Dark Souls 3 [official site] will be with us in less than seven weeks, and the footage we’ve seen so far has been pretty blooming terrifying. The latest trailer, backed by a hauntingly dysfunctional rendition of Cyndi Lauper’s True Colors, offers another glimpse at life in the Lothric Kingdom. If, like me, you have “You Died” etched into the small section of your brain you’ve set aside specifically for From Software games, perhaps Lauper’s Time After Time would’ve been a more suitable soundtrack to append all the inevitable death. Either way, it looks darn good.
After nipping away from the wheel during Dark Souls II’s development to focus on Bloodborne, series creator Hidetaka Miyazaki is back at the (Fang Boar) helm this time round, which seems pretty clear from this here trailer: