--- description: What if Dark Souls 2 made a prog rock video? title: Watch the Dark Souls 2 Launch Trailer Here image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Business](/section/business/) ## Business Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Tech](/tag/time-section-tech/) ## Tech Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Dark Souls 2 Launch Trailer Mocks You, as It Should by [Matt Peckham](/author/matt-peckham/) ## Matt Peckham Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 10, 2014 8:26 PM CUT by [Matt Peckham](/author/matt-peckham/) ## Matt Peckham Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 10, 2014 8:26 PM CUT The most important game to hit this side of E3 is out tomorrow, and no, it’s not _Titanfall_. That’s the launch trailer up top. You know we’re talking about you, _Final Fantasy X HD_. Just kidding, though I’m stoked about Square Enix’s high fidelity update, and it _is_ out tomorrow, too. But you’re here to see the _Dark Souls 2_ launch trailer, because you’re planning to stand in line somewhere tonight, and come midnight, buy a copy before scurrying home for a sleepless night followed by a workless day spent, err, working your way through a Sisyphean exercise in armchair masochism. Because you can’t wait until April for the Windows version. Because this is _Dark Souls 2_, and what else are you going to play? Some giant online robot combat game? Just kidding, _Titanfall_, [you’re pretty terrific](http://techland.time.com/2014/02/14/titanfall-is-the-rock-em-sock-em-of-first-person-online-only-shooters/ "undefined") yourself. But Respawn and Microsoft are all about the “parkour style wall running” and “massive double jumps” and “Life is better with a Titan” blurbing in this sheet attached to my review copy. _Dark Souls 2_? _Dark Souls 2_ just makes fun of you. “You will die, that much is certain,” says the narrator in the trailer. It’s also just as non sequitur-ish as _Dark Souls_. If you watch the trailer long enough, you might think you’re in a music video for Jethro Tull’s “Locomotive Train,” because you are, which sounds like…well, whatever sound a pair of waterskis sailing over a dorsal fin makes. Though when you stop and think about that song’s lyrics, I’m not sure anything says _Dark Souls_ better. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/18901/dark-souls-2-launch-trailer-mocks-you-as-it-should/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/18901/dark-souls-2-launch-trailer-mocks-you-as-it-should/"},"headline":"Dark Souls 2 Launch Trailer Mocks You, as It Should","datePublished":"2014-03-10T20:26:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:01:41.693Z","description":"What if Dark Souls 2 made a prog rock video?","url":"https://time.com/18901/dark-souls-2-launch-trailer-mocks-you-as-it-should/","keywords":["Tech","Video Games"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Matt Peckham","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/matt-peckham/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/18901/dark-souls-2-launch-trailer-mocks-you-as-it-should/","name":"Dark Souls 2 Launch Trailer Mocks You, as It Should"}}]}] ```