Dark Souls Preview

RPGFan offers us an in-depth preview on From Software’s spiritual successor to Demon’s Souls, the action-RPG Dark Souls, courtesy of this year’s E3.

As of the demo, there are six definite classes to choose from and customize throughout your journey. However, when we talked to the producers, they were still deciding on whether or not they were adding more classes than this. At E3, we were able to choose from the Soldier, Knight, Witch, Black Knight, Pyromancer, and the Solaire of Astoria, all of which had distinct traits. Three of the classes really caught our eye. The first was the Black Knight, and as you’re already guessing, this class must be up to no good. This is the class for those who are interested in some serious player vs player action, since the Black Knight is the only class that can invade someone’s world to bring destruction on another player. Basically, the Black Knight rallies all the enemies on its side and unleashes hell on other players. There’s no playing fair with this class, but since the Black Knight is basically a phantom, it won’t have healing at its disposal, so you stand a small chance elsewhere.

The Pyromancer is an equally menacing class, which allows you to make everyone else’s life more difficult. The only way for others to take you down is to invade your world and defeat you to restore a semblance of order to their own. People will know where to find you too because as soon as you abuse your power to make their world absurdly strong, there’s a sign made in their world not only to indicate you’ve messed with the balance, but also leading them straight into your world to seek revenge. As a counter, for those of us who think it’s just pure evil to mess with other people’s games? Well, there’s a class for those who want to lend a helping hand called the Solaire of Astoria, which can place special marks that can actually heal someone in another world to keep them from facing their demise. How’s that for telling Dark Souls where they can stick their persistent deaths?