching a video if you want. Of course, the option to watch it without any of the viewer commentary also exists, so its just the choice of the youtube uploader which version to upload.

Wait...is one of the commentators there Takeshi Meijin? Oh shit.

Why is there no mana bar?

Yup, that's some more Demon's Souls. I'm down, but I can't decide whether to get this or Team Ico Collection first.

  Warning: Screeching Japanese Female ahead.
   

@Dots said:

Why is there no mana bar?

Theres no mana bar because now spells have a quantity of uses how to refill it i dont know im guess those archstone / checkpoints though

The girl is struggling to contain her orgasms because she is sitting next to the God King Master Takahashi.

Such a cruel game - can't wait :- ) lol

@Kazzurak: I'm not sure if I like that... I'll have to wait and see.