Demon's Souls Cut Content - The Northern Limit - Broken Archstone Map Tour and Walkthrough

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So as many of us already knew, Demon's Souls had a map that was entirely cut from the game called the Northern Limit, hidden behind the broken archstone. It did get a fair amount of the way through development before being discarded and left behind on the disc as cut content. I managed to restore as much as possible, so I hope you found this interesting!

[@Mikeoneus]

The combination of the Fool's Idol music and the inherent unrealness of primitive, unfinished and largely empty areas makes this whole video quite sinister.

[@TheNickofTime]

There's something rather unsettling about unfinished/out of bounds areas in games, isn't there? There's that persistent feeling of 'you should not be here', like it's something forbidden. All this abandoned content has just been sitting here for all these years, undisturbed, quietly gathering dust on the disk where it was assumed no one would ever find it. It's the sort of place where I imagine one would always have a vague but unmistakable feeling of being watched.

[@shitpostmalone6726]

They cut out one map and start a whole pattern of the snowy areas being hidden or DLC.

[@DebugMenu]

Anyway moral of the story, click on this link:

[@OscarGreenworth]

Anyone else notice the “pyramids” gave off humanoid shadows?

[@ethanschend6638]

Insanely, this area is a lot like an area in elden ring, it even has a fire giant in the snow with a mouth belly and eyeball chest very interesting

[@bc86tbl]

Honestly the look of this place is amazing, imagine what it and the bosses would have looked like if it was finished

[@maanmamoet]

All Vaati art contest competitors are punching the air rn

[@egoborder3203]

"Huh...never seen your kind before...."

[@dafire9634]

First illusory wall and then you?,it’s christmas in cut content land

[@skintaro4144]

I have a feeling those structures at dead ends had items or switches that opened access to areas, like raising bridges and such. Especially thinking one would raise where you had to use debug mode to progress. Makes the area feel more maze-like and a little more complete when I consider it being played this way.

[@victoriafedumenti1941]

2:35

[@stairmasternem]

Reminds me of the Painted World. Development on the Painted World was where Dark Souls started, which makes me wonder if it was built on recycled ideas from this cut area.

[@oldhoonta]

It always hurts to see what could have been in the final game.

[@baaaldur]

there's something incredibly unsettling about this area. some of its creepiness is just owed to its nature as an unfinished area - the vast empty spaces, the 1-hit kills, the NPCs frozen in time, the stillness... but it's not just that. there's also the shadowy translucent enemies, that single soldier slumped on the ground, and especially those shrines with the black, upside-down pyramids of void within them, casting humanoid shadows in every direction. it feels like there's something deeply, horribly wrong with this whole place. like a nightmare you can't wake up from. the fool's idol music doesn't help either.

[@iriyap]

The inverted pyramids must've been placeholders for torches or other kind of light sources. They immediately reminded me of the similar geometric shapes used for lights in Quake's level editor (QeRadiant).

[@TheActMan]

really cool video! Super bummed Bluepoint and FromSoftware didn't try remaking and finishing this area for the Demon's Souls Remake. A whole new area would've be incredible

[@cookiewizard2]

Those ladies in the red dresses with sceptre's look awfully similar to the dress in bloodborne

[@MasterSorez]

"A vast snow field"

[@Nilaikx]

It's funny how that falling through a snowfield set-piece ended up in DS3.