Ranking the Easiest Area in Each Soulsborne Game!

[@dog.b74]

caria manor may not have been difficult gameplay wise, but it was certainly mentally devastating with the hands.

[@Loctorak]

Idk, I got pretty manhandled by the spirit soldiers that pop up along those catwalks the first time....s. I'm still afraid of them now because they have this way of like... posing little enough threat right up until the moment they don't and then they've killed you already. And if there's one place where I am in no way interested in jumping off in emergencies via leap of faith, it's the place where the grass below is completely infested with skittering beasts reminiscent of a spider. Hard pass on that one, I'll take "death by soldier spirit" for 500, Marty!

[@etinarcadiaego7424]

Those things honestly never scared me. I do hate them for being a pain my ass though

[@etinarcadiaego7424]

​@@LoctorakI cannot understand arachnophobes.

[@Wallahi13]

Spider hands are so goofy I love em

[@Zepravity]

caria manor is a crazy pick. i feel like i had more difficulty with the first hand i encountered than i had with all of limgrave and liurnia combined

[@Wallahi13]

Lol

[@negansmith5637]

Doors of Pharros are over in 10 seconds. You just walk up and its over with barely any enemies in your way.

[@mr.potato3759]

Ofc it is if you just ran past everything. But why run? when stinky rat kill?

[@negansmith5637]

@@mr.potato3759 There is literally an exit 10 meters from the entrance. Also why even bother fighting that abomination? For what? A Rat Tail? For a useless covenant?

[@mr.potato3759]

@@negansmith5637 I mean.. why run when you can kill.

[@negansmith5637]

@@mr.potato3759 Why kill when you can run? That boss aint worth the time

[@mr.potato3759]

@@negansmith5637 i have a lot of time buddy. I can confidently tell you that time isn't money. I only have time.😂

[@geenalawrence8338]

Is this a joke? Those giant hands in Caria Manor are a menace

[@Wallahi13]

Bro they’re not that hard😭

[@goldmaskfiend]

I thought the thumbnail was bait ngl

[@R6Fan470h]

In Bloodborne I would say it's denfenetly Iosefaks Clinic, it just has the Imposter Iosefka and depending how many NPC's you send there passive Celestial Beings or hiwever their name is. But Iosefka in the 1v1 is really difficult

[@TheDarkEnigma]

Ive never really seen the clinic as a level in itself. Feels more like a hub for a single quest than an actual Area. Its really only there as a setpiece to seperate a couple zones with gates. That's just my two cents though

[@3ericw]

Iosefka was for me the hardest enemy. Harder than kos even

[@Loctorak]

​@@3ericwshe wasn't as hard as kos can be for me, but definitely agree she is a challenging spike in difficulty whenever I fight her. I even try to cheese her around the corners and stair railings etc I'll try to safe spot her in some way but I'm never even close and she's already up in my face again. I don't mind if she whips me a little. She may be an imposter but she's kind of a cute one ngl

[@Wallahi13]

@@3ericwgun

[@thefoochie2118]

The demon souls opening area genuinely made me quit the game and now I’m finding out it’s the EASIEST area?!

[@jajasking9652]

IMO, is not the easiest one, the fact you can't level Up, varius traps, half HP until you get mid way through the level and the notable Bridge with lots of enemies makes It more challenging than something like 2-2 or 3-2 ( even if this one is really punishing if you die )

[@chik1babi]

I think the ranking goes from hardest to easiest? So demons souls would be the hardest of the easiest lol

[@jajasking9652]

​@@chik1babino, this is ordered by release dates from oldest to new

[@WeirdTroll666]

yeah it has basic enemies, but it is unforgiving, although I find it hard to lose

[@thefoochie2118]

@@WeirdTroll666 from what I remember I barely had any healing potions and kept dying

[@NinjaPickle]

2:35 *Ostrava of Boletaria, you're mixing his name with Oscar of Astora

[@MrGreenJester]

To be fair, I've done so too a couple of times. They do kinda give off the same vibes 😅

[@Bob-jh6xt]

My ranking- (No DS3 or Sekiro because I haven't played them) DeS - 1-1, like you said DS1 - Ash lake, just an optional hydra in a straight line DS2 - Doors of pharros, if you're not looking to do everything optional you can run through them in like a minute Bloodborne - I don't know if I'd really count it as a whole area, but if we are, I'd say Iosefka's clinic, just a tough 1v1 that's it, but otherwise, I'd also go with the lecture ahll Elden Ring - Caria manor is just very straightforwards and easy

[@YoursTrulyGarbage]

Had you posted this on April Fool's day you could've really just picked the hub area of every single game.

[@Bob-jh6xt]

Funnily enough, the Nexus from Demon's Souls is actually the hardest level, as to "complete" it, you have to reach the bottom of it, thus meaning you have to kill false king allant.

[@soulpunisher743]

Just found your channel a few days ago and I love the vids man

[@inkymonstrosity]

The remark of Castle Ensis feeling easy compared to the Rellana fight was kinda something I felt throughout a lot of my Shadow of the Erdtree run, honestly. I've seen people complain about Elden Ring's area to boss difficulty ratio being skewed too far towards bosses, but for the most part, my dungeon deaths were proportionate to boss deaths in the base game (granted, ER was my first Souls game). I got the sense of areas feeling like cakewalks compared to bosses WAY more in the DLC. Still had a great time with it, though!

[@Staycoldyoung]

This. I wish the Dlc dungeons were harder to get through like the DS3 level designs. I feel like from focused too much on the bosses this go and slacked on the level designs and dungeon enemies

[@jajasking9652]

@@inkymonstrosity yeah, other than ener-ilim and shadowkeep, the areas are much easier than the bosses, and even then, as hard as ener-ilim is, the bossfight at the end of It is much harder

[@inkymonstrosity]

@jajasking9652 Even with Shadow Keep, I felt Messmer's difficulty was kinda disproportionate to the dungeon. I didn't mind too much, though, because the dungeon was super fun to explore regardless and Messmer remains a great fight.

[@luisesteves5929]

He says the undead burg is the easiest level in ds1????????? What about Ash lake 🧐?? There is nothing.

[@brent8407]

The hydra and Oyster enemies are still way harder than anything the undead burg throws at you.

[@luisesteves5929]

@@brent8407 there are only like a few of them and if you don't want to fight them, just run past them. Maybe a weird argument, but he used it all the time.

[@luisesteves5929]

@@brent8407 There is btw almost no area where running past an enemy will be easier since it is an open an vast area for DS1 standard.

[@brent8407]

@@luisesteves5929 I do think it's a bit redundant when people use this argument to assess difficulty, cause obviously no area is going to be hard if you just skip all the enemies. That way the ranking basically boils down to how easy it is to run by everything, not how difficult each area is by itself.

[@luisesteves5929]

@@brent8407 running past undead burg is one of the most difficult running past section a Fromsoft game ever. Also fighting these enemies is not an easy task. In Ash lake, the enemies aren't really strong, there are only a handful of them and running past them is easy. Everything about ash lake is easy.

[@jwfro2021]

3:30 I’ve heard this soundtrack in a few of your videos and I’ve been trying to find out what it is. If I were to guess, it sounds like Pokémon, but not sure. What is it exactly?

[@M0ONCommander]

I'm surprised about the undead burg pick. Even today, I'd consider it one of the more difficult starting areas. Though not mandatory, I'd pick the great hollow as the easiest area from DS1. no imposing enemies. just basilisks and mushroom dudes. The hardest part is probably going down those branches.

[@AceAviations2]

Mad respect for the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon music in the background.

[@Lord_O_Beans]

PRAISE THE RING LIGHT Camera looking good billy 👌 Can't wait for the next randomiser episode

[@eergegerg23]

Caria Manor can be a nightmare for some players. Especially if they are not aware of giant hand weaknessses. I think castle Morn is much easier.

[@SomeoneCalledYato]

10:17 hearing “feel” from Lies of P makes me somehow extremely happy

[@diamondmasterandwillythecat]

I love the pokemon mystery dungeon music. Great video

[@The_BoneCrusher]

Hey Billy. Congratulations on 25000 subscribers you deserve it.

[@VerneyArts]

Love your DS content, you earned a new sub 😊

[@lord5582]

Not gonna mention the other games cus i mostly agree but i did want to bring up lost izalith. You literally just run through the area. And unlike valley of the drakes, the enemies don’t even agro onto you unless you go off the designated path of branches and islands (with straight paths of lava between them).

[@CoversIncorporated]

I really with the profane Capitol would have been bigger, that aesthetic as a sprawling level would have been so so so good

[@johnmorris1009]

Elden Ring; Castle Morne, in terms of legacy dungeon. The only real challenge is Leonine Misbegotten, who till isn't difficult if you use spirit summons. In terms of smaller caves / dungeons; obviously the cave near the start in Limgrave! Just a few wolves to deal with, then one of the games easiest bosses.

[@tylermathews6788]

You don't have to kill the Lone Shadow to fight the Tichiman Warrior early. When going through Abandoned Dungeon, after the first drop, fall to the floor, turn around, and run back towards the entrance; there's a tiny tunnel with a little hollow guy crawling on the floor that leads you straight there.

[@Batman_the_bad_man]

"I swear I won't get mad at this nice youtuber" *youtuber puts frickin castle ensis on a list of easiest levels* "...maybe just a little?"

[@etinarcadiaego7424]

Get gud, maybe?

[@Batman_the_bad_man]

@@etinarcadiaego7424 it's not that I can't beat this level, it's just that I think that it's way harder than others. I don't get how that's related to skill

[@beelze_sama9905]

For elden ring i'd say it's redmane castle it's just a glorified run to the boss either for radahn or the duo and even if you dont use the teleporter the enemies on the way are pretty easy and few

[@ovaisazeem369]

love the addition of the steam cave music from pokemon mystery dungeon explorers of sky!!!!!!!!!

[@ZankokunaKami]

Not gonna lie. I completely forgot about Abandoned Dungeon. You’re completely right😂

[@briarbarfield5809]

For ds3, I have always found the cathedral of the deep to be really easy compared to the other areas early on

[@edbane1656]

The lecture building is one of the hardest areas in the series on your fps.

[@saulguardado9007]

Ok, I know this is not too related to the video, but I've seen this comment section be super kind so I am going to ask: What do I do after ringing the first bell in ds1? Google is giving me nothing, and I've only found the capra demon(who I heard is optional and would like to leave it for later, especially because I'm still getting used to the slower movement of ds1 compared to ds3 and bloodborne). Thanks!

[@DavidCook-zh2zz]

Go to the depths by beating capra demon in lower undeadburg for the key, navigate blighttown to the bottom then kill the most amazing chest. There are short cuts with the master key to avoid all of this but i wouldn’t recommend it if your on your first play through

[@Robbie_H]

You can beat the Capra demon and he will drop a key to a door nearby which is the main path forward or if you chose the master key as your starting gift you can go through a door down the elevator in firelink shrine. There's also some other more obscure ways forward but those are the easiest I think. Anyway hope this helps👍

[@jajasking9652]

@@saulguardado9007 idk Who said that capra demon is optional, well, technically it can be, but, if you defeat him, you can get a key to acess to the next area, and then defeat the boss from that area to get another key that gets you to an area were you can kill a Boss, after that, i think that the game Will give you propier guidance This is not the only way, Will you try to figure It out ? Or follow what me and the other replies said ? DS1 is the most cryptic of the series for sure

[@M0ONCommander]

Capra Demon is one of the pathways. He gives the key to the depths which you can use to then go ring the second bell of awakening. Another path, if you have the master key, is darkroot garden, below Andre the blacksmith, into valley of drakes and directly into the area you are meant to head into.

[@Christian-w8q]

I gave wrong information (oops)

[@HungryChinchilla]

Honestly, for Demon's Souls, I think the easiest area by far is 3-1. Not only are the tentacle enemies not much of a threat (especially since you usually only fight one at a time), but the boss is also one of the easiest in the game. I only died once in that area, and that was due to walking into a hole in the floor lol.

[@Time2rest11]

Could you rank all the starting areas from easiest too hardest next ? I thing stormveil castle would be on top

[@jonathanfitzharris4196]

For DS1, I dunno if this is really a fair way to compare difficulty but I think Lost Izalith is the easiest are in Dark Souls. Like you just run past all the dinosaur things and then it's just those slow moving fire spitting things. The only thing hard is if you include the boss which... it's debatable if it constitutes as hard and more just... get lucky with the bull swipes.

[@jajasking9652]

My picks for each game would be as follows Demon's souls: 2-2 this area has mostly pretty simple encounters, and the few tough ones are at the very beggining of it ( the miners and the fat oficial ), gravity can be an issue, 1-1 is harder imo, as you can't level up, plus some sections that will catch newcomers, 3-2 was almost there, probably easier than 2-2, but 3-2 is really punishing if you die Ds1: depths this area starts out kinda challenging with the dogs and butchers, but then is mostly easy, as long as you avoid the curse, those 3 stronger rats with the trident guy and the giant rat can still kill you, but undead burg is harder for that point of the game, higher enemy density and enemies does a good amount of damage for being that point of the game, the red dragon too Ds2: aldia's keep, honestly, this area is a joke for how late onto the game it is, i guess the ogres can be challenging, but easy to ignore, and even then, they are easy if you play slowly, your pick at least has tougher side challenge and the enemies on the shrine are among the toughest of the game, even if it is only a few of them Bloodborne: same as you DS3: same as you Sekiro: same as you Elden ring: For the areas with the size of the castles: castle morne, is the earliest, but also the easiest, not really challenging, carian manor has the hands, which push it om dificulty, the uper part is not free either, thise weird wolfs are tough, the carian troll as you said and the pages, with their lethal crossbow Major legacy dungeon: midra's manse, this area is soo short and it quite literally has 2 tough enemies in the form of horneset warriors, i guess the room with like 9 freenzied rats can be challenging too, but the enemies are too easy for being late into the already late/post game based content that elden ring DLC is, midra's manse is the easiest of elden ring Aldia keep is the easiest overall

[@DarkKittens123]

The depths is crazy bro💀 the curse frogs alone make it harder than all areas from ds3 and sekiro combined

[@MeanBob_Games]

"youve forgot about the abandon dunbeon havent you? Theres an noc quest line here ive never done" You can imagine that people who did the questline remember the area right? Because you have to go back to it like 4 times and include another npc which leads to a relatively difficult encounter. Its still probably the easiest but its not that forgettable.

[@Loctorak]

In a strictly numerical, "cost vs reward" assessment, bloodborne really can only have one "area". It's not in the spirit of this list, but the entrance hallway in the cummmfpk chalice dungeon. Only place in the game where you can do as little as input to move forward, wait 7sec and then walk back to the lantern with 170,000+ more echoes than you had when you walked in. I challenge you to find a better reward to effort trade ratio in bloodborne. 😛 But I get that it doesn't count for a list like this. In truth it shouldn't count at all because the dungeon shouldn't _really_ be doing that... but it does! 😅 And for Elden Ring, can we consider the city of ash as an option for location. Thats just the tops of lleyendel, dunes of ashe and not a single enemy in sight until you leave to go to the sewers or to the elden throne.

[@stuartallen5649]

“Many of the areas early areas have little tricks or well designed enemy encounters” and I’m just here thinking or a massive fuck off tree sentinel 😂

[@Anonym-dg7xd]

I would throw hemwick charnel lanein for Bloodborne. Its straitht forward with normal 1 hit enemies as well as trolls. And the witches are an really easy boss especielly if you go there without insight

[@TheDexecutioner]

I think you'll find the easiest area of Dark Souls 3 is the run between the Dragonslayer armour and the next bonfire

[@BJWFenix]

Bloodborne wise : probably hemwick just because i always end up going there later and its already prety light just because the avg player is pretty good at regular enemy fighting even if the y go there after upper cathederal. it is quite long though.

[@KillaEnes]

Undead burg is the area that i die most in all souls games(ds1 is my first souls game)

[@alchemy5750]

Castle Ensis was so underwhelming it's honestly a shame. Not a single piece of unique content (besides the boss ofc). It was if like the staff threw an inside competition to create the area with the most basegame assets reused. Also the castle layout was probably the most boring in legacy dungeons. The main path only branched off a few times, and those were pretty short and straightforward.

[@Jojo-nq3bp]

the sekiro area you mention has som3 of the deadliest enemies if you do the questline

[@Sparkbomber]

Can't agree with the Profaned Capital being on here. It's pretty difficult compared to the Grand Archives.

[@TheHePoH]

I dunno about Caria Manor. My first playthrough I got my ass kicked so many times by the damn hands, any other playthrough I had a weapon with fire dmg and just mowed them down, especially easy with something like the Godslayer Greatsword, but for some reason because of my first playthrough I dread going there every fking time. Castle Mourne or Redmane Castle on the other hand are really easy, to be honest I even prefer Castle Sol or Shaded Castle to Caria manor.

[@nickferrant7269]

I don't see how Caria manor can be the easiest area when something like The Weeping Peninsula exists.

[@BillySYT]

Weeping Peninsula is a region. I was tempted to include Castle Morne, but legit I actually died more to the Misbegotten soldiers in the opening part of the level than I did to the fingercreepers at Caria Manor.

[@DrProfessorMD]

Oh dang, new video! Just finished the worst DLC boss rank. Noice.

[@AccursedHawk]

Who’s playing Black Myth Wukong right now?

[@etinarcadiaego7424]

I'll get Space Marine II first cause 40K

[@Lasagnabobby]

This isn’t a ranking. Its just a list of easiest levels from each games

[@Loctorak]

Rank can be used as a noun, a verb and even an adverb. In this context he is using the verb "rank" merely to indicate that he will be organising them. Besides, is that seriously something that would bother you? I wonder about the kind of person that clicks on a video like this and expects some sort of quantified ranking list with hours of research behind it. 🤔 i thought it was obvious that this isn't the kind of content that list videos usually are.

[@Plans32]

Wdym Caria manor😭😭 I hated that place, these hands where so exhausting

[@J_Heuseler]

Agree on Bloodborne

[@Eldan-l0rd]

jagged peak is the easiest if you don't care about fighting the dragons on your way to bayle. but castle ensis had my ass repeatedly handed to me on my first dlc playthrough

[@remigusker6024]

Surprised you didn't pick Hemwick Charnal Lane for Bloodborne. The area has literally zero threatening enemies, zero real environmental dangers unless you chose to consciously jump off a bridge, and a nigh literal joke boss.

[@MFD00MTR33]

I think untended graves in DS3 is the easiest.

[@G_UZI]

Undead burg is the most difficult video game area of all time

[@MagisterV224]

Raya lucaria academy is much easier than Caria Manor.

[@Flashstrike4]

Tbh if you had done the npc quest in sekiro and actually fought the two at the end you wouldn’t rank the area as the easiest in the game

[@Lasagnabobby]

18:05 NOOoo 😨 I DON’T FEEL COMFORTABLE 😰 I DON’T WANT TO FOLLOW YOUR TWITTER 😖 NO NO NOOO!! 😰😭

[@AtreyusNinja]

Aldias keep and the Place of scorpion Najka are the most ez of DS2, in aldia u have 2 Ez skippable ogres, they dont even follow u. In the Place before scorpion Najka there Is litrally NOTHING from the bonfire to the fog. How could u be that wrong man 😅

[@JH-dr4xo]

Am I sensing a little sass when discussing my baby Bloodborne?

[@pandsanthi9072]

If those are rhe easiest areas, then there is no easy area at all! In comparison to other games, all these places are hard

[@memberofchat2825]

you have a rainblow profile picture so your opinions dont matter

[@CahanDragon]

DeS - 1-2. Only dogs are dangerous here. DS1 - Hard disagree. There are Great Hollow and Ash Lake. Even Depths, Demon Ruins and Lost Izalith are easier than Undead Burg. DS2 - I agree with you. DS3 - I hate enemy density in Profane Capital - some rooms are brutal and gargoyles are one of the harder enemies. Road of Sacrifices is the easiest area in DS3. Second place goes to Crucifixion Woods. Bloodborne - I forgot about Lecture Hall, maybe because how easy it was. But I would never ranked Byrgenwerth as a second easiest. Enemies aren't the easiest. Cathedral Ward is the second easiest. Hug the giants and parry everything else. Sekiro - Abandoned Dungeon it is. Elden Ring - Caria Manor was really hard for me for some reason. The easiest area in Elden Ring is Belurat Tower Settlement. Like the only hard part are two horned warriors. Midra's Manse and Fort of Reprimand are also very easy. Even Enir Ilim is easier than Caria Manor. Outside of the DLC - Castle Sol.

[@CommanderCodyChipless]

Idk man... the firelink shrine, Nexes, Sculptor's home, and the hunters workshop are all pretty easy areas. I dont think I"ve ever died in those levels js

[@nioh2-ky8fr]

Bloodborne easiest area, hemick charnel lane, byrgenwerth has rom and a hunter npc, and lecture hall enemies are annoying, hemick is simiple in layout, no hard enemy and insight nerfs it