Dark Souls review flood is go, HD video shows tutorial

By Patrick Garratt

The first Dark Souls reviews have gone live ahead of a general 5.00pm UK time embargo, showing high scores. Get all the scores and HD, narrated video of the tutorial sections inside.

Dark Souls, the spiritual successor to Demon’s Souls is apparently harder than Ron Jeremy overdosing on Viagra. I didn’t see too much of that in my play through the opening sections, as you can see below, but From’s sadistic fantasy RPG still managed to freak me out.

Take a look.

The review embargo’s now lifted and we’re posting everything for you below. As ever, if you have a review you want us to link, put it in the comments.

Dark Souls releases in the US today and in Europe on Friday.

• IGN – 9/10
• Metro – 9/10
• The Guardian – 4/5
• Eurogamer – 9/10
• Strategy Informer – 8/10
• Telegraph – 5/5
• NowGamer – 9.1/10
• Electronic Theatre – 4.7/5
• OXM – 9/10
• RPGSite – 90%
• BeefJack – 9.4/10
• zConnection – 92%
• gamesTM – 9/10
• Edge – 9/10
• Gamespot – 9.5/10
• Joystiq – 4.5/5
• Game Informer – 8.75/10