Debunking the Difficulty - Dark Souls

[@Lucious_Skywalker]

Killing Solaire is truly -maidenless- hollow behavior

[@intheshadowofathousandbean563]

Bro just wanted to praise a little bit o' Sun man :(

[@Brokensilence410]

Him and Siegmeyer. Blasphemy!

[@absolutumdominiumx]

Solaire a bitch lol

[@nerrickk9024]

*sad praise the sun noises* \[T.T]/

[@dimwarlock]

I'll never understand the liking to Solaire, if you think about it, he is just a weird fanatic... in society, he surely would be in prison. There are reasons why undead are casted away. Your own character picks up rubbish and dung pies and keeps them on their inventory. If I feel sorry for a passive character, that's poor Queelag's Sister.

[@Drulynx]

"People don't usually explore, they are on a rush" Ryu skipped 1/3 of Dark Souls 2 when he played it on youtube 🤣🤣🤣

[@Ryu]

True story I was a criminal

[@BryanatGameStop]

@@Ryu that was me in Elden Ring before I new game plussed it

[@hassanawdi3793]

@@Ryu FBI OPEN UP

[@valentds]

all that advices is ryu in the past 🤣 however... dark souls 2 is fine to skip... 3/3 of the game

[@illusion8457]

@@valentds You went hollow in ds2 didn't you? Well, seek strength. The rest will follow.

[@Zikar]

The legend of Dark Souls' difficulty really comes from the era in which it was released. It was a time when games were REALLY hand holding the player with cover based shooting and quickly regenerating health, QTEs (that may not even punish you for failure), levels being long corridors with no deviation punctuated with set pieces and just doing everything in their power to prevent the player from failing or getting lost. The Dark Souls came along and went "Here is your world, here are you enemies, here are your tools, you figure it out." The actual difficulty isn't that great, it just expects the player to put in a certain minimum amount of effort to learn how to play. (It's also why anyone who says the Dark Souls series needs an easy mode is actually just saying they don't want to learn how to play, they can't be bothered to put that minimum effort it.)

[@MoridinDirty]

There are some great tips in this. Several strats that I haven't used. #1 best advice is just have fun with it.

[@wizardwor511]

and don't forget to kill Solaire "For the fans" XD

[@codeflask]

Everyone: Solaire is the legend of Dark Souls Ryu: Solaire is the most hated character in Dark Souls

[@hassanawdi3793]

Me: Why was he a legend

[@Mikeab503]

@@hassanawdi3793 for saying Praise the Sun

[@chrissizemore8705]

​@@Mikeab503 And for doing that dope ass pose.

[@Ruchunteur]

@@hassanawdi3793 he is a little dumb but a very optimistic and nice character that can help the the player in many places in the game if you don't kill him. It's a breath of fresh air for a lot of people to see an optimistic character in a world full of death and danger. Also his story is somewhat interesting. He have a catch phrase too a well as an emote and that made people use him a lot in meme and what not. He is generally well like by peoples.

[@Seruphin]

@@hassanawdi3793 He was a sole glint of bright hope in a weary landscape of endless dread, reminding you that you are not alone on this world.

[@WlatPziupp]

The reputation as a super difficult game suited only for the most hardcore masochists definitely hurt this game a ton. I've seen a bunch of videos where people think they're supposed to fight the tutorial boss with the garbage non-weapon that does 1-2 damage, and then they say "oh wow this really is a difficult game". They also often go straight to the graveyard and stay there because it's a super hard game right? If you struggle you just gotta git gud right? It's such a shame. First time I beat it I was absolutely terrible. Took a while but it's completely doable

[@kevinmajorca]

"The game is easy bro! Just hit 'em and dodge 'em and hit 'em and dodge 'em and hit 'em and dodge 'em." 😅😅

[@DerNiker]

Ryu: "It's super easy. Just don't get hit." Also Ryu a second later: Gets hit

[@danielgarciavaquera8841]

"Beat that ass, son" 😂

[@b-rock8557]

It’s only hard if it’s your first play thru of a dark souls or blood borne game.

[@Jon42_Litor]

I would say... more of being able to progress by knowing how to lvl stats properly. And also looking up where various mats are needed to buff up the weapon you are good with using thru the game.

[@raggedyexynos9487]

The good ol' Monster Hunter mantra "Don't get hit, Hit it till it dies"

[@WXVA9]

At 15:50, the entire audience was rooting for Siegmeyer.

[@JohnSmith-ty2he]

Don't even know who that guy is.

[@krzypl5959]

@@JohnSmith-ty2he it's ryu

[@JohnSmith-ty2he]

@@krzypl5959 ?

[@johnquote1575]

I wonder if there was ever a game Ryu couldn't beat years ago or just hasn't it'd be cool to see a series called ryu-venge where you just settle the score with hard games or finish what you started. But I love this series too keep it up!

[@modermonkula]

Ninja Gaiden black is pretty tough

[@threesixtydegreeorbits2047]

Chess?

[@EarMaster55]

I find it quite baffling that even in Elden Ring (which came out 10 years later) they still haven't fixed the camera angles for large enemies, but still confront you with larger and larger opponents…

[@randomdogma6744]

Pretty sure it's by design. You are suppose to feel disoriented when focusing on something so big so closely.

[@modermonkula]

Isn't Elden Ring still the same engine as the other souls games?

[@Konkonnie]

@@randomdogma6744 i would be ok with that if it wasn't for the fact that so many large enemies have the moveset of a human size boss. If is a design choice they can make it way more enjoyable because most of these bosses are fucking boring.

[@thekamotodragon]

it's part of the challenge, remember Souls games are literally meant to be frustrating lol, by design.

[@merikijiya13]

I like the design.

[@amp7980]

I love dark souls. My first run I picked pyromancy. And since spells restock at the bonfire. It made farming easy. Or I'd use all my fireballs on big enemies that don't respawn. I love burning things in games

[@carl13220]

Yep ! It's so easy with pyromancy. Once you get ( pretty early ) the Great Chaos Fireball, well the game is becoming GOW "easy mode".

[@MeAmSmack]

How’ve I never watched this before? Ryu exhibiting the definition of Chaotic Evil in the best of ways. Amazing play through, you fucking monster.

[@heathaherrig]

Today I learned Ryu is an absolute MONSTER

[@bryceallen2445]

When I first played Dark Souls the first area I found was the cemetery. Which in my understanding of games this is where I need to go and this is progression. It was a bad time. Then I found the elevator and that was a bad time. It wasn't until many hours later I found this small little path along the cliff edge of a mountain that I found the true path to follow. Even than it only got worse.

[@SpikedMocha]

This was literally my experience as well. Except my very first playthrough I chose to attack the Crestfallen Warrior to see what happened, he killed me, I chuckled. Then I respawned and he kept agro, and he killed me again, and again, and again.

[@NexusKin]

It was only through extensive trial and error that I found out what you're actually supposed to do to make everything easier for yourself down the road. At the character creation menu, select the Master Key so that you can open almost all the locked doors you find. Immediately after you arrive in Lordran, you're supposed to go down to Blighttown, go all the way down the Great Hollow, and then run across the entirety of Ash Lake to get to the Stone Dragon. If you cut off its tail, you get the Dragon Greatsword, an extremely powerful weapon that requires 34 Strength to wield it two-handed and 50 Strength to wield it one-handed. As a bonus, that Hydra that was chasing you the whole way ends up killing itself if you just wait at the tree entrance, which gives you 10,000 souls. Now, you have to run all the way back up to Firelink Shrine without dying or getting cursed by the Basilisks, make your way through Undead Burg, and unlock the door that leads down to Darkroot Basin while avoiding Havel at the bottom of the tower. After you rest at the bonfire in the bottom cave that the Black Knight is guarding, climb up the Basin, go left to reach the Titanite Demon, and get past it to Andre The Blacksmith. Finally, if you have 20,000 souls by this point, you can buy the Crest Of Artorias, which unlocks that secret door in the Darkroot Forest. The enemies behind it give you 18,000 souls per round if you kill them all, so just keep killing them and dump your experience points into Strength until it reaches 50. At this point, you can now not only wield the Dragon Greatsword one-handed, but also Havel's Greatshield, the absolute best shield ever that you'll find behind an illusion wall in Anor Londo later on.

[@WMWTSO98]

Same. I still hate those skeletons for that exact reason.

[@bryceallen2445]

@Rage Kage watched the cut scene again and you're right. The bridge is prominent in the distant as the possible way to go. But the over arching swoop of The Undead Burg isn't exactly holding your hand. It just blends in with the cinematic. Also you don't realize for quite a bit that what you see in the distance is something you will explore. I grew up playing Atari and NES games. This was one of the few that threw you in the deep end (and said to just learn) I loved it.

[@tylereaton4066]

Ryu teaching people that gravity is truly the strongest enemy in souls.

[@TheRhalf]

i'd argue it's the camera

[@mbagle]

LOVE this series. Please keep this one going.

[@WRITEMEONTELEGRAAMSManni_Gamei]

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[@UltraGamer902]

I have a friend who legitimately thought Dark Souls was the hardest game ever made. He had never even see the game before and had no idea what kind of game it was. The myth of Dark Souls' difficulty is quite strong.

[@Ruchunteur]

Indeed. I was like that once. Although I didn't think it was the "hardest game ever" but I though it was so tough that a regular gamer like myself wouldn't be able to beat it and I didn't even attempt to look up what it looked like and all. One day, a friend that played it made me try the beginning and to my surprise the difficulty was waaaaaay over exaggerated. It was tough but fair. No need to be a pro gamer, even someone with little talent for video games like me could beat it with enough patience. Nowadays I finished ds1, 2, 3 and sekiro as well as elden ring. It's just like how myth and legend get born. It start with a true statement and get exaggerated over time so much that it become nothing like the reality. Dark souls are hard game but not nearly as hard as their reputation made it looks like (although I had a lot of trouble playing through ds2... It was a tough one for me)

[@EmulsionTime]

That's what put me off playing it for a decade. Then when I finally did, it was Ocarina of Time with a few less hearts to work with.

[@NexusKin]

The game's tag line on the back cover is "Prepare To Die." That pretty much sums up what you're really in for.

[@ClikcerProductions]

@@Ruchunteur In DS1 nothing you need to do is particularly hard as in very little technical skill is needed, it's simply more punishing than most games when you mess up i.e. you can't take many hits without dying and get staggered when you're hit in many cases, patience is honestly the only thing you need to get through the game, the reputation it has is silly

[@hellsing3062]

I remember it was just the weird fandom for me. I don't own any PlayStation or Xbox so was playing on the PC and rwquired some help with the key bindings, cuz even in the PC port they didn't bother to show any key bindings properly and it just showed those green triangles, red squares or whatever. So, i asked what configs they had and not only were they unhelpful but condescending in every way. Didn't know where to go in the catacombs or whatever, later and there were 50-60 replies in that thread with "git gud". Personally for me, it just ruined dark souls franchise, the fandom. I mean, there are way harder games such as battletoads or even contra 3, but they haven't got such POS fandom

[@Donyoku]

Remember that on the 4 Kings boss fight, you can actually keep hitting them in their death animation to get damage on the boss health bar

[@Skeletor-hl9jd]

I love Dark Souls so much. It's weird to say but this game honestly saved my life. The difficulty of the game combined with the hope you get when you finally reach the next bonfire after overcoming a challenge is just beautiful. A lot of the characters will say "Don't you dare go hollow" meaning essentially to the player, don't give up. Going through a hard time in my life I'm so glad I was able to experience Dark Souls because it was truly inspiring.

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[@powertomato]

"We get into these ego situations where we find a boss we lose, [...] but the we just keep trying over and over and over" The Tree Sentinel in Elden Ring was such great game design, as it teaches us to not do that, right at the start of the game :D

[@minimasterman2]

(Proceeds to fight him with nothing for 3 hours and eventually win anyway)

[@Radgerayden-ist]

@@minimasterman2 the good thing is no matter what you choose, you always win as long as you have fun with it

[@no_nameyouknow]

Yes, and that is because in Elden Ring you are really meant to do so more than in Dark Souls. Sure, you can choose not to fight a boss in Dark Souls, and level up more. But most of the time, you don't really need to. I feel like those games encouraged the repeated attempts more than Elden Ring. The closed boss rooms, with your souls trapped inside. The way that if you naturally progress and level up, you will be in a good spot to face each boss, supposing you took the "normal" route to get there. The fact that it isn't open world, and your route is largely a choice of this path or that, rather than the total freedom of Elden Ring.

[@slippers8000]

@@Radgerayden-ist only way to actually lose a From game is if you quit forever.

[@atreides6031]

My ego did insist on dealing with Tree Sentinel immediately, though. So I guess that's debatable 😅

[@nouvelhomme8990]

My first souls game was DS3, and I struggled for about a half hour learning the controls. It was the first action RPG I had played in a very long time. There is nothing at all difficult about any of these games. The games do handicap you in a few places, but there are cryptic solutions to all of these problems. People often ignore the puzzles and clues (like that clues about level boss weakness are in the item drops you get--i.e., they are giving you assistance for the fight), and make the games harder than they need to be. You really can't claim these are skill games when EVERY enemy is severely vulnerable to an easily exploited weakness. You won't find other games that have multiple methods to one-shot bosses.

[@Szadek23]

For Some reasons Four Kings deal piss poor damage if you just stay in hugging range. Now you only need a little bit of damage and the fight is trivial.

[@personalspace6270]

Thanks for the info these dudes made hate the game and also going through the graveyard down the stairs that made me leave the game for 6 months.. 🤪

[@Grim_Bud]

@@personalspace6270 yeah if you're struggling againtst 4K like I did at first just pick a big stick, your strongest armour and get intimate.

[@personalspace6270]

@@Grim_Bud aprriciated im not certain if ill go for all trophies though i was happy to finish the the Remaster of the Demon Souls remake 3 playthroughs was enough for me and Dak Souls is way harder.

[@Grim_Bud]

@@personalspace6270 I would say chasing after all of them is not worth it unless you're not getting tired of the game after many playthroughs. Good luck on your soul journey.

[@firstwavenegativity6379]

I think the reason is that being hit by the hilt of their weapons deals a lot less damage than being hit by the actual blade

[@mr.horseshoe2301]

I was seething through this whole video. Love it!

[@fuzzylumpkins9506]

The balls on this guy. I love him

[@Kr1egsmesser]

Imo dark souls has never been hard, you just have to explore and find equipment, just dont rush.

[@Kr1egsmesser]

First 2 minutes and you said the same thing... lol

[@wizardwithsmg]

Love the way they do difficulty, all the way to Elden Ring. Like it can be hard if you don't explore, but it's easy to get strong and just annihilate everything. Then it's amazing. Nothing ever really feels cheap like a lot of games that try to be diffult by just cheating against you or make everything damage sponges.

[@Kr1egsmesser]

@@wizardwithsmg Yeah, i also think these games are just normal difficulty for me because i love exploring, i love metroidvanias and open world games like Hollow Knight and RDR2 for this reason. (obviously exploring is not the only thing i love about those games, theyre amazing in every aspect, not just exploring)

[@glyph241]

“Hey Bro, have you considered not doing that?” 5:15 Words To Live By®️ 🤣🥊

[@Dujma]

It's no secret that any subsequent DS playtrought is "easy", but a first playtrought of this game without any prevoius soulslike experience and playing fully blind without googling anything is no joke. Great vid as always.

[@eur0dyne]

the first playtrought can be easy, and he said it, just explore and lvl up

[@athena9029]

First playthrough is also easy. People just have never experienced actually hard games that require skill, lightning fast reflexes and mastering the mechanics like Ninja Gaiden (Itagaki series), Doom Eternal on Nightmare or Ikaruga. Even Sifu is way more of a struggle to people than any Souls game has ever been. The Souls series is that one that everyone calls "hard" yet everyone who has tried them, has managed to beat them. Have you ever heard the same with Ghosts 'N Goblins, Battletoads or Super Meat Boy?

[@Dujma]

@@athena9029 Tell me one thing; Did you beat dark souls 1 when it came out without googling anything or grinding levels

[@SpikedMocha]

A whole heck of a lot of revisionist history going on in the comments regarding people's first playthrough.

[@abstractdaddy1384]

@@Dujma I did. Look, I'm going to play the "back in my day" card. Kids who grew up in the 90's constantly played games that were mechanically harder than dark souls and also much more punishing. Additionally we didn't have the internet to just look shit up when we got stuck. If you got stuck you either figured it out or you stopped playing the game. Maybe you came back a year later and did better because you were older and smarter. If you think first playthrough of dark souls is hard, you don't know what hard is.

[@jonathandavid6631]

Can you show us how easy Fester's Quest is? Thanks

[@sestey]

The ads that kept popping up were for “Cheez-its” crackers

[@niemand7811]

7:10 THAT happened in my playthrough too. Exactly that. That Black Knight glitches off somehow. You climb back to the top and just get his stuff as if he got defeated. Just awesome. I thought that is a coincidence. Now I can do that every time I play the game? YES!

[@srarts123]

I think the reason most peoppe say dark souls is unfair and too hard is because they treat it like a beat em up game and just mash buttons. Eventually you can with some builds in ds1, but usually they don't make it that far. You can beat the game without leveling up, wearing armor, or upgrading your weapon, how is the game unfair with that?

[@urazoe8240]

this is the perfect video to show to ppl being intimidated by dark souls, or these elitist pretending like dark souls is some super difficult game. love it

[@grandmastertymmx]

Just gotta ring two bells, get a giant bowl, put four big souls in it, and light a fire.

[@NoName-md6fd]

I did not play dark souls, but the entire video I was like : Oh yeah. Zweihander, sword and shield, I bet the character is going to look like Link in Ocarina of time. And then I saw -hyrule castle- Anor Londo

[@sdbostick46]

I am so glad this guy popped up on my feed. How awesome is this guy?!

[@papasieges3997]

Love it, thank you Ryu. Keep the from software games coming!

[@tomaja7719]

I finally beat Dark Souls for the first time today thanks in no small part to this video and the advice you shared.

[@carlcouture1023]

The trick to making Dark Souls easy is to edit out all your deaths. Nah but for real Dark Souls IS hard until you learn how the enemy moves. And yeah, definitely run away to keep distance.

[@bradhansen8506]

@water I think what this video doesn’t show is the time it takes to beef up your character and weapons. Not ridiculous by any means but still, to pull of that much damage

[@fishnutz5196]

Everything in souls games have easy visual que's so if you are used to like any action game they are not hard. I grew up on DMC and Ninja Gaiden so when my mates told me about Souls and said id struggle i was excited and although i loved the games i did not see what was so difficult about them. If anything id say level design is the hardest part of the games but bosses? Nah bosses are a joke compared to some other games

[@renar3339]

@@fishnutz5196 I mean tbf the highest att count I had for a boss fight was 18 tries for the first two games and hollow knights hardest bosses took me 30 to 40 tries. I think one major problem is that the bosses either rely on fast visual cues that can be hard to read or they just spam enemies. The bosses that just rely on visual cues can always be easy for some but some visual cues you have to read faster than the average reaction speed for an adult. I'd argue that it's less about getting used to action games and more about learning to dodge and improving your reaction time speed a lot which either comes from muscle memory or general reaction speed practice.

[@renar3339]

@@ragekage388 Problem with hollow knight for me is that it was only hard until i did P5. After that the game just became incredibly easy on repeated playthroughs. I literally only play on steel soul mode now. Dark souls is hard on repeated playthroughs due to it being so much easier to die than in hollow knight. I do agree though that on a first playthrough hollow knight is absurd.

[@NickWuebker]

Ryu, you played this game in your Insanely Difficult Game Series, so you should try and Debunk The Difficulty of Fester’s Quest. If it’s even debunkable.

[@ScorpZ80]

I just love your videos bro. Totally awesome stuff ! Also your humour and way of getting into the games and explaining shit is just so entertaining. I'm a fan and subbed to two of your channels. Keep it up!

[@Macronaso]

Very nice video! Souls games are hard BUT, as you just showed there are MANY ways to tune the difficulty to your liking, and as the souls games got more modern they got even more ways to make the game as easy or hard as you want it to be. It's only that those ways to make the game easier are part of the game (grinding, exploring for items and upgrades, outsmarting the AI, using summons) instead of hiding in a settings menu.

[@ocha-time]

God I fucking love this game. If you haven't done the DLC, it's super cryptic to unlock but there's a lot of fun fights to be had, and everything's in the remaster! And yes they programmed all the accessibility tools you need into the game, it's frustrating to see people demand it be shown as a slider instead of discovered naturally through gameplay and shared amongst friends.

[@WRITEMEONTELEGRAAMSManni_Gamei]

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[@yeahyeahwowman8099]

The biggest problem with most new players is that they do everything their twitch stream tells them to do. The dumbass takes the Master Key, sequence breaks the game and gets demolished in an area he or she shouldn't be in yet. The Master Key is just one example, instead of just playing the game and making their own decisions.

[@Satsui_No_Hado]

It's after 2:00 a.m. I really want to sleep then I see this video of my favorite game of all time and one of my favorite content creators and streamers of all time and I realize I'm not sleeping for a while longer ....

[@David-And-A-Half]

As meme-y as this video is it's not wrong. Too many Dark Souls tutorials are hyper specific about min-maxed builds that over complicate things, promise the world and deliver poor results. They try to reduce boss fights down to one flashy/funny but very inconsistent trick. They try to make gimmick builds that do monster damage. Most of the time those tricks only work in very specific circumstances that newer players don't understand. What Ryu is doing looks basic but it's 1000% more reliable. He's getting his stats and weapons up to the level where bosses die in under 10 hits and then cherry picking his opportunities to attack. When a boss gives him a safe window to attack he gets in, hits it once* then gets back to safety. It seems slow which makes it tempting to go for a second swing, but whenever you attack you lose control of your character and leave yourself open to being attacked. That's where you die most of the time. Since it takes him less than 10 hits to kill the boss he doesn't need to rush. He can do cycles of attack, retreat, wait relatively easily and because it's only 10 attack cycles he has plenty of flask charges to fix his mistakes. *On larger windows you can attack multiple times, but the key is to always do one less attack than you think you can. If the window feels like it's open to 3 attacks odds are you'll land the third hit but get smashed by the boss before you can get back to safety. Remember, you're not just using the window to attack, you're using it to retreat and sometimes you're going to skip attacking and use it to heal, since drinking from your flask leaves you just as vulnerable as attacking.

[@tonyv7834]

I used to get a little nervous with these kind of games to a point where I wouldn’t play them, but after watching how Ryu plays i stopped taking them so serious and really found joy in them, so i want ahead and beat Sekiro and Elden Ring. Thanks Ryu!

[@WRITEMEONTELEGRAAMSManni_Gamei]

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[@themadhattress5008]

Black knights used to be so terrifying on my first few runs of Dark Souls, and here you just bait the one in the Undead Burg to its death. No backstabs, no reposts -- just gravity, the ultimate equalizer of the series. Brilliant.

[@kev3826]

I love this series - definitely my favorite of your series' - it really showcases your sense of humor more than any other.

[@Gawayno]

Hello! Letting you know this video got me back into re-trying to beat Dark Sousl 1! So far, I've been doing the sorcery only challenge and it's been the most fun I've had with this game! So thanks for this great video!

[@patrykzukowski7471]

Hmm, I certainly did my exploring but your defense and damage seem insane, even without buffs. I wonder how you managed that without grinding, I use Zweihander too, upgraded of course, but 4 or 5 hits on Ornstein is insane.

[@Ryu]

+10 Zweihander? Most just have +5 at this point but you can unlock +10 before fighting O&S

[@jmdennis1967]

Thanks for this. I was watching one of the gaming channels and they had one guy playing this game getting tips from two others. I guess they wanted to see if he could play through both of these before Dark Souls 3 was out. He made it seem so difficult so nice to see that you can play it where it is not as difficult and still enjoy the game.

[@HotBizkit]

I love your channel homie. Keep it up

[@maggoty]

Hi, Love your debunking the difficulty videos. Just wondering what do you call those little animated screens you have in the back ground? Where do you get them and what are they called? I am looking at purchasing one. Keep up the good work. 🙂

[@oEllery]

People are always rushing through the game like they're in a hurry, but they will sit there and spend 7 hours fighting the same boss over and over. I feel like your observations hit the nail in the head.

[@PopcornOnCouchAnime]

Ryu at 11:21 : 👀 great chest ahead!

[@BoomSqueak]

"You could spend hours in [Anor Londo]." And you most likely will.

[@franktremblay8281]

"This is a very unlikeable character" Literally the most loved character in the whole soulsborneseki ring series 😅😆

[@MasterRoshi8974]

"play the damn game and explore" exactly my thoughts, souls games are not difficult because of how good it feels and the fun to have while playing

[@tinypinata505]

Play the damn game and have fun. Gamers these days seem to have lost sight of that very simple concept.

[@TotallyNotRaven342]

It's like I've always been telling all my friends, anyone can beat Dark Souls because there's many silly ways you can beat enemies :D

[@astupidmonkeyygaming544]

You always blow my mind on these games. You make everything seem so easy.

[@KingNiros]

It's called practice and clickbait.

[@medranodiego8641]

​@@KingNirosNo, it is called playing as you are supposed to instead of running like an idiot with shit equipment.

[@Ventus_S]

Other guide: go to this location you're not suppose to go first and grab this op weap and unlock this op blacksmith that cheese the rest of the game. Ryu method: use gravity to kill strong enemies XD

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[@montgomeryfitzpatrick473]

If you can beat an asylum demon, you can beat an Erdtree avatar

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[@hotbeatz0]

The archers and O&S are only hard because they require skills that you probably haven't had to develop until then (like parrying or rolling into an enemy at close range instead of circling around, and fighting multiple opponents + kiting + playing unlocked/controlling the camera).

[@numbingcactus153]

Pro tip for the swinging axes in sen's fortress. the side of the axes don't have a damage hit box so the second the sharp tip goes by you can sprint into the side of them letting you slip out on frame 1 of them getting out of the way. making running through reliable. watching this guy wait till it was long past safe before he started running through was nerve racking. Very impressive he made it through alive.

[@antongustafsson8713]

Ryu killing Solaire "Me hoovering report button"

[@PopADoseYo]

I'm guessing this was making you LOOSE your mind...

[@StephenTheZ]

You beat around the bush with it but the reason no Souls game is really hard is because they're RPGs, and all RPGs can be broken in some way. The problem is a lot of people go into these games like they're playing a straight up action game. Literally just cave man it up without thinking about their build, stats, equipment loadout, etc. Kinda sad honestly since you're missing out on a lot of the fun playing that way.

[@ninjad7431]

The last 26 seconds of this video are gold!!! Another good video! Thanks

[@elvispressplay7735]

I love how this was a regular Debunk video right up until Ceaseless Discharge/Bed of Chaos and then even Ryu has no idea what's going on!

[@marcosdheleno]

im gonna be completely honest, never saw BoC as that much of a problem, sure, its terrible if you are doing a deathless run, but overall, if you take your time, most often than not, you will deal with it pretty easily.

[@erevanthegamer4141]

@@marcosdheleno Bed of Chaos is honestly overrated. Just use an armor with high poise, block the attacks with a shield and be careful when moving. Then that thing can barely push you around.

[@marcosdheleno]

@@erevanthegamer4141 exactly. people make it sound like its insane, but you just need to be carefull, at worst, you die and come back. at least you can basically focus on each of the 3 parts of the fight, so you even keep your progress if you dont do it in your first try.

[@erevanthegamer4141]

@@marcosdheleno To be fair it's still a sh** boss though lol

[@calenlambert4726]

I tried this game after hearing about its difficulty. Though I died a lot, I did not feel like it lived up to its reputation (i have beaten the game.) mostly it was just cheap deaths and seemingly glitchy hitboxes that were the problem. Reminded me a lot of Zelda 2 in fact. I do still enjoy the game, but, i thought there were definitely harder NES games than this (like Ninja Gaiden.)

[@WRITEMEONTELEGRAAMSManni_Gamei]

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[@derek2652]

That lightning spear is a worthy mention for new players.

[@mattkun6058]

When you mentioned not retro during stream I had a hunch. Great video my friend.

[@penguinjay]

nice, I enjoyed it. I like these general good tips and strategies types of video that you have created with your debunking the difficulty series much more than tutorial or longplay videos. Ideally, it serves as if you had a friend chilling, watching you play that would whisper a helpful hint in your ear now and then without outright telling you what to do. I noticed you don't know the mess out of these games, you definitely leave secrets to be found, but you are very proficient at giving general tips to specific titles without ruining the experience. You're disgusting at that pumbas bug drop game on lion king snes. I didn't know you could clear screen like a bomb on that minigame though so I'll have to go see how I am w that new knowledge. Donkey Kong Country 2 is highly recommended, people call that one extremely difficult but I think you could get them through the choke points.

[@WRITEMEONTELEGRAAMSManni_Gamei]

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[@noneyabidness9644]

I didn't find it difficult, at all. I played it for an hour, no deaths, got bored and never played again. Perhaps an hour isn't enough time for a fair test, but I had games I wanted to play, and they were fun, immediately.

[@harleygator]

Dark Souls is a mental challenge, rather than a physical one. The trick is to observe your opponent carefully to understand its weaknesses, and there's rarely an enemy whose weaknesses can't be exploited by basic mechanics (like strafing). The only exception is possibly Gywn, who is considerably faster and more aggressive than most other things in the game, but even he has a very wide parry window, and parrying is (again) very simple if you just observe. I'm on my second playthrough of DS1, melee-only, with a focus on parrying as many attacks as I could, and my first death came with some bullshit one-hit kill towards the end of the Gaping Dragon boss fight. For reference, that's roughly the sixth or seventh boss and halfway to Blighttown, one of the more challenging areas in the game. So Dark Souls is not difficult. It's challenging, but not difficult.

[@WRITEMEONTELEGRAAMSManni_Gamei]

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[@jimithi5543]

I just realized this debunking series is actually a parody.

[@sypher_helyx]

I’ve seen all the other debunking episodes and this is the first time it seems like a parody. Still enjoyed it anyway tho.

[@Idhart]

Havel's ring. Ring of Favor and protection. EVERYTHING YOU COULD EVER WANT.

[@HotBizkit]

Brooooo so happy you're doing this one.

[@coolerman_13]

I rarely care about things enough to get offended by them, but you killing Solaire has ignited a flame in my chest. \[T]/ Praise the Sun!

[@dimwarlock]

I never thought about Dark Souls as a hard game... it's just a game and, as Ryu said, just play it. It's certainly not much harder than your average metroidvania... but guess what? when Dark Souls came out, mainstream media glorified easier games and not many regular difficulty games were made for almost a decade... it was just the mainstream and the cult of the hardcore, nothing in between, DS just closed the gap.

[@EddiePReacts]

I like how you defeat some enemies by simply walking away. There's a lesson to be learned here.

[@Ahzafera]

This reminds me of when I talk about Jedi Survivor with my coworker. He goes into his strategies being like, Air dodging and air slashes are the way to beat that Legendary Boss. Then I'm like, uhh... Actually, I just stood in place and parried everything, then spot dodged whenever he turned red. The game has managed to become so simple for me and all it really takes is patience.

[@niemand7811]

Everyone should had it figured out. You can cheese a lot in this game. Even the Hell Kite that guards the bridge. Just get the strongest Soul Arrow spell, get in the right spot and kill it with well aimed spells to the head. But before go to the other side and rip its tail for a nice weapon. Some enemies bumped me off a cliff but followed me down, hadme catching their stuff right before I died.

[@aruhiro3882]

When Black Knights die to falling off a cliff, you need to restart so that the Item may lay there.

[@funkyfut]

You should try and do a debunking the difficulty for the Adams Family game in the NES

[@pbabiesinspace6112]

Holy shit. After 1200 hours in DS1...I never knew you could chop off the Centipede Demon's tail. Now I know everything about Dark Souls. Only took 12 years.

[@night1952]

Reminds me of a run I did recently about how easy Demons Souls is if you play optimally, and by that I mean using the tools the devs give you how I assume they were meant to be used. Like exploiting weaknesses, using regen equipment for areas with poison, using shields against enemies that can't deal with them, poking behind shields in narrow places... Ended up with a build that could use pretty much everything and even though it excels at nothing it was extremely easy simply because I had an answer to anything the game threw at me.

[@WRITEMEONTELEGRAAMSManni_Gamei]

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[@Bigd2k]

1:15 best advise for any game, specifically famous games, ever.

[@osaka_phong]

"...and I won or whatever" - Ryu, probably.

[@daoudmh1]

What are those animated pixel things on that back shelf?

[@gagglegames]

For the Capra Demon boss: Get heavy armour like Knight or Stone, the Wolf Ring from the forest, then just spam the Zweihander R2. You'll slam down both dogs long before they stagger you and probably infinite-stagger Capra too!

[@marcosdheleno]

you can also just throw shit over the boss gate. get it toxed, and just wait around.

[@XxMeatShakexX]

Just hold up a metal shield and you can sleepwalk through 95% of the game. It's only hard if you make it hard.

[@WRITEMEONTELEGRAAMSManni_Gamei]

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[@ThirteenthFox13]

This is way better than watching you fumble around in The Breakers with no clue what is going on. 😆

[@andywhite5284]

I'm honestly shocked you'd just kill Solaire that way. Sweet sweet Sun Bro.

[@canadianbigshot]

You ended both Solaire and the Fair Lady. You monster.

[@JamesGowan]

I remember telling chat that I always kill the two guys at the beginning of Firelink because at the start of the game those 2000 souls were way more important then than later… they were sooo mad at me for murdering them. I lol’d 😂 in their face. I mean, why NOT kill them… one guy will never help me and the other sells miracles which I don’t use, so why not?

[@pikminologueraisin2139]

plus the crestfallen warrior got one of the best line in the game when killing him after several tries

[@Native2Gamez]

"Just not get hit" had me rofl'ing Then I was like wait....this is Ryu lol

[@JamesGowan]

Enjoying your channel!

[@helgehansen4898]

Ryu trollin the dark soulscommunity the entire video 🤣 Love it ❤

[@mjcook3922]

Great tips, advice, and shockingly smart strategy in here. Sometimes it best to run away from an enemy and let them kill themselves instead of running in hacking and slashing with full guns blazing.