Character lore idea: it really isn't his face. He's wearing a burial mask, fashioned after his real face before death. His face was burned beyond recognition before death, meaning that the sculptor was going off of the descriptions of those who knew him in life, leading it to be exaggerated so much.
Only downside is that in DS3, the game gets better the further into it you are progression-wise (kind of the opposite to how DS1 ends up). Since he's doing the late game and DLC stuff first he's leaving bosses like Deacons of the Deep, Wolnir and Yhorm for last. Which would be a somewhat underwhelming way to finish a playthrough. Thankfully, Twin Princes and the final boss can only be done near the end, which ends things on a high note as I think they're some of the best bosses in the base game.
Me 8 minutes in: He's going to do Dancer early isn't he? Me 9 minutes in: he's absolutely doing Dancer early Me 33 minutes in: wow he actually did Dancer early, well done RT
To think, that you got me into the Souls series with you DS 1 playthrough, and now for the first time, I have caught up to a point to where this is the first game in the series that I had played before you started making a series. It's a weird, but cool feeling. Thank you Dan.
0:45 Camilla: You, sir, should unmask. Stranger: Indeed? Cassilda: Indeed, it's time. We all have laid aside disguise but you. Stranger: I wear no mask. Camilla: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda) No mask? No mask!
This is exactly what I thought when first seeing this video! You have stolen the throne and the empire. Woe! Woe to those crowned with the crown of Waluigi!
@@xPix1eI mean... get a crystal infused weapon and go to town. For most of my playthrough I used a Crystal Astora Greatsword before switching to the Immolation Tinder just before starting the dlc. And even so, Heysel's Pick isn't bad as a melee weapon
@@codysellers4151 it's less that it's a horrible game to be a mage and more that mage is broken in most of the other games Here it's just okay, except miracles they're actually bad
I hope it's not one of those Dark Souls mods that just try to turn the game into something that the player doesn't have the tools to deal with and it just becomes very one-sided. I kept seeing that one mod that gave Pontiff the moveset of the final boss from Sekiro and I went "this does not sound like a good idea because you're stuck with a stamina bar and don't have Wolf's moveset".
@@leithaziz2716 I've played the mod where Pontiff gets Isshin's moveset and I have to say the modders did a very good job of implementing it. He feels great to play against and is very well balanced.
@@leithaziz2716I believe you are referencing the convergence mod Interestingly they handle it very well, and it’s an incredible well developed fight considering the extremely different play styles of sekiro and DS3
@@leithaziz2716 having played through it, its not a mod rhat just makes things harder, it reworks the game from start to final dlc, adds small qol and new features while balancing that out with certain tweals like sparser and differently placed bonfires and changed enemy placement/new enemies among other things. I genuinely reccomend it as an experience, it also brings back alot of weapons and enemies from previous dark souls games for extra variety Tl:dr it rebalances and overhauls the game to provide a new experience that while a little harder is still fun for casual players, and still feels vanilla
I would say convergence would be a better mod. Cinders is just cluster fucky to me. Convergence feels very fresh and it even adds new structures and pathways
RT getting 2 badass scythes and deciding to use a rapier that barely works instead is the height of his FromSoft playthrough series. Also, the fact that he literally just made Sorcerer Rogier as his build.
Now I'm wondering if we're going to get a 'stupid means' series on Bloodborne. Seems unlikely, given that we already had a full playthrough fairly recently, but I definitely wouldn't mind the Return of Jim Scary, but this time with a cannon arm and a pizza cutter :P
Pestilent Mist "Carbon Monoxide spell" is my favorite spell in ds3, big slow bosses get decimated by it and it doesn't cause aggro so you can just kill mimics hassle free.
The smell of ash.... It's like it has never wavered one bit since the cinders has fallen all those years ago... Welcome home old friends, let's finish this old yet beating story.
9:44 fun fact, it’s difficulty comes from the fact that it’s rhythm and timing is different from all other bosses. So bad players and noobs often find it (relatively) easier than good players, as they’re not used to the average pattern.
I'm mostly repeating a comment I made earlier, but I wanted to share it here. What catches people about Dancer is that her attacks have a very delayed windup (when you see an enemy raise their weapon, the natural expectation is that they'll slam the weapon down the instant it reaches its apex). When you can react soley by relying on this instinct, you enter into a "flowstate" and get immersed in the fight, which is a fantastic feeling. Dancer's strange timings are meant to be a curveball and the exception for people relying on this strategy, but they do have a consistent rythm between attacks, and that lets the fight keep this flowstate that makes the boss engaging without feeling cheap. You just have to learn that pattern. At a certain point, you don't need to know what attack comes directly after, you'll have a hunch of the next dodge-window. It's the one difference that in my opinion justifies that the unnatural timings, compared to a lot of delayed attacks in Elden Ring which seem only designed to throw the player off as well as break the flow, and can't be learned without trial and error. That's something that annoyed me about Godfrey and Rykard. The frequency of them probably didn't help either.
The Dancer moves with a different rhythm than the rest of the enemies, I'm feeling too lazy to look it up right now but you basically just have to figure out the timing for dodging properly.
What catches people about Dancer is that her attacks have a very delayed windup (when you see an enemy raise their weapon, the natural expectation is that they'll slam the weapon down the instant it reaches its apex). When you can react soley by relying on this instinct, you enter into a "flowstate" and get immersed in the fight, which is a fantastic feeling. Dancer's strange timings are meant to be a cruveball, but they do have a consistent rythm between attacks, and that lets the fight keep this flowstate that makes the boss engaging. You just have to learn that pattern. At a certain point, you don't need to know what attack comes directly after, you'll have a hunch of the next dodge-window. It's the one difference that in my opinion justifies that the unnatural timings, compared to a lot of delayed attacks in Elden Ring which seem only designed to throw the player off as well as break the flow, and can't be learned without trial and error. That's something that annoyed me about Godfrey and Rykard.
If your gonna run around with a shield primarily on your back I suggest the ethereal oak shield in the ashes dlc. It's accessible as soon as you reach the deacons area and replenishes 2 hp per second. Also it has 100 percent physical block stat
RT playing a magic build is the equivalent of buying an Anti-Material Rifle, forgetting to buy ammo for it, and then trying to use the gun as a baseball bat.
As someone who has never had much of an interest in the SoulsBorne games, seeing Dan do a (partly) magic run has made me want to play one for the first time. I think I might pick up Elden Ring in the Steam Summer Sale and give it a go.
Wow amazing to go against the Dancer. I did a soul level 1 play through of DS3 and it was the most pain I have experienced in souls games ever hahaha still felt amazing to complete a game like that that kicked my ass
Waluigi is on this dark journey not just because he’s trying to find his Smash Bros Invitational but also to find the sacred treasure of Sexual Orientation West
3:53 Weird how thats accurate because of the final boss being the combination of everyone who linked the first flame, which includes all the weird characters
Get the hidden ring at the firelink shrine? You did the tree trick to get up there. Though did you hit the wall to reveal the other hidden path? It’ll lead to a ledge and then a ring.
Pestilent Mist is actually a good boss spell, the very first time i beat Darkeater Midir when the ringed City dlc dropped i cheesed him with Pestilent Mist.
6:25 I want to add that yes indeed, in the most recent mario and sonic at the olympic games, in the story mode, Waluigi is the one you use to take on the boss of the Fencing sport!
I am the Dark Souls 3
It's souling time
Worst one in the trilogy
He is the Dark Souls 3 Fires Fades Edition
I love you in an incredibly sexual fashion RT
I did early dancer for mage gear early, its fucking rough, much respect.
Based on the lore of this game, it’s implied that Waluigi himself tried to link the fire, that’s why he wasn’t in Smash Bros.
Then Waluigi, Lord of Cinder shows up for smash
Everyone would be absolutely fucked.
"Waluigui, The Soul of Cinder" for Smash
@@leithaziz2716 “Waluigi, The Final Cinder Lord”
Rt staring a person down, and making them leave, because they weren’t part of the original stream is the epitome of his content.
"leave, fool, and never return."
rt was just maintaining consistency for the john darksoul saga and thats very commendable of him
he must maintain the canon
RT: let's try to make a character that actually looks Chad and cool 😎
*IMMEDIATELY CUTS TO WALUIGI*
WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU SUGGESTING?!
Are you saying he isn’t chad and cool?
The plan was executed perfectly.
Waluigi, the original gigachad.
So? Mission accomplished, I say
Character lore idea: it really isn't his face. He's wearing a burial mask, fashioned after his real face before death. His face was burned beyond recognition before death, meaning that the sculptor was going off of the descriptions of those who knew him in life, leading it to be exaggerated so much.
That's some really good lore actually
Waluigi lore
You must be a storyteller, truly!
You must do actual meth
RT hasn’t learnt from Tears of the Kingdom and just goes decides straight to facing an endgame boss. Never change RT, never change.
to be fair, he didn't die to any of the endgame bosses in tears of the kingdom
yeah, um, if anything, he learned QUITE well that thumbing his nose at reasonable game progression has zero downsides for him
Only downside is that in DS3, the game gets better the further into it you are progression-wise (kind of the opposite to how DS1 ends up).
Since he's doing the late game and DLC stuff first he's leaving bosses like Deacons of the Deep, Wolnir and Yhorm for last. Which would be a somewhat underwhelming way to finish a playthrough. Thankfully, Twin Princes and the final boss can only be done near the end, which ends things on a high note as I think they're some of the best bosses in the base game.
8:21 "This is going to be a quick fight if he just walks slowly towards us-"
Boss: *immediately leaps in RT's face.
Same energy as
"The first night in any of these games arent usually that bad"
DIES IMMEDIATLY
Zullie suggesting the Crab strat for Dancer is the best thing I've seen today.
Fun fact: with a charged r2, you can stagger vordt and open hum for a riposte. This easiest during the phase 2 breath attack
This is also true for dancer, just a lot harder
learned from a friend that you can parry ludex gundyr's jump attack
@@eternaIdivinity i think you can parry all his weapon attacks so no black dragon phase two but all of phase one
@@eternaIdivinity the really high jump attack or the leap with the overhead sving?
@@henrikbgh7221 the jump and slam
“Please let this be a normal playthrough.”
“With RT? No way!”
*singing* on board the cursed playthrough bus
Me 8 minutes in: He's going to do Dancer early isn't he?
Me 9 minutes in: he's absolutely doing Dancer early
Me 33 minutes in: wow he actually did Dancer early, well done RT
I'm glad to see the trilogy continuing so soon, this series is so fun
Oh lord he done it, he's drifting the whole trilogy in full circle
This is why they called him the drift king back in college
glad to RT consistently playing games in the Peak Souls series
Dark souls is so damn good its crazy
Mid souls tbh, its like one of those fake video games you see characters on tv shows playing
@@fantachoik6575 nice bait going into the dark souls video and clicking on a dark souls comment just to be a contrarian
@@fantachoik6575ok
@@fantachoik6575 This is truly the Dark Souls of youtube comments.
To think, that you got me into the Souls series with you DS 1 playthrough, and now for the first time, I have caught up to a point to where this is the first game in the series that I had played before you started making a series. It's a weird, but cool feeling. Thank you Dan.
Based pfp
@@Kaghtaviyomori sucks tho
0:45
Camilla: You, sir, should unmask.
Stranger: Indeed?
Cassilda: Indeed, it's time. We all have laid aside disguise but you.
Stranger: I wear no mask.
Camilla: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda) No mask? No mask!
Next stream is just reading the script for the king in yellow and learning unfathomable truths.
This is exactly what I thought when first seeing this video!
You have stolen the throne and the empire. Woe! Woe to those crowned with the crown of Waluigi!
Can't believe rt made it all the way to the dancer without dying. He's such a TH-cam at dark souls.
Truly a TH-cam
15:13 That perfect turn to the camera is pure comedy gold
Watching RT beat the souls games is like reading a book while sitting upside down, it feels wrong but it just works
It's not even just the VAs. everyone that works at Fromsoft has to end their sentences with laughter.
The aneurysm I had trying to comprehend why Dan was fighting the Dancer 9 minutes into the video
I beat dancer as a sellsword 9 mins in the game before its absolutely doable.
@@Mystic_Edge1 I know it's entirely doable it's just Dan is doing it as a mage having only levelled intelligence but only using his melee weapon like
@@xPix1eI mean... get a crystal infused weapon and go to town. For most of my playthrough I used a Crystal Astora Greatsword before switching to the Immolation Tinder just before starting the dlc. And even so, Heysel's Pick isn't bad as a melee weapon
@@bluethunderbolt9631
He did it after killing Vordt, that ain’t gonna fly
Literally JUST finished rewatching RT’s Dark Souls I and II and was thinking how much I’d love to see RT play Dark Souls III. Bless
I can not believe the intimidation play actually scared off the invader. Waluigi's mere presence is too much for mortals to withstand.
I can't believe RT got all the way to the dancer before dying. Truly the John of Dark Souls
DS3 is the first souls game I played and Gundyr was a brick wall that took me so TH-cam long to beat. Good job clearing them with a sliver of life.
Same here, had around 30 attempts. I'd never played anything like it before. Definitely the hardest tutorial boss
"Lets try to make something cool this time."
**instantly cuts to the goofiest thing he could have possibly done**
Classic RT
I like how he decided to try a mage for the first time in the worst fromsoft game to be a mage lol
To be fair he was barely a mage in this 😭
What makes DS3 the worst one to be a mage?
@@codysellers4151 it's less that it's a horrible game to be a mage and more that mage is broken in most of the other games
Here it's just okay, except miracles they're actually bad
@@Stardevoirpyromancies are kinda op though
@@Stardevoir how dare you sully pyromancies, mods throw a rock at this person
Honestly I'd really love to see RT do a playthrough of the cinders overhaul for Ds3
I hope it's not one of those Dark Souls mods that just try to turn the game into something that the player doesn't have the tools to deal with and it just becomes very one-sided.
I kept seeing that one mod that gave Pontiff the moveset of the final boss from Sekiro and I went "this does not sound like a good idea because you're stuck with a stamina bar and don't have Wolf's moveset".
@@leithaziz2716 I've played the mod where Pontiff gets Isshin's moveset and I have to say the modders did a very good job of implementing it. He feels great to play against and is very well balanced.
@@leithaziz2716I believe you are referencing the convergence mod
Interestingly they handle it very well, and it’s an incredible well developed fight considering the extremely different play styles of sekiro and DS3
@@leithaziz2716 having played through it, its not a mod rhat just makes things harder, it reworks the game from start to final dlc, adds small qol and new features while balancing that out with certain tweals like sparser and differently placed bonfires and changed enemy placement/new enemies among other things. I genuinely reccomend it as an experience, it also brings back alot of weapons and enemies from previous dark souls games for extra variety
Tl:dr it rebalances and overhauls the game to provide a new experience that while a little harder is still fun for casual players, and still feels vanilla
I would say convergence would be a better mod. Cinders is just cluster fucky to me. Convergence feels very fresh and it even adds new structures and pathways
RT getting 2 badass scythes and deciding to use a rapier that barely works instead is the height of his FromSoft playthrough series. Also, the fact that he literally just made Sorcerer Rogier as his build.
That camera turn after been asked "why are you a bee keeper?" got me hard 🤣🤣🤣
Hodrick(Mad Spirit) is literally built different. Bro is harder than most bosses in ds3 lmao.
Now I'm wondering if we're going to get a 'stupid means' series on Bloodborne.
Seems unlikely, given that we already had a full playthrough fairly recently, but I definitely wouldn't mind the Return of Jim Scary, but this time with a cannon arm and a pizza cutter :P
Hooray! Finally one I can watch to avoid spoilers! I missed this series, and look forward to seeing the absolute madness of these highlights.
I love this game. Happy to see you play through the Souls series, RT.
Love this series of trying to make a character cool and it just not working
Unfortunately Waluigi cannot be cool if he's already the hottest chad alive
The mysterious laughter of dark souls is like a fine wine.
This was my first dark souls game and I fell totally in love with the series because of this, very excited to see what you do with it :)))
Him not realizing he started with a faster spell and not swapping caused me far more damage than it should have
Dan is like the Dnd player who usually plays a Barbarian but decides to give Wizard or Sorcerer a try.
I absolutely love that he’s chosen to finally use magic in the game where it is the weakest
Pestilent Mist "Carbon Monoxide spell" is my favorite spell in ds3, big slow bosses get decimated by it and it doesn't cause aggro so you can just kill mimics hassle free.
I've seen content creators cheese Midir and Gael with that spell and it's insane.
Well time to see the series finale of Dark Souls. This is also my favorite one so I'm excited to see him fight the Nameless King
Your Soulsborne vids are my absolute favourite, I'm excited to see you tackle this one :)
It’s been known that beekeepers have been tapped into great magic since the dark ages.
The smell of ash.... It's like it has never wavered one bit since the cinders has fallen all those years ago...
Welcome home old friends, let's finish this old yet beating story.
the way he had my EXACT same thought process when making the character
6:26 Waluigi has been practicing his sword arm for the Olympics with the gang
Max technical stats letsgoo
i love how "i have a spell for this" has the same energy as "i have the perfect ironic meme for this moment hold on"
never thought i would see a dark souls 3 video from you rt :D
I can't be happier, RT is playing my favorite game in the soulsborne series.
30:44 Did *THE* Zullie just give our RT some advice!? I am starstruck
YES I've been so excited for when RT was gonna do a DS3 playthough and its here!
9:44 fun fact, it’s difficulty comes from the fact that it’s rhythm and timing is different from all other bosses.
So bad players and noobs often find it (relatively) easier than good players, as they’re not used to the average pattern.
I'm mostly repeating a comment I made earlier, but I wanted to share it here.
What catches people about Dancer is that her attacks have a very delayed windup (when you see an enemy raise their weapon, the natural expectation is that they'll slam the weapon down the instant it reaches its apex). When you can react soley by relying on this instinct, you enter into a "flowstate" and get immersed in the fight, which is a fantastic feeling.
Dancer's strange timings are meant to be a curveball and the exception for people relying on this strategy, but they do have a consistent rythm between attacks, and that lets the fight keep this flowstate that makes the boss engaging without feeling cheap. You just have to learn that pattern. At a certain point, you don't need to know what attack comes directly after, you'll have a hunch of the next dodge-window.
It's the one difference that in my opinion justifies that the unnatural timings, compared to a lot of delayed attacks in Elden Ring which seem only designed to throw the player off as well as break the flow, and can't be learned without trial and error. That's something that annoyed me about Godfrey and Rykard. The frequency of them probably didn't help either.
28:35 rt really going "I have no enimies" on this guy and it worked.
Is it wrong that I am more excited for the charactors that chat is gonna create made during this series
I wouldnt normally watch a Dark Souls lets play but I enjoy watching RT play it :)
30:44 WAIT.
Is that *the* Zullie??
The renowned Witch??
I love how Dan tells the enemies to wait so he can show them his new shiny spell 😂
Been waiting for this run, im excited
RT as a sorcerer is the definition of "My magic is never giving up!"
They used to call him the wizard king back in college
dark souls 3 was my first souls game!!!!! very excited to see you play a game that is so close to my heart :)
9:29 Imagine you just sitting there vibin and Waluigi the magician just coms in and stab you with no further elaboration.
The Dancer moves with a different rhythm than the rest of the enemies, I'm feeling too lazy to look it up right now but you basically just have to figure out the timing for dodging properly.
What catches people about Dancer is that her attacks have a very delayed windup (when you see an enemy raise their weapon, the natural expectation is that they'll slam the weapon down the instant it reaches its apex). When you can react soley by relying on this instinct, you enter into a "flowstate" and get immersed in the fight, which is a fantastic feeling.
Dancer's strange timings are meant to be a cruveball, but they do have a consistent rythm between attacks, and that lets the fight keep this flowstate that makes the boss engaging. You just have to learn that pattern. At a certain point, you don't need to know what attack comes directly after, you'll have a hunch of the next dodge-window.
It's the one difference that in my opinion justifies that the unnatural timings, compared to a lot of delayed attacks in Elden Ring which seem only designed to throw the player off as well as break the flow, and can't be learned without trial and error. That's something that annoyed me about Godfrey and Rykard.
Austin Horrigan has a great video on the subject, but the tldr: is that dancer moves at 3/4 time where as every other enemy in the game moves at 4/4.
It been around 2 years since I last watched you and you haven't changed. Love to see it
Nice, I just finished watching your DS2 videos!
The little crescendo shimmer sound whenever Dan casts a spell will haunt my dreams.
This is my favorite game in the series so I'm super excited to rt play this
I've waited so long for RT to play DS3, finally my prayers are answered
If your gonna run around with a shield primarily on your back I suggest the ethereal oak shield in the ashes dlc. It's accessible as soon as you reach the deacons area and replenishes 2 hp per second. Also it has 100 percent physical block stat
Still sad I missed the stream, but so glad that we have those videos. I love the Souls Bourne series, especially DS 3!
refreshed the page and this video was up!! time to enjoy lmao
Finally plays a sorcerer, picks the souls game where magic is the weakest. Incredible
This series has been an absolute blast to watch 😂
Keep it up RT!:)
"That's the one I grinded for two hours for and never got"
-RT immediately gets a second one
Dude in chat was probably malding so hard about that.
RT playing a magic build is the equivalent of buying an Anti-Material Rifle, forgetting to buy ammo for it, and then trying to use the gun as a baseball bat.
As someone who has never had much of an interest in the SoulsBorne games, seeing Dan do a (partly) magic run has made me want to play one for the first time. I think I might pick up Elden Ring in the Steam Summer Sale and give it a go.
Elden Ring is a good choice for newcomers especially with as many spells as it has
definitely give it a shot
Magic in ER is definitely fun. Went INT/FTH and all blue flasks. If cast time or close range is a problem you can work with the carian slicer too.
When the Dancer picks up Dan, my brain sings "hold me closer giant dancer."
I've been waiting for this day, dark souls 3 was my first souls game and one of my favorite games of all time
my favorite parts of these videos are just shenanigans with the phantoms
Wow amazing to go against the Dancer. I did a soul level 1 play through of DS3 and it was the most pain I have experienced in souls games ever hahaha still felt amazing to complete a game like that that kicked my ass
dude no way i literally just finished another playthrough on this game, crazy that you just uploaded this
Dan playing city skylines, ace attorney, pokemon, and fromsoft games are my favorite content.
Waluigi is on this dark journey not just because he’s trying to find his Smash Bros Invitational but also to find the sacred treasure of Sexual Orientation West
i love this mad man and his Souls stuff. now i do have the question of will Code Vein be the next or what will be the next thing
I have been unironically waiting for tbis since the last ds2 video, thank you funny irish man
"why're you a bee keeper?"
"Listen-" (Waluigi faces in camera)
16:34
"Oh that was so stupid!"
"put it all in intelligence!"
3:53
Weird how thats accurate because of the final boss being the combination of everyone who linked the first flame, which includes all the weird characters
**Dancer of the Boreal Valley appears.**
Dan: I cast magic missile!
Ah yes, the notorious Waluigi Beekeeper build
Also, love the mist strat, been a while since I touched DS3 might try that next run 😂
Get the hidden ring at the firelink shrine? You did the tree trick to get up there. Though did you hit the wall to reveal the other hidden path? It’ll lead to a ledge and then a ring.
Rt, you never cease to amaze me with the youtube that you pull during your fromsoft runs.
Happy to see rt playing my favorite game of all time
Can't wait to see him face the dlc
I literally just finished his ds2 playthrough today. Super hyped for more rt souls!
Pestilent Mist is actually a good boss spell, the very first time i beat Darkeater Midir when the ringed City dlc dropped i cheesed him with Pestilent Mist.
19:41 "OH YOU'RE F- youtube"
I love how when he says stupid means he’s not lying, attempted to jump off platforms instead of the classic role with no damage taken 😂
6:25 I want to add that yes indeed, in the most recent mario and sonic at the olympic games, in the story mode, Waluigi is the one you use to take on the boss of the Fencing sport!
dan using heavy soul arrow and eventually great heavy soul arrow, as well as using soul greatsword instead of farron flashsword, pained me greatly
That tree, man I have so many memories with that damn tree it really is the final boss I beat the dancer before I could even do it