In case you prefer to start without firebombs & arrow, click here: th-cam.com/video/kqTbbRrse58/w-d-xo.html It's pretty surprising how much damage you can get out of weapon that itself does practically nothing. However, if you're more interested in an actual low damage output type of run, then check out my SL1 NG+7 Dual Caestus Run: th-cam.com/video/pEqu112BHvE/w-d-xo.html
“So we’re gonna do this a little differently...” Me: Oh he’s probably gonna kill Pinwheel early to Chaos infuse his weapon.” “We’re gonna skip Quelaag and the Bell Gargoyles, move through all the traps in Sen’s Fortess and go to Anor Londo to get Magic Weapon at SL4.” *OH OKAY THEN*
@@PressContinue But jokes aside, amazing guide, I hadn’t even thought of use Magic Weapon and other buffs with this! I was gonna play through the game with this and I’m glad I now have a guide I can follow! P.S. 0/10 you kill Big Fat Logan
Power Within was grayed out because you still had the effect from the transient curse. They're both counted as "body buffs" so you can't have both at the same time.
@@PressContinue It applies a benign curse allowing your whole body to interact with the Ghosts. Because even if you have the ghost weapon or the Cursed Artorias GS, you cannot block the Ghosts with your shield, but u can while the transient curse is active. Only the cursed can actually interact with the Ghosts of New Londo ruins.
@@thekaz5225 I'm pretty sure he knew that part....... The guy is literally making a video that involves breaking things in the game, and you just told him about one of the most basic things that EVERYONE will know if they completed the game at least once lol.
I just started playing Dark Souls recently and I love all of the fairly recent content that’s being made on the game. The community puts so much work into videos like this and it’s truly commendable. My only hope is that you and channels like you get the recognition you guys deserve.
Here's my tip to beating hilt only run in dark souls: Pick thief class and master key, somehow manage to kill queelag and gargoyles to spawn Domhnall of Zena to buy the third master key and now that you have the master hey trifecta, open the portal to the nether.
"...buy the third master key, fuse them all together and open the Gates to Silvermoon, where you shall throw my urn into the Sunwell and I'll be revived!" -Kel'thuzad, Undead Campaign, Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos, circa~2003
i felt that when he said “well the straight sword hilt itself may do practically no damage whatsoever” and then “well the straight sword hilt itself may do practically no damage whatsoever” 12:40
27:30 "No idea why that is" ... simple: the blowdart enemies are considered bosses when it comes to loot drops, because a lot of them are on ledges you cannot reach physically, so the developers wanted you to be able to get their loot when you kill them, and they wanted the guys dropping moss clumps because they realized just how cheap those guys actually are, so if you kill one, they wanted a chance for you to remove any toxic they applied. Sometimes when they're trying to kill you, they will move and since a lot of them are on small ledges, they will oftentimes fall to their death and hence why you randomly get moss clumps sometimes.
@@MisterTTG They are just like the trees in the Garden; they _can_ drop the White Clump Moss, but not 100% of the time. Seems to be about 30-50% of the time they will drop one.
Bruh during my first play through I thought this is my actual weapon and I remember I had to riposte like 5 times to kill a hollow, and I was like “damn dark souls IS hard”
I kept running towards the catacombs from firelink on my first playthrough, it was rough. I thought man it's living up to the hype. A fried told me to go the other way and it was great
I suffer in this game constantly, despite replaying it time and again, and seeing you folks do this so elegantly, with such handicaps and making such weird runs is so amazingly interesting that I don't know if I prefer to really play something or watch this, very neat indeed.
Once, I was starting a Dexterity build in DSR. I went straight for the Tomb of Giants to get the Great Scythe, dropped too far down, and thought, 'hm, why not fight the boss?' And that's the story of how I died to Pinwheel.
This is a really good video I didn't realize it was so long but I ended up watching the whole thing. It really mesmerized me seeing you actually play the game and talk about what was going on.
@@PressContinue I have been in consideration of a Broken Straight Sword run, but a Straight Sword Hilt run has not been on my mind. I know I don't have the skill to be able to find a Hilt run enjoyable.
It never ceases to amaze me. People will go on and on about the "difficulty" and then thousands of these. Though I seriously question the point. You are obviously so good at this game that you have to manufacture new reasons to play it.
I mean, souls isn't even intended to be that difficult, the games difficulty is wholey overhyped, but I mean don't get me wrong these games are hard it took me months to beat my first ever souls game, bloodborne, but after that first run you can just apply that to every souls game with some minor differences, I mean like now I can run t ng6 from a new save file on bloodborne in a day if I wanted to but im not that great at the game im just experienced
Did a Hilt run once because my friend said it couldn't be done. Used a Lightning upgrade for most of the game. Early game was hard but because there was no scaling I ended up dumping in Vit and End way past the softcap and became the tankiest build I ever made. Low stamina costs meant I would just sit there mashing R1 while taking every hit. A bit ridiculous but at least the seven kings could barely damage me. Never got past Gwyn though.
In my own my own run I tried the skip, kept failing it, and ended up just doing it without. Instead I just did a skip to free Griggs early and get the normal magic weapon sorcerery. It was actually really fun so I recommend playing it like that! If ya don't want to do the whole beginning part. I go stuck on Seath on my run and forgot about it for awhile but after coming across this video might pick it up again cause of how fun I remember it being. Oh I also recommend fighting the asylum demon without the bombs, it was a fun fight.
The safe approach to Quelaag has been something I've always remembered when playing after watching challenge runs like yours. I also find Super Ornstein easier for my usual playstyle as well, mostly because for whatever reason, I have an easier time reading which attack he's doing, and misreading Smough once is a death sentence for me. I've been watching challenge runs again. And I finally feel confident enough to try with zero poise, and no blocking. And if that goes well... The Holy Grail, SL 1. Wish me luck in the new year peeps!
Probably, I may never gonna try this but your effort put in this video is remarkable, It maybe more than a no damage run, keep up the good work, our community need people like you guys, respect !!
I am sure you have already figured this out but for those who don't know. The developers absolutely intended for players to use the ledges to get to the Pinwheel boss fight. This is clearly seen but the fact there is a npc summon for Pinwheel located on one of the ledges.
For Power Within and anyone daring enough to try, instead of going up at the insect monster, you can actually just go straight ahead towards the spell and roll past it. Here's the catch: there's a 50:50 chance that you'll die before reaching the spell. The insect thing has two attacks it can do: either a triple stab downward, in which case you are safe and can pick up the spell - or a horizontal double sweep attack, which is not dodgeable with a roll and WILL kill you. Have fun! :D
So I don't know how I managed this, but in Seath's jail, I managed to keep the alarm from activating without using a bone or darksign. This lead to alot of confusion in my first run as to what the purpose of the little record player thing and mindflayer-girls we're for
Great video! I remember doing Sword Hilt only run few years ago. I was blown away with how strong the magic buff actually is in DS 1. I like your Nito kill the most as you did it way cooler than me because i just went full Havel armor, using poise to tank both Nito and the skeletons =D
I remember my first playthrough. I selected the master key as it sounded useful. Went through the new londo entrance to blighttown and went to upper blighttown as I thought that was the way to go. Rested at that bonfire and had to fight my way back down blighttown after climbing it...
So, the reason you couldn't use Power Within when you entered the Four Kings is because you had a Transient Curse on. It counts as a body buff and therefore can't be stacked with Power Within or other buffs like it. I know this because one time the ghosts followed me through the fog wall, I put on a transient curse to deal with them, and then was confused as to why I couldn't apply power within before falling down into the fight...
was wondering why this video is so long, turns out it's because there's a ton of extra info in here and you didn't just cut from boss to boss like some other videos for dks challenge runs do. great work!
The enemies that automatically hand you purple moss are the toxic dart blower enemies. Given that they apply very deadly poisons and can fall to where you can't reach their drops I guess fromsoft wasn't willing to be that brutal with them and just decided to throw you a bone.
Two years unhelpfully late but if anyone is wondering, the part of the Anor Londo church you walk up to get to the rafters is called a "Flying buttress" and they're used to help disperse the immense weight of the brickwork in an aesthetically pleasing manner.
The chandelier joke was quite a laugh out loud moment. People gave me looks 😂 Btw I loved the rope firebomb addition in DS3 to hit thing right below. Pretty cool addition to address an obvious flaw in throwing weapons.
many years ago I did a deprived, no bonefire, no estus run, it was like a no hit run but worse, would not recommend, still managed to beat the game tho
i have finished this game with a shield only build for damage (all bossess without skipping, just a regular playthrough except i can only use a shield). So i figured i knew everything about this game by now. But i learned a few new things, like that pinwheel can shoot fireballs. Thanks!
I appreciated the useful tip on evading four king's grab attack, although I will probably not remember it whenever I'm gonna play the game again. Personally, I backtrack a little, and then approach the grab with """approximately the same timing""" as the thrust attack from the darkwraiths. I understand that you're used to play the game in a "reliable" way, since bossfights in challenge runs can take a lot of time, but I was surprised by how much caution you took with super smough. Honestly, when the fight is not gonna last ten minutes and you're not super vulnerable, if you just stay close the only thing that can happen is being taken by surprise by his buttsmash (imo it can be reliably avoided if you just pay attention), or him randomly activating the sweeping run attack
LOL thanks, actually because there were a couple of other people complaining about the firebombs, that's why in my no soul run I fought the asylum demon with the sword hilt even though there was absolutely no reason to do that in that run. And the sorceres staff I bought from Rickert in new londo
@@PressContinue wow really? I was just joking it didn't seem like that big a deal. Also thanks for the clarification, was not very awake while watching and must have just spaced out that part
In Dark Souls 2 (Vanilla version), I did a Ladle run in “Hardmode Covenant” (Covenant of Champions: +20% Defense, +33% Damage). It was hard as nails, for awhile. It’s well known that Infusing it with an Old Mundane stone, or Poison Stone, can turn it into a serviceable weapon, that with skill, can beat the game. The problem is getting the Dull Ember, which Steady Hand McDuff requires to become a blacksmith. In Scholar, it’s easily done by beating Pursuer, gaining access to A Tower Apart bonfire, where the chest with it is. However, in Vanilla, the Dull Ember resides in Iron Keep. This means , at minimum, you need to kill Dragonrider, Skeleton Lords, Covetous Demon and Mytha. But you’ll probably also need to kill Last Giant and Pursuer, (to get the Ring of Blades.) (I used Magic Weapon from Carhillion)( I used Old Sun Ring, Skeleton Lords and Mytha) The fights I listed mostly took forever. I was doing literally around 9-16 damage. The Ladle is broken the entire time, and the Hardmode Covenant damage resistance was rough. The biggest Hurdles were the 4 Pinwheel Skeletons in Skeleton Lords fight (only 2 in Scholar), and Mytha, mostly because she regens HP in the poison moat. I had to use a couple black firebombs to kill a couple Pinwheels. They are just too fast. I wore the Old Sun Ring, and was able to kill a couple of the other mobs. Mytha was the last boss, and toughest, because I couldn’t out damage her hp regen. So I did what I had to do. I used up all the consumables like black firebombs , throwing knives, etc. that I had found. I didn’t want to buy any bombs. It felt like it would be against the challenge. But I knew Mytha was almost impossible in Hardmode. So I focused, and carefully killed Mytha with the consumables I had found, first try. It means the run isn’t pure Ladle. But the run wasn’t going anywhere without beating her, and I just found her almost impossible in Hardmode with a broken ladle, magic weapon sorcery, and Old Sun ring. So I but the bullet, and bombed her. After the giant pain in the ass it was to get the Dull Ember and infuse the Ladle with Mundane, it almost feels like cheating to hit for around 90-100 damage. Once infused, the game is pretty much in the bag. It’s all skill from that point, because you still need to survive long fights. But at least the 10+ minute fights are over. A really fun run, but very tough start. I’m sure there’s a souls savant who can beat Hardmode Covenant Mytha with just a broken ladle, on their way to the Dull Ember. But it ain’t me. At least not today.
The random purple moss droops in blight town are given to you when the toxic dart shooters die. So if your running through the area past them there's a good chance they will fall off the platforms they are on similar to the painting guardians in the Anor Londo rafters.
Hahahah! That’s a great way to put it. I hadn’t played DS1 in around 8 years. Just popped it in last week to try to finish it (all I had left was Manus, _MAYBE_ Kalameet - I have to check - and Gwyn). Manus is kickin’ my arse! I see why I originally “took a break.” Lol.
In dark souls vanilla without any patches. A +5 enchanted club was insanely powerful. It use to grant intelligence scaling and not grant any magic damage. Thus, you could cast magic weapon on an enchanted infused weapon. The club also has reduced scaling past +10. In essence they implemented two nerfs to prevent players from a super powered weapon. A +5 enchanted club use to grant an S rating for intelligence.
I want the story behind this poor sword, like it's so chipped and crappy. It's definitely served well and must be excited at this chance to be a weapon yet again
The parry animation causing Gwyn to miss might be in the other From games too. I can confirm it is in Sekiro as sometimes a deflection doesn’t connect but instead the enemy attack wiffs. It’s something I was starting to learn to duplicate and it’s a factor of position and timing. You have to be close and towards direction of hit box movement as well as super precise timing of perfect to just a hair after perfect (slightly late) for the deflection.
It can even happen with blocking animations, like how certain blocking animations will make Nito's ground sword attack miss you even though it goes visually right through you
super irrelevant a year later but this exists in elden ring too when using the buckler to parry the bell bearing hunter's forward lunge stab . Sword goes through my skull, no damage where id usually be wrecked
1:20:50 It looks like you used the item that makes the ghosts hittable without being actually cursed. It counts as a body buff and since you cant stack buffs in this game no Power Within
Wait... seriously? Transient curse prevents you from using power within? I honestly never noticed that or even heard of it before. Pretty weird that they would qualify it is a body buff. But yes you are correct, I just checked the wiki and it says: "Transient Curse is a Self Buff and interferes with other such buffs (i.e. Great Magic Barrier, Green Blossom, Power Within, etc.). As long as it's active it's not possible to cast other Self Buffs and vice versa." I guess you are never done learning things about this game.
I just finished a Velka-themed run of sorts a couple days ago. Was rushing to get the Rapier and whatnot, so went into Queelag super early. Thought I'd summon for the fight and.... Got a rando who derped and died almost immediately and Mildred who got stuck in a loop running into Lava until SHE died. That meant I had to down a three-player Queelag basically by myself using a Bandit's Dagger that was dealing something like 19 damage per hit (I had the estoc too but that wasn't working out so great either). I'm very envious of your Straight Sword Hilt DPS =P
I don't know if you will read this comment, but I want to thank you for making these videos. I'm in a terribly deep depression and the only thing keeping me sane and distracted is your channel. You're very entertaining and it's good to watch my favorite games like this.
Aww I really appreciate that. But I'm sad to hear that you're going through such a rough time :( hope things will get better for you soon and I'm glad to provide that bit of escapism that you crave and need
@@PressContinue I hope so too. You almost make me wish to pick Dark Souls up again (now that I think about it, I haven't made a dex build in that game..). Keep on keeping on.
For those of you who find the blighttown insect too adorable to kill you can also grab aural decoy and get him to attack that instead of you long enough for you to fast roll in, grab power within, and hopefully roll or run back out in time to avoid his cuddly claw like attacks. I got it to work pretty quickly but you’ll want to aim so he does the stomp attack on your side first and not the wild slashes.
1:20:40 the reason bc you can't cast power within there is because you had transient curse active, which counts as a body buff, and you can't stack two body buffs
An easier way I've found to get past the border in Sens Fortress. Is to start running but pull up the exit menu. Once you see or hear the border coming, then save and quit. When you load back in the Border will be reset.
I am enjoying this video so far and it brings me memories from when I played dsr on switch was a great game with some amazing boss battles that I was able to conquer best one being knight aurtorias
that trap at the top of the boulder in sen's fortress, if you just sprint over the button across the trappeded hallway, none of the darts should hit you
Watching that bolder take out the snake man by Onion Bro gets me every time, he just looks so excited to come and bite you and then BAM!! bolder. Classic.
Ur videos are very very good man! would love to play with you some day! just got back into ds remastered! (I'm a dutchy too) cheers man! keep doing what you do!
4:58 This is caused by two things 1. The game things you’re dead and thus you’re in death cam (this is why if you do the glitch incorrectly you’ll just get instakilled. That’s what’s supposed to happen normally, but since dark souls 1 is so broken, it more often than not does not kill you). 2. To optimize their games, anything that you can’t see or have not gotten to yet is not loaded at all. This is why the dark souls randomizer does not allow Seath to be a randomized enemy, as he is so big that he can clip through walls and attack you even when he is not loaded in. Additionally, this is also why the blood echo farm works in bloodborne. A hunter is positioned right where the axe collides, but since it’s not loaded in yet, it’ll collide with him without pushing him off. It’s actually a very clever way of optimizing their game worlds and making most things seamless.
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In case you prefer to start without firebombs & arrow, click here: th-cam.com/video/kqTbbRrse58/w-d-xo.html
It's pretty surprising how much damage you can get out of weapon that itself does practically nothing. However, if you're more interested in an actual low damage output type of run, then check out my SL1 NG+7 Dual Caestus Run: th-cam.com/video/pEqu112BHvE/w-d-xo.html
Straight Sword hilt or either whip ? Straight Sword hilt .
“So we’re gonna do this a little differently...”
Me: Oh he’s probably gonna kill Pinwheel early to Chaos infuse his weapon.”
“We’re gonna skip Quelaag and the Bell Gargoyles, move through all the traps in Sen’s Fortess and go to Anor Londo to get Magic Weapon at SL4.”
*OH OKAY THEN*
LOL, I admit that it's a little bit of an unusual detour
@@PressContinue But jokes aside, amazing guide, I hadn’t even thought of use Magic Weapon and other buffs with this! I was gonna play through the game with this and I’m glad I now have a guide I can follow!
P.S. 0/10 you kill Big Fat Logan
@Cuddly Cactus "P.S. 0/10 you kill Big Fat Logan"
*laughs maniacally with spongebob and strangler*
@@PressContinue yknow, you could've gotten regular magic weapon for 4000 and made the process of getting great magic weapon a little bit easier
I was expecting resin
Power Within was grayed out because you still had the effect from the transient curse. They're both counted as "body buffs" so you can't have both at the same time.
Yes I've heard by now. Kind of weird though that transcient curse counts as a body buff. Guess that you're never done learning things about this game.
@@PressContinue It applies a benign curse allowing your whole body to interact with the Ghosts. Because even if you have the ghost weapon or the Cursed Artorias GS, you cannot block the Ghosts with your shield, but u can while the transient curse is active. Only the cursed can actually interact with the Ghosts of New Londo ruins.
@@thekaz5225 I'm pretty sure he knew that part....... The guy is literally making a video that involves breaking things in the game, and you just told him about one of the most basic things that EVERYONE will know if they completed the game at least once lol.
@@JrKengu so much hate for nothing lmao
@@aclosh2983 where
I just started playing Dark Souls recently and I love all of the fairly recent content that’s being made on the game. The community puts so much work into videos like this and it’s truly commendable. My only hope is that you and channels like you get the recognition you guys deserve.
Thank you :D
One of the few games that I'd still recommend to anyone even 10+ years after release. Welcome to the Souls community.
@@SoulmongerV2 "Welcome to the souls community"
I feel proudness in these words
Here's my tip to beating hilt only run in dark souls: Pick thief class and master key, somehow manage to kill queelag and gargoyles to spawn Domhnall of Zena to buy the third master key and now that you have the master hey trifecta, open the portal to the nether.
Or maybe the true master keys were the ones we made along the way...
@@PressContinue More like REmaster keys!
*(wheeze)*
"...buy the third master key, fuse them all together and open the Gates to Silvermoon, where you shall throw my urn into the Sunwell and I'll be revived!"
-Kel'thuzad, Undead Campaign, Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos, circa~2003
@@WoobertAIO I laughed way harder than I should have at this
@@WoobertAIO As a Warcraft fan, I absolutely love this.
i felt that when he said “well the straight sword hilt itself may do practically no damage whatsoever” and then “well the straight sword hilt itself may do practically no damage whatsoever” 12:40
LOL, yeah... little audio editing mistake there
I wasn't sure at first, but then he made some good points in the second bit
well the straight sword hilt itself may do practically no damage whatsoever
@@pillpilferer well the straight sword hilt itself may do practically no damage whatsoever
I don’t know, it’s still pretty confusing. Does the straight sword hilt itself really do practically no damage? Further clarification needed.
So what I'm hearing is that you turned the straight sword hilt into a hilariously short lightsaber. Nice.
That's... actually a pretty accurate description. Yes indeed
he do be smacking them with da hilt 😳
Listen, it's not the size of the lightsaber that matters, it's how many buffs you can apply to it at once
Ivory Straight Sword in DS2
Light dagger
27:30 "No idea why that is" ... simple: the blowdart enemies are considered bosses when it comes to loot drops, because a lot of them are on ledges you cannot reach physically, so the developers wanted you to be able to get their loot when you kill them, and they wanted the guys dropping moss clumps because they realized just how cheap those guys actually are, so if you kill one, they wanted a chance for you to remove any toxic they applied. Sometimes when they're trying to kill you, they will move and since a lot of them are on small ledges, they will oftentimes fall to their death and hence why you randomly get moss clumps sometimes.
The more you know…
except they usually drop the moss that heals normal poison, useless for healing their toxic poison. devious
@@MisterTTG They are just like the trees in the Garden; they _can_ drop the White Clump Moss, but not 100% of the time. Seems to be about 30-50% of the time they will drop one.
Will they respawn, If theyre considered bosses?
@@crestfallenwarrior5719 No. They do not respawn.
"Sif wont be a Problem"
*I cannot fight my favourite Boss, with tears in my eyes*
Bruh during my first play through I thought this is my actual weapon and I remember I had to riposte like 5 times to kill a hollow, and I was like “damn dark souls IS hard”
Ha! I love it. :)
I kept running towards the catacombs from firelink on my first playthrough, it was rough. I thought man it's living up to the hype. A fried told me to go the other way and it was great
@@anthonydominguez6005 i did the same but with new londo
@@sheppik4252I did the same but with valley of the Drakes 🥲
I did the same damn thing, i was even getting ready to fight asylum demon with it 😂
"and immediately get up on the whatchamacallit leading to the broken window" its called a BUTTRESS thank you very much
Heh. Butt.
I think a butt rest is just wherever you end up sitting
@@femthingevelyn like a chair or couch or smthn?
I suffer in this game constantly, despite replaying it time and again, and seeing you folks do this so elegantly, with such handicaps and making such weird runs is so amazingly interesting that I don't know if I prefer to really play something or watch this, very neat indeed.
Keep trying king! I believe in you!
24:50 kills the wizard with 666 damage while laughing maniacally...
Definitely not a red flag
3:44 you dont need that specific hollow, you dont need the bow. You can aggro one of them just by running toward the columns
Once, I was starting a Dexterity build in DSR. I went straight for the Tomb of Giants to get the Great Scythe, dropped too far down, and thought, 'hm, why not fight the boss?' And that's the story of how I died to Pinwheel.
Tomb of the giants is after the Pinwheel.
@@ataberkdedemen9802 The crypt before it, I mean. With the necromancers and all.
@@ataberkdedemen9802 He obviously meant catacombs lol
it’s not shameful if you fight literally seconds after the asylum
@@thatlittlemonstrosity But it FEELS that way.
You're a madman, you know?
I love it, keep it up
This is a really good video I didn't realize it was so long but I ended up watching the whole thing. It really mesmerized me seeing you actually play the game and talk about what was going on.
“We’re not gonna swing from the 🎵 chandelier 🎶” very well played good sir
Good to see that someone actually caught that :)
What song/band is the lyric from?
@@anti-ethniccleansing465 Sia - Chandelier
If I ever did this challenge I'd want to get the straight sword to artorias sword.
You know, peasant to knight path, for the poetry of it.
You mean like Artorias sword broken where only the hilt remains? That would be quite fancy indeed
@@PressContinue no, if i recall correctly you can trade the sword hilt for artorias' sword at the blacksmith in anor londo
@@furtvvanglerr8296Yeah, but, uh, *it ain't really a hilt at that point.*
as expected of my favorite masochist gamer
It was actually much more doable than I initially expected it to be. Certain parts are tricky but I would recommend it
Makes sense. Even I can do the skip to Sen's Fortress. The issue is making it all the way to Anor Londo for great magic weapon without dying I suckkkk
@@PressContinue I have been in consideration of a Broken Straight Sword run, but a Straight Sword Hilt run has not been on my mind.
I know I don't have the skill to be able to find a Hilt run enjoyable.
It never ceases to amaze me. People will go on and on about the "difficulty" and then thousands of these. Though I seriously question the point. You are obviously so good at this game that you have to manufacture new reasons to play it.
I mean, souls isn't even intended to be that difficult, the games difficulty is wholey overhyped, but I mean don't get me wrong these games are hard it took me months to beat my first ever souls game, bloodborne, but after that first run you can just apply that to every souls game with some minor differences, I mean like now I can run t ng6 from a new save file on bloodborne in a day if I wanted to but im not that great at the game im just experienced
Did a Hilt run once because my friend said it couldn't be done. Used a Lightning upgrade for most of the game. Early game was hard but because there was no scaling I ended up dumping in Vit and End way past the softcap and became the tankiest build I ever made. Low stamina costs meant I would just sit there mashing R1 while taking every hit. A bit ridiculous but at least the seven kings could barely damage me. Never got past Gwyn though.
LOL, love how you call it the seven kings.
Gwyn is very resistant to lighting, you could have swapped to chaos or fire
Your awesome lol
Damn, i think it would be less difficult for me to just use the sword as it is than doing all these steps from the beginning. Good work
trust me, it's not
In my own my own run I tried the skip, kept failing it, and ended up just doing it without. Instead I just did a skip to free Griggs early and get the normal magic weapon sorcerery. It was actually really fun so I recommend playing it like that! If ya don't want to do the whole beginning part. I go stuck on Seath on my run and forgot about it for awhile but after coming across this video might pick it up again cause of how fun I remember it being. Oh I also recommend fighting the asylum demon without the bombs, it was a fun fight.
I am very impressed, I have a very short attention span and yet I watched through your whole video! Impressive, fun and informative. You're awesome!
Thanks :D glad I could keep your attention throughout such a lengthy vid
The safe approach to Quelaag has been something I've always remembered when playing after watching challenge runs like yours.
I also find Super Ornstein easier for my usual playstyle as well, mostly because for whatever reason, I have an easier time reading which attack he's doing, and misreading Smough once is a death sentence for me.
I've been watching challenge runs again.
And I finally feel confident enough to try with zero poise, and no blocking.
And if that goes well...
The Holy Grail, SL 1.
Wish me luck in the new year peeps!
Press Continue: This weapon sucks
ZeroLenny: First time eh?
Probably, I may never gonna try this but your effort put in this video is remarkable, It maybe more than a no damage run, keep up the good work, our community need people like you guys, respect !!
I am sure you have already figured this out but for those who don't know. The developers absolutely intended for players to use the ledges to get to the Pinwheel boss fight. This is clearly seen but the fact there is a npc summon for Pinwheel located on one of the ledges.
Quick question but does the crossbow hollow give souls because press never got souls from it.
For Power Within and anyone daring enough to try, instead of going up at the insect monster, you can actually just go straight ahead towards the spell and roll past it. Here's the catch: there's a 50:50 chance that you'll die before reaching the spell. The insect thing has two attacks it can do: either a triple stab downward, in which case you are safe and can pick up the spell - or a horizontal double sweep attack, which is not dodgeable with a roll and WILL kill you. Have fun! :D
I like how this video's in the style of a guide; as if I'm someday gonna get the cajones to do this myself.
It's not too bad. You should give it a try
@@PressContinue Maybe I'll work up the courage one day. Cool content by the way.
So I don't know how I managed this, but in Seath's jail, I managed to keep the alarm from activating without using a bone or darksign. This lead to alot of confusion in my first run as to what the purpose of the little record player thing and mindflayer-girls we're for
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Great video! I remember doing Sword Hilt only run few years ago. I was blown away with how strong the magic buff actually is in DS 1. I like your Nito kill the most as you did it way cooler than me because i just went full Havel armor, using poise to tank both Nito and the skeletons =D
Yeah it's pretty surprising how powerful you can make a weapon that by itself only does 2 damage.
Dude you are insane and I like it, more runs like this one!
I've been watching your videos all day and im loving them keep up the brilliant work
Awesome :D and thanks for watching
I love watching your videos. I don’t even play this game so and yet you keep me so entertained. Thank you man
Insane run. I always just stand right underneath smough and only runaway to avoid butt slam. He doesn't do the charging attack if your close to him.
Yeah, I suppose that would work pretty well too
I remember my first playthrough. I selected the master key as it sounded useful. Went through the new londo entrance to blighttown and went to upper blighttown as I thought that was the way to go. Rested at that bonfire and had to fight my way back down blighttown after climbing it...
Aaah that's painful
@@PressContinue yeah I looked up why there was a locked door at the top of blighttown and found out that I had gone in the wrong direction
I did the same thing but at least i did it after beating the gargoyles
it was horrible
So, the reason you couldn't use Power Within when you entered the Four Kings is because you had a Transient Curse on. It counts as a body buff and therefore can't be stacked with Power Within or other buffs like it. I know this because one time the ghosts followed me through the fog wall, I put on a transient curse to deal with them, and then was confused as to why I couldn't apply power within before falling down into the fight...
LMAO "he went plungee without bungee" 😂😂 2:00
This is so so helpful for the build I have in mind, thank you for the Bed of Chaos and Nito advice
It’s also amazing how much Dark Soul content I still consume after 10 years of this game release! Hahahahaha
I watch an ungodly amount of dark souls content
was wondering why this video is so long, turns out it's because there's a ton of extra info in here and you didn't just cut from boss to boss like some other videos for dks challenge runs do. great work!
The enemies that automatically hand you purple moss are the toxic dart blower enemies. Given that they apply very deadly poisons and can fall to where you can't reach their drops I guess fromsoft wasn't willing to be that brutal with them and just decided to throw you a bone.
11:42 took me by surprise and had me rolling.☠
Two years unhelpfully late but if anyone is wondering, the part of the Anor Londo church you walk up to get to the rafters is called a "Flying buttress" and they're used to help disperse the immense weight of the brickwork in an aesthetically pleasing manner.
It's practically a butter knife that can't even cut butter.
Not even undead butter
Not even melted butter
Amazing how he dodges so well improvising.I almost always get caught on hitboxes, but I do use heavier armor than this guy.Still,amazing.
This is criminally underrated
DS +0 Straight Sword Hilt: “You’re never gonna get my power!”
DS2 +0 Handmaid’s Ladle (broken): “Do I look like I need your power?”
The chandelier joke was quite a laugh out loud moment. People gave me looks 😂
Btw I loved the rope firebomb addition in DS3 to hit thing right below. Pretty cool addition to address an obvious flaw in throwing weapons.
I've done the sort of run through Anor Londo like that on a Havel build.
Ran from Undead Parish to inner Anor Londo without any bonfire.
many years ago I did a deprived, no bonefire, no estus run, it was like a no hit run but worse, would not recommend, still managed to beat the game tho
didn't even realize it was one and a half hour long, informative & entertaining 😊
i have finished this game with a shield only build for damage (all bossess without skipping, just a regular playthrough except i can only use a shield). So i figured i knew everything about this game by now. But i learned a few new things, like that pinwheel can shoot fireballs. Thanks!
"How do you survive with only straightsword hilt"
Look to papa ZeroLenny, and realize that it takes nerves and patience of steel.
I appreciated the useful tip on evading four king's grab attack, although I will probably not remember it whenever I'm gonna play the game again. Personally, I backtrack a little, and then approach the grab with """approximately the same timing""" as the thrust attack from the darkwraiths. I understand that you're used to play the game in a "reliable" way, since bossfights in challenge runs can take a lot of time, but I was surprised by how much caution you took with super smough. Honestly, when the fight is not gonna last ten minutes and you're not super vulnerable, if you just stay close the only thing that can happen is being taken by surprise by his buttsmash (imo it can be reliably avoided if you just pay attention), or him randomly activating the sweeping run attack
my guy just narrated a whole movie long video, what a legend praise the sun
Used firebombs on asylum demon, run invalid. Lol but seriously awesome vid, keep up the great work, incredible content as always
Side note, could someone tell me where he got the sorcerer's staff from? I seem to have missed it
LOL thanks, actually because there were a couple of other people complaining about the firebombs, that's why in my no soul run I fought the asylum demon with the sword hilt even though there was absolutely no reason to do that in that run. And the sorceres staff I bought from Rickert in new londo
@@PressContinue wow really? I was just joking it didn't seem like that big a deal. Also thanks for the clarification, was not very awake while watching and must have just spaced out that part
Wow! The quality of your guides is extremly impressive! Too bad crown of dusk doesn't buff weapon buffs.
Dude, you are wild.
I have enough trouble with this game normally, never mind doing something like this.
Gwen: Ah here comes the chosen undead with a WHAT? A broken sword? How dare you… dead 💀
10:56 it sounds like you said paining guardians, and that is what they are.
An accurate description by accident
In Dark Souls 2 (Vanilla version), I did a Ladle run in “Hardmode Covenant” (Covenant of Champions: +20% Defense, +33% Damage). It was hard as nails, for awhile.
It’s well known that Infusing it with an Old Mundane stone, or Poison Stone, can turn it into a serviceable weapon, that with skill, can beat the game.
The problem is getting the Dull Ember, which Steady Hand McDuff requires to become a blacksmith. In Scholar, it’s easily done by beating Pursuer, gaining access to A Tower Apart bonfire, where the chest with it is. However, in Vanilla, the Dull Ember resides in Iron Keep. This means , at minimum, you need to kill Dragonrider, Skeleton Lords, Covetous Demon and Mytha. But you’ll probably also need to kill Last Giant and Pursuer, (to get the Ring of Blades.) (I used Magic Weapon from Carhillion)( I used Old Sun Ring, Skeleton Lords and Mytha)
The fights I listed mostly took forever. I was doing literally around 9-16 damage. The Ladle is broken the entire time, and the Hardmode Covenant damage resistance was rough.
The biggest Hurdles were the 4 Pinwheel Skeletons in Skeleton Lords fight (only 2 in Scholar), and Mytha, mostly because she regens HP in the poison moat.
I had to use a couple black firebombs to kill a couple Pinwheels. They are just too fast. I wore the Old Sun Ring, and was able to kill a couple of the other mobs.
Mytha was the last boss, and toughest, because I couldn’t out damage her hp regen. So I did what I had to do. I used up all the consumables like black firebombs , throwing knives, etc. that I had found. I didn’t want to buy any bombs. It felt like it would be against the challenge. But I knew Mytha was almost impossible in Hardmode. So I focused, and carefully killed Mytha with the consumables I had found, first try. It means the run isn’t pure Ladle. But the run wasn’t going anywhere without beating her, and I just found her almost impossible in Hardmode with a broken ladle, magic weapon sorcery, and Old Sun ring. So I but the bullet, and bombed her.
After the giant pain in the ass it was to get the Dull Ember and infuse the Ladle with Mundane, it almost feels like cheating to hit for around 90-100 damage. Once infused, the game is pretty much in the bag. It’s all skill from that point, because you still need to survive long fights. But at least the 10+ minute fights are over.
A really fun run, but very tough start. I’m sure there’s a souls savant who can beat Hardmode Covenant Mytha with just a broken ladle, on their way to the Dull Ember. But it ain’t me. At least not today.
The random purple moss droops in blight town are given to you when the toxic dart shooters die. So if your running through the area past them there's a good chance they will fall off the platforms they are on similar to the painting guardians in the Anor Londo rafters.
I like how informative this video is. You explain it as though we are all going to try this insanity. But actually you made it seem doable 😂
This video makes me want to reinstall Dark Souls to try and finally beat it, up until you get to Blighttown and my 'Nam flashbacks kick in.
Hahahah! That’s a great way to put it.
I hadn’t played DS1 in around 8 years. Just popped it in last week to try to finish it (all I had left was Manus, _MAYBE_ Kalameet - I have to check - and Gwyn). Manus is kickin’ my arse! I see why I originally “took a break.” Lol.
In dark souls vanilla without any patches. A +5 enchanted club was insanely powerful. It use to grant intelligence scaling and not grant any magic damage. Thus, you could cast magic weapon on an enchanted infused weapon. The club also has reduced scaling past +10. In essence they implemented two nerfs to prevent players from a super powered weapon. A +5 enchanted club use to grant an S rating for intelligence.
Ahhh yes, the ZeroLenny playthrough, love to see your spin on it.
Love your guides! Always super informative and super entertaining!
Thanks hmq :)
I want the story behind this poor sword, like it's so chipped and crappy.
It's definitely served well and must be excited at this chance to be a weapon yet again
I can't wait to see all the challenges people will do in Elden Ring.
Holy cow... I did it! I did go to Anor Londo and pick up the great magic weapon spell, haha! Here we go!
Let's G O go ho gyahooooooooo
The parry animation causing Gwyn to miss might be in the other From games too. I can confirm it is in Sekiro as sometimes a deflection doesn’t connect but instead the enemy attack wiffs. It’s something I was starting to learn to duplicate and it’s a factor of position and timing. You have to be close and towards direction of hit box movement as well as super precise timing of perfect to just a hair after perfect (slightly late) for the deflection.
It can even happen with blocking animations, like how certain blocking animations will make Nito's ground sword attack miss you even though it goes visually right through you
super irrelevant a year later but this exists in elden ring too when using the buckler to parry the bell bearing hunter's forward lunge stab . Sword goes through my skull, no damage where id usually be wrecked
His character is the speed running starter pack
i love the way this guy says homeward bones. He has forever changed the way i say it. "humwert bewns"
1:20:50
It looks like you used the item that makes the ghosts hittable without being actually cursed. It counts as a body buff and since you cant stack buffs in this game no Power Within
Wait... seriously? Transient curse prevents you from using power within? I honestly never noticed that or even heard of it before. Pretty weird that they would qualify it is a body buff. But yes you are correct, I just checked the wiki and it says: "Transient Curse is a Self Buff and interferes with other such buffs (i.e. Great Magic Barrier, Green Blossom, Power Within, etc.). As long as it's active it's not possible to cast other Self Buffs and vice versa."
I guess you are never done learning things about this game.
@@PressContinue yup
I too learned it the hard way
I just finished a Velka-themed run of sorts a couple days ago. Was rushing to get the Rapier and whatnot, so went into Queelag super early. Thought I'd summon for the fight and.... Got a rando who derped and died almost immediately and Mildred who got stuck in a loop running into Lava until SHE died.
That meant I had to down a three-player Queelag basically by myself using a Bandit's Dagger that was dealing something like 19 damage per hit (I had the estoc too but that wasn't working out so great either). I'm very envious of your Straight Sword Hilt DPS =P
Lol, that indeed is a quite an experience
I don't know if you will read this comment, but I want to thank you for making these videos. I'm in a terribly deep depression and the only thing keeping me sane and distracted is your channel. You're very entertaining and it's good to watch my favorite games like this.
Aww I really appreciate that. But I'm sad to hear that you're going through such a rough time :( hope things will get better for you soon and I'm glad to provide that bit of escapism that you crave and need
@@PressContinue I hope so too. You almost make me wish to pick Dark Souls up again (now that I think about it, I haven't made a dex build in that game..). Keep on keeping on.
We have ben fooled
This entire video was just an ad for his ng+7 dual caestus sl1 run
41:42 WOW, that could've been an actual play on Smough's part. If Ornstein used a move that couldn't be rolled into, you would've been dead there.
"consumables will only get you so far"
the backlogs: (laughs in firebomb)
For those of you who find the blighttown insect too adorable to kill you can also grab aural decoy and get him to attack that instead of you long enough for you to fast roll in, grab power within, and hopefully roll or run back out in time to avoid his cuddly claw like attacks. I got it to work pretty quickly but you’ll want to aim so he does the stomp attack on your side first and not the wild slashes.
13:40 you dont have to ring the bells you can just talk to Kaathe in the abyss and he will take you to place the lord vessel.
1:20:40 the reason bc you can't cast power within there is because you had transient curse active, which counts as a body buff, and you can't stack two body buffs
Zerolenny: Allow me to introduce myself.
An easier way I've found to get past the border in Sens Fortress. Is to start running but pull up the exit menu. Once you see or hear the border coming, then save and quit. When you load back in the Border will be reset.
Even if i don't watch this kind of content often. I'm still gonna sub for the effort put.
42:15 that level of synchronization 👏
I am enjoying this video so far and it brings me memories from when I played dsr on switch was a great game with some amazing boss battles that I was able to conquer best one being knight aurtorias
Omg wow! I thought nobody else played on the switch! 😎
I still remember sitting on the bus back home from school shooting the dragons tail with a bow to get the drake sword 😂
@@losertrap1031 oh wow! Lol(?)
*gasp* the legendary broken sword run
I really enjoyed the structure of this video.
that trap at the top of the boulder in sen's fortress, if you just sprint over the button across the trappeded hallway, none of the darts should hit you
1:32:27 It's no surprise Gwyn lost if he get that shot on his balls
I haven't even played dark souls, and this is my favorite wespon in the game
Watching that bolder take out the snake man by Onion Bro gets me every time, he just looks so excited to come and bite you and then BAM!! bolder.
Classic.
FYI you don’t have to kill the sorcerer, the slumbering dragon ring can be picked on a dead body inside Sen’s Fortress
Right you are. So he died for nothing. What shame... he was a good man... *lipsmack*... what a rotten way to die.
Ur videos are very very good man!
would love to play with you some day! just got back into ds remastered! (I'm a dutchy too)
cheers man! keep doing what you do!
Henlo, you are my 37th favorite tuber, goober. Jerma985 is number one, which I'm sure you understand completely. You're welcome
Press Continue: "this weapon sucks"
ZeroLenny: "laughs in text-to-speach"
4:58 This is caused by two things
1. The game things you’re dead and thus you’re in death cam (this is why if you do the glitch incorrectly you’ll just get instakilled. That’s what’s supposed to happen normally, but since dark souls 1 is so broken, it more often than not does not kill you).
2. To optimize their games, anything that you can’t see or have not gotten to yet is not loaded at all. This is why the dark souls randomizer does not allow Seath to be a randomized enemy, as he is so big that he can clip through walls and attack you even when he is not loaded in. Additionally, this is also why the blood echo farm works in bloodborne. A hunter is positioned right where the axe collides, but since it’s not loaded in yet, it’ll collide with him without pushing him off.
It’s actually a very clever way of optimizing their game worlds and making most things seamless.