I Played Dark Souls the WRONG Way....

[@I_want_a_math_debate]

My wife and I play and beat this game every year. We honestly trivialized every part of it that we bought another copy and started racing each other.

[@Doinkinator69]

You've won at life my friend

[@raoulLupin]

True love

[@Yankee4ever2]

W wife

[@gribberoni]

W marriage

[@trashman1605]

I'm unbelievably jealous

[@Irrssa]

in true cheese fashion you couldve just started as a thief for master key and taken black fire bombs for tutorial boss. only takes five

[@prozkryptix]

I ended up forgetting to mention it, you need to start as warrior or bandit to do the Gravelord Sword, otherwise you need like 6 or 7 levels to get enough strength instead of 3

[@Irrssa]

@@prozkryptix but if you needed the levels for the sword couldnt you just run the back way through to capra demon (skipping every boss) and doing the fire bomb/dung cheese for the levels? good video im just nit-picking lol

[@ReapingTheseCrops]

@prozkryptix Yeah you said “I explain why warrior later” and never explained why

[@goblingamer606]

An extra 3 or 4 levels doesn't sound all that bad.

[@proximityclockworkx1572]

"I have a backup plan" Demon's Greataxe staring at you from your inventory

[@jatinnegi4275]

That things ass, it's slow.

[@picklerick1948]

Dark souls was extremely challenging in its time for most players, but it’s like the Van Halen effect. When Van Halen did his eruption solo, everyone thought it was the pinnacle of guitar ability at the time. However now middle schoolers can pull it off on KZbin. Once you break a conceptual barrier, others can do it easier.

[@lawrenceragnarok1186]

@@picklerick1948 are you being serious? Nobody thought it was the Pinnacle there was way more technical music happening.

[@picklerick1948]

@ in popular media no man there wasn’t

[@goblingamer606]

I just think the game was never that hard to begin with. Sure you might fall for the occasional booby trap or an enemy might jump out of nowhere and surprise you but it really should only get the better of you once. Also once you learn how to properly build your character the game becomes so much easier.

[@WildAbsolLvl.29]

@@picklerick1948 Randy Rhoades 🙁

[@ApophisTw0Thousand6309]

@@WildAbsolLvl.29 Eruption was out 2 years before Blizzard of Oz.

[@tylersimmons4287]

one of my very favorite things of late has been watching folks confidently return to dark souls for challenge runs like "I know this game like the back of my hand, 2ez" and the game still killing them in unexpected ways just like it did in 2011. it's great. it's a jank masterpiece

[@johandori7795]

So, to answer your question at 12:00 of why you have 12 estus, when playing online (which you seem to be doing), other players kindling nearby bonfires will give you an estus flask use, up to a max of 20.

[@aidenhmic1450]

Thats cool to know i always wonder how i got an uneven amount of flasks

[@AnjiEnnui]

It was a combination of that and defeating Mildred.

[@seanneylon3202]

Taurus Demon in Undead Burg drops a Demon Greataxe and bro says NOTHING.

[@wolfhead-hx2mn]

@seanneylon3202 honestly I'm ngl I've had that guy drop it every time.

[@whawhawhawhaaaa]

The "Shin Megami Tensei is the Dark Souls of Persona" at 0:11 pissed me off so bad i just stared at the screen for like 30 seconds lmao

[@Dr.Frankture]

@@whawhawhawhaaaa Chill bro I think it's because SMT is harder than Persona, not because persona came first.

[@whawhawhawhaaaa]

@Dr.Frankture I know I just thought it was funny to call it the "dark souls of persona" like smt was a spinoff of persona and not the other way around

[@rudysmith1552]

@@whawhawhawhaaaa yeah SMT three that came out in 2003 before demon souls

[@zweihanderpancakes1855]

Commenting to respond to 2:05; the double-hit is done by inputting a normal jumping heavy from the ledge above such that the momentum of the move carries you off the ledge. The hitbox from the jump attack will land, then the special plunge hit triggers.

[@ianhandy5090]

"I know its the remaster but thats beautiful" *is looking at something untouched by the remaster*

[@Meatslap]

6:29 bro got the 1% drop 💀

[@Jonathoon]

cool

[@hueluca9697]

IT FREAKED ME OUT TOO I GOT IT ONCE

[@brobequiet]

that’s a rare drop?

[@hueluca9697]

@@brobequiet yes you can also buy it from the Dark root merchant I think his name was Shiva, you have to join the cat covenant and talk to him once I think after that you can find him in blight town

[@ReapingTheseCrops]

It’s rare?

[@roozbeh6999]

Dark souls : the series were fanboys will attack you for using game mechanics so that their illusion of their favorite games being " really hard and challenging " doesn't break

[@christopherkimble2225]

Gonna ruin their 'look what I can do' award. I cheese it every time since I've beat it the first time

[@alexberube5269]

​@@christopherkimble2225 but that defeats the entire purpose of the boss fights and areas. If you're gonna trivialize everything with glitches and sequence breaking why even play the game?

[@yano8908]

​@alexberube5269 because I find it fun!

[@alexberube5269]

@@yano8908 and you do this for your first playthrough too? Breaking the game idk man for your first playthrough especially you're just making it a glorified speedrun instead of enjoying the fights and learning them

[@jaredcrabb]

​​@@alexberube5269 Yes I do. And so would most, as thats whats considered normally playing a game. Maybe not quite to the levels I go though. If I want more difficulty Ill just not though. The mechanics exist, they arent necessary.

[@unspoken657]

Man, I remember when my friend told me to play DS1, he was so mad at me for literally beating the game with STR/DEX build and not getting the black knight halberd or greatsword. In all my playthroughs of every fromsoft game, he kept crying how I played the game wrong.

[@strogonoffcore]

what a loser

[@paradoxxikal7327]

@@unspoken657 me when someone makes a different build in a game that heavily encourages different builds:

[@guifire9747]

A STR/DEX? What kind of weapon did you use? i always go full one STR or DEX, a mix of the two would be nice

[@Flmpbruh]

​@@guifire9747Straight sword, claymore, and other weapons with equal scalings

[@emblemblade9245]

@@paradoxxikal7327 Meanwhile I’m tearing my hair out trying to find a way to balance the armor and weapons I want without spamming endurance levels to stay below 50% encumbrance lol

[@chocolatine4269]

tbh there's no wrong way to play these games as long as you're having fun cheese runs like this are very enjoyable, and so are challenge runs i've done both and both were fun in their own way. the game gives you all these tools for a reason, whether you want to use them or not is up to you but either way you're still beating the game. people saying your run is somehow invalid are just ridiculous if i'm being honest. sure, these games have a reputation of being very challenging but if we're being honest ds1 isn't really all that hard when compared to the other games, even at level 1. and even if it was, you can still play the game however you want, go have fun anyways i got kinda carried away here good video btw

[@aplenope]

7:34 there's 2 black knight halberds outside of the kiln actually, there is a dude with one in the tomb of the giants with one. kind of easy to miss if you're not looking for it because it is PITCH BLACK down there.

[@zaqu45]

I still don't know how you'd miss him because he sprints at you from half a mile away lol

[@anonecki]

​@@zaqu45yeah lol, he aggros the moment you cross that mid-level fog wall

[@GazpachoMacho]

There’s actually another halberd black knight in the tomb of the giants that most people forget about. So there is a second shot.

[@FrecherAffe]

And when you go back to the asylum there’s a third one

[@GazpachoMacho]

@@FrecherAffe What dark souls are you playing? Whenever I go back there there's only sword knights. XD

[@FrecherAffe]

@@GazpachoMacho yeah you’re right got it mixed up

[@GazpachoMacho]

@@FrecherAffe yea. You probably meant kiln of the first flame.

[@rubick2363]

Can’t tell you how many times I played this game and just learned of losing the free rolling while locked on. I’m gonna go reevaluate life real quick 😵‍💫

[@andrewmatthews-mitchell2680]

With the 12 estus flasks, anytime a bonfire in the area is kindled it gives a bonus estus to all nearby active players. Also everytime you hear the bell ring is a player ringing the bell on their world

[@lachlannreid2433]

Proz, you are one of my favourite souls creator's, please keep it up

[@The_Hardtuner]

You need to do a jumping attack for a double hit on Asylum Demon rather than just plunging attack.

[@cthomas0233]

Do I see, GIANT DAD ARMOR??!

[@MeIoTheYellow]

Oh yeah I played through it again recently after a long time; Stone Set (Ancient Stone Helm later), Stone Greatsword and Stone Greatshield. I can count the number of times I died on one hand and it was 5; Fall inside the tree, fall climbing out of Blighttown and 3 times to Seath because lack of !CURSE! resist. Walk, block, R2, walk, block, R2 etc. If you ask me, a lot of people don't have trouble simply because the games are hard, they have trouble because they play stupid. Stupid self-imposed rules, stupid "the game has to be fair" like they'll see two enemies standing in a place and keep dying because they're like "I'm gonna duel this enemy" completely surprised that they aren't playing along with something they made up. Or they see a situation where a bow would be useful, refuse to use it and they whine that the bow is "required" when it really isn't, but not for them.

[@Lernos1]

Any time someone says "that's not how the game was meant to be played" and "this playthrough is invalid", I'm gonna say any playthrough of a soulslike is invalid unless you do a modded run with every stat in the negatives, 1 HP (FP if present), 1 stamina, no levelups, no hit, no deaths, not picking up anything, all bosses, blindfolded, while strapped to a device that pumps some blood out of you every time you get hit and have to reset a run. It will at least make for good charity.

[@ReapingTheseCrops]

You didn’t die to Bed Of Chaos but died to seath three times?! I don’t know what to say.

[@MeIoTheYellow]

@@ReapingTheseCrops Yup, !CURSE! Stone Armor doesn't have shit for !CURSE! resist and the ring wasn't enough, I had to eat Curse Stones midfight. I don't know why but he was really AOE happy.

[@whatwhat98]

"The origins of the poison swamp memes" Valley of Defilement: am i a joke to you?

[@ramsescostas3421]

There’s so many cuts in this video I can barely tell where I’m even going

[@KingofCurthes]

You can also get the Scythe from the catacombs that is still overpowered but not as overpowered as the Greatsword if you don’t count the Bleed the scythe does.

[@AkumuVE]

4:52 well if you have the master key and a insane mind you can get the Great club and the cloranthy ring pretty early, just don't sit in any bonfire them use a homeward bone.

[@growingwithdaisy]

@@AkumuVE where do you get the chloranthy ring in ds1.

[@gamerhats4145]

Hearing Franky's theme playing was just *chefs Kiss*

[@GreysonMacAllister]

I don't know why, but I have an impulse to call GigaCheez "Shrekules" and I will not be swayed from this impulse.

[@Plaxil]

IM THE 2000th LIKE! It’s my first video of yours I’ve seen I love the editing style and you’re commentary

[@red_spade2]

Amazing video, made me laugh a couple times, I have no idea why I never get sick of this game😂

[@GlawiousAldredMarci]

7:10 That is why you always go from the other side of the map, below firelink shrine XD

[@anonecki]

I love grabbing the gravelord sword early on, it's probably my favourite earlygame weapon

[@RAyden277]

"I was sprinting and i pressed B" His playstation: am i a joke to you?

[@pyromaniak2736]

good content but a couple of corrections:cheese for asylum is black firebombs just choose thief class, you can get the black knight halberd from the halberd black knight in the kiln (so you have a percent chance for a play-through weapon but can get it later in the playthrough),

[@sisco7657]

Did you know, you can stop the giant throwing fire bombs for iron golem boss by breaking all his balls without needing to kill him.

[@Armegeothm]

Cheese for O&S that nobody talks about: have soft-capped VIT and a stronger weapon than the +10 standard the game expects you to have.

[@The_Fire_Knight371]

The black knights before the Gwyn boss respawn and there are two black knights with the black knight halberd

[@NoobXD244]

I love the fact hes more actively playing games and uploading 👏 You go man i hope you hit 100k before the end of this year. With the pace rn its entirely possible. Goodluck

[@StarshadowMelody]

"'cause when you're locked on you can only move in four directions" WOrked for me. On keyboard. No mouse. Got up to Gwyn like that and then just didn't bother fighting him for some reason(I got bored).

[@StarshadowMelody]

also fun fact I used an Enchanted Halberd so seeing the HLALABERB made me happy.

[@finjo9673]

Maybe u need to do the dlc before gwyn?

[@Pappa958]

7:03 one of the main reason i love the souls series is that it constantly reminds me no matter my skill level my ass can still get killed lmao

[@stephenskelton8656]

Sens fortress was a roller coaster of emotions literally made me bust out laughing

[@gavin6576]

21:45 ONE PIECE🤯🤯🤯

[@BlakkaChakka27]

Once I saw you heading for the Catacombs, I thought, "Is he going to get the Gravelord Sword?!?" I did that once, and it was a funny fun run.

[@thomasgreen5929]

Just beat wukong and honestly was not impressed and came back to replay dark souls and lies of p, great video homie

[@ethanmcguire-zi5rb]

That’s the main reason why I’m so hyper fixated on ds1 is because of how it’s all connected from FL shrine😍❤️‍🔥

[@Eyedunno]

Honestly, that Gravelord Sword is a viable endgame weapon at +5 and its damage isn't split damage, and you can easily get it to +5 before O&S if you raid the chests and kill the demon in Anor Londo, trade a dung pie and a prism stone, and kill a couple more demons (maybe the one below Andre and either one of the ones at Sen's Fortress or the one in the Catacombs). Though on the minus side, you would have to get strength to 24 to one-hand it. My first playthrough I wanted to summon Solaire, but I wanted to practice the bosses first so I wasn't throwing a bunch of humanity down the toilet. Ended up just winning in three tries. Having a maxed Black Knight Greatsword probably helped 😅 I think I didn't actually get around to summoning him until my third or fourth playthrough, and yeah, he is an absolute beast in that fight. Just having him to draw aggro is already nice, but the fact that he does good damage too is icing on the cake.

[@MennydorgesERArchive]

The Giant Blacksmith sells twinkling titanites, you can kill Silver Knights for the souls, it’s quicker that way

[@Eyedunno]

@@MennydorgesERArchiveGood luck upgrading the Gravelord Sword with Twinkling Titanite considering it takes Demon Titanite (as shown in the video, btw).

[@jordanlittles007]

Just happy to be here, thank you for the content ❤

[@ilikeeverything2359]

This is probably one of my favorite series ❤❤

[@Xd_Beamerboy]

Bro😂the ORA sound effect when he bonks someone😂star platinum❌jimmy neutron africano✅

[@skylerfrary6746]

20:44 gets stun locked because not wearing armor then blames the game

[@nicholasavasthi9879]

The big knight followed you because non-respawning enemies are not reset when you rest at a bonfire. Learned that with the Anor Londo Gargoyles.

[@piu7773]

When you did the jump attack on the Taurus Demon and you were briefly staggered, you can see how you lost a bit of life, that's because his feet have their own hitbox and they can hit you when he moves 😆

[@miguellopes7402]

As a souls-like completionist i love this cheese vídeos The main trigger i think we all have resides in people trying to soften the game and boasting about it. The genre is meant to be an High Frustration High Satisfaction self achievement. Thats the main reason people force themselves into even harder challenges like no Hits and stuff. We welcome people that just want to play the game. However we do not welcome people that ridicularize the game by calling it easy doing mage behavior or co.op strategies or people crying its to hard. They are disrespecting the game itself and for many of us the souls genre is more about life than it is about a game. To put in another perspetive, when someone is speaking about a theme you understand fully and its saying the most absurd bs you ever heard.

[@thetelltalesheart]

When I heard "We're going to pick warrior" I just went "This is a GLS run"

[@juampan]

22:11 another way you could have gotten a +10halberd is to pick up the crystal one from the mimic near the anor londo bonfire, revert it to +10 by the giant and upgrade to electric, without needing a large ember and Andre.

[@briansmith1288]

When you took damage while running down the ramparts in Anor Londo, I believe it's caused by how the game calculates fall damage. Basically your change in vertical position was fast enough for that damage to kick in despite it not being a fall. I could be mistaken but I believe that was the explanation i saw a few years ago.

[@Vikey36]

i'm actually impressed to see the weapon being a lighting halbead, instead of a crystal halbeard or even a zweihander

[@TuberLolx]

Last fight even more epic with the One piece music😂🔥

[@musashah9815]

ive never plyed this game neither do i know its story but all I Know is its a proz kryptix vid meaning its bouta be fire

[@JohnyzSNT]

15:03 he is counted as special enemy, and sitting at bonfires does not respawn those enemies in ds1, the same thing happens for example with oscar, if u open a shortcut, come back to assylum, he can chase u literally up to bonfire and even if u rest at it u will see, him running for u still

[@swpullen]

Thank you for posting, my life is boring without your videos

[@boblionia]

The Black Knight's Halberd actually can be aquired later in the game. The very last area of the game, but still sooner than never. Chaos also does not scale with stats so your reaspning for oreferring Lightning also applies to Chaos Otherwise interesting video, niceee

[@water-poweredmachine8291]

I love how you make the game harder by cutting corners. The wrong way indeed my friend

[@wills5482]

1: Grab BKH or BKS 2: Get it to +5 before Capra Demon 3: Nuke everything

[@SaganTheKhajiit]

Lightning Claymore is my jam in this game, as is Lightning Great Club. And Iron Flesh, Iron Flesh breaks some bosses.

[@DooDoo-f4v]

Lighting Claymore, my beloved.

[@jesseiles3414]

Props on the One Piece music, that set the whole boss fight in the best way

[@arent4771]

The way to double hit the asylum demon in to do a jumping heavy without doing the plunge. Then you, for some reason, do the heavy attack and land on him and do two plunge attacks in one.

[@RakuzaXI]

Dark Souls loves to remind you not to rush around

[@olred4711]

When in free cam, the character will attack at the height of the camera. You are aiming down, making the halbard go between Smough's legs.

[@TonEncorp]

Why isnt this channel not big its amazing

[@kaboomslays6028]

4:55 at that point of the game I always go straight down to Blight town, goto ash lake, and then join the stone dragon covenant, get the dragon head stone, and also the great dragon sword, and with the dragon head stone am able to one shot most enemies at the start of the areas 😂

[@whiterkound695]

Good video, u seem like a starter or just forgot everything from the game, i laughed a lot

[@goatsandgardening]

Some goats wandering by. souls is just armored core with magic 😂 this is awesome!💚🐐💚

[@yokai_2908]

ok but neco arc in the end got me subscribing

[@adamstevens3661]

For a dark souls vet you really got the business on that run 😂

[@martincernak1454]

"cheesing" the DS1 and not playing thief with BFB and therefore already failing to chees the asylum demon... Well I don't know about that. Gonna watch the rest but I had to type this immediately after I saw it :D

[@andrewthomas7628]

This video is so great! Gigacheese is the way I found you in the first place and now you are by far my favorite KZbinr. Like by a long shot. BUTTTTTTT where’s wukong? 😂 jk I get it! Keep making awesome shit my dude! Catch ya on the next ine

[@JustMiluna]

I loved the ER series, please continue 😚

[@Riky596]

"Oh my god... I am... Fucking... Dude..." 24:28

[@carter3986]

Love the content. Too bad I can’t subscribe more than once. You deserve the support

[@ksway628]

this dudes actually pretty funny 😂

[@heisenchapo6912]

Amazing vid!! DS3 in the future?

[@wandi852]

to deal most damage with plunge on asylum just do a jumping attack instead of plunging attack, super consistent double hit

[@jsw1ckedd]

love how this game is the goofiest of the souls

[@DJReminem8]

Yay made it here early! More Cheeeeesssseeeee!!!

[@eduardo9509]

If you don't cheese the gme, the game gonna chees you. This run's cursed

[@kg-ee5oe]

Love the run keep up the good work and praise the sun!!!!!

[@kg-ee5oe]

Ps please save solaire

[@eigonofcarim1406]

You can cheese the asylum demon by... leaving him alive. IMHO it's "wrong way" enough

[@phantomorochi1260]

OHHH BOY HERE WE GO OG DARK SOULS! THE GIGACHEESE RETURNS!

[@charlesaston6546]

Havel reminded you that you have no armor, then the regular enemies noticed and ganged up 😂

[@michaelwahl7810]

If you go to the catacombs early, the great scythe isn't a bad choice either. Easy to get it to plus 5 then 10 really early

[@vassilus915]

15:43 DOOR STUCK. DOOR STUCK.

[@paigelove2666]

Fun video! If anything, this feels like an unnecessary harder way to play. Crypt dives always strike me as being harder to get away with than they're worth, and as cool as the bkh is, it has terrible scaling and high reqs; it's literally only good for O&S compared to alternatives. My "break the game" style is to level a basic weapon (longsword, claymore, halberd, katana etc) to level 5, and then kill the hydra and save Dusk. Buy her wand; it requires only 12 int and gives damage scaling as if you had 27. Magic weapon, and later great magic weapon, add insane dps to otherwise great weapon movesets. Get Havel and crafting mats/roll for BKH while you're down there, and presto.

[@Smoothbrainium]

I feel like an exception would be the great scythe, you only need to run past a couple skeletons and roll off some ledges for that and that weapon is busted for PvE

[@paigelove2666]

@@Smoothbrainium Yeah, it's not unreasonable. Same with getting the mace if you don't want to start cleric. Still, I think doing that is maybe only worth it after you've already gotten to parish, so you can have a decent weapon to not have to worry about getting stuck around skeletons. GS is definitely busted, and even works with the style I described!

[@mayomancer527]

14:14 chaos is best for early game when you usually don't have enough str and dex for scaling, normal +15 (or technically crystal, i guess) is the best late game option once you get the stats.

[@DirtyBarnacle]

I hear Blue Archive BGM, I press like. It's quite simple really.

[@russiandrago821]

My prefered method of brain empty cheese is Lightning Zweihander pancakes. Might be milqutoast at this point but its got the big boy damage, the amount of enemies resistant to lightning is quite small, and the heavy attack pancakes smaller enemies and staggers most bigger enemies. Spam that heavy attack and you have won the game.

[@mr.anxiety3858]

Choose bandit to start off with master key and choose black firebombs as your gift and that’s the easiest way to cheese the first demon without having to grab your gear first and if you beat him before grabbing your gear it guarantees he drops his great hammer

[@Green_Sentinel_3]

Deadangling in Souls games is always superior to lock on with melee combat.

[@Lucy-GabMoe]

I love this series pls continue i suped and liked :D

[@DooDoo-f4v]

I'll never forget finding that coffin. Had no internet and nearly crapped myself finding it around SL40. Worth being tortured by skeletons as a stupid kid blindly running through that tomb. Gravelord sword is such a cool weapon.