Star Wars: The Drive Awakens is not the one factor hitting the web forward of its official launch this week: The newest entry in FromSoftware’s completely punishing Darkish Souls collection has as nicely. However quite than going to your torrent website of selection, all you could do to entry it’s make a dummy account in your PlayStation four or Xbox One with Japan as its house area — Darkish Souls three launched there on the twenty fourth. You will nonetheless need to drop money on the sport, so in the event you have been hoping for some nefariousness you are out of luck right here.

Nevertheless, accessing this recreation by way of a loophole — DualShockers has a walkthrough — that is oddly been open since early final console era will work towards you in a couple of methods. For starters, since you’re downloading the sport from the Japanese digital retailer of your selection, it seems like menu textual content can be in Japanese. Fortunately, NeoGAF is already bustling with exercise to assist with any translation questions you may need.

The opposite drawback will resolve itself as soon as the sport formally releases. Writer Bandai Namco says that as of now the multiplayer bits of the sport’s worldwide model aren’t up and operating but. So, leaving trollish notes or making an attempt to assist somebody out with a very brutal boss battle is not potential for now.

Greater than that, the sport is getting a (sadly commonplace) day one patch that may “ship additional optimization” to the sport. That’ll occur April twelfth when the broader world has entry. Want one thing to kill the time till then? That is what the brand new trailer embedded above is for.