Well let’s consider ourselves lucky for once.
Here in America, we’ll be receiving a much more polished, presentable and tested version of Dark Souls, as Patch 1.03 is being released in Japan, and has been detailed as such.
To start off, it appears that, often, NPCs would just disappear off the face of the earth. Poof. So that’s going to be fixed from version 1.02. Also it will fix the games bugs as for when the trophy screen is displayed.
Unless some catastrophe of common sense happens along the way to Dark Souls’ US launch and we’re unable to reach the current patches, it appears that the US Dark Souls’ will be polished and just as brutally hard as usual.
From Software just seems to know what gamers want.