Can You Beat Dark Souls 3 Using Only Dragon Stones? (NG+ Fresh Start)

[@PressContinue]

I had to reupload this video because not only did the old video get demonetized, age restricted and de-ranked, but when I tried to use the KZbin editor function to remove that part that I thought might cause the issue (YT doesn’t tell you, so it’s a guess) the entire video had the audio completely out of sync, which made it literally unwatchable. So yeah… that’s… nice… -__- The full livestreams of this run: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rnyTc3Z4ord4nZo

[@urtoryu_dy_althraidn]

What did you think was the troublesome part?

[@PressContinue]

@@urtoryu_dy_althraidn The reference to dr*gs and h**kers. But who knows? For all know it's the picture of beer in the intro. YT is not exactly consistent. I mean look what the title of my previous video is. That is apparently perfectly fine.

[@urtoryu_dy_althraidn]

@@PressContinue Thanks.

[@CallMeMimi27]

Well, I guess I don't have any other choice but to watch it again ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

[@ImTakingYouToFlavorTown]

Yeah a friend of mine has had both of those issues, you would expect that the youtube editor would just work without messing up the audio, but hey, it's youtube, very little of what they do makes sense.

[@TA20017]

“Time for this dragon to face the dragon slaying dragon slayer armour , to become a dragon slayer armour slaying dragon’ I replayed that part like 10 times and love that it actually makes sense when you break it down 😂❤

[@sh-ogun]

This line has me dying fr😂😂

[@BaronsCastle]

when you said "fuck me I'm getting too old for this shit" I felt that in my bones. Or maybe it was arthritis.

[@PressContinue]

I felt it in my skull. Is there such a thing as mental arthritis?

[@Void_Fishy]

Fine I guess I'll watch the whole video again 🥸

[@Chris_Chrass]

Giga

[@Koijn2K]

Chad

[@Ghost_Busters7253]

🗿

[@frostyelwood9898]

Worth

[@dylankilby6785]

Sorry this got demonitized and had to be reuploaded... but I'm super glad that this is back just the same! Thanks for all the awesome content that you put together for us nerds who love the souls games. Have a great holiday season and looking forward to catching more streams next year! (Ideally not joining five minutes before the end 😎👉👉)

[@PressContinue]

Wow, thank you so much Dylan!!! I really appreciate the super thanks. A lovely Christmas present. Yeah it's a shame that this video got screwed over by YT, but I'm glad that those who did see it appreciate it. Thank you so much and I hope you have a very merry Christmas!

[@Pantagana]

16:50 - The reason why Midir's fire staggers Yhorm is because Midir's fire deals 999 Poise Damage, so even Yhorm who has 350 Poise and takes half Poise Damage when hit in the legs still gets poise broken in 1 hit. But even if you do poise break Yhorm, that doesn't open him up for a critical attack. Only dealing Health Bar Damage to his right arm and head does that. 26:42 "Ballsacktory" LMAO

[@mathewmontavon9079]

I love that they turned this mechanic into a reasonably functional set of spells in Elden Ring. Good material as always, man.

[@donnegan14]

I'm so excited to watch this video for the first time! I sure hope he doesn't have any issues with Pontiff cuz I'm sure the parry window is long enough.... Right?

[@TheZoruaFilmsMC]

Love how Elden Ring did this concept way better with the dragon incantations

[@matthewcampbell3146]

I found the claw really useful in my first playthrough cause it can stagger so many things in one hit with its large hit box

[@DeuxisWasTaken]

I love Pontiff's Stand. Mostly because it attacks first. He first sends his shadow to f you up and immediately goes to f you up himself, not caring that he just told you exactly what he's going to do.

[@urtoryu_dy_althraidn]

A shame they stonned the old video to death, so I'll give you back my like to try and bring this out of rock bottom.

[@tristanwelke7827]

I genuinely forgot about the twinkling stones lol. Looking back it's kinda funny to see that the embarrassment that were the twinkling dragon stones would come back revamped and roided to hell in Elden Ring. Almost too good, I never not use at least one on my faith builds. Kinda cool to see how a framework from an early game gets refined in a later one and FROM has shown this throughout the whole franchise.

[@LillaBjörn95]

The script for this one is just 10/10 pure comedic gold. Unbelievable effort is put in to all your videos and man does it show!

[@mortuarycookiezshane4192]

Been playing since release and never realized you could parry the crystal mage. This is why I love these games.

[@abysswatcher4907]

A true test of endurance. For dragon stone I remember there used to be a bug which you can unleash a fast dragon attack by switching items really quick and I guess it will make this challenge trivial. Other than that, great fights as usual.

[@rainthesomber]

I didn't know Wolnir could summon skeletons after playing through ds3 so many times. The things you learn from goofy challenge runs is amazing.

[@ИапГоревич]

How

[@rainthesomber]

@@ИапГоревич How did I not know? I normally beat him before he does that so I never realized that he could do that.

[@GrayD_Fox]

That’s a bold face lie

[@rainthesomber]

@@GrayD_Fox I normally played with friends and started fresh play throughs with them so I never had to deal with him being tougher in newgame+ and while I said so many times I only fought Wolnir about 3 or 4 times (a lot of my playthroughs ended early due to not finding time to play with that friend anymore or in one case a friendship ending etc) and I was told to aim for the shackles by my friend the first time I fought him (I won't lie I died I think twice if I remember correctly one was me misplaying the other was me going too far from the boss into the darkness) I genuinely just didn't get his skeletons to spawn when I fought him, I'm assuming either cause I beat him too fast or rng just worked out for me. For context I also usually played strength builds except my first playthrough which was a pyromancy build supplemented with strength weapons. To be honest I wrote all of this because I felt like I needed to defend and justify myself but then I thought about it more and it's a bit silly. I mention I didn't know a weird boss quirk which I got to see from the video especially with dark souls that has a lot of them and that's that if someone doesn't believe my experience then it really just doesn't matter. I enjoy the games but I'd be lying if I said I completed them (the only one I completed was ds3 much much later on about 4 years after playing it) too often I take a break then come back to the game with the mindset of "well it's been awhile I might aswell make a new character start fresh" or "well that character I played with Ace and I'm not friends with him anymore so I guess I should make a new one" TLDR I ramble about my darksouls history

[@windflier1684]

It's just impossible, Wolnir would spawn the skeleton 5 seconds into the fight, unless you can 1 tap the shackle, I see no way you could not know there are skeleton in this fight

[@amberhernandez]

41:40 - This is probably the peak of the Dragons' Path; slaying the King of the Storm and ascending. Unfortunately, as we Unkindled have a higher purpose, we cannot ascend to true dragonhood, which is the same reason Hawkwood could never become a true dragon.

[@OfficialPepe]

When it comes to this run: You can do it. The question is: Should you? Hell, do you even want to? Nice video mate.

[@skylerbieber4698]

I really like and prefer the longer format of the videos 👍to you press for all your hard work and dedication

[@Be_And]

Can you beat KZbin? (It's impossible) I've run into some nasty stuff before, I'll gladly give it another watch.

[@therealludwigtheholyblade]

your videos are pretty good too

[@sodie.]

those back to back parries on champion gundyr are so satisfying

[@apeacho326]

Your channel is gold, you me got into challenge runs just finished my sl1 on ds3, thank you for giving us different ideas and showing us the process on how you accomplished your challenge. it really feels rewarding at the end. ohh and i love the references you make. My favourite reference is Metallica one from the negative level on ds2 video. thank you for taking your time to make us laugh ❤️. Im looking forward to your future challenges

[@davethedestroyer7552]

The name for a humanoid dragon is called A Weredragon is a human that can transform into a dragon. This usually occurs through some kind of magic, like a curse or spell. The term “were” comes from old English, and it means “man.” “Were” is used to describe people who turn into other creatures, usually animals.

[@Kossmok]

This is my NG+ watching this video 💀

[@ProdG315]

The twinkling torso stone literally has my favorite skill in the game, it’s too cool to not be used, if there were better poise options it would def be a go-to attack for me.

[@angelTechnician64]

Of course the only appropriate intro song was always gonna be something from Dragonforce. Absolute legends. Well played.

[@PressContinue]

That was what I initially wanted to do. "Where dragons rule" to be specific. But no matter how much I changed it, it still triggered the copyright system. So therefore I went with the double dragon theme instead. Although Dragonforce actually used the double dragon theme in the bridge of Black Fire, so in a roundabout way there's still some Dragonforce in it, in a sense.

[@angelTechnician64]

@@PressContinue well damn, you learn something new about an old favourite band every day. I never knew that about the double dragon theme but it's super on brand for Dragonforce to do that, i figured it was just a remix or cover that you were using

[@rogofos]

now I actually recommend the dragon form for the demon prince bossfight the reason is that most of their damage is fire anyway and this way you can fast roll while still having a solid fire resistance

[@mastatheif9909]

42:53 the word "bird" is translated from the Hebrew 'oph' which means "flying creatures" since the categories God divided animals in wasn't the modern ones we use now it was sea animals, flying animals, and land animals. Too many atheist bring this up without knowing anything 👍🏼

[@Mystic1038-u5u]

And Christians keep using God as an answer to an atheist😂

[@sakura368]

that's not a dragon in DS3, that's a goat

[@PressContinue]

And not a healthy looking one

[@siegwardinspirit]

Ah well, guess I'll have to rewatch it. No matter, your videos always rock!

[@thelordelric8424]

21:00 I'm someone who cares about Demon's Souls and would love to see some challenges for it.

[@chadgiornogiovannikarp6772]

Only One thing: GNAAAAAAAAA

[@sunbreakerqueenofbronze621]

I really love playing a female character using the dragon head stone, wearing desert pyromancer garb, and loincloth. It really gives off a “sexy dragon” kind of vibe.

[@Christopher-ro1dl]

Thank you for doing the runs that require mods on NG+ so people who are not on PC can try or learn about how it would work.

[@goodhunter8520]

We'll watch it again It's my third time actually I'm preparing to try this challenge myself 😁

[@ElementEvilTeam]

Elden Ring's dragon incantation is so much better

[@braxtonschouten]

28:02 I guess in the Dark Souls universe, it's somewhat more likely you would be fighting dragons using lightning/dark than using fire. Never thought about it before.

[@Bubloi]

I mean, they mostly (or all of them, idk) have fire breath, so i guess it makes sense they are not that weak to it

[@driftingmind388]

the dancer part killed me😂

[@kurtgrgelwrx8376]

that "drain/train the dragon" joke was great, even if it was only half intended because of his pronounciation

[@randomtyp1352]

0:06 Uhm Ackchyually a dragon is the broad category, a wyvern has wings and hind legs, a drake has no wings, but front and hind legs and a humanoid dragon would be a dragonoid or draconian depending on where you ask. Also one with both pairs of legs and wings is a true dragon

[@SineWave289]

Leuk video maat!

[@EricBarthDev]

The Demon prince would have hit me 1000000 times if I fought like you did

[@CaptTrips19]

You dragon stoned Gael. I’m getting wrecked fully optimized everything…

[@onkiki...6029]

Fully charged stake driver (transformed) attacks only (cheese gascoine and jump around till djura falls to his death)

[@PressContinue]

That's on the list

[@Gary_a_normal_human_being]

@@PressContinuehell yes i thought about that too while playing bloodborne

[@Pyrotechnical-wo1cw]

Ah yes everyone's favorite pass time, bullying Gundyr

[@MatsYoo]

i missed this vid before so its nice watching it for the first time :)

[@theworstprotagonist722]

Well we gotta hit him with the rewatch it's only fair

[@MisanthropicOcellus]

you, lemons from backlogs and plateau peak are keeping me sane

[@PressContinue]

We sacrifice our own sanity so that you might retain it

[@MisanthropicOcellus]

@@PressContinue oh, no i meant as i play along hah, knowing its POSSIBLE, gets me to the next boss

[@virgyvirgil]

the class gag is so good

[@harry_hydrogen]

I did the wolnir fight strategy first time play through without knowing it was a thing. I literally asked my friend if I was supposed to do wolnir before Abyss watchers thinking I was over leveled

[@shubhamagarwal3922]

Guess I'll have to watch it again, I think there might even be cake.

[@johncoppers6795]

Commenting to feed the algorithm. Fun video so far 😁

[@TruePirateKing12]

I feel like they should have expanded on the dragon transformation.

[@DaronStronghammer]

According to this DND based dragon classification chart I found, a humanoid dragon would either be a lizard or a lung dragon. (Lung Dragon is half way between a Drake and a Wyrm.)

[@SimonSchmelzer]

The clone of Pontif Shows the Future movement of pontif himself. That makes it for me much easier haha

[@PressContinue]

Correct... although there are some situations that can cause that pattern to break. But generally speaking that's the rule of thumb to go by

[@Soapy-chan]

"how many of you viewers know what vordt does after that" damnit, did you have to call me out that hard? I'm sorry that I suck 😅

[@thatwouldbeme]

Return of the GNAAA

[@gehteuchnichtsan8574]

KZbin seems to be more stoned than the Dutch. You are the Expert Press. Is this even possible? ;)

[@lucavillano7575]

It's a shame youtube is easy on the hammer, without even a slight reason for it. Obviously, rewatch (which Iwould done anyway, so I love your content) and relike are a given

[@WhoDaF0ok1sThatGuy]

“The fight will drag… eh. Take a while.” Why did you stop the pun halfway through?😢

[@DestinedDeath49620]

For a hour long video, it's surprising it didn't Dragon. im so sorry

[@freshboy3968]

37:17 Woah, I didn't know he had a plunge attack.

[@broputer]

19:38 saving this for my favorite joke don't judge me

[@vvbr2372]

I don't mind watching it again

[@WhatshisfaceB18]

Did no one here the whisper that started at 7:54? I’m watching this at 3 am and it creeped the shit outa me.

[@PressContinue]

You mean the firekeeper saying "farewell, ashen one?"

[@WhatshisfaceB18]

@@PressContinueoh oops just realized lol

[@MathGoOli]

0:24 look at his skinny legs moving 🤣

[@Chrisofthemount]

Guess I'm watching this run again!

[@drakenstrijders2]

Dolf from Alfred Jodocus was not a reference I was expecting you to make.

[@PressContinue]

And it's not even the first time, surprisingly

[@davidrw67]

I miss how op ds1 dragon form was to ds3 goat dragon

[@keyboardking8532]

Glad the dragon head was useful atleast once lol

[@therock4799]

Amazing bloodborne reference btw

[@rulas_6656]

Just finished this run! I'm a bit ashamed to say that I summoned npcs for some bossfights (like Abyss Watchers, Sulyvahn and Soul of Cinder), (even if I spent thrice the time to do their quests) and I beated Soul of Cinder without even dealing damage to him (used ymfah ds3 pacifist guide for him since his windows were to small for me to react since I didnt know his moveset that well). I finished the run in 13 h and with 181 deaths (obviosly ng+ fresh start like in the video)

[@caiocem]

Judging how this was the video youtube choose to recommend to me, guess everything went fine with rhe reupload

[@kawailook]

Watches it again in one sitting 🗿

[@serzombo9972]

Hello Ser PS. I have a dark souls remastered challenge for you. Can you beat DSR with the Lucerne's heavy attacks? Without buffs? It won't be a hard challenge because the Lucerne's damage is deceptive (in a good way) and it's 2 hand heavy hits twice( kinda why I put the no buffs in there). If you end up picking this challenge( barely?) Good luck lad and thanks for reading my comment!

[@serzombo9972]

Btw the lucerne is in the catacombs right after the first necromancer

[@DdDd-ny2uf]

Was watching ymfah now I’ve found you love your commentary, new sub bro please keep making these 🎉

[@HenryMyth]

Dark Souls 1 dragon form is by far the best and it still wasn't that great. The unarmed damage boost made it pretty solid and the breath wasn't bad either. The ones on DS2 and DS3 are so bad in comparison. I wish they'd take the transformation concept in these games further and make it not garbage.

[@Amaltraz]

nice intro!

[@dahelgarcia3541]

Fucked how you have to reupload press, amazing video and amazing jokes as always. Just an idea too, remember that 15 minute bloodborne video you did a while back? Have you considered making more like those? They are easier to watch for newer viewers and I’ve seen other channels make videos like those grow quite fast.

[@PressContinue]

15 minute bloodborne video? Do you have me confused with someone else? Because that doesn't sound familiar?

[@dahelgarcia3541]

@@PressContinue noo hahah you’re right I guess I remembered it shorter lol but the question is still: do shorter videos (30 mins or less) do better with views and such?

[@Deoxys_Used_Mimic]

Here’s hoping Elden Ring’s DLC adds a transformation like Bloodborne did.

[@crocodile3805]

Alternate title: I try my best to kill gods while Being anorexic

[@TechniqueSan]

KZbin is always a stone throw away from fucking it up..

[@jjba3553]

Reupload of fantastic content cus KZbin sucks? Easy rewatch to support one of the GOATS

[@naherathe]

sucks that youtube does that, keep it strong press we love you!!

[@gazzyzingo1846]

Third time trying to watch video, last two times after night of drinking and getting in bed

[@duckgluv1270]

With the crystal sage, the one with purple magic is the original that how I figured it out

[@PressContinue]

Oooooooooooooooooooooh... really now???

[@duckgluv1270]

@@PressContinue follow for more tips and tricks

[@duckgluv1270]

@@PressContinue also like, sorry new to the tips and tricks business

[@unyielding.entertainment]

I just started DS3 and I really get annoyed by the lack of poise, I gotta work on my rolls I suppose

[@PressContinue]

Yeah either that or use the portable poise of the caestus or similar weapon

[@poorlydisguisedeldritchabo221]

A humanoid dragon is called a draconoid

[@gabriel_cooper]

what about the Ancient Wyvern boss btw? i don't remember you covering the fight with it.

[@gaminggoddess85]

What do you mean this isn't a Fire Emblem video

[@DerSpielfuehrer]

You are nuts man.

[@Mattheus9470]

this should've been named Can you make a dark souls 3 challenge without youtube fucking it up?🤣

[@ShMokou]

Just come here to tell GNAAAAAAAAWWW~

[@connorburris4846]

How do people have issue with healing NPC fights? That's literally a free moment of damage!

[@Notintheface0]

Wooooo dark souls 3 runs!!

[@jaredcrabb]

The enemies healing is unfair cause they generally have thousands of times the hp you have.

[@somebody-ph5nt]

Whats that intro song called, it has an amazing solo i want to learn

[@PressContinue]

It's the double dragon soundtrack

[@somebody-ph5nt]

@@PressContinue dankuwel meneer ;)

[@PressContinue]

@@somebody-ph5nt Graag gedaan :)

[@somebody-ph5nt]

I learnt it, the parts i can actually play

[@pezyg]

I brain farted a little

[@PressContinue]

So did YT evidently

[@divineswine2780]

how dare you attack aria

[@PressContinue]

Sowwy...

[@divineswine2780]

@@PressContinue I forgib >:3

[@darianclark3980]

Danglicious KZbin! Why must you punish Press Continue for not doing Elden Ring!? Welp, time to watch this video again so dont drag-on complaining.