Obvious Dark Souls Strategy Discovered After A Decade!

[@skaidan5213]

Can't believe how far this strategy has come. You guys are great! Thanks for the mention and, as always, great video.

[@thecommieyoda5029]

The man, the myth, the legend

[@nightscout9979]

You made speedrunning history man! Congrats! What an awesome thing to figure out too, even casual players get a kick out of beating Kalameet without Gough's help.

[@Vulcan-vs1rf]

Hello there mister hero.

[@arsenal4444]

Good Job, Skeleton!

[@not_herobrine3752]

the legend himself

[@yobogoya4367]

Did you know you could cut off Kalameet's tail by shooting him in the face? This is during a ground battle. If timed properly, using Crystal Soul Spear to shoot him in the face will pierce through and cut his tail off. I discovered this by complete accident but was able to replicate it several times.

[@fortidogi8620]

That makes so much sense, but I never even considered it.

[@gnuhgnauqneyugn]

That sounds.. Epic..

[@Tazdingoyahahahahaha]

Monster Hunter World Dragonpiercing be like

[@thecasul1524]

When do you shoot the Soul spear?

[@yobogoya4367]

@@thecasul1524 I was never able to nail down the exact moment. And it was so long ago (Prepare to Die Edition). But it wasn't ever during an ability. He was chasing me as I back pedalled. The real problem is, when you have the intelligence capable of doing this, you aren't on a build that would be able to make use of the weapon you get. That's the main reason I never had the motivation to figure out the specifics of the shot. It was always a nice surprise when it happened, but nothing I could capitalize on.

[@jkfjsfaugueyfhsdfjfafajjgu6769]

Who is the person who thought to himself "I wonder if i can hit his tail with a SWORD STRIKE when he is in MID AIR"?

[@mandrakevermilyea7488]

As a 1st time zweihander weilder I did it not on purpose the first time i beat them

[@championofthedarksoul4200]

Some games just have weird programming and hitboxes in Borderlands 2 melee attacks have infinite vertical range.

[@Ten_Thousand_Locusts]

@@championofthedarksoul4200 which ones are those?

[@championofthedarksoul4200]

@@Ten_Thousand_Locusts fume knight in particular has awful hitboxes, so does the ceaseless discharge from the first game,

[@Ten_Thousand_Locusts]

@@championofthedarksoul4200 I was actually asking about the BL2 melee attacks lol.

[@timothyamaya3477]

I can't believe all it took was somebody saying "has anybody tried magic?" And somehow for 10 years the answer was no?

[@marhawkman303]

well I suspect that most people who tried failed, and no one wrote a guide on how to make it work. Speedrunners tend to be people who rely on guides a lot. The example here points out that the extreme range needed makes it difficult because as a magic user you have to stand in specific places to hit him at all.

[@philjackson1428]

I know, let's hit a dragon w a dragon tooth while he's flying by. Genius

[@marhawkman303]

@@philjackson1428 it's a plan, the question is whether it's a good plan. :D

[@NuclearRaven13]

speedrunners are really dedicated and persistent, which is a strength required to become consistent but a weakness in this case as they dedicated too much to the current route and optimizing that and thus stopped experimentation.

[@Eon2641]

@@NuclearRaven13 To be fair to them, the only reason this is run-viable is because there are blindspots in the arena that prevent you from instantly dying whenever Kalameet attacks. Before this it would have required a lot of assumptions to decide testing for that is a good idea over, say, looking for new out of bounds locations.

[@mikvance]

Gamers: “Speedrunners are geniuses.” Speedrunners: “Oh shit, we could have just pressed this button to skip the boss fight.”

[@jeshegames]

Speed runners:what’s a bell?

[@Metalwrath2]

LOL

[@koholos]

People think speed runners are genuises?

[@hyakugame]

hate ppl who throw the word "genius" around like candy most people are idiots

[@hyakugame]

@@koholos geniuses in the art of becoming crusty and smelly yeah

[@Cardsfan9996]

Your production value is off the charts good. You deserve so much more recognition not only for your incredible speedruns but these breathtaking videos

[@MatthewTheUntitled]

Yeah, the fact he is not even at 100k subs irritates me

[@OptimusCrime1223]

@@MatthewTheUntitled According to SocialBlade, this channel got ~19k subscribers in just a year and its exponentially increasing. I wouldn't be surprised to see him reach 100k by the end of the year, if not by 6 months.

[@molamola5260]

@@OptimusCrime1223 not that many ds 1speedrunners fans...

[@bobmikaiel3238]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/i36skJWflJqFps0

[@yungdrip7203]

You are brethtaking.

[@SkotKozB5]

"Sometimes it isn't people within the speedrunning community that discover these glitches or exploits" paraphrased as fuck but my favorite recent example is that streamer Boba accidentally finding a skip in the original Metal Gear Solid and the community losing their shit over it. That was great.

[@CaramelsDen]

Or Stickman Sham killing mysterious figure in birth by sleep in 14 seconds because there's some frame skipping timing paired with the peter pan summon that obliterates his health, and it first was accidental, but then replicated, meaning it's possible but takes like.. 3 hours of attempts lmao

[@s--b]

Thanks

[@junibuffooni]

Boba skiiiiip. Speedrunning is so cool because of things like this

[@anstorner]

or in the golden eye when a grandpa or something like that, managed to be faster because he was looking at the floor, so the game rendered faster and therefore a better record in the mission log, people lost their shit and some of the speedrunners quitted because of that.

[@PTS_Solairee]

Pewdiepie skip in dark souls lmao

[@Hephaestus_God]

10 years later and some random chap: "Why.... why don't we just use this shield spell that has been in the game the entire time?" Everyone else: "....... wha"

[@ForBlow]

i mean using a strong shield has always been an option, many have done naked greatbow/artorias greatshield kalameet kills, from the mid/forward of the map, though any greatbow kill takes time. i think what was actually overlooked was the consistency you could land sorcery, i wouldve never bothered to try

[@jdogzerosilverblade299]

Its because most speedrunners arent actually good at they game they run. They just practice the same thing again and again and almost never experiment. While they can beat the game faster than most players a casual player can beat them in another aspect. Its the main reason I say speedrunners arent real gamers. They play a game once and the speedrun it. Most don't even bother trying new things really. Take squilla for example. One of the best speedrunners but if you ever watch him playing casually hes one of the worst players. Can't watch him he's so shit. Makes so many stupid choices that could be figured out with basic common deduction skills.

[@Hephaestus_God]

@@jdogzerosilverblade299 uhhh... wtf you smokin. most speedruners are great/amazing at the game they run.

[@jdogzerosilverblade299]

@@Hephaestus_God not all just most. i mean how many really play casually if you actually think about it. dream is a good example of being good at the game and great at speed running. but people like squilla are good at speed running but shit at the game.

[@Zalban]

This is some quality bait

[@GamersWeekend]

Good GOD the editing quality. SO GOOD. And of course, a great explanation as always. Keep it up!

[@catalystz]

Thanks so much, GW!

[@killerscove6340]

Hi gw

[@nisnast]

Not only the editing, the scriptwriting and voice over is also top notch, feels more like a made for TV documentary than a KZbin video.

[@aloysiuskurnia7643]

Unlike Androv's PC. ...just kidding, I hope he has a better spec now.

[@AnaatthiGozo]

Even if it didn't last I'm glad a spell like Strong Magic Shield got its chance in the spotlight

[@samuele7630]

i mean, a thing like that is powerful a fuck

[@finhz]

Everytime i found a video like this i always thought "Is this it? Is this the Bell Gargoyle Skip?" and turns out it's not. Oh well i'll watch the video anyway, never get tired of new skip/speedrun strategy

[@catalystz]

One day it will happen. I hope!

[@finhz]

@Man Dendon Discovery

[@myleshibner6798]

Get the black night sword to +1 and it a the stats to wield it. No lie it will make the first gargoyle 3-4 hits to kill.

[@jojoversus1100]

@@myleshibner6798 Gargoyle SKIP.

[@jojoversus1100]

YMFah would like a word with you.

[@AsumSaus]

Amazing composites and editing! Interesting subject and super well done script as well, this was a great watch.

[@blakeswanson1322]

My man asumsaus. Melee is sick my man love your videos glad to see ya here!

[@s--b]

Thanks

[@CojonesMuchoGrande]

why do always read Samus in your name? :(

[@virn333]

A compliment from a creator as passionate as you is a big one. Damn. Nice videos!

[@chairwood]

wow that compliment is big coming from u

[@kiister8126]

I’m not that familiar with the Dark Souls speedrun routes but I want to say this in case this can be of use to someone: When I was replaying dark souls last month, I was venturing through New Londo Ruins when I got to the building with those dozens of ghosts that can pass through walls. While I was rushing through a tight corridor one of the ghosts grab attacked me and the tight space made my character clip inside the wall during the grabbing animation. When the animation was done my character fell off the map and at this point I was already swearing at my tv when I realized my character didn’t die and was in fact standing up INSIDE the Four Kings arena. I didn’t have the ring equipped so I just died and the message “you were taken by the abyss showed up” but the first thing I thought after that was that this could definetly be used as a speedrun strat.

[@markoantonijevic9683]

needs to be pinned

[@kiister8126]

@@markoantonijevic9683 I mean like I said I’m not familiar with dark souls strats so maybe there’s already a skip for that zone, idk. But well, if this turn out to be something big I might try to replicate it or at least make a video showing where exactly it happened.

[@a-1455]

It can't since the boss fights are triggered by the fog gates. There's a static model (that you can't hit or see) for the 4 kings to which they share the health bar with, that's probably what you saw.

[@kiister8126]

@@a-1455 I mean I didn’t even see the Four Kings, I just know I was at their arena because of the message and the animation that plays of the abyss consuming your character. But if what you said about boss gates is true then this ideia is dead haha

[@a-1455]

@@kiister8126 you didn't see them because they kind of spawn, they're not really there untill the fight starts. To clarify, you can totally kill some bosses without entering the boss room, since the fog gates are tied to them being alive or not, but I'm unsure what would happen if you were to enter in such a distant place.

[@generalmikalie2739]

I literally did the one strategy where you are infront of Kalameet and use a magic shield. That was at the time when I didn’t know how to fight Kalameet, and I thought you had to kill him. I took the arrows that are there and tried to shoot him using them. To my surprise, Kalameet wasn’t a one shot

[@uninconnu5844]

I wonder ... Since firing an arrow at Kalameet's eye stuns him during the ground battle, has someone tried to do it while he was in the air ? Imagine Kalameet falling to his death ...

[@kreatona4219]

I didn't even know that existed and I've beat the game a ton of times. I would imagine it's been tested, but who knows

[@-dash.]

@@kreatona4219 how many people out there encountered world shattering new strat and thought 🤔 hmmm this would be tested by the speedrun community already, I don't need to bother posting about it

[@vyor8837]

Doesn't work

[@marhawkman303]

@@vyor8837 hmmm so what happens if you hit his eye when he's flying?

[@vyor8837]

@@marhawkman303 nothing, just a bit of damage

[@beetheimmortal]

The fact that the literal world record holder produces these videos *AND* uses Mirror's Edge Catalys music is absolutely great. I'm sad I never heard about you before this video.

[@virayla7093]

Man, editing and still shots are top class, especially Kalameet vs Sorceress. Thanks for this great video!

[@s--b]

You’re welcome

[@chairwood]

@@s--b y u saying "thanks" and "you're welcome" on all these comments

[@hyakugame]

@@chairwood maybe he got credit why r u stalking him tho

[@chairwood]

@@hyakugame I was just reading some of the top comments on this vid and wat ppl were saying and I saw him on like all of them saying same thing :(

[@s--b]

@@chairwood because they're thanking me

[@jacklucy8745]

The intro to this video is sooo good. Really cool editing using dark souls footage with good camera angles etc. awesome man !!!

[@Ranca666]

Fantastic video as always, writing a script so concise and clear, yet deeply techincal and informative is a massive accomplishment, and definitely your most impressive skill. Can't wait for the next one!

[@s--b]

Thank you

[@ichiban4640]

Man really said garnished rather than garnered within the first 15 seconds

[@DoktorTaiko]

I really like that the channel has become this active this year. The videos do look like you put a lot of effort into them and the quality is extremely high especially considering that KZbin isn't your main platform.

[@s--b]

Thanks

[@Arbalesto7]

AMAZING VIDEO!!! Such a great approach to everything in it!!! Huge props to you for the edit, as always!!! Skaidan, great work man. You are part of the history books now!!!

[@s--b]

Thanks

[@Baterodalo]

While playing some games casualy, I have found some glitches (I love to break games for fun) and never decided to share my findings because I allways think people already found that

[@Syngrafer]

You should show me your brown finger

[@VioletPrism]

Yeah I don't get it the shield and soul spear was one of the first things I tried when the game came out seems a bit far fetched they just forgot same with hitting with melee which I saw on a stream 🤔

[@ChaoticCreation]

its insane that i randomely found that blindspot but had no possible use for it with my playstyle back when remastered first came out, that was my first time seeing kalameet and i wanted to be in the valley for a long time.

[@MrLeafeater]

I clicked this video directly after several hours of solo minecraft...your background music made me think I was going insane for a few minutes. I'm not a speedrunner, but this sort of stuff is fascinating. Great video!

[@gatitagiz2]

2:09 the blood splatter as Artorias cuts into the enemy is good editing my guy

[@silentdebugger]

5:46 Don't think I wouldn't catch you sneaking the Time Tripper soundtrack into the background here. You have good taste.

[@ArchenOpteryx]

A really well-made video! I don't know how you even pulled off that trick of outlining Kalameet from behind the cliff at 13:16

[@andrewpopely9511]

I love your storytelling. It’s top tier.

[@anderpanders6210]

fucking A

[@milesa2011]

I spent 4 days defeating that stupid dragon without Goughs help simply because I was too stubborn to move one without beating him first.

[@cartidickrider9129]

your videos have given me a deeper appreciation for video games

[@Morphcast]

I don't ever remember Dark Souls being an obscure Japanese release. It was pretty big even leading up to it's release, coming from somebody who lived in Tennessee at the time. Sure it was no Mario, but people were certainly aware of it. People were even picking sides between it and Skyrim when they came out, arguing over which was better.

[@Pinkooru]

Correction: Gough is not blind, his helmet is just packed with tree resin, so he thinks he's blind.

[@masterjoda999]

Considering what resin does in dark souls, it's not that much a stretch to think that the stuff straight up burned Gough's eyes out.

[@Kennedy00Louis]

Oh what a coincidence, hello Pinkooru :)

[@Eduardotrinta3015]

No, he's actually blind,if you see the hawk ring description in dark souls 3,it says that Gough was blind

[@Eduardotrinta3015]

Description "Ring associated with Hawkeye Gough, one of the Four Knights of Gwyn, the First Lord. Extends the range of arrows. In his later years, the giant Gough was blinded, but this did not prevent him from striking down a calamitous dragon with his Greatbow."

[@astridnightfall9707]

@@Eduardotrinta3015 when you're hit with a flashbang you get blinded, but you are not blind. You can be blinded by covering your eyes with something. I don't know if he's blind or he's got resin, just wanted to point out that being blinded doesn't equal to being blind

[@nightscout9979]

Defeating Kalameet without Gough's help is one of the most rewarding things the DLC provided. You could go off the beaten path and take down a dragon just like in the opening cinematic of the game, even if the first methods took ages. Also, I'm impressed at how well-designed the game is for such a variety of methods to be possible for beating Kalameet this way, from Kalameet's different attacks and positions in the air to Strong Magic Shield and quick ring swapping proving incredibly valuable. The utility spells are getting noticed again and making huge waves. Thanks for documenting such amazing discoveries in such a thorough and succinct manner!

[@s--b]

You’re welcome

[@LilacMonarch]

@@s--b I always love messing around with utility spells, it's not just "haha big damage number go brrr" they actually have interesting uses

[@s--b]

@@LilacMonarch uhh i dont know if you meant to reply to me because i was just pretending to take credit for a video that i didnt make but i do agree that utility spells can be pretty fun

[@LilacMonarch]

@@s--b i didn't, i just hit the wrong reply button ig lol

[@micake3605]

the editing, structuring and narration are always amazing, congratulations.

[@qwopiretyu]

Love the production quality, keep up the beautiful cinematography and editing

[@Innes1]

Honestly love that the speedrun community comes together and hunts for optimal play like this. Of course it makes sense, and benefits the runners, but its just awesome to see. Also love when there is channels like this one to document it all properly, huge props for the video!

[@Witchblood]

I just found my favorite glitch. Hail the spinning bonfire glitch

[@babygorilla4233]

11:59 holy shit I wish every dark souls video did that.

[@chubbeebunnee1708]

great video... you're a master at editing and narration

[@Jungbeck]

Nice to see you back. Love the stuff you put out

[@astanix]

Your videos are absolutely amazing. Thank you for spending so much time on them!!

[@wristcontr0l]

Cata, I dunno if you hear this often enough, but what you're doing for people who are assiduous watchers of DS speedrunning, without necessarily being members of the community themselves, is amazing. Thanks for putting out this more narrated kind of content!

[@TristenDM]

i find each new strat incredible, even as a non-speedrunner. it's simply interesting to see you guys pushing the boundaries further and further witch each new development. good luck on getting that sub 1:00:00! :)

[@ltgreatsocks1]

Fantastic video man! It is endlessly fascinating how people don’t stop at beating the game, or even doing well. These people master every square inch.

[@DrakeDeath7]

I love this video. A stranger from beyond shows us a new way. And changes our fate forever.

[@frightful2]

The presentation of this video is great 👍

[@juanpabueno]

Every time I think there can't be any more improvement in these insane speedruns I am proven wrong. Best online community!

[@hyakugame]

almost as if you shouldn't assume you always know everything huh...

[@АртёмДубравин-ы6у]

Very high quality production dude. Awesome job!

[@THAC0MANIC]

What surprizes me is i remeber a person talking about how the Greatbow could cheese many bosses and DLC bosses and this being mention but never a video being showed about it beforehand ... I mean considering you can hit bosses though fogwalls with the greatbow and such ...

[@sorry987654321]

the editing is insane! well done! that the rest of the video is superb goes already without saying

[@lc9245]

Garnish a reputation? You meant garner?

[@thahrdworkingingo]

Love the use of serious sam 4 music. I wasnt expecting thst but it was a great choice. Editing is absolutely bitchin too.

[@AlmaBuru]

Amazing pacing and godlike editing skills. Wondously played!

[@SebLeCaribou]

Super interesting and great job on the editing , it's great!

[@capperbuns]

This might as well be my favorite dark souls channel, everything here is perfect. Also gough is a badass.

[@hyakugame]

that one guy who haven't watched Limit Breakers

[@capperbuns]

@@hyakugame i watched limit breakers. Almost every single video of that channel in fact, just because your opinion is A doesn't mean mine can't be V.

[@rowantheuma548]

The editing and script for these newer videos are AMAZING

[@VelcroKittie]

God I love this game so much and I played it only for the first time 3 months ago with decades of gaming under my belt. I finished it but was killed an unspeakable number of times. Need to do a rerun

[@Amalgam03]

It’s so sad that Gough sounds incredibly disappointed that he couldn’t participate in defeating Kalameet

[@NeThZOR]

Great content, as always. Looking forward to seeing this strategy in WR runs.

[@lacrimamea9760]

Wonderful! Your content is so good! Dark Souls series indeed has tremendously huge potential in speedrunning... Discovering all these skips is such an immersive way to play the game. Keep it up, Cata! Make Dark Souls great again \-.-/

[@s--b]

Thank you

[@loongtsing262]

I tried DS1 before but didn't continue to play it,because I didnt like its awkward action,but after watching your run,I think I should stick to this masterpiece.

[@Issengan]

Obviously the real true strat is pure unadulterated unga. As a wise man once said; "I unga, therefore I bunga."

[@noahsan92]

this guy edits and produces his videos so skillfully. the amount of work he puts into his content is incredible and you can tell he loves the dark souls community as much as we do. thanks for being awesome catalystz!

[@hyakugame]

ok sir

[@aqueleRu]

We should learn from minecraft speedruneers and start using beds to kill this Dragon too

[@hellxapo5740]

This video almost makes me want to start a career in speedrunning...

[@ioncewasmikey]

Really nicely made video- great editing, camera work, graphics, illustration of the video's ideas in a concise & easy to follow way. I'm no speedrunner, just a Souls fan, but this was cool to see!

[@rockleesmile]

I don't understand why thousands of other people didn't try what Skaidan did? Surely "using magic" with a particular shield isn't that outside the box of an idea?

[@bloody5081]

I already did that exact thing even before DS2 had come out. Didn't really think it was that big of a deal at the time. Back than i was just trying many different ways of killing Kalameet without Goughs help, and that was basically it. And i believe that there are MANY other players who have done that as well but just didn't care to tell anybody about it because it just seems so obvious thing to do. I for one have just never cared about speedrunners in general and like to find different strategies in games just for my own amusement alone and never really care to tell anyone else about what i have done. Part of it is also because i always assume that someone else has already done just that and it's already a common knowledge so why should i go and tell everyone about it.

[@rockleesmile]

@@bloody5081 I guess it wasn't that surprising of a strategy but nobody talked about it cause it wasn't that surprising of a strategy! haha

[@thepancakemann]

As someone who constantly played ds1 as Smurf characters for online, it was nice to see someone else use strong magic shield. It was occasionally useful when you wanted to keep your stats low and use trash shields and I came to find it pretty baller.

[@GMPranav]

Fromsoft needs to hire you ASAP to direct the cutscenes in ER my dude, what an amazing piece as always.

[@davitzakoyan5517]

@Luis Martinez Elden Ring

[@dcc1766]

the editing is so awesome in this video. Great writing as always!!!

[@DonYagamoth]

This is a really neat overview, thanks a lot :) Goes to show, that even larger popularity games like DS have these "... Well, that's somewhat obvious in hindsight"-moments. I feel like there would be a lot more discoveries useful to speedrunning in general, if people wouldn't be inclined to think "I guess it's probably not useful", and simply ask/present their case to the runners anyways, like Skaidan did :)

[@marhawkman303]

I've seen a lot of people who have the take of "if that worked someone would have done it already" often people who read guides... and misinterpreted the guide as being more comprehensive than it really was. This made them think it was the ONLY way, when in reality it was the only way the person writing the guide knew how to make work.

[@hedgeyhogs]

The editing quality of this video is really impressive

[@greenhowie]

Well explained - not a speedrunner myself but the strats are fun to mess around with. Are the new glitches in remastered considered good or bad? I mean surely it takes more skill to do the OG, right?

[@marhawkman303]

heh, Speedrunner strats can be fun tips and tricks for when you're not speedrunning too. :p

[@Hummeldon]

This was incredibly well done!

[@UrashimaStar]

So the "obvious strategy" is the lifebar animation buffer? Cause I recall the running to the bushes strat back when it released. Or did that get forgotten as it was useless for speedruns as it was an reremembered as the metagame shifted?

[@theguythatdoesstuff1004]

I think It's blocking with the magic shield, which tbf sounds like one of the first thing they should have tried.

[@renofsixpaths]

That transition at 1:22 is incredible.

[@Europa_Forever]

2:33 "... we are limited to *ranch* attacks only." me: wait what? Kalameet isn't a salad, silly goose

[@Syngrafer]

You should show me your brown finger

[@SaturNo_O017]

You and Tomatoanus are the best example of a speedrunner KZbinr, the level of quality is always amazing

[@TycoonTGC]

This was how I beat him the first time I played way back when.... Unbeknownst to me...

[@Kagyriwe]

Great video, man! Amazing production and quality!

[@TheSeabornGaming]

I think my favorite part of speed running is how community based it really is.

[@christianstachl]

So true, for me that's the beauty of it. A big competition but they work together on getting further.

[@karikora8279]

Now this is how you do a news segment. Well done. Really good stuff. Gunna check out the rest of the videos

[@bloody5081]

Wait..... This was actually revolutionary?!? Been using this strategy myself way back when ds2 hadn't even come out yet, and I'm not even a speedrunner LMAO. Just thought that maybe there was a good way of killing him while he was still flying and started trying many different ways of doing just that. At first I was doing it with arrows, but I finally figured that magic was the way to go and found that that exact place to be the best place to shoot the magic arrows at.

[@plumbum5305]

🧢

[@Bronxbug]

Its crazy that the speedrun strats are still being made better and better! i love the souls community man.

[@Illinaut552]

Skyadain, the man how revolutionized a section of speedrunning 2 years ago on accident. Who knows maybe he’ll do it again and say that he discovered it a year ago and also thought it was useless. Considering how he thought this was useless

[@kiusleysouzasilva3642]

AWESOME video, i like this sort of video about insane strategies and its stories.

[@giga9955]

Hilarious how you sudden turn British the second you say “strategy”

[@kylegenius575]

love the play by play editing. I'm surprised that the channels that get 90% of the souls-borne view traffic don't do this. sub.

[@riveteye93]

It is extremely interesting and fascinating how people can be interested and fascinated by incredibly boring and pointless things. Not joking, there is real merit in illuminating such things about my fellow humans, and things they do and love.

[@BigVorst]

The production quality in this video is amazing.

[@Rogue20XX]

It's always funny when a random strat you figured out years ago as a joke is now considered META lol Seems like several ppl in the comments already knew the HP trick and the deadzone spot as well!

[@UserOfTheZune]

Wow, the editing in this video is seriously top notch, I'm envious! And a great story to follow as well, well done!

[@homefront1999]

I love how much of a shitshow Dark Souls Remaster was. Everyone got super excited for the teaser trailer! Wow! Dark Souls 1 with modern-day graphics and better combat?! We might even get some of the cut content restored! Then it's revealed it's just the lamest type of remastering. Where they just up the frame cap and fiddle around with some random stuff. So right here everyone was disappointed. Especially people on PC who didn't need this. Even Xbox players didn't struggle too much since Xbox One was backwards compatible and allowed for a more stable 30fps. But to make matters worse. They decide to delist the sale of the original Dark Souls on steam. Wouldn't be such a big deal right? Well, that is if you ignore the fact that mod support was completely ruined. Making important and popular mods not work for the new version! Then there is other stuff. Some gameplay changes did nothing but seem to harm the player experience more. I believe there is a speedrunning issue also? I think something about the in-game timer? There's also the fact that 60fps for a game never meant to have 60fps isn't always a great idea. I feel there are more issues I can't remember right now. But man, I just want to see a video going into detail of why the Remaster was so hated by a lot of the community. Obviously, the game is still Dark Souls. But there was just a lot of issues with it. Better yet though. I'd love to see a video of the speedruns of Dark Souls 2 and Dark Souls Scholar of the First Sin edition. That changed a lot.

[@strakk]

Editing is top notch my guy! Love it.

[@BigbangNic]

Insane production mate! Would love more videos like this for all the souls game ;)

[@ZiggyStarman42]

This is why I love speed running. Also props to your editing and production values, top notch!!

[@spicymemechannel]

What did you use to record your in-game cinematics? Those were really well done. Also I love that you recreated the scene from the video at 6:20 just to record it as a freeze frame. That was really cool.

[@ArbiterYT]

The production quality of this is the best I can say I've ever seen for a gaming documentary type of video! Seriously, great job with this! If you happen to see this comment, could you let us know what programs you used for all the editing and effects in this?

[@veritas_333]

17 hours for one strategy? For fuck sake.