I like how the little old ladies tell you straight in your face that you will totally suck in this game.

The intro of DS2 felt so personal compared to 1 & 3. Here you're just an undead dude seeking for the cure for hollowing while in 1 & 3, they told you to kill the lords as it introduced in the intro and then link the first flame after

"You'll lose your souls...All of them. Over and over again" Yeah it's very funny.....

This game was the most mystical and fairy tale style Souls game of them all. This intro was beautiful.

My first entry to the Soul's game was DS2. I had so much fun with it. My friend and I co-op'd it multiple times, pretty much beating it around 10 times in total. I know a lot of people didn't like this one, but I love it.

Replace "hollow" with "student" and let the magic begin

Interestingly, around the 1:04 mark when the wife and child "fade", you can hear a part of Nito's theme.

I really rather like this intro. To be clear, I'm talking about the CGI part before spawning at Things Betwixt. It really gives me a sorta... Majora's Mask vibe, what with your character falling into an abyss and waking up in god knows where. Like the comment someone else made, I also really dig the mystical and fairytale-like atmosphere of this one. I like the fact that the Bearer of the Curse is drawn towards Drangleic "without really knowing why." That phrase is one that exudes mystery and it really kinda permeates throughout the rest of the game. This isn't to say that you do stuff without knowing why all the damn time, but I do feel like in DS2 in particular, there exists this sort of sense... as though you are being drawn to do the things you do and go to the places you go... "without really knowing why."

DS2 has the best opening cinematic by far imo, it's sooo good.

You will stand before its decrepit gate... without really knowing why... After finishing the game and knowing why... that becomes so much better.

beware, illusory drangleic ahead.

By far my favourite Dark souls

You will lose Everything

I wasn't sure if I want to play Dark Souls 2. Until today.

BEST INTRO OF ALL SOULS GAME

Man, so many years and progressively more excellent fromsoft games later, I still find this game to have the best vibe of them all. And (definitely) maybe it's not the best of the bunch as a whole but the way I feel watching this cinematic or just hearing the main menu music in my mind is just indescribable and so unique. I can't put into words how much I appreciate this feeling. Flame, oh, flame...

Me who accidentally skipped the intro and came here to watch it:🤡

What is your name? My name? My name na Uvuvwevwevwe Onyetenwe Ughwemughwem Ossas

Honestly the best intro out of all the games

This game need a total remake that fit this intro and tge trailer we got, as well what has been left out.

damn no this intro is the most chilling intro i swear

at 7:02 "he Doesn't stand a chance... well, you never know" and then they all burst into laugh on your face... There you say: "Why are those old antiquies making fun of me? I'll show them, i'll hollow the shit out of this game, and i will conquer it!"... then you do just that and when you understand the ending... you know that actually you never stand a chance. Sad shit...

I'm sure people mocking the part where they say "over and over again" died many times and are here like they were some kind of supreme player lmao xD

DS2 had to walk so Elden Ring could run!

Best Souls intro by miles and you can't change my mind.

Best souls intro by far imo

Still best intro from all souls like games

Was this game breaking the fourth wall?

Best intro of all souls games

This game’s intro is freaking epic.

The intro was voiced by the lady who voiced High Matriarch Teersa in Horizon, Nicolette McKenzie. She also gave her likeness to Teersa.

Thanks for this full intro bro

This game remains a gem. I do not know why it gets so much flack, it is very grand. That intro alone was wow, then the scene where they were trying to touch their memory of the long gone irretrievable past as the OP goes hollow and throws 'emself into the maelstrom that plonks em in the realm betwixed. The facts this plays perhaps thousands of years after 1 and this curse is incurable, but the fools errand will still try. Its like a long forgotten " Why am I repeating history?" through out all the souls games, its like this unknowable dejavu that you know you must somehow know been there before, and yet you never have been there in this life. Upon the ashes of one kingdom shall be built another and upon that another fire will burn it down. Miyazaki is a god and his mind a legendary tome of greatness. Not a single game he has made I disliked. I bow to greatness and he made this a great game too! In Straid's famous words " Feeble cursed one! Stop being so weak!" o;

Elden Ring is Yui Tanimura's baby, clearly.

burn this moment into the retina of my eye

Or: How the Marked One got on his death truck.

Such an incredible cinematic

Still the best intro of any souls like

While 1 and 3 have amazing intros that focus on your goals. The people you have to defeat... This one, how it deals with the undead curse, with the process of becoming hollow. It's sombre but does a lot for me.

who else is here after the game didn't show any video or have any sound in the intro and only showed subtitles lol

7:37 No one has ever been so right...

The first dark souls my Virgin hands grasped, like a bee sting it's something I try to avoid, yet I can't stop myself from being stung twice in one day!

...maybe in a dream... ...even in a dream... ...AWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO~

I wish the Imported set was that cool in-game

Came back here after hearing a theory that this intro is in the age of darkness post DS3 and the entirety of DS2 is in the past.

I think the old ladies who speak in each of the dark souls intros are based off of the Norns of Norse Mythology.

by far best fromsoft intro

3:17 Crawling in my skiiiiin

Ah I love DS2. Good shit.

my first dark souls game

1:00 the older you get the more you understand what that means...

There is esoteric symbolism here. Wheel of samsara which is represented by the phrase "like a moth drawn to a flame, your wings will burn in anguish time after time". If you notice, as this is spoken you can see the "brightbugs" swarming into the abyysal vortex.) The wheel of Samsara is the idea of how until we are able to transcend this world through incremental (between lives) progress towards true acknowledgement of the Divine, we are subject to perpetual rebirth into this imperfect world, which is by design increasingly rife with suffering. The Fire keepers, (keepers of true, organic, noncorrupted life, still infused with Light) are easily associated with the Norns of Germanic mythology; the keepers of fate. This fate idea is further strengthened by the "Kind Old Dear" in the beginning of the cinematic, who spins a loom. This is a clear hearken to the spinners of faith in Greek mythos.. I forget their names psychopaths, but they are a clear spiritual cognate to the Norms of the Germanic traditions. psychopathy (which I believe is the result of gradual moral deteriation of the soul; not necessarily by one's own doing... Our souls can be stripped of Light by those already devoid of it themselves; the most cruel and malicious of people on this Earth.) To become "Hollow" is to be born as a psychopath. It is now known that these "people" we know as psychopaths are born this way, and have no real way of being treated. The only pleasure they derive from life is when they are able to be cruel in some way to others. They do not feel sadness, happiness, love, fear, or shame, to name a few, emotions we unfortunately assume are innate to all humans. Their goal is like that of a psychological virus: They wish you to be devoid of Light just as they are; not because they regret being stripped of it, but because they relish in the utter destruction of goodness.

Loved the setting and story of this one the most. Still, is the one I hated playing the most, sadly. And reallt interesting that all this story that happened, as we see on 3, was just "one of the countless stories of kingdoms that rose and fell, forever forgotten".

My game crashed at the end of this cutscene, but I didn’t know I was at the end of it on my 1st playthrough, so I had to search this up lmfao

1:47 Please, someone knows the name of that OST? And it's not Departure, it's different

Ds1:Sad man kills guys Ds2:Snotty boi kills kings and dances on them

Imho best intro

Firekeeper Home Of The Elderly

So is the ruined place supposed to what's left of the Crypt? That would make the tree covered in fireflies a seedling grown from the body of King Vendrick, also covered in fireflies. Which means that the entire game is a trip back in time.

Is this oldman shanalote? The fire keeper?

The laddle says all

this feels like it's real with cgi overlay, but I know better and it's all cgi

Ahh, so much better than the Elden Ring's intro...

perhaps

"You'll lose your souls" Yeah no shit chief

ah yes dark souls 2 protag who came from bloodborne

i replayed ds2 after finishing elden ring, i wanted to understand the story rather than just blind playthrough. can someone explain the whole story of the intro? are we really came from future?

Am I the only one who thinks that this old lady is Emerald Herald / Shanalotte?

2:45 Is it just me or is that the fucking Danganronpa "A body has been discovered" music???

2:45 Bloodborne reference xD

Dark souls 2 was my first game but I never finished it 😣

Very Tarkovsky

Anyone Knows the Song?

Then It's Dark Souls 2 after Dark souls 3?

PERHAPS

I swear who ever made this game was watching Bleach before making it.

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I always think at 6:43 it would have been a lot funnier if she'd said it like this: "yeeeeees, it's an effigy of yoooooooooooouuuuu"

3:31

What the....(hah hah hah) Hell?(hah hah hah) ........stop that!(hah hah hah) I MEAN IT! (ha?)

Why was he cursed at the beginning?

Well we all can shove it down their throats, cause if any one's beaten this game, we've proved them wrong!

DS2 works so much better outside the DS universe and age of fire because this intro feels more like waking up in Hades. A terrible life after death, where you must kill to preserve your life because you cannot die or be released from pain while your body still spoils, fighting to avoid the inevitable darkness of losing your sense of self in immortality; like a twisted, inverse transcendence. Meanwhile One person was named King of this underworld and you have no clue where you are, but the old hags are the Fates who guide you to escape the Underworld by taking the throne, but they don't see it in your fate so they laugh. It's the only game where getting an immense amount of souls is the same as getting Lord Souls, but they say taking the throne will let those souls be born again. It's like ripping open the gates of Hell, knowing the light will dim again as they get a new life, but life will one day end again.

Obvious Fates are Obvious.

Was she right about the effigy? She was wrong player becomes lord, and effigy an effigy is nothing but humanity

DARK SOULS SAD MEME 0:11 SUPER SMASH BROS BAD ENDING THE END OF SUPER SMASH BROS BLUE ARCHIVE BAD ENDING THE END OF KIVOTOS AVENGERS BAD ENDING THE END OF AVENGERS COME AND LEARN WITH PIBBY BAD ENDING CORRUPTED WINNER THE END CARTOON NETWORK

Realistic Terraria?

They help you at the beginning by giving you a "welcome", some advice, and a human effigy but darn why do they have to act like grade A b****s towards the player? So offputting. Even when you're welcomed into the world, you're actually not. Even though firekeepers are a force for good (or at least the closest thing approximating good in the dark souls world) they act borderline evil and creepy in this intro. I can only conclude that possibly hundreds of years (how long do firekeepers live?) living in the dark souls world has made them all bitter, cynical, and without hope. Maybe they were made firekeepers against their will? That is the most messed up thing about Dark Souls 3.

It would be better than this Dark Souls should be called: Dark Souls: The monarch's throne or The last monarch, in my opinión sounds way better than just: Dark Souls 2.

I have no idea what the fuck is going on in this cutscene.

I lost my shit when I first saw this, then I played the game, How could this game have one of the best trailers and best cinematic openings ever but suck so hard

So no one's gonna say that the intro is way better than the game? Edit: I regret writing this, I finished DS2 a month ago and overall loved it, even if I prefer the other souls games

Well since i ALWAYS invest every single souls that i farm, none of these will be lost "over & over again" like these witches put it.. Do they think truly think were that stupid lol? ALWAYS enter boss battles with 0 souls. Thats my word of advice. It shows because my DS 3 character is a main level of 204 at the moment... 👍 😄 👍

I think Dark Souls 1 intro better than Dark Souls 2 intro

This cutscene was better than the game

DS2 had a weak opening and only ever got better. DS3 had a great opening and only ever got worse.

DS2's intro is incredible it feels like it gives more personality to the game and the character at first but when you actually play the game... well let's just say it doesn't live up to the hype.

You can tell the devs had no idea where they were going with this game, even the intro is completely chaotic compared to DS1/3 and makes exactly zero sense...

The worst souls intro so boring I always skip it, ds 2 its like the greatmoon sword in ds2 fake souls.

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