According to Japanese site, Esuteru, some retailers have broken the street date of Dark Souls. Developer ‘From Software’ has decided to combat this in an unusually cruel way by invading the games of those playing early.

That’s right, they are sending maxed out Black Phantoms into the games, and they have some pretty terrifying stats such as level 145, 1900HP, and all abilities at the maximum 99.

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It would have been nicer to simply pop round and just punch the player in the face!

Source: Esuteru via Edge, Thanks Kovacs