The Hardest Area in Every Souls Game (Including Elden Ring)

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[@Ayanelixer8518]

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[@pedrohameco5184]

Idea for a video: best side quest in every souls game

[@EmberPlays]

Love that!! Ty ⚔️

[@zachfiranski2515]

This is a really good idea!

[@calebwells6215]

I swear if Solaire isn’t the best in ds1.

[@zelighty8994]

Do you mean: best side quest in every souls game (including Elden Ring)

[@TheSodaShop]

That's freakin brilliant

[@Sollisen]

The ringed city is one of my favorite areas in the series, and Midir oh Midir. That mixed feeling of dread and excitement i felt in every playthrough before facing him is unrivaled to this date

[@EmberPlays]

Sameeeeee

[@Hevvvyyy]

Do u think midir is harder than Placidusax

[@Sollisen]

@@Hevvvyyy Yes, I beat placidusax on like my second or third try. Midir is on a whole different level

[@galaxyvulture6649]

​@@SollisenMidir took me an unhealthy amount of tries and it takes so long fight it. Sister freide and midir just bodied me.

[@tayrexcanavar7570]

Double sellswords + Lightning buff in Faith makes Midir managable

[@Significantpower]

Hard to believe that Shrine of Amata didnt get a mention. More lock on ranged attacks than an Ace Combat ground attack mission.

[@darkjackl999]

And it's nearly impossible to skip the enemies for the fog wall, god that area is cancer, however it did make me realize how damn good bows n crossbows are in ds2

[@spaghetticondo.m9116]

@@darkjackl999 Reminded how binoculars and sorcery are a good combo

[@Take_this_please]

Pre patch Amana was crazy hard, even in SOTFS, the Dragon Shrine is way easier than the revised version of Amana

[@maboilaurence8227]

Want to take out those witches before they spot you with your bow? Too bad Dark Souls 2 takes the cake for having the worst hitboxes for any fucking game i've ever played, good luck hitting anything even though you are standing 10 feet away from a wall.

[@jonesdan85]

Im playing that area now. Its bullshit. Its not the lock on, its the near infinite range and them little bleed attack creatures can do one.

[@leithaziz2716]

Shoutouts to Archdragon Peak in DS3 for an honorable mention. The area houses some of the more annoying enemies in the game with the Serpent-men, especially the large ones with the axe and chains. I just run past them when I "fight" the Ancient Wyvern because of how many of them you're bombarded with at times.

[@conraddejongh3898]

Bro the axe wielding ones. I feel physically ill when I get to Archdragon Peak 👌🏻

[@Hevvvyyy]

Serpent men 🤝 beast men

[@SolaScientia]

Yep. I actually didn't fully clear that area of its items because of how annoyed I got. I'm glad I had to do the run to the plunging attack on the Ancient Wyvern just the once. When I was headed toward the peak for the twinkling dragon torso stone I embered up to summon Hawkwood to help me clear the area. Well worth the ember for his help with that annoying section.

[@LordNNero]

Yeah, that's my vote for the hardest area. Even Havel alone is a big challenge for a new player. Not to mention Nameless king and the Axe dudes also the chained axe dudes. Even if we consider normal enemies, there are rock lizards, fireball spamming man-serpent and that one dagger wielding man serpent. Bro, he is all over the place and spams quick attacks.

[@collinhalverson4681]

I definitely would have picked an area like Shrine of Amana over Dragon Shrine.

[@davormiho]

I hated that place on my first playthrough, it felt impossible.

[@anstorner]

@@davormiho It took me over 6 hours and pure unfiltered rage, not even all other souls an area or boss aside Iron Keep and Iron Passage took me around that time, Frigid outskirts also

[@dylandavis6144]

Sir Alonne took me less time

[@yorshka2344]

Man fuck that area it was nightmare on first playthrough

[@alessio4107]

Dragon Shrine is really easy when you just kill the big dudes. Then, the knights won‘t attack you

[@serhii_himself]

I even had to Google why those guys aren't attacking me xD

[@k1ler4m]

I was scartching my head because I remember that part being just a walk lmao. They just watched me pass by

[@Tarnishedwarrior1958]

I grind many souls by killing the dragon knights after the big bois

[@AleK0451]

if you die to ancient dragon running back to him is a pain in the ass but if you don't fight him and you just kill the knights its a chill area

[@Avaruusmurkku]

What is funny is that the code is such a mess that the knights are barely kept in leash and prevented from attacking you. Whenever knights are about to go offscreen they turn towards you and are about the attack before they are stopped by the script.

[@kliffordtbrsrpg2745]

Dukes archive is a really crazy choice for ds1. Honestly always considered it really easy, so I would hit it first after anor londo. Tomb of giants is the definite choice for me personally and dukes archive wouldn't be top 5

[@argeniside1015]

Tomb of giants/the catacombs in general is pretty hard

[@firstkill8413]

Yeah this man is tripping with that choice, one of the easiest and most relaxing locations in ds1 unronically

[@NotoriousWalkerz]

honestly all of his choices were shit

[@michaelcarst6958]

I agree. Never would i put Dukes Archive in my top 3. For me, after multiple playthroughs, it's gotta be Blighttown. What a horrendous pathing, small and narrow places to fight in, the mosquitos, just everything is annoying there

[@Mattthecricketbat1]

Blightown??

[@Ironica82]

For DS2, I understand the difficulty of the hammer duel but that area has four total enemies you have to fight and the last one doesn't spawn back in when you die. Too many people just disrespect the duels so they whine about getting ganged up on. Surprised you didn't use any of the DLCs areas as the temple in Sunken King or the Brume tower (with massive beefed up enemies) are harder to get through than dealing with a few one on one fights.

[@viggosav6316]

I literally ran past the big knights and the other guys didn’t bother attacking me.

[@godgus1863]

Sunken King DLC isn't really that hard. Brume tower, however, has one of the worst enemy placements in the game IMO. Also it houses Iron Passage. Enough said.

[@LordNNero]

​@@viggosav6316 That happens usually if you have already talked to the dragon once.

[@LordNNero]

​@@godgus1863 Yes yes I completely agree. Brume Tower is one area, I fear every playthrough. Those Giant dudes with Hammer are so intimidating. Thankfully they can be blasted with barrels.

[@LordNNero]

Oh yeah, I think there's not enough mention of Nadalia, the bride of ash, in Brume Tower. They are can make the place so much harder if people don't dispose them quickly.

[@ナサニエルヒックマン]

The Dragon Shrine was super easy as long as you have enough ADP. Just fight an honorable duel and the little guys won't bother you.

[@dexterhopkins5267]

Level adp 🤓 lmao nah I agree though

[@EmberPlays]

Yaaaaa i think this one was biased cuz i didnt level adp for my first couple playthroughs lmao

[@oliverhendrix8176]

Except for the Hammer Drakekeeper Knight

[@aleksanderzaremba9695]

@@EmberPlays I'm surprised that amana shrine wasn't mentioned

[@kabutons5966]

Bro your channel is so underrated Keep up the amazing work!

[@EmberPlays]

thank you!!!!

[@_depRaven]

I have to say, I was really scared to go to Miquellas Haligtree, but when I finally got there, it felt really easy compared to what people have been saying online. I took my 138 str build there, so I definitely wasnt overleveled either I think

[@Sohelanthropus]

Ppl tend to be stupid and over exaggerate difficulty in these games; plus ER is by far the easiest game they've done so anyone who complains about it being too hard shouldn't be taken seriously at all

[@dustypaladin9216]

In terms of simple stats and stuff, elden ring late game is the hardest. But he game is longer and there are more ways to get stronger, so it’s easier

[@Sohelanthropus]

@@dustypaladin9216 nah it's easy af anyway, Malenia and Maliketh are the only decently challenging enemies in that damn game

[@yeet-kd8wd]

Even when your on the recomended level for it calid is still a hellhole and to me 100x more difficult then the haligtree as you can pretty mutch run through everything there

[@Ghorda9]

@@Sohelanthropus the game has harder main bosses compared to the souls series if you don't use summons or spam ashes of war.

[@frostee6555]

Frigid outskirts on it's way 💀

[@EmberPlays]

Lmao just wait

[@incineakechi5197]

Personally I don't think a boss needs to be mandatory to be controversial. Malenia can be controversial either way because you can still think the fight is bad without actively doing it all the time. Also, the strategy of just avoiding her is pretty unusable for a first playthrough especially because it feels terrible to have that one thing just left out and not done

[@SJ-di5zu]

“It’s a great boss! Just don’t fight it.” Yeah, doesn’t really sound like a great boss to me. Fact is Waterfowl is grossly overtuned. It’s cool-looking and I love the idea, but there’s a million ways FromSoft could’ve fixed it yet they took none of them. Let me list some: Make the first flurry shorter so that the player can roll through it with good reflexes. This would make the attack feel badass to dodge while still being very challenging. Running away from it just looks stupid and weak. Allow us to use our shield without Malenia healing. No-brainer. Just take away the heal effect all together. She’s hard enough as is. Have her hang in the air for about one full second longer to give us more time to run away. The way it is now, if you’re in her face and she activates the attack, you have no chance to run away in time. Make it do less damage. It would still be unfair, but at least it wouldn’t instantly kill you. Literally any of these changes would make Malenia a great boss, but no.

[@mee091000]

To be honest I found the Research Hall to be more difficult than the Hamlet. But I can see why most people had more difficulty getting through the Hamlet than myself.

[@SolaScientia]

Same! The Research Hall was a major wall for me. Enough of a wall that I completely blocked it from memory when typing my own comment. I got so stuck against all those stupid patients that I went off and completed all of the main part of DS3 (just have the 2 DLC left to complete now) before returning there. It was so frustrating. One time I managed to fall off an upper level down to a lower one that I shouldn't have had access to yet. I aggroed that hunter there, died to him while carrying over 40k in echoes, then died to the first patient up the stairs on the way back, because I'm a dumbass. I honestly went to farm and level up just once to make up for losing those echoes.

[@michelecais4111]

Research Hall had lots of traps and felt like a labyrinth when I first visited it, but there weren't many dangerous enemies (aside the group of npcs guarding the elevator after Ludwig)

[@Thoray]

The interesting thing about the Soulsborne series is the different experiences people have, even going through the more linear games. For me I wouldnt say any of these are the hardest areas in their games. Some of them I understand but its kind of a head scratcher seeing Dragon Shrine in there when places like Shrine of Amana or most areas of the DLC's exist.

[@HeyImShiro]

Hardest area in Elden Ring was definitely the platforming section in Leyndell sewers that leads to the 3 fingers. Change my mind.

[@taragnor]

Yeah without a doubt. That place was rage inducing.

[@yavantii3615]

Fuck you're right, Leyndell Sewers were absolute nightmare, I mean the entire fucking section.

[@l0rd_breeigo-sama954]

The fishing hamlet has been my favorite area ever since the first footage i Saw of it. It is just perfect imo.

[@salehabdulrahman7911]

For sekiro I still think fountain head palace is the hardest, the last area has many hard enemies but because there are different factions fighting each other so the chaos makes things easier

[@impositor.]

As someone who played the Bloodborne DLC on NG+ first I can say that the Fishing Hamlet was definitely very funny. For real tho, I think it’s actually better on NG+ because it felt like you got so many more more Blood Echoes than when I replayed it on New Game.

[@kalebgrubb2272]

Doing another play through of Dark Souls Remastered right now. Loving every minute of it.

[@NewGen7988]

Same

[@firetitan19]

same

[@tomatoboy3067]

Fishing hamlet has never been hard for me. Its really easy to run by all the enemies and, besides for the sharks, the enemies are easy enough. The Research Hall has always been the hardest area for me, especially in my recent strength playthrough. I was around level 65 when i went through it on my strength playthrough.

[@shurik121]

Both fishing hamlet and research hall are fair for the level you're supposed to do them at. For me, the most difficult area for the level I was supposed to do it was either the forbidden woods or the nightmare of mensis.

[@SolaScientia]

Research Hall was definitely harder for me than the Fishing Hamlet by a mile. I had trouble and I was in the 80s level-wise with a quality build.

[@jyrese117]

war torn ashina is easily my favorite area in all soulsborne, seeing the enemies that used to give you trouble, the generals, duelists, samurai, all of them desperate against the red guard really shows how ashina is in deep and the inside of ashina tower is so fun to fight in as the shinobi bust through walls and totally school the duelists

[@leonardoscheffer]

"How Ashina os in deep" what?

[@matthewsmith1950]

My vote for hardest area ( on a first playthrough) in Elden ring is the subterranean shunjing grounds. If you take the time to explore everything, you are guaranteed to run into some nonsense. They put a lot of the bs enemies in one labyrinth of an area and called it good. The boss in the area is way more forgiving than the area itself. In subsequent playthroughs, once you know your way around, you can run past 90 percent of things in here and unlock doors and gates in case you die. I also would say mohgwen palace is awful on a blind run. The haligtree, while difficult, isn’t too bad as long as you avoid the revenants and ganking

[@jessegauthier6985]

I loved the shunning grounds, though they were very difficult.

[@tygrandchamp1660]

The birds in moghs palace were so irritating

[@slim9568]

frigid outskirts is one of the most difficult areas in videogame history, its just unfair and annoying

[@sitizenkanemusic]

Going blind into Blighttown was A NIGHTMARE. Especially when you're not used to that annoying poison mechanic. Hell, playing on the Xbox 360 made it even more difficult- remember when the framerate went to single digits in Blighttown?

[@Seraphiel29]

Sekiro should have gone to the 2nd Hirata Estate memory. Holy shit, that place is HELL ON EARTH. Ninjas everywhere, bandits who can spot you from a mile away, and a duo boss within eyesight of said enemies, with even more bandits around you. Nothing else comes close to being as difficult as that place.

[@YellowZ04]

I love the visual design of fountainhead palace but i struggled hard with nobles just like you in my first playthrough.

[@josetomascamposrobledano4618]

About Demon’s 5-2. People can say whatever they want about the remake. But NG+ GIGACHADS WILL ALL PRAISE THE NORMAL MOVEMENT ON POISON RING! A remake exclusive that technically a DS1 ring.

[@benphish]

The first section of the haligtree is probably the hardest imo. I still find myself running through to the grace at haligtree town

[@Salmon_Toastie]

I can’t the fucking ants, big insects freak me the fuck out.

[@hakon_dlc]

I just love how the shark well is so damn scary that even mentioning it, he didn't dare go down there to get footage and just used the solitary shark instead. Very understandable

[@iammax1393]

I got stuck in the Swamp of Sorrow on black world tendency in NG+, and took a break out of frustration. Came back to it several months later and quickly remembered why I put the game down 😆

[@bananess_]

you're one of my favourite youtubers atm, love these souls vids

[@HeavensBane53]

Malenia being optional does not make her immune to criticism or controversy. Technically the entire game is optional, since I doubt anyone is forcing you to play it, so by that logic there's no point having any opinions or criticism of anything in it. And for the record, I am in the camp that thinks she probably would have been a decent boss in sekiro, but in dark souls just feels like lady maria as designed by a caffeinated 12 year old. Not even difficult if you use spirit summons and/or cheese (you know, like how the developers intended her to be fought and what she was designed around), but then everything in elden ring is a complete push over like that.

[@ajvinoski6924]

mega agreed. i despise the argument of "she optional so she can't be criticized" it's so dumb. just because something is optional doesn't mean you can just leave it unbalanced. and it's not like fromsoft is one to shy away from balancing optional bosses, radahn got a mega nerf and he's 100% optional

[@younglingslayer2147]

hands down hardest Bloodborne area is Central Yharnam, I can't count how many times I died there when I first started playing it as a first souls game. Even though i don't have trouble anymore i bet it's very memorable to a lot of us 😂

[@FlightX101]

BB was my first as hell and the 1st level was hell lol

[@luffyandgokuskits]

It’s like every video I’m like okay this guy had to run out of ideas but bro can’t run out he always has the best ideas that I don’t even think of

[@eminkilicaslan8945]

"Everyone really started to grew sick of my outro so I'll jus-"

[@Astruline]

I haven't even seen this yet but i know this is another banger

[@EmberPlays]

Thanks for watching 😭⚔️

[@sliphstream4927]

Bloodborne hardest area for me: Challice dungeons with double bell maidens. An army of never-ending gank spiders in a narrow hallway is very frustrating. When you finally get to the bell maidens, they are protected by mobs hiding in smoke who are waiting to backstab you

[@madwolf1201]

nice outro bro 😇 blight town in DS1 need some mentioning i think :)

[@Elliot-no4ri]

Glad somebody said it was looking for someone to mention blight town i have nightmares about that place

[@officialhoonyt]

In my first ds2 playthrough, i did it blind, and I spent hours on the damn Heide knights. I knew I was way under leveled but I kept trying, that was probably the greatest test of my willpower. I’m still a bit confused though because after finally clearing this area I was able to kill the boss in 2 tries

[@popsbruh7472]

had just about the same experience especially after hitting one of the sitting knights but dragon slayer was a breeze 💀

[@idfkthen]

The “watch mojo of souls games” is actually perfect

[@pepsicola4718]

Miquellas Haligtree: -It just feels way too big sometimes. Especially for an optional area and if you're already tired from working on 100%ing the game -That street at the very bottom where they put 6 Revenants. They let you summon down there but like...Just why? -Crystallian knights are always put in the WORST places in GROUPS to make stunning them a bitch. It wasn't a problem for me with the moonlight greatsword weapon art, but it would be for anyone who doesn't do tons of stagger dmg -Malenia would be one of my favorite boss fights in the entire series if she 1) Didn't heal on hit or at least not on shield hits. 2) Had waterfowl removed or adjusted. There are LITERAL GUIDES on how to dodge waterfowl. You shouldn't need to use a guide to learn how to avoid a single attack. I don't care about the people who say it looks "too anime" or whatever bs. I care about how it's fundamentally broken.

[@priestf1964]

I like how the Roundtable hold Music plays during the Elden Ring part of the video

[@Shreepsy]

The Channelers buff the skellies in Duke's Archive. That's why they seem so rough. Unbuffed they're still strong, but not frighteningly so.

[@halo364]

"Everyone's getting sick of my outros so I'll just-" was hilarious 😂

[@BroccinRoss]

I agree with Duke's Archives but for me in DS2 I got just two words "Undead Purgatory" for the sole reason of that run to the Executioners Chariot fight, the ringed city gave me about several different inoperable diseases due to the fact I need to git gud too. Great video as always and I hope that watchmojo joke never leaves, your content is always great :)

[@colorfullkiwi]

Shrine of Amana for sure the toughest in ds2, far range magic spam with spam of enemies in a tight area of water where you can’t see the floor was tough. Props for not being basic and putting blighttown for ds1

[@Domo3000]

Have you ever noticed how Frigid Outskirts, Cave of the Dead and Iron Passage start with the same weird statues that are also in front of the DLC doors where they have a developer message stating that summoning signs placed here are getting channeled far away? That's because they are coop challenges with an increased summoning limit that allow you to summon players that don't even own the DLC. In coop Iron Passage also makes a lot more sense as one player can pull the lever to let others through the gate so they can take care of the Astrologers on the upper path. They are raid dungeons that were designed to be done as a group. It's not hard if you play it as intended as summon people.

[@puncherofbread]

As someone who has played a lot of Bloodborne and hears all the time about "those damn sharks" here's a secret for anyone struggling with them. Sharks are parryable. They don't look it but they are. It makes them way less difficult especially since most of their scariest attacks are the most parryable.

[@SolaScientia]

I'm so glad for that. I honestly didn't parry much at all in the game until Lady Maria. She taught me how to parry. I couldn't beat her without parries and kudos to those who could beat her without the parries. I think I landed just the one parry on the first shark, but when his health got low enough for him to wander off to trigger the 2nd to fall off the ceiling, I shanked him with a shaman bone blade and that made things much easier for me. I'm also grateful the 2nd shark has way less hp than the 1st one.

[@nonianv6122]

For bloodborne its the poison swamp place where you eventually fight amygdala, im doing ng plus and the only problem are the big guys in fishing hamlet

[@Marco1995Mega]

Demon's Souls: Island's Edge Dark Souls: Blighttown or Sens's Fortress - Personally, I don't find Duke's Archives to be all that hard. Just use positioning and the environment to your advantage and it's all dandy. Dark Souls 2: Brume Tower - Dragon Shrine I love too, but it's one of the easiest areas. Kill the large knights only, and the smaller ones won't bother you. Plus, it's short. Bloodborne: Central Yharnam -Fishing Hamlet's hard for me only on certain parts, such as with the sharks and the Orphan. Otherwise, the enemies are surprisingly easy and basic. Dark Souls 3: Ringed City or Lothric Castle (+ Grand Archives) Sekiro: Ashina Castle (+ Reservoir) Elden Ring: Miquella's Haligtree

[@bongosmcdongos4190]

The dragon shrine has a trick to it. Youre supposed to honorably duel the enemy that comes at you. If you do so, the little guys leave you alone. If you run through uou get swarmed.

[@matthewjalovick]

The “Watch Mojo of Soulsborne Games” is hilarious 😂 the difference being we love your content.

[@olivenot6186]

Keep it that way. Your videos are great!

[@EmberPlays]

Thanks :)

[@olivenot6186]

@@EmberPlays Your first playthrough is so much similar to mine. If i'm not wrong you started with ds3. Your content is amazing😀

[@Ghalion666]

This was your first video Ive seen. The dunk on mojo and the outro were top tier.

[@dexterhopkins5267]

My GOD those sharks made me want to cut open my head to check for eyes Great video Ember!

[@EmberPlays]

Hahahahaah thanks for watching!!

[@evanmcdonald9134]

I would say from my elden ring experience, when taking my time I was able to kill almost every enemy (except the tree spirit lmao) in the haligtree as long as I took my time on the ballista section. The low vis part of snowfield tho I have never cleared once. So much out there is brutal and I think it’s probably harder than than Halig in my book

[@drdentist7029]

“Whoever called me the WatchMojo of Soulsborne games I hate you” that must have hurt you personally 😂

[@EmberPlays]

It might have 😂😂

[@HotHed]

love these types of vids, keep doing what you do!

[@octavianpopescu4776]

I loved the Haligtree, but the area I hated the most and almost made me give up was Farum Azula. In any other area, I took my time to explore and fight each enemy. Farum Azula just made me run past them to get to Maliketh and be done with it.

[@592Johno]

Opposite for me. I think everyone just goes to Haligtree just to give malenia a try.

[@octavianpopescu4776]

@@592Johno Ha! I actually loved the tree branch city aesthetic. The thing with Farum Azula is, it seemed like an unnecessary extension of the game. I remember reaching the gates of Leyndell and loving the feeling that I've finally made it, the end was in sight, but then the game did something I don't like at all seeing in games, this "you've reached the destination, but ha ha, now you have to go to other places, even though you're literally outside of the door to the final bosses"... I hate it when games do that. And ok, the snowy places were fine, but Farum Azula was too much. I dislike it mostly because of where it was placed in the game. Had it been placed before getting to Leyndell, I would have been fine with it, because it's not badly designed.

[@6man_AdriaN]

Fun trick For the last area of the dragon shrine [with the elite dragon warriors]... use the dragon stones to transform into a dragon, the enemies won't bother u👍🏻

[@Algasaldi]

3:21 definitely looking for the broken pendant here

[@GreenBean__]

I feel like a video where you rank all the dlcs in order from worst to best would be cool

[@EmberPlays]

I have that planned, just waiting for Elden ring’s DLC to come out first!

[@dankmatter3068]

@@EmberPlays 🫠

[@darkjackl999]

Shrine of amana is definitely the hardest one besides frozen outskirts, god that area is a nightmare i hated going thru it in ng+ for ng++ to 100% the game (theres spells you can only get thru getting high lv in 2 pvp covenants or ng++ from the ghost chancellor in drangleic castle)

[@Dovahkiin6798]

Ember, you should make a best boss weapons tier list.

[@alexmouso7256]

I had been waiting for something of the sort! Nice

[@EmberPlays]

Aye good to hear!!

[@MrMeow-ox6jp]

The drakekeeper with the mace made me fail my no death run, i wasnt even mad, just a bit dissapointed but also relieved.

[@fra_cec]

I went to the catacombs in ds1 very early in the game, reached the bottom and saw the golden mist... Had to travel back all the way to firelink without teleport, SO that has to be the worst experience in any souls i've played

[@zeeneloms3487]

Great video. As for the hardest area in Elden Ring, to me it’s either the Haglitree or Subterranean Shunning Grounds. Can’t say much about the other souls games, but hopefully I play them soon

[@FricknA]

The omen there are op as hell, and my weapons might have had the strength of pool noodles.

[@sty1ez342]

Elden ring is the easiest souls game lol

[@TheVinster420]

Idea for a video: best feet in every souls game

[@EmberPlays]

Down bad

[@janaguirre4756]

I would have said the lake of rot. I do the skip while on the Haligtree so it's not a difficult run for me but the lake of rot hits different. I make sure i don't have any runes on me when i run through this because i know I'm gonna die at least once here

[@mehemynxm6974]

I despise the lake of rot but there isn't really a need to go there again. Whereas the haligtree has all that bs plus a mini lake of rot lol. But atleast it's not as ugly as LoR.

[@sfxjb]

lake of rot is easy. Just run through (literally)

[@SimplCup]

12 faith, flame cleanse me, 2-3 blue bottles, and the lake of rot becomes a piece of cake.

[@janaguirre4756]

@SimplCup yeah, but when you're helping someone else cross it and don't have it equipped, i don't think 3 rot TicTacs are gonna help much

[@SimplCup]

@@janaguirre4756 Well, we're not talking about helping someone in that place, we're talking about that place when you go there yourself

[@metalreaper1382]

fun fact, i messed up and got thrown into NG+ before actually completing the DLC, so when i had to go back and try it the first time i was already on the difficulty increase. was a bit letdown on the area, in part due to me beating Orphan of Kos on 2nd attempt

[@officialhoonyt]

I’m surprised you chose duke’s archives, sure the enemies do a lot of damage but I found it pretty easy to run past all of them. Maybe it would be harder fighting them straight up.

[@geese8996]

Many years ago, before I was born, my mother when she was young was in the wrong place at the wrong time. She hurriedly was trying to get through a rough neck of town, and she heard a crack. It turns out she had stepped on and broken some sort of trinkets that belonged to a witch. When she described this witch lady to me, my mom describes her as a small, bad postured woman with a nose that looked like a goblin from an old Lord of the Rings cartoon. After breaking her stuff, instead of apologizing or dealing with the situation, my mother did the first thing that came to her mind - she sprinted for dear life. Deeply offended by this slight, the witch cast a curse upon her. "I curse you, woman, and your future children!" Years later, Dark Souls 1 was released and they didn't put a freaking bonfire in New Londo Ruins

[@sajidiftekharneloy329]

Idea for a video - Best/Worst NPC in Every Souls Game and Best/Worst Normal enemies in Each souls game.

[@chrispo5763]

The only thing that makes the dukes archives annoying is that the channelers buff the enemies with no way of stopping it

[@RegisEduardo.s]

I think Shrine of Amana is DS2's equivalent of Duke's Archive... But I agree with the atrocity that is Dragon Shrine

[@rice_farmer68]

You know it's s good day when ember uploads

[@wranglerman270]

I leveled up a lot at haligtree from continuously falling and recollecting runes. It was my favorite area in the game

[@whirlhoof7580]

Getting so close to 100k subs, you love to see it.

[@EmberPlays]

Almost there!!

[@Albania4life535]

I didnt have difficulty with dukes archives but i had to watch to guides to finally complete tomb of giants

[@GrandRiserOfficial]

Miquella Haligtree and the shunned ground tunnels and mazes are challenging too

[@KpatTX]

I personally found the Duke’s Archives to be a breeze compared to the Catacombs, The Great Hollow, Blighttown, or New Londo Ruins

[@HotHed]

im fairly new to the souls series and finished ds1 about a month ago, and i actually liked dukes archives while slowly moving through rather than running through. i thought it had pretty cool design and i was doing decent damage at the time

[@spaghetticondo.m9116]

Yeah i did not find it very difficult if you take your time actually i think most areas are easier if you take it slow imo

[@High_Bread]

The decent thing about the swamp of sorrow is how slow the poison actually hurts you. The problem for me is thinking im on ground then do that half ass stutter only to be stun locked

[@GravelordWrust]

Really didn't expect Duke's Archives!

[@gumboburger7277]

I get hyped every time I see a video upload

[@justaduck2028]

I love the outro, amazing edit

[@SolaScientia]

Hardest area of Bloodborne for me was the Upper Cathedral Ward. I didn't realize the brainsuckers were so weak to bolt, so I had a very bad time of it and lost all my insight and ran around with 0 until the Celestial Emissary fight. I know it's a very small area, but I hate it. Doesn't help that the music coupled with the offscreen noises from the brainsuckers actually made me nope out of there after I killed all those werewolves. I finally had to make myself just bulldoze through the area. I had similar difficulties in the Forest with all the massive balls of snakes. I like snakes just fine, but not those. I ended up running around grabbing items and doing very little fighting. The Hypogean Gaol after getting kidnapped also majorly sucks. The boss run to Darkbeast Paarl was one of the hardest in the game for me; most annoying, pain in the ass boss run goes to the run to Laurence though. I actually didn't find the Fishing Hamlet all that difficult. The well sharks took me just 3 or 4 attempts, I think, thanks to getting a parry in on the 1st one and then using a shaman boneblade to make them fight each other. I had a worse time with the 2 Winter Lanterns in the tunnels before the Orphan. I've barely played Sekiro (need to finish DS3 now that I've finished Bloodborne before I get to it), but those palace nobles you said freak you out remind me immensely of the slime scholars in the Lecture Hall of Bloodborne.

[@Naspheratu]

Elden Ring: i NEVER fell off at miquellas Haligtree, also, imo the HARDEST area is the damn Lake of Rot

[@Haerknox]

im actually really surprised you chose dragon shrine for ds2, personally its one of the easiest areas and i dont think ive ever struggled there. I guess its cool to see everyone has their own personal areas and bosses they struggle with.

[@LordNNero]

Most people didn't struggle there, except for the mace guy usually. So what's your pick for hardest area in DS2? (Excluding Frigid Outskirts) Personally, I would pick Brume Tower over other rough places.

[@Haerknox]

@@LordNNero yeah imma have to agree with brume tower, the enemies are already pretty strong and then they get buffed by the ashen idols. My second pick would probably be frozen eleum loyce.

[@Gigasius]

Wait what? Aside from the mandatory one near the end, I have never fought the smaller knights at Dragon Shine in DS2. They do not aggro you if you just fight the large ones before moving on to next area. Shrine of Amana for base game and Brume Tower for DLC's are easily the more difficult options.

[@jan-ep7lm]

They only attack you in Scholar of the First Sin. Thank god you played the normal version since Scholar makes the game 2x worse.

[@Gigasius]

@@jan-ep7lm I have only played SotFS and they don't attack there either 👍

[@danieldancza6171]

@@jan-ep7lm no? I went through without being attacked in scholar, you just have to do each duel

[@mladenmladenovic19]

video idea: hardest achievements in each souls game

[@_ThePizzaGuy_]

5:35 For me the those gank sharks weren't too bad. But that one shark with the anchor afterwards got me so many times...

[@SolaScientia]

I ended up running past that to get inside the hut for the lamp and hoping I could do it in time without the shark killing Simon before I got to speak with him. I got to lamp, lit it, and got to the Dream just barely in time. I really thought Simon would be dead when I returned, because I was sure I saw the shark get him through the wall. Probably the worst place to stick an NPC, but at least that's the end of his quest and the only thing the player loses is dialogue with him. The shark on the surface by that well also gave me more trouble than the 2 well sharks.

[@Unknown_fandcc]

Insane vid keep up the good work

[@EmberPlays]

thanks!!

[@killertaco9092]

I was looking for a different video to watch when i got called out so outta spite imma finish this

[@Drawbarian]

What a nice outro

[@andreisamarin3517]

Video idea: rating swamp areas from every Miyazaki game

[@quasarsurge9098]

Saw the title and I was like… “if he doesn’t put the Ringed City for DS3 this guy don’t know what he’s talking about “ the whole difficulty of the game start there