Dark Souls III Cinematic Opening Released

Namco Bandai has released the opening CGI cinematic for Dark Souls III, which offers some cryptic narration and sets the mood for the rest of the game. In truth, most of the footage from the CGI cinematic was already used for the game’s E3 announcement trailer and the sound mixing is a bit poor, so it’s not exactly easy to make out what the narrator is saying.

Still, it’s a rather nice cinematic, and I’m sure the most hardcore fans will be pouring over every second of the footage and speculate over what it could mean for the game’s cryptic storyline and its lore: