Can You Beat Dark Souls 3... N͔͔̥̺̞̿͊̇o͙͙̙̘̙ͤͫ͞ṛ̣̬̫̍͌ͩ͟m̰̰̹͚̙̂ͦ͗͠a͔͔̜̗̦ͩ̅̎l͖͖̰̝ͭ̀͘l͖͖̰̝ͭ̀͘y͙͙̪̰ͫ͌́

Like a persistent rodeo rider, I'm back on my bull. You know how this one goes - can you beat Dark Souls 3... normally? I'm sure this will be a perfectly standard run where nothing out of the ordinary happens, right? Right?
All glitches/skips/exploits performed on a PS5 on current patch. Thanks to my good friend Suits for help with the teardrop glitch. Please like and sub for more fromsoft content! Read on for more info... you know you want to
A playlist of all the music used can be found here: • Dark Souls 3 Normal Ru...
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A big shout has to obviously go out to all the talented players who originally discovered or publicised some of these glitches/exploits. I don't claim to know who the originators of every one of these tricks is, but here are some of the research materials I used:
The most comprehensive video out there is Phobia's excellent compilation of DS3 glitches on current patch, which covers a lot of the content here including millwood greatbow, abyss and gundyr freezes, pontiff teardrop skip, siegward titanite dupe and more: • Glitches you can do in...
Ray Dhimitri has a compilation of boss cheese kills which is where I found the greatwood firebombs strat, so thanks for making my life a misery with that one: • Dark Souls III - How M...
set-up for the sage skip is shown here: • DS3 Sage Skip Setup
There are two different set ups for the Vordt skip, depending on whether you're playing on 30 or 60 fps
30 FPS set up: • Vordt Skip Easy Consis...
60 FPS set up: • Vordt skip setup for 6...
Assault millwood greatbow set up here: • Dark Souls 3 ｜ ASSAULT...
this is where I first saw the head spear throw weapon-swap: • For my next trick i sh...
How to trigger the phase 2 twin princes freeze: • DARK SOULS 3: Lorian a...
some general demos of weapon art swaps from PeachyMike: • Dark Souls 3 Weapon ar...
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[@BaronsCastle]

Nothing to see here, carry on

[@zanderjo]

I've been waiting for this baron now I will watch this multiple times

[@teddydayoooo]

You make banger music

[@devinarmstrong7857]

My brother in Christ, you simply completed the game Completley Normally.

[@Skaven_enthusiast]

You can also cheese gundyr USING the crystal lizard by doing what u did but dragging it to the dog wall to hit the boss. Good for “miracle only” run

[@Skaven_enthusiast]

Crap fog wall

[@Aegisworn]

Man, can you imagine how hard Yhorm would have been without a super effective weapon like the handmaid's dagger?

[@lavoc775]

I've heard of a weapon called the stormruler, but it sounds like a pretty bad weapon. It's weapon art is super slow and sucks in pvp so it must suck against him too

[@Neftosklad]

Hands are far more effective

[@moistpickle5073]

@@Neftosklad the ultimate parry weapon

[@nahrikkon8355]

@@moistpickle5073 parry swapping to the firelink sword if you have hornet ring id real fun xd

[@runeops1193]

⁠@@lavoc775yeah don’t use it, the scaling sucks

[@aidenmclaughlin1076]

This is indeed one of the completely normal runs of all time.

[@acannoli8287]

Definitely a run of time, indeed.

[@AngriestPeanut]

Joke is getting old

[@CobaltContrast]

The run was less convoluted than time in dark souls.

[@tarantulamadness6191]

@@AngriestPeanut It's one of the old jokes of time.

[@shaw2024]

@@tarantulamadness6191 it's one of the time jokes of old :)

[@pawlik_3D]

I NEED that new Yhorm's theme to be in a separate video. Thing SLAPS

[@deepseapenguin]

I'm glad to hear that im not the only one

[@belliebun4529]

At this rate he needs to make a second channel just for all his songs.

[@Dom_1722]

Thank you for this playthrough, now I can finally beat dark souls 3 the way Miyazaki intended. I especially loved the part when you said "it's baronin' time" and proceeded to perform the most tedious and hard glitch in the game just to troll some Aldrich follower

[@FlexPaste]

excuse me sir, glitch isn't permitted here it's a normal playthrough!

[@ShikuQuaza]

The double-take at 34:48 killed me. Imagine going in for an invasion to find Pontiff waiting for you

[@Raoul.]

But that's completely normal, though.

[@colarowlet6775]

Yea, happens all the time.

[@davidwilliams3244]

I love how he just got up on that troll body just looking in pure disbelief.

[@cianmccarthy8451]

"I came to defend my castle, why is the f#€king pope here"

[@castlewhale4746]

As someone with hundreds of hours into DS3 this video is extremely upsetting in all the right ways. Great content.

[@Msatthew]

Of all the things to be impressed or shocked by, I think it was the Vow of Silence vs Aldrich that hit me hardest. Like, woah.

[@BaronsCastle]

it hit you harder than aldrich managed to hit me in that fight, thats for sure

[@Integer_Overload]

Dude now im curious if you can use it to declaw the Crystal Sage. Thatd be hilarious

[@justsomeone883]

​@@Integer_Overload I'm pretty sure that you can,very useful for NG+ When her spells kill you in two-to-three hits.

[@wolfmaschke6224]

Can we just talk about how much work must have gone into editing and writing a script with a punchline in almost every sentence for almost 50 minutes? Amazing work as always, keep it up!

[@jehru5]

Not to mention the work that must have gone into the Yhorm song.

[@summit881]

The run was normal up until Yhorm's new boss theme at 23:23; then it was the best thing ever. Nice one! :D

[@bossdbz2129]

I'd listen to that song over and over if it was a separate video-

[@jon983]

True it didn't need to hit that hard especially for a boss that's easy although beating a giant with a dagger Is always a nice thing.

[@aidandimitriou5925]

Reminded me of tobuscus :D

[@zackdoodlesva2]

Yes!😂

[@ryansweet3412]

Facts. That song is fire 😂

[@grfrjiglstan]

Using ymfah's new Tear Drop to take your Pontiff for a walk is bloody brilliant. So glad that all his blood, sweat, and money isn't going to waste.

[@giftedfox4748]

Was going to say the same thing. Amazing stuff that speed runners and fans can find after years later.

[@doesntmatter2935]

This was from Phobia about a year ago

[@hejhejaske]

@@doesntmatter2935 yeah ymfah doesn’t find the tricks himself

[@speeedwagonnn6959]

@@hejhejaske he did found a bunch of them by himself, but even if he doesnt he gives credit to the people ayway so thats cool

[@StopItGarrison]

@@speeedwagonnn6959 the stupidity of your comment is amazing.

[@purplehaze2358]

I love how you just described the broadsword with “it’s a sword”.

[@michaeledmunds7056]

Well, that is basically the in game description as well. 😂

[@crimtheidiotgenius3694]

Since I know I wasn’t the only one curious about the lyrics to the “Yhorm the Giant” song he sang, here they are: Yhorm the Giant, he’s big and bad and deadly Yhorm the Giant, he has a huge machete That’s not a euphemism He’ll use it with precision So you just gotta learn to dodge and get into the rhythm as you Slash, slash, slash At his ankles and his hands Then you poke, stab, stab So much damage this is grand But just hit him ‘till he staggers And then stick him with your dagger And that big old giant crashes down to land Yes you hit him ‘till he staggers Then you stick him with your dagger And that big old giant crashes down to land

[@deepseapenguin]

thanks a lot, is this song made by Baron? I think it should be another video for me to loop

[@thewolfofthestars1847]

The Yhorm song actually took me back to when I did community theatre as a kid--our director wrote songs just like that for our plays, goofy but also a little awesome lol. I still remember the Jabberwocky song he wrote for Alice in Wonderland, the musical backstory of the Beast's curse from Beauty and the Beast... If we'd done a production for Dark Souls 3, it would've fit right in! Thanks for the nostalgia, I guess? Lmao

[@grfrjiglstan]

Props for mixing up the route as much as possible, it's always nice to see a different order of operations in this game. Pro tip to avoid future agony: picking the gold coin as your starter gift gives you like eight of them. They can really help with farming the gas staff, or even the mimic hat if you like.

[@markopusic8258]

If I remember correctly it gives you 5 rusty coins and 3 golden rusty coins, so yeah, pretty good deal for farming.

[@cursorminor]

what do you mean this is the normal progression it even says so on the wiki

[@leomurry8195]

Your video quality is absolutely through the roof! I have no idea how you perfectly plan, script, and edit a 50 minute video while creating new boss themes. Blown away and I’m only 25 minutes in.

[@MrMagbrant]

God I love the little musical interludes, they're the absolute highlight of this run, thank you for this glorious content!

[@rickyhuxedurp5440]

Man at first, when I saw this title, I was a little bit suspicious of whether or not this run would be completely normal. After watching this video, however, I am completely glad to say that there was nothing strange about it!

[@PressContinue]

34:46 that invader looking around like "Wait... is this normal?" Baron: It's perfectly N͔͔̥̺̞̿͊̇o͙͙̙̘̙ͤͫ͞ṛ̣̬̫̍͌ͩ͟m̰̰̹͚̙̂ͦ͗͠a͔͔̜̗̦ͩ̅̎l͖͖̰ͭ̀͘ Ironically finding out that that one dog has a grab attack was an even bigger WTF than seeing Pontiff outside of his arena

[@jaydendelgiudice2474]

Love seeing one of my favorite creators commenting on another of my favorite creators video

[@BaronsCastle]

haha that fucking dog

[@lucavillano7575]

I love you both, baron press😂

[@happygriffin7482]

haa, mijn favoriete medelander op youtube

[@derfliegendetempler]

That dog really took me by surprise. Maybe they never get us like this, because we mostly just sprint past them and their AI needs a stationary target to initiate a grab? That would be the only explanation that would make sense to me. But even then one would think wed have seen it before.

[@Xieryo]

nothing says "hey, i know you're sleep deprived, but maybe stay up another hour" like baron dropping a new video. you, be and, and our god ymfah are my absolute favorite content creators, and i will deadass stop what im doing to watch.

[@druined6570]

What a banger video, I didn’t even know a quarter of these “normal” strategies existed. I loved this so much

[@Be_And]

After all these years, who knew Pontiff had a scripted kill event! Skipping everything to get the Millwood Greatbow was a very clever move. Excellent stuff.

[@mandrake6486]

Hi literally me

[@amberhernandez]

Gravity gets us all in the end, unfortunately :(

[@yagizberk020]

Aynı ben

[@Herr_Ryddle]

Santos percebes es el jefe

[@edwardblangsted4540]

Finally, another "Normal" playthrough from barons castle

[@Sukunajr]

Have you seen the Bloodborne normally

[@edwardblangsted4540]

@@Sukunajr I have, I suppose I should say "another Normal" playthrough from him.

[@ninjafrog6966]

He did a normal playthrough for bloodborne

[@destructionduo1168]

He had another video where he did this but with bloodborne

[@dogedude1535]

💀people just don't read before they commwnt

[@acestorm6662]

23:26 , wasn't expecting Dark Souls the musical but I love it

[@nemanjaz.9113]

My favourite part of this video is when Baron said ''It's Castlin time!'' and then Normalled all over the Undead Legion. Brought me to tears. Truly, one of the Dark Souls 3 runs of all time.

[@naijachan]

That "everybody jump!" was so unexpected, it had me in tears. :'D Thanks for the laugh again :)

[@cyndrr8662]

9:33 the buck bumble theme is unironically one of the best game themes ever made. Thank you baron for reminding me of this masterpeice

[@dangititsdanger3204]

Fantastic

[@g-bone5354]

Well done, it is rare to find such quality put into game videoes. You're really creative and crushed the theme you made for the video, looking forward to following your journey :)

[@rampageblizzard]

Loved the music in this video. The pontiff vs player part was amazing. Good video

[@shibasouls4422]

Genuinely one of my favorite Soulsborne content creators, so excited to watch this

[@khaledbloushu3187]

This is one of the best channels, This guy doesn't upload a lot of videos but the quality of the videos is really impressive. This is my third time watching this video and I enjoyed it still, Thank you Baron man for this videos.

[@JakeTheArmyGuy]

Dude, I've had your Yhorm the Giant song stuck in my head for over a week. I friggin' love it. You make great content, my dude. Keep up the great work!!! ^_^

[@slimchelmi6940]

9:50 never jammed out this much in my life while watching a DS3 run also, wow, the strats here are the "best of DS3" video I always wanted

[@unnamedvisitor1649]

Buck Bumble was the shit.

[@detriax6615]

Okay but seriously that yhorm bit is an absolute jam

[@captainsilentshadow9182]

I love the use of Ace Combat 5 Hanger(Mission Prep) music in the midir fight, and when you added it at 45:24 thank you, AC is a great series so to hear the music in a vid about A souls games is quite the treat

[@gambusino1446]

These videos are so much fun man, keep it up.

[@bendavenport6748]

40:00 What a normal kill on the Twin Princes. Definitely didn't make me regret spending two and a half hours trying to kill them any other way.

[@kimbrolyy]

I'm still confused how he did it. Is it just the positioning?

[@jjba3553]

This may have been the most “normal” ds3 run I’ve ever seen, but damn the Yhorm song smacks. When we gonna get an album for all these bangers?

[@leonardfeuerstein]

My man you have outdone yourself with this video! Truly phenomenal content

[@og_kushwhacked]

Loved the N64 Perfect Dark music during the twins fight. Nicely done. 👏

[@deadfurydbf9647]

How normal, I expected this to derail into insanity, but it derailed into becoming more and more normal, thank you for this video Baron. I will now be able to get progressively more normal as this goes.

[@wizardofaus7013]

23:54 Yhorm’s new totally normal boss music rocks and I totally don’t need it on Spotify to function normally. No not at all 👀

[@Chili_Bass]

Thx for the OST playlist! :D

[@str1930]

You’re a g mate, Love the spin you put on Souls challenge runs

[@namechanged3044]

23:23 my dude why is this catchy! XD also great video i never thought you could play this game normally but you have proven me wrong

[@scarlettscented]

That Yhorm song had NO RIGHT to go that hard. Great video as always, but I'm anxiously awaiting your move to music production.

[@zanuka7487]

i've been stuck on yhorm for years ! now i know the right music and weapon to use thank you

[@piggyman8432]

Baron i just thought you should know that you make great content all together but f***n amazing DS content. the music, especially at 42:00 with the demon princes, brought me back to happy souls for a second even if its not even the same genre as summon in the sunlight.

[@andromeda4655]

Love seeing another perfectly normal run, really goes to show how normally you can beat these games! (The deacons flying into the air had to be one of my favorite bits, it’s so ridiculous looking)

[@grafkidkat705]

Even a fucking musical number. I love this video. Thank you, great work Baron!

[@PreciousGaming15902580rAf]

This is quality content. A guide to Dark Souls cheese and the songs he sang is perfection

[@SenAkari]

I hugely appreciate the Tales of music you used here. Absolute banger video my dude o/

[@rorbee]

thank you for the tutorial, i was stuck on index girder for about 15 hours but finally got past with your strategy! going to follow this guide religiously for the rest of my playthrough

[@DeftestAphid2]

36:45 the song is: Bayonetta- Fly me to the Moon[Climax]. I'm not letting this end like the poison only run where I asked for assistance on finding a song and got jack shit in return.

[@jx_games9543]

Bayonetta is peak ngl

[@agustinsanchez3679]

The songs are just the icing on the cake here. Amazing video!

[@Haten_Heis]

lovely video as usual, excited every time you upload

[@M_guarido]

The Yhorm song was an absolute masterpiece, thank you sir

[@filiplass7442]

I started playing ds3 today again because a mod I love got updated. This is literally perfect. Thank you for the upload, can't wait to see how to beat ds3 nOrMaLlY

[@AlekosMazzolotti]

Man, such cool editing! Loved it

[@shybardspeakeasy5008]

These boss theme remixes are inspired! Glad to see you back!

[@jonaswest6993]

That grab attack dog is the one they based the Elden ring dogs on. It has the wild flailing bite attack that in ER used to do like 60,000 damage

[@martes4814]

Yk, this video made me realize that I played DS3 far too normally as well by getting lost and doing the but freeze guy as my first boss and going into the abyss watcher right after that. I remember doing some stuff in between, but mostly being lost.

[@jdubluffy1959]

You’re videos are so awesome!!

[@StormCrownSr]

I always love your videos. Your jokes are funny. Your pacing is on point. And you don't do loud sound effect spams like some others do.

[@HollowSlayerGS]

Incredible video. Well worth the wait, cant wait to see more

[@vegancardigan]

Wow, i actually did not see most of the things you did normally with bloodborne since i only played it once, now when you did it with a game i beat at least 6 times i see how much effort went into it

[@morphine4urpain385]

My man I have to say that as transition was wow. I don’t know if like KZbin ads are random or if you can choose what ads you get. But I got a raid shadow legends ad right at that moment I’m impressed

[@barneypenghoun7655]

Finally a good walkthrough that I can follow to the very end and have a normal DS3 experience.

[@chumblespuzz9273]

Good god, I haven't heard the Buck Bumble theme in so many years. Thanks for the nostalgia hit Baron.

[@Masterwar.]

Ah, Baron's castle, the best youtuber with the words Baron and Castle in his username bar none.

[@K-popQueenSoo-Ah]

I like how you do a walkthrough and make a entertaining video at the same time. Very good stuff 😂 while skipping easy bosses lol

[@mistergaryb]

Just discovered the channel and I was expecting a normal run. Lot of fun.

[@taybaytime]

Ah yes. A completely normal playthrough. Totally normal. N o R M a L. Definitely taking notes on how NOT to cheese DS3.

[@anaroniak]

ahh, just another chill, average and nothing out of the ordinary playthrough from Baron 🤠

[@salimdeaibes]

Dude your content is gold. I can't believe you finally got sponsored bro!

[@kadincochrane]

ahhhhh, Your Reality at the beginning was a very nice touch :)

[@BlondeMcGuinn]

That Pontiff glitch is probably my favorite glitch in all of Soulsborne. A pain to set up but fun as hell. Another entertaining video man! Almost 50 minutes of glee and laughter. Big Ups!

[@Milk23678]

Bro this totally normal run had some banger music the one at 23:00 was my favorite

[@paultapping9510]

man, your music selection is top notch!

[@sorlakgear]

This video slaps, I love the Yhorm song, it's always a fun time watching your videos

[@jovialhovis107]

Yhorm's theme was truly a thing a beauty. can't believe i never knew about all of the 'totally normal' boss strategies

[@bulgariangoku333]

this is definetely one of the runs in history

[@baku6376]

Truly the run of all time

[@catfoodtester]

You gave credit to every source you could thank you immensely it has earned a sub from me good quality content keep it up!

[@unnamedvisitor1649]

I haven't thought about Buck Bumble in years. Thank you for that.

[@luisdurden1994]

29:04 I don’t know why this scene was so funny to me but I laughed really hard. Thanks Baron. All the best for ur Channel. Hope my Like and Comment do a bit for the algorithm.

[@joeylittle2629]

okay, but hear me out.. I really want a speedrun catergory dedicated to beating DS3 bosses like he did. That would be hilarious and actually siiick.

[@Blackcloud288]

Your Sim City 3000 music has me vibing, glad I found your stuff! And holy crap, Ace Combat 5 as well, loving it!!!

[@7y1suman8]

I KNEW I recognized that monkey island song but would've never remembered which game it was from, thank you so much for including a playlist!

[@la_robbo]

I would absolutely love to see a Baron stardew run, I dont know about anyone else.

[@shaw2024]

a *"normal"* stardew run, using the completely dev approved naming system

[@Seftige]

This was a masterpiece from start to finish

[@Soapy-chan]

You and other challenge runners inspired me to try my own and Dark Souls 3 as my favorite game of them all is pretty perfect for it. I'm playing with a friend because that's even more fun and we were first doing a normal playthrough, then started one where we play as the workers from the undead settlement and now one where we have to equip new weapons, shield/chimes/staffs, armor pieces/sets and rings at the exakt time we pick them up and transpose boss souls right after defeating them. Also I posed the rule on myself that I don't explicitly level up to be able to use certain weapons, so I do often have weapons I am not able to weild. It's pretty fun so far though I have to say that I wouldn't be able to defeat certain bosses without his help probably, or only after hours and hours of trying. As someone who played the game only for 1500 hours, I don't feel ready for that yet. Also we'll do an item randomizer run next.

[@orionyaboi1167]

I was so pumped when Smell Of The Game started playing at the beginning. Great choice there

[@EPICSACKVILLE]

thank you for using path of radiance music for the soul of cinder, it was a very nice surprise track from an underappreciated game.

[@blackmoon2128]

Excellent vid, still, watching this after watching the DS2 normal run, it's really interesting to see the difference in the amount of whacky, I mean, normal stuff that you could do in both of these games.

[@ziegander]

Loved all the Valkyrie Profile music in this one!

[@jake.klusewitz]

I admire your gameplay and all the work you put into scripting/editing… but damn man, those musical interludes have to be my favorite parts!! 🤣

[@nostalji75]

I am impressed. The music you made for a joke was top notch. Gotta look for more on your channel!

[@DirtRider999]

Loving the channel

[@BabySlayer13]

These types of videos are amazing please make more

[@Clarity_Control]

Alright, this is the quickest sub I’ve ever done. Time to binge your content