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    Dark Souls

    Game » consists of 14 releases. Released Sep 22, 2011

    A quasi-sequel to From Software's action-RPG Demon's Souls, set in a new universe while retaining most of the basic gameplay and the high level of challenge. It features a less-linear world, a new checkpoint system in the form of bonfires, and the unique Humanity system.

    Dark Souls' Japanese box art revealed.

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    #1  Edited By Icemael

    And it's awesome:

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    More games need nice covers. I hope they use this in the West... the first game's Western box art was shit compared to the Japanese.
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    #2  Edited By luce


    I like this better. Thats just me though. The jap cover looks great aswell
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    I actually think the second one looks slightly better as a cover, but I like the idea of the first one more.


    Along with Skyrim, DH:HR, Batman and this I'm going to have a pretty hard time of it later in the year.
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    #4  Edited By Icemael
    @Icemael: I hadn't seen the American cover before. It's pretty boring, I think... just a menacing dude holding a weapon on a one-colour background. The Japanese one sets up an atmosphere: a tired warrior rests after a long, tough day of fighting, taking refuge in the sanctuary offered by a lone, sparking fire surrounded by ruins shrouded in darkness...
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    #5  Edited By Hailinel
    @Icemael said:
    @Icemael: I hadn't seen the American cover before. It's pretty boring, I think... just a menacing dude holding a weapon on a one-colour background. The Japanese one sets up an atmosphere: a tired warrior rests after a long, tough day of fighting, taking refuge in the sanctuary offered by a lone, sparking fire surrounded by ruins shrouded in darkness...
    I don't think that's a real cover.

    1.  Dark Souls hasn't been rated by the ESRB yet.
    2.  Since when was Atlus publishing it?
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    #6  Edited By PrivateIronTFU

    Most of the time I don't care for Japanese box art. There's either way too much going on, or way too little. But I really like this one.

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    #7  Edited By BulletproofMonk

    That looks really nice. I hope it's the real thing.

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    I like that a bunch.  I really didn't like the first game's cover.  Looked very generic.

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    #9  Edited By McGhee

    Nothing says death and despair like having your crotch set on fire.

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    #10  Edited By freddie_bert

    I really like both oddly enough, both are simple and to the point of the game. First one evokes more of a Demon's Souls kind of feeling than the other one though, at least to me.

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    @luce: Atlus isn't publishing it. Dark Souls is now a Namco Joint just like it's European predecessor.
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    #12  Edited By xyzygy

    I don't like the Japanese one because of how it's the back of a guy. I really, really like the one luce posted though.

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    Continuing forward is terrifying and difficult. I makes you feel for the man in the cover.

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    #14  Edited By mordukai

    Now lets just see how they'll hack the NA box art.

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    #15  Edited By StealthRaptor
    I am really loving that cover.
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    #16  Edited By iDarktread

    Game of the year.

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    #17  Edited By Chop

    That cover is incredible but I bet it gets changed for NA. I don't know why but apparently we need very clear characters plastered on our cases instead of just atmosphere. 

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    #18  Edited By CrimsonNoir

    digging the japanese cover, i appreciate their restraint and their decision to go with something more pensive.

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    #19  Edited By eroticfishcake

    Oooh, both of them are looking purty! Though I am rather curious what the box art for the NA/EU versions will be like.

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    #20  Edited By SeriouslyNow

    Dark Samurai Souls.

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    #21  Edited By wealllikepie

    i like how even the font they use for the title is the same as demons souls

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    #22  Edited By McShank

    Why do people need a Creative cover? I would be fine if it was black with white letters across saying Dark Souls since this is not a game about fancy shiny things.

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    #23  Edited By Quacktastic

    Not dead on the cover, no sale.


    Can't wait.

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    #24  Edited By Hzaife

    Id be happy with either of them

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    #25  Edited By Kyle

    That's a pretty good cover. No fucking way in hell they'll use it for North America, but we all know that... Shame.

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    #26  Edited By NoeinJ

    Cool looking cover.

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    #27  Edited By Icemael
    @Hailinel said:

    I don't think that's a real cover.

    1.  Dark Souls hasn't been rated by the ESRB yet.

    2.  Since when was Atlus publishing it?

    It is the European Limited Edition cover, at least. Except with the title in the middle of the picture instead of at the top.
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    #28  Edited By luce
    @xombi242 said:
    @luce: Atlus isn't publishing it. Dark Souls is now a Namco Joint just like it's European predecessor.
    I know that. Just found the boxart on google and thought it looked better
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    #29  Edited By Icemael

    The art on the European Limited Edition plastic box (as opposed to the cardboard one, which I linked to earlier) can be seen in this picture. It's very nice (though not quite as good as the Japanese version's art, I think). Much better than what's on the cardboard box.

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    #30  Edited By Yummylee

    All the boxarts I've seen for this are better than all of Demon's Souls, so no matter which one I find myself with they're making progress all the same.

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    #31  Edited By Cabbage_TheMan
    @McShank said:
    Why do people need a Creative cover? I would be fine if it was black with white letters across saying Dark Souls since this is not a game about fancy shiny things.
    I think that's why both of the covers posted here are really good.  I like the first one because it gives me the sense that shit's about to go down.
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    #32  Edited By jkuc316

    First one should be at the back of the box, and the 2nd as the cover

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    #33  Edited By Nate
    @McGhee_the_Insomniac said:
    Nothing says death and despair like having your crotch set on fire.
    LOL. Priceless. That should be the tagline for sure.
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    #34  Edited By Timing

    Welp, looks like the Western one isn't nearly as cool:

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    Though the limited edition one is a lot better:
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    See also the new pre-order image.
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    #35  Edited By aleryn

    Very nice, the Japanese one.  Would be cool if they used it in the west.  Or print the Japanese one underneath the Western one, so you can swap it.

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    #36  Edited By sagesebas

    @luce:

    that is fucking sexy

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    #37  Edited By Icemael
    @Timing: The limited edition art looks all right, but the regular edition... ugh.

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