How to Beat Dark Souls in Under 1 Hour - Any% Speedrun with Walkthrough Commentary
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People begged for years and From Software finally delivered Dark Souls Remastered. After completing my remastered rankings of the Hardest, Easiest, Worst and Best bosses in Dark Souls, I decided to try out a Dark Souls Remastered Speedrun, specifically the Any Percent category.
I set out on a goal to reach a sub-40 minute IGT run after 36 hours of playtime. I was able to achieve a 46:35 IGT run without using the Gadget modification. I hope in the future I can get a better run with a normal halberd drop, but I'm still quite please with both runs! The tools I used are listed below. I hope you enjoyed the video, and be sure to subscribe for for more rankings, top 10's and gaming content!
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"looks easy let me try it"
*dies at asylum demon*
andrejoss475 git gud
@@bumbig8255 it's been six months, so I'm gonna assume he got gud
gittttt
I just started and I beat him the skeletons were harder
Alexey Eliseev he either got gud or is still
stuck in the Asylum Demon, there is no in between
I wonder what Gwyn was thinking as you stroll in within 38 minutes of waking up
imagine frampt like "undead where the fuck did you go- why is qwyn dead?"
Dammit, I was gonna order a pizza
@@viper_1134 10 minute delivery
"Kids these days" - Gwyn
He would probably be confused for the first few moments and while realizing he's gonna die in less than 10 seconds he would go "oh here's why"
Who would win:
An entire kingdom of eldritch monsters, dragons, and insane, ferocious, undead monsters who have long since lost all sanity and humanity or
on anorexic anime cosplayer with a metal stick in under an hour
ghhn an animeyey boi!
@@tomg5187 r/ihadastroke
That One Nice Guy You Met r/ihavereddit
@@TaylorRhodesShay i would insult both of you but you're a jojo fan
Um duh it's the person with the stick
I'm super bad at kicking unless I'm trying to attack something. Then it seems like I do it all the time xD
To be completely honest, I don't even know how to kick after a year of playing DS3/2 and BB
@@g-manthehitman4448 Just press forward and attack at the same time. You can't kick in ds2 tho.
@@rickharrison3522 Got it
It's one of the worst mechanics in the whole series for this exact reason
i like that you respect our boi Artorias by leaving his title as "The Abysswalker"
Ah, Artorias. Destroyed everyone's ass with a sword taller than him using his non-writing arm. And that's before finding out the lore.
O B E S E W A L K E R
Pro Souls Player: I’d be so embarrassed to die to the Gargoyles
Regular Player like Myself: haha yeah totally. Who does that.....😳
I even died at the moonlight butterfly :/
@Mateja Zagorac NoT mE bEcAuSe Im NoT a ScRuB
totally not me xD
jk i died to asylum demon
I got them on 2nd or 3rd try
A parry god trick against Gwyn (isn't time efficient, but it's the safest way to kill Gwyn) is to drink estus as soon as your parry animation is done. Start mashing parry near the end of the estus drinking animation and you should get an infinite parry loop against him.
This works because when you chug estus, Gwyn will *ALWAYS* try to get a quick swipe at you to knock you out of your chugging animation. Even if he is on the ground, he will 100% try and swipe you once he stands up. Because the animation of estus is just short enough, you can chug and immediately get that parry out to counter his swipe. I remember watching an AGDQ and thought it was a cool trick, as well as very easy to pull off.
Wait
Are you seriously telling me
The one move Gwyn has been coded to specifically use when you chugg
Is simply useless as long as people have the coolheadedness to just parry as he swings at them?
Gee, I feel fooled
@@hugofontes5708 Well, the fight goes more like
>Go through Fog gate
>Parry Gwyn's first attack (most likely a leap or 1,2 light swing combo)
>While in repost animation start mashing Estus
>As Gwyn is getting up mash parry
>Loop until you can git gud and not have to cheese boss
Actually it works only with wepaons that hit twice in the parry like all of the fist wepaons and a bit more wepaons
Healing constantly with estus to bait Gwyn is great, but you're not taking into account the RTSR buffs
Lmao I used the Havel armor no levels and black knight greatsword with any shield and parryed him to death 😂😂
Starts game: "2b. That's neat"
Takes off armor: "AHH AHH OHH GOD!!"
Aw yeah, now it's even hotter
@@theqreem8587 Mm-mm, gotta love a woman with some vertebrae sticking out.
@@RICHERTHANTHEOPPS you do realize it's a joke right?
@@notgray88 That guy has never had a realization in his entire life.
@@RICHERTHANTHEOPPS this ladies and gentlemen is an intolerant asshole who doesn't know what a joke is please take you're sorry ass to a different channel
This guy isn't a true gamer because he uses a controller and not the usb steering wheel like dunkey
Or the dancing pad...
This is a true and confirmed statement.
i hook up potatos to wires and manipulate electricity generation to trick the system into thinking its buttons. works with squishy fruit better, but i like the challenge
Goon
And wear a blind folder
"When she runs, i just attack the butt" - needs more context
Your pfp makes this so much better lol
I mean same ngl
T talc fungi
literally the whole video:
"basically this part really sucks"
because a lot of parts in this game suck for speed run, just think about it.
I waste so much time dying in areas and like 2 mins on the bosses.
So for speed running that must be annoying as fuck
Mom: You have one hour before I turn off your computer.
Me:
Spelt mum. Why change it
1: Sen's Funhouse Gate Skip
2: Cheese O&S
3: Firelink Altar Wrong Warp
4: Throat-Kick Gwyn
5: Profit
Winston Stuart Stonks
Me* 4 hours into practicing my speed run
@@jonathonsmith6831 what
A little late on saying this but... Glad to see you making content again homie, welcome back :)
Thanks Jacob!
"do a drop attack because it makes you go alittle faster"
-Theoretical physicist Demod
*Turns up early but has nothing to say*
...Moonlight butter can't fly?
You forgot "you idiot"
Step 1 : Git gud
Step 2 : ????
Step 3 : Profit
I'm good, but I didn't follow the instructions, got dick chipped off by a demon
I'm good at the first Dark Souls. Where is my money?
These are by far my favorite type of videos to watch on your channel. Interesting, in depth, and a good watch.
Hey protip: There's 3 humanity on a well in firelink. grab them and run up the railing right by it and roll down to the mute firekeeper. i think this saves time aswell, instead of running down the flight of stairs.
You can use 3 humanities down the elevator without losing time, but i like doing the 4th one aswell, to increase the droprate on the bkh. This will shave off the amount of "illegitemate" runs youll have to do :)
Torkil Løkkhaug your profile pic scared me 😱
@@aidenyyy3466 I thought there was a spider on my screen for a sec🤣
Dude that profile pick scared the shiiii out of me.
I'm so happy you made this video, I've been wanting to try this run out but just haven't found the time to study runs to learn the route and skips. Now I have this to use as just one reference video
I can’t tell you how excited I am for this. I love your content and so excited for another speed run tutorial :)
So happy a video like this is here
Perfect timing to want to try and learn the route for Any%, tried a while ago, but couldn't figure out several things. Thanks for the video helped a bunch.
I love this video so much I’ve come back to it dozens of times over the past few years and got me through my first run the commentary never seems obnoxious or off topic just a solid ass video I’ll probably come back to again lol
I’m so excited to see so many new videos from you recently. Hope life isn’t being too hard on you with spending more time on CZcams videos!
Told you NieR is the best, 2B gave you just the run you needed.
Hey demod I’m very glad to see another speedrun with heavy commentary. I don’t speedeun but these videos are my favourite
Glad you enjoyed them Evan! We put a lot of hard work into them!
Ive seen dozens of your dark souls speed runs and i'm still just as excited to watch your newest run as I was watching your first run.
This is genuinely the longest I’ve sat here watching a CZcams video completely entertained congrats bro
WHOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO i feel a bit bad about beeing so happy that you didn´t reach your personal goal that you wanted to achieve, but the ds3 area rankings are coming WHOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
YEEEEEEEEEE
hhhhhhhhhhhh demod senpai noticed me!
@GreasyPizzaBoxer i don't smoke... yeah that'S a lie
Gj man, very informative. This makes me want to try and pick up this game.
That was really cool to see, thanks for taking the time to break down the run and explain!
Dark Souls speed runs are really fun to watch, good job man
I can't wait to see the ds3 area ranking video
why am i watching this i own 0 dark souls games
just buy a couple
Same
If you're interested in no longer feeling pain with anything in life.
Play the Dark Souls games until you get a euphoria not even sex can provide from beating bosses.
Xeran King i’m sold
@@fucc773 Hi sold I'm Xeran.
Edit: Child is only a month old and I'm already making Dad jokes.
Dude this made me really wanna speedrun and now i have the help i need thank you for your video (ive been watching it a lot)
This is really good Demod ever since i learned some of the more basic speedrun strats i always seem to put them into playthroughs when replaying DSR like the stair skip in Anor Londo. Also that i think i'm gonna try that trick you used for the Anor Londo Archers. Keep up the great work!
Love the video, keep up the speedruns!
Played for the first time recently and I love this game so much that I'm still watching vids like this when im on the second game lol I like 2 so far, but the first game definitely outclasses it
I've been waiting for a run like this forever
I loved this video mate. I was wondering a fair few things about the speedrun.
Watching this video made me say "You could do that?" more times in anything in my life
This guy at 12 minutes: Already at Anor Londo.
Me at 12 minutes: Just got to Undead Burg.
Me at 12 minutes: inspecting a rock in my cell.
Me at 12 minutes: still figuring my hairdo & skin texture on the character.
Me at 12 minutes: Admiring the main menu
I did enjoy your commentary, this was a well put together video, good job!
seeing you upload dark souls is like the treat for my week :)
Greetings!
Recently, I accidentally discovered a method to trigger the Kiln skip. (This was on Remastered with the item and enemy randomizer mods, but it would likely also work in the full game. I haven't yet tested it.)
-Get Covenant of Artorias.
-Beat Four Kings in New Londo's Abyss Hole.
-Talk to Kaathe and be warped to Firelink Altar. You need the Lordvessel for this!
-Offer a Lord Soul to the altar.
-Use a Homeward Bone.
-Be warped inside 'Gwyn's Prison' which is the Kiln.
"The real thing to be scared of here is lightning in the ass."
Great job never watched speed runs of dark souls because didn't realize it could be that quick, thanks for the mod i think you are correct need to be able to practice the run in order to get anywhere on it
thanks so much for the commentary! i really want to start running ds1 as it is my favourite souls game and one of my favourite games of all time.
Never say never. Bioshock infinite recently allowed a very similar hack.
Time is truly convoluted in Lodran... a future Android pretending to be an undead...
i want to say, iv seen many speedruns but rarely explained.
they normaly talk about anything because they are mostly bored of doing the same run over and over.
so thank you very much for this.
Ooow yeah boiii. 2B in tha house!!
2 of my most favorite games together in 1. Thank you for this.
Also very epic and handy speedrun man!
I learned a lot
Good run. Gonna try and follow it myself. Wish me luck 👍
Good luck!
Did You had luck?
I got dark souls today. When you pick up the sword in the hallway next to the asylum demon, I didn't realise I picked it up. And I was using the broken sword 😐. It took like 50 hits to kill a basic skelly... I feel stupid
It’s funny because your not suppose to go to the grave yard
Breeeeeehhh
The man in the Black jacket I and many other players at first go to the graveyard. It’s pretty hard to notice that bridge leading to the Burg if only for the fact you’re starting out and loot/enemy hungry. I probably spent a dozen hours trying to progress into the catacombs, spanning across a few days.
You telling me you killed the first boss with the broken sword, the asylum demon. Wtf, the boss can be hard for fist time players and you killed it with the broken sword?
Awesome video! I have been looking for something like this for a while now! :)
these speedruns are so fun to watch !
Actually in sens fortress its possible to dodge the boulder without quitting out by doing some extreme timing.
Ive done it twice
Wanted to comment the same I have developed the perfect technic in my first run because I didn't want to go around it
@@HeadChaos0.63 want to talk on discord and try to develop techs for speed running?
@@topgamer-cd5ch he never responded 😔😔✊
That’s a mighty shiny split for the worst gargoyles you’ve ever had...
This is the only game I knew I would obsess over after 30 seconds of playing. Its the colours and art style. It sets up mystery and atmosphere
I don't do speed runs because i suck at them, but love watching these videos of yours. Keep them coming!
Great commentary
03:05
When you see your girl without makeup the first time.
Your prof pic says everything
Can’t wait for the Demod Elden Ring Speedrun commentary. I understand if he won’t do one, I just love this type of content
Hey dude. Just want to thank you for your efforts. I'm not into speed running myself, but big into dark souls im general. So I love seeing what other people do with it for their enjoyment 👍
Thanks for watching Sulfur!
Dude this is epic
It's unlucky that you couldn't beat the 40 min. mark.
It's also fortunate because... DS 3 AREAS, YEAH!!!!!!!!!
Yea I am happy
He did beat the 40 minute mark. The timer counted loading screens, remember? He was going off his character game time.
Maybe he did on this video. Didn't made it on stream (i think) that's why he uploaded the voting of DS3 areas
@@grypph But he's not counting this one because it wasn't a legitimate run, because he spawned in the halberd.
I definitely want to try this, great vid as always. I remember my 1st playthrough of dark souls years ago took about 80 hours, my most recent was about 9 hours but I wasted a good hour against gwyn with the run back because I suck at parrying him.
great vid, do you have a guide to configure the splits or something like that?
2B or not 2B
Sorry i couldn't resist😂
Edit:thanks demod
Not to be, obviously
That made me laugh more than i feel like it should've 😂
I found a new cure to my insomnia! Nothing against this dude, just it was a great way for me to pass out finally! Enjoy the like and sub my dude
^^
Ayy new video. When poll gettin posted?
With the help of this video, I was able to successfully get a time of 1 hour and 4 minutes though I did skip the DLC by doing the quit out wrong warp but still, since this is my first game to speedrun, I will definitely keep trying and keep getting better and better times
Took me 300 hours first time I played the game now I can do it in 3 and a half but less than 1 hour... god damn
You know I played dark souls (the remaster) for the first time recently (and beat it and the dlc) and I too suck at kicking. In the 45 hours of dark souls I played never once did I kick on purpose, I would always kick on accident. In fact I was doing the dlc and the Artorious fight took me forever to beat (even with the blk halberd) and he was at 1 more hit and I was like YES YES YES and I hit m1 to do an attack AND HE KICKS my character kicked and I yelled NO NO NO. Fortunately a split second later I did an actual attack and killed him.
So happy your back n having fun side note I also call it crab grip or ninpo crab style
Thanks! This actually looks pretty fun I hope this bad boy works on the switch!
in the time u make it to Anor Lando I probably made it to fire link shrine 1st play through lol
"If you time it with his arrow you can get past him, but it's definitely not the easiest thing in the world" we're talking about Dark Souls, okey?
Great vid Demod , i see potential for a WR if you work on some details
first time i played darksouls, it took me weeks to get past the gargoyles
14:38 for a free anxiety attack!
Wow almost at 200k I remember being excited when you were at 40k will you be doing another q&a
Great run Demod! I honestly am really intrigued by this run even though I've never speed ran a game before. DS1 is the one I'm best at, so there's that, but with my PS4 I would have to get the halberd legitimately each time, and seeing how many times you had to reset makes me question if I actually want to try it or not
It's mentally exhausting when you go without getting one for sure, but the run is so fun when you do!
Are you ever gonna do An all bosses speedrun of ds1, cuz i really like dark souls An wanna do a speedrun of it
When's da ds3 area ranking coming out
He put up the poll 2 or 3 days ago, so probably a week or two.
This is very valuable. Thank you so much!
If you turn right at 31:28 just before the elevator, there is a safe spot where the fang boar can't reach you, enabling safety bonfire.
1:Get dark Knight halberd
2:win
Thank you for actually explaining this run
I love that you made this.
Hype for DS3 area ranking
So am I
doralop xD He already did it. Look up the final DSII area ranking to hear them near the end of the video.
@@osurpless he didnt rank he just gave his thoughts on each area. Also there was no community ranking
Panda King I suppose so, but number rankings rarely add substance to anything, be it video game reviews or film reviews.
Remember Resident Evil 6’s “4” out of 10 or even the recent nonsense with Captain Marvel on Rotten Tomatoes?
@@osurpless I saw that video, but that was 1 year ago and opinions change in time:
Demodcracy liked Smouldering Lake and disliked Undead Settlement, meanwhile the community feels exactly the opposite.
+ I'm curios on how the list will differ with mine's
23:30 wtf? do you hear it? hahahahahahaha
Nice, just finished my first run on the Switch version a couple days ago.
This will come in use when I'm told I only have an hour left to live.
So I see ghost hits (18:45) are still prevalent in the remastered edition.
Well done, developers.
I think that was Smough's hammer that blocked the damage but not sure
It's definitely because he hit Smough's hammer, working as intended.
@@PooFaceMcButt
Not working as intended since it can block hits when it is barely winged while not blocking even more obvious hits than this one.
But, of course, glitches are just features making the game more hardcore amirite? Git Gud etc.
@@Bollibompa lol ok, seems like you have some weird chip on your shoulder. Have fun dude.
@@PooFaceMcButt
It is not working as intended and was always a problem in the original. That you do not know this is unimportant. That you do not know of the meme about glitches in Dark Souls games make me very sad. A sad day today.
"hoW dO yOU gEt bLAcK fiRe BOmBs aNd mAstEr KEy?"
Thief has the master key, so your starting bonus is available to select black fire bombs :)
@@GordonLittell r/woosh
@@Lumination50 I very much doubt he was whooshed, he was just explaining it to people that might've come to this comment and actually didn't know.
@@LordCuckoldacus do you not see the letters are weirdly placed. If it was a actual comment it wouldn't be all jumbled
@@Lumination50 I know that you fuckwit, you just didnt understand what I said to you.
VERY late to say this, but glad to see you're back!
if anyone could explain this to me, but how do you use the gadget for ds (non remaster)
since i got the same thing from the same person just for the original dark souls 1.
New sub. Great video even though I'm Xbox only. Thank you. Looking forward to more.
I know this is out of date, but Im trying to speedrun with this route and im trying to get the black knight halberd but i dont see it on the menu of weapons? Plz help lol
Edit: I also can't spawn anything else.
Edit 2: So I'm really dumb, turns out i just didn't download all the assets. Problem solved!
Kicking in all the Soulsborne games is such a pain. I don't know why they just don't let us remap it to L3, since that isn't used for anything else... except the *inferior jump binding.*
your wrong what about sprinting into a roll. 'nother libtard destroyed
Inferior? Objectively false.
It's clearly the superior jump binding you swine! Though the option would be interesting