According to Japanese site, Esuteru, some retailers have broken the street date of Dark Souls. Developer ‘From Software’ has decided to combat this in an unusually cruel way by invading the games of those playing early.
That’s right, they are sending maxed out Black Phantoms into the games, and they have some pretty terrifying stats such as level 145, 1900HP, and all abilities at the maximum 99.
It would have been nicer to simply pop round and just punch the player in the face!
Origami Killer
That’s really cool but harsh at the same time! It’s hard enough as it is (based on demons souls) than without black phantoms chasing you around…
SavageOranges
Lol that’s unreal :)
Forrest_01
Interesting approach – Not played Demons souls, but i am guessing that Black Phantoms are pretty hardcore!
Will they also be sending some round to the retailers that broke the street date?? XD
Youles
Nice way to combat it. But to be fair, it’s the retailers that should be punished. I bet most of us would play Uncharted 3 early is we could, no?
The Lone Steven
What ever happened to not getting your arse kicked witin the first 3 seconds? :( That is sadistic. Noone will be able to react to them on their first time. I really hope they don’t use cheap attacks. Looks like i won’t even dare approaching Dark Souls as the game case would probably beat the living crap out of me. They are making it that hard. :O
Origami Killer
I can imagine the case being that book from Harry Potter and The prisoner of Azkaban. the one that you have to stroke to calm it down :L
nofi
Ha! Clever.
Sympozium
This is well deserved…. haha, its not fair that they could play it early….oh gods I need to pre-order it
Origami Killer
same here, just havnt got the money together yet :( fancy some coop when i do get it though? :p
blackredyellow
Just play offline, no?
bacon_nuts
Rude.. Shouldn’t it be punishing the shops though? Although that is more difficult..
Bodachi
But is it really the gamers fault? Seems a bit harsh for people who really wanted to get there hands on the the game. You tell me a retailer has Uncharted 3 and their selling it early I would be down there like a shot.