Beating Dark Souls 2 by Increasingly Stupid Means 

Thanks once again to the exterminator squad for helping me greatly with a particular zone in this video. I literally would not have played the game if it weren't for people willing to help me defeat that area. If we missed any items there, they are forever lost now haha

I’ve seen plenty of people beat the Prowling Magus & Congregation fight, but I’ve never seen anyone outnumber him.

Sellsword Luet only has shields because he sold his sword, obviously.

I love how they invaded him since he wasn’t summoning anyone 😂

Jack Horner is basically the equivalent of if Luigi was in Dark Souls since he can win any fight by doing absolutely nothing

The cast of recurring summons is becoming one of my favorite bits

Be glad you didn't open the chest in tseldora Dan , if you open it the entire arena is SWARMED by spiders

I like how he still haven’t realized he is in a covenant that helps other people and summons him to their world when they need it

I love all the people just going a little bit ahead of him to plop down their sign. it's like they're relentless salesmen just chasing him like "BUY MY HELP! I'LL BE SUCH A GREAT HELP TO YOU!"

RT hiding in a corner as the horrid sounds of three people smashing a spider in the background made that a LOT more horric than it actually was

Think this is the first time I seen someone defeat congregation with three summons, It's like watching four people fight pinwheel, which humiliates that boss even more. Also I'm proud of the Spider Elimination Squad, they did an amazing job.

man so happy he made it to the first area of the game, so proud

For clarification the “Getting summoned as a grey spirit” is a covenant thing similiar to the Farron Watchdogs from Ds3. But the goal is to traverse the area and not die, while the the other player and enemies in the level try to stop you.

The section of killing the prowling magus and congregation with three white phantoms is so insanely funny. It's like finding a rat in your house and dropping a nuke on it to kill it

9:28 RT is just trying to make it through, but Beckett is too dummy thicc and the clap of his cheeks alerted the entire area.

I know you probably won’t see this Dan; but I really hope things have gotten better with the RU-vid algorithm and your vids. Your Internet personality means a lot to me and gives me joy every week. I know I do not know you but it means a lot to me that people like you are out there giving out the gift of laughter for all of us. Take care of yourself first and know that if you ever have to take a step back we will still be here for you when you get back.

23:51 As a Splatoon fan I can confirm that this area is the dark souls of Splatoon, just needs a couple giant crabs with guns, a guy with a giant paintbrush, and a vacuum cleaner.

Hey RT, heads up! Stardust armor is great for increasing your summon count (if you get a full set you can get a neat guardian summon). You can get it after defeating the lunar pillars event and the moon lord. It really helps out for summoners

Was really wholesome seeing complete strangers help clear out the spiders for Dan because he has a phobia, that entire area made me really really uncomfortable during my playthrough.

Shoutout to RT and the Summon Gang for giving us a truly RU-vid experience. 🙌

its quite amusing Dan screaming for his life staring at a wall while the whole team of 8 or so takes care of the spiders, funny thing is i am a arachnophobe but not for video game spiders only the real life ones xD

Fun fact the bug that runs into the Lost Sinner's mask is a scaled-down version of the Bed of Chaos.

With all of the unique people RT summons, it sometimes feels like he is a side character in his own playthrough

It is just so wholesome that everybody reacts so understanding to the whole spider thing, I personally love spiders but I get that the whole ‘they are more afraid of you than you are of them, is annoying. So shout out to the team That helped Dan.

"why do they throw 7 guys at me!" proceeds to through his own 3 guys at the enemy so he doesn't deal with spiders

At this point RT just has a gang of thugs to beat the bosses for him; RT is just their leader pointing the way forward for the squad to absolutely *RU-vid* everything to fine dust...or die trying

Hey, if you’re still wondering, basically the whole Gray Spirit thing is a mechanic where you’ll be summoned to try and get to a certain point while the host attempts to kill you. No consequences if you lose, but a lil reward if you succeed. (Requires the host to have a certain covenant ring gotten from an NPC.)

Love fight nightmarish demons while listening to ink me up by the squid sisters My favorite pass time 25:08-25:25 is inkomig! 25:28-25:55 Is ink or sink 25:56-26:50 Is anarchy rainbow 26:51-27:10 is ink me up I know too much about this series

For anyone confused by Dan being summoned as a gray spirit and what that even means and if it's coop or PvP or whatever: The 2 areas where it happened are areas owned by the Rat King Covenant. If you're a member, the enemies there won't attack you. In addition, while a member is in one of those areas, they can randomly pull players who are playing through those areas themselves into their worlds as gray spirits. These gray spirits spawn at the start of the area, and the enemies are aggressive to them. The rat areas also have lots of Pharros Lockstone contraptions that turn on traps or open up bridges, doors and similar. Essentially, by turning on different contraptions, the covenent member can customize their own little obstacle course for gray spirits to be thrown into. As a gray spirit, you win by either getting to the end of the area or killing the covenent member that summoned you in PvP combat. If you do win as a gray spirit, you get teleported to the end of the area in your world, essentially skipping the area for you, and if you die, you don't lose anything, getting sent back to where you were in your world. Being a Rat King basically means you turn your world into a PvP obstacle course minigame that other people get thrown into, that they can opt out of it by using the Black Seperation Crystal to leave your world, and if they win, they get to skip straight to the boss.

If you dont know, that +10 armor someone gave you you can get over at the same place with the old orenstein fight, you have to kill those enemies in white cloaks. ( if you try to get it, just know you're in for a lot of farming, so you should have probably kept it just in case.)

From what I hear it was the Scholar of the First Sin edition that added a bunch more enemies and those petrified statues that block you from getting to places. SotFS was the version I played and although there were parts I didn't like I mostly enjoyed the game, however I feel like I would've enjoyed the original version more as my first attempt at the game.

Not usually one who needs to be pandered to with trigger warnings and such but the warnings for spiders was awesome to enable me to sleep tonight

Summons a guard squad to fight spiders, uses it to kill the easiest boss in the game

Whenever he ran past the first bonfire in the black gulch I literally screamed and the relief I felt a moment later was profound

Lucatiel: "I can't remember the face of my own family" RT's Music: 🦑🎸🎶

Funnily enough him blaming miyazaki for the number of enemies in scholar of the first sin is 100% accurate as itz the version miyazaki made to "fix" ds2

The day he reaches Frigid Outskirts is the day he realises we were all trying to warn him

So fun fact about the giants in the Black Gulch. There's normally only 2 of them but another one spawns for each summon you have.

fun fact, not a lot of people know but that door is an actual usable shortcut, you can jump (or rather run) to it from outside. 8:51

Good news, you can get lucatiel's armor (and benharts,dude with the blue sword) The only requirement is that they are summoned for, and survive 3 bossfights, it can be the same boss three times(you can put an area one NG+ cycle higher with a bonfire aescetic, doing so in an area containing a boss also respawns the boss.) Both will move to their final location after, and give you their entire set, also, i believe there is a version of lucatiel's hat without the mask, somewhere in one of the DLCs

25:30 "My memories are fading... oldest first" **Epic Guitar Solo**

It's funny to me that RT invokes Miyazaki's name when talking about the design (I get that it's for a joke), when Miyazaki had little to nothing to do with this game as he was all hands on deck on working on Bloodborne at that time. I just find it a bit ironic

The chat creating a squad to kills spiders so that Dan doesn't have to look at them was pretty wholesome.

This time he should have called it Big Sword Adventure

Everyone's kindness is so heartwarming

18:09 thank you very much for putting that there Dan. im terrified of spiders and its very helpful.

Such a blast watching you play through Dark Souls II Got nothin witty to say so all I got is praise!

i have not watched this channel in so long i forgot how good this channel actually is

One other thing I'd like to mention is that a few of my friends are arachnophobes and personally I used to be one aswell but with so many games containing spooders I started to overcome it because I changed my thought process by realising that I could unlife the spooders in the game which helped me realise that they aren't that scary. Since then I've become an avid fan of some youtubers that collect big spooders and tarantulas. Food for thought.

This is one of my top Fromsoft games for playtime and I’ve literally never seen 7:29 that attack 😂

When it comes to storytelling, DS2 is my favorite of the trilogy. The armor choices, only game with armor upgrades (really want it in Elden Ring), unique armor stats and passive abilities, the unique bosses like Fume Knight or Aldia, and so much more different that DS2 did is why its my favorite apart from the enemy density of course and cheap deaths that can happen.

So glad part 2 is here Daniel! Absolutely thankful Love the soulsborne game and stupid means to beat them!

It’s really nice to see a sequel (kinda) to my favorite RT video

Great ds playthrough vids man! Very much enjoying the clips. I know this vid is a few weeks old, so this might be irrelevant (especially if you've learned since then), but just in case I have some random info for ya. You're getting summoned as a grey spirit because of the areas you ran through. Basically you can invest in traps in the rat areas and pull people into your world when they enter the rat Covenant areas in their worlds. If they make it to the end or kill you, they get rewarded. If you kill them, you get rewards towards covenant devotion. If I remember right, Miazaki and his primary team were working on Bloodborne while this game was in development, which is part of why it feels like it stands apart from other souls titles. I can't fully remember when, but roughly around or after the DLC dropped there was a massive overhaul to the game. A lot of enemies and items were moved around. I could be wrong, but I want to say things got overall harder. This title is certainly the weakest within the soulsborne games, but it'll always hold a special place in my heart. Keep in mind it was on the xb360 era when the only other souls games were ds1 and demon souls. It's far from perfect and it hasn't aged the best, but it's nice to see you still giving it a shot. Plus, despite all the flaws I did really like the bonfire ascetic feature and all the options for weapons/armors.

Ahh the Black Gulch, the only time in ANY of the soulsborne games that I've broken a controller... good Times

I appreciate the other people being total bros and killing that spider boss for Dan

17:33 This small Godot-bit is one of the funniest things I've seen in a while

For someone named Negative Beckett, they were too wholesome...

All the summons waiting to go through the fog wall for the spider looked so fricken epic

rt not knowing that he got the hardmode version of ds2 is very funny

Prowling Magus be like: "Wait, what? I'm the one who's supposed to have a crowd on my side, what the RU-vid is this?"

I do laugh when RT talks about how they increased the number of enemies to make it harder when hes playing Scholar of the First Sin, a version of DS2 designed to be significantly harder XD

I literally just watched the first ds2 vid, and now this dropped? I love it.

I think the fact that everyone bands together to help Dan with the spiders is very sweet

Thanks to you, I'm getting into the souls series. Your elden ring video got me to play it and seeing this and your other souls videos I'm in blood borne and just got souls 1 and 3. Thanks for all the game times.

3:05 "he's meant to be a boss later you aren't supposed to beat him here." Says who? If you weren't supposed to beat him there then they wouldn't have let you. he would have run away at half hp or something.

Fun Fact: Scholar of the First Sin edition enemy numbers sucks! That thing you were talking about with there being way too many enemies? Yeah in the original release of the game the enemy numbers were actually a regular, *sane* amount, but for the Scholar of the First Sin edition they had the brilliant idea of "What if we just TRIPLED the enemy count of every level?" The absolute worst of it is in Earthen Peak and Iron Keep. I like most of the other changes this version made to the game like more unique NPC summons and invaders, new shortcuts, and remixed item placements. But I have NO IDEA what they were smoking at From headquarters when they decided on the new enemy numbers.

I love how RT was talking like the developers were asking Miyazaki for advice on how to make the game more difficult by adding more enemies, when Miyazaki was too busy making Bloodborne to have any input on DS2's development. Great video RTGame :3

Loving all the videos you're putting out lately, especially Grommit and Wallace.

16:39 that would be an interesting game mechanic. you escort an NPC with arachnophobia through a spider area. none of the spiders are actually deadly or anything, but you have to navigate the NPC in such a way that they never see one or they'll run all the way back to the entrance

Dan has a horrible fear of spiders? Guess I'll never see him play an EDF game :(

*Kills Ruin Sentinels with a Greatsword +5* "That really wasn't that bad." LMAO

Thank you rt for the new content!

"As we can see, RT has presented a rather large sword to his friend (s)"

Dan: fighting hordes of enemies and near death Rainbow Anarchy: WE JAMMIN UP IN HERE

4:29 Glad you asked! It's because Dark Souls 2 decided that their game needed snap points in the stick movement. If you move the stick too close to an increment in your stick's 360 movement, then your character will snap to that direction. It seems that speed has an effect on this, as running tends to snap you more easily to a direction. Another note is the game physics. It can be wonky at times, and when you intend to just drop off a platform, the physics could instead decide to just shoot you out into the direction you were going. But only sometimes.

Was waiting for this video to drop, finally!

5:55 I love how nobody even brings up John Wick 2, because Derek Bum is definitely his most influential role.

This is perfect timing for these videos to come out. I just beat DS2 yesterday for the first time

“In this game in particular, it feels like there’s a lot of times where they make the player fight like 4 enemies at once.” Yeah. Welcome to Dark Souls 2. That’s the reason people hate this one.

I just had my wisdom teeth pulled, these videos have preserved my sanity while I'm just sitting around with my face hurting. Thank you rtgame

Love DkS2 with a passion; but man, Sotfs really did just bloat those encounters to silly degrees lol

The fact that I could name all of the Splatoon music he used just from the snippets in the video really says a lot about me.

Was NOT expecting splatoon music to randomly play in the middle of a dark souls 2 playthrough however it is very much welcome

I didn't find out until after I'd beaten all 3 Lucatiel bosses about her. So I went back and used Bonfire Ascetics to redo those fights with her. Mistake since I did it twice against The Rotten, keeping her alive against NG++ Rotten was painful.

Just occurred to me that the reason everyone I've summoned in DS2 lately has immediately despawned is because they all want to be part of the RT gang.

Beckett looks like medium jack horner

You might be able to get a second greatsword by using a bonfire esthetic in the area where you got the first one.

It brings me joy hearing the ADP memes from way back

Hey Dan, fun fact that the enemies only have 15 respawns... unless you enable hard mode. When I first played this I made sure to light every single torch or sconce I could. Really livens up the place. On PC you can light torches using an already lit torch in the environment, a firefly in a jar item, or by cycling the options at a bonfire. Also poise damage is a thing you can deal.

idk i really liked ds2 though. it's the only one i tolerated enough to do solo, and the most graphically satisfying to me. i loved the cpu summons too, they had so much personality! i do think it's the lesser of all the dark souls but it doesn't mean it's bad. it's also the game where i had the best player interactions, shout out to that clown guy just watching me get destroyed by the mobs, politely waiting for his turn to wreck my shit. love ya homie

16:20 Cloé is an absolute RU-vid of a lass for this. Thank you

6:00 Peter Serafinowicz??!! He also plays AJ Crowley in the Good Omens radio drama adaptation. And yes, it follows him there too. Book fans do know him as the kitchen gun Crowley guy.

I am loving this series

Beckett looks like a scuffed attempt at drawing Big Jack Horner

"Summoning against their will." Did nobody tell him, or did he just never read the chat messages about it? (To anyone unfamiliar, he's in the Bell Covenant, which summons defenders to any affiliated areas when people try to go through them. But only if they have the covenant on.)

I'm extremely excited to see you eat a physical copy of the game after finishing it

Big ups Dark Souls II! Love the video man.

that barrel smack through the wall in FotFG actually surprised me, I was always convinced they weren't loaded

Hearing the Splatoon music made me happy, as I love that franchise a lot! I wonder what RT would think of it given the whole Kirby lore thing