The RP aspect you added with the targeted + avoided enemy types and the covenants you allowed yourself made this really interesting. Usually "beating dark souls as X" only goes as deep as the equipment. Great vid!
Thanks so much bud! I’ve been really enjoying your videos myself recently and really vibe with your humor and general positivity! Appreciate the kind words and happy to know that I could make a video you like since I like yours!
Fun fact! You can save Solaire without joining the Daughters of Chaos. If you center yourself on the door in the shortcut hallway and use the two-handed heavy attack of most dragon weapons, it will pass through the door and kill the chaos bug that turns Solaire hollow.
@@redfoxrpg Maybe it's too soon to ask, but now I would like a series of you beating the game as other characters. Particularly Artorias for obvious reasons.
@@joaohenriqueneuhaus2023 oh yeah, that was always the plan: next is Smough, then Gwyndolin and Iron Golem, and from there I plan to either do the rest of DS1 with Artorias and Gwyn on the Remaster or move into DS2 and 3
Thanks for the sub homie! A couple of people have said something like that and I’m totally honored, Lemon is an awesome guy and I love his vids, so I’m happy to bring that enjoyment to others!
Nice cosplay enjoyed watching it! Just to add a few things: 1. do not consider the Iron Golem your ally. Sens ("War" in Kenji) fortress belonged to the Nameless King and was probably used as a proving ground for knights so it's actually meant to be killed by you as Ornstein since he is just a training tool. BUT: it's not visualized, but it seems you killed the fire bomb throwing giant which is an ally and a kin to you (or at least servants of Gwyn). 2. saving the pyro was a mistake. He is after the chaos pyro powers - which was the very thing your boss was waging war against 3. The Fair Lady is not the last daughter of Izalith. You can meet Queelana in DS1 in person (well, not in this run, but you can) 1 hollowed daughter attacks you at the Kirk invasion spot and you meet 2 others when dealing with the Bed of Chaos. 4. no reason to kill the black knight in the Asylum just grab the doll and warp out.
For the Iron Golem, that’s good to know, and makes that fight more “lore friendly”. For the Fire Bomb Giant, when I approached him, he physically attacked me, so he unfortunately had to be put down. For Laurentius, I tried not to use foreknowledge when roleplaying, or else I would’ve killed Lautrec immediately rather than let him kill Anastacia. Since Ornstein wouldn’t have known he was after the Chaos Pyromancy, he would’ve help the seemingly innocent man. For the Fair Lady, yeah I realized that after I said it but honestly couldn’t be bothered to fix lol, you meet like 3 other daughters of Izalith after her. For the Black Knight, it was a similar situation that, rather than simply running past, I would’ve had to maneuver around and then warp away to not get attacked, which I took a little more seriously than just having to run past someone along a path, but ultimately my not killing Gwyn aligned NPCs is up to you guys for whether I passed or failed
0:30 - If you want a more casual and chill run after some hard times, a Hollow Soldier run ir's something. It can show how any Hollow can surpass everything and become the Dark Lord just if don't stay stationary in one place as a rebel or bored soldier or whatever background like that. A Balder Knigth it's also an option. But I don't know how to roleplay that, I don't know what they are doing here and there.
I’m glad to hear that it was entertaining! And yeah, the RP was an important part for me since it’s kinda boring to just beat a game with certain equipment lol
Good catch! Thanks for your support, and I’ll definitely be doing the Remastered version for a couple runs in the future and doing the entire DLC for two certain special boss cosplay runs I have in mind
Fun fact the titanite demon is not actually a demon according to the lore a demon must be born of the chaos flame or have originated from it in some way to be a demon but the titanite demon was made by the blacksmith god
Oh yeah! That’s why all their heads are cut off supposedly, because it was the face of the Blacksmith God’s. Eh, I’m sure there was something else I missed, but you’re absolutely right
@@redfoxrpg there is also the matter that the batwing demons in anor londo are legit demons but they work for gwyn because he stole them from izalith during his last war with the demons so im not sure if they are truly friends or enemies because on one hand they are demons but on the other they stayed loyal as ferrymen for the gods the whole series
Nice vid he is my favourite character, and I really like the story commentary, it makes the video a lot more enjoyable than other challenge runs, and reminds me a lot of a video from the backlogs.
Thanks! I always liked Ornstein, but this video really gave me a new appreciation for him, and yeah, I love doing the story stuff since it makes the character run more than just some equipment and weapons! Also, I think it’s awesome that my video reminds you of Lemon, his videos are what I aspire to!
Yeah, based on my first run through on NG when I could get the gear, it wasn’t really that bad, but this run on NG+ was actually a solid challenge from O&S and beyond (early game wasn’t that bad)
you’re my favorite kind of souls youtuber the RP was awesome and i’ve always thought about doing these challenges. Awesome run man and keep it up❤️ you get my big fat SUB
Thanks Casey, every sub and view means a lot to me, and I’m glad you enjoy the idea, because I plan to do an RP run for every boss in every Dark Souls game and Elden Ring, and maybe even every NPC I can too!
Absolutely my homie, I wanna do the rest of the people on the poll, so Smough, Iron Golem and Gwyndolin, Dark Souls 2 Boss runs, Dark Souls 3, and even eventually Elden Ring!
I really hope you keep making these video challenges they are incredibly entertaining.I hope you cosplay as other bosses or npcs in these games,i'd like to see if you can beat the game as something like patches or solaire.
Aw thank bud! That really means a lot to me! It was kinda difficult since he doesn’t have any spoken lines, but I tried to research his character before going in
Just recently got into the dark souls and loved this video of yours! Think you can do others in the same line, maybe beating the game as Solaire or something? I really enjoyed this one!
Welcome to Dark Souls bud, glad you’re a fan of the series, and my video! You can definitely expect to see a ton more of these runs in the future, with bosses and NPCs from all the Souls games
Same, I’ve got an overactive imagination and challenge runs of games I like are just engaging enough to focus my attention but without keeping me awake
You inspired me, and now I hate you. I've developed a cosplay run, I have to pick a potential Chosen Undead and beat the game as them, then then I have to beat it on NG+ as a new chosen undead, and I have to keep going until I run out of chosen undead candidates. I'm currently on NG Crestfallen Warrior. Next Comes Oscar on NG+ Then Solaire as NG++ So on and so forth. This is hard because I'm just a lightning bolt spamming, Zweihander Slamming filthy casual and now I have to get gud. If you like Cosplay runs, then I'd love to see you do such a run!
Damn, that sounds awesome! See which one can get the furthest! I definitely either wanna do this or something like it as a challenge one day, good idea!
i don’t know if you’re into elden ring but i’d say as a veteran of the souls titles two of my favorite bosses of all time is Hoarah Loux and Godrick the Grafted would be super cool cosplay runs!
Absolutely! I’m currently doing a blind first time playthrough of Elden Ring and I just beat Radagon’s Red Wolf in Raya Lucaria, so as soon as I beat Elden Ring, I’ll be starting RP runs
Thanks homie! Sure, I think it was either Warrior for higher strength and dex or Knight for higher faith, either one should work and get you a good start on your stats
@@redfoxrpg it was just a joke, once you see all the requirements and limitations, yeah it's not that easy. It's like using a holy weapon in the last half of elden ring when all of the bosses have holy damage negation
His Heavy Lightning Spear is literally the miracle animation and I didn't need the summons, it was part of the challenge, but thank you for watching and commenting, it helps to get my videos out there!
For Ornstein, he’d probably understand the idea of it, that they only locked her away because they were afraid of trying to deal with her, but for the Smough run I just finished recording, all he’d likely know is that she was sealed away and that he doesn’t know any better than the gods that did it, so she’s safe this time around
@@redfoxrpg Awesome, I literally only picked up Dark Souls as a series less than a week ago, and with Ornstein's armor and spear in hand I had the idea to do this exact thing, so I looked it up and found your channel! I loved this video and how in character you got with it (and all your creative ways of calling yourself and all your friends the moral harbingers of justice and all your enemies as intrinsically evil devil spawn lol), but in my first playthrough I could not kill Priscilla. She was the only boss nice to me, a huge feat considering I broke into her house and killed her pet dragon.
Yeah, I wanted to do the RP because any human or undead that was strong enough could’ve used his equipment and beaten the game, but I wanted this to be as close to actually being Ornstein short of playing as the boss as possible
Thanks homie, and yeah I totally get it. Such a fun game to play, the lore goes hard, and every entry in the series, at least in my opinion, is a banger, something increasingly difficult to do in today’s gaming industry
Miracles are just how humans/undead replicate the powers of the gods, the lightning spear miracle looks like the lightning spears used by the Silver Knights with Gwyn in the intro cutscene and the animation of the miracle looks the exact same as Ornstein’s Heavy Lightning Spear attack
I done dlc too, I recently bought the remastered edition because the last I played dark souls was on ps3, went back to it and decided to do one of my favourite characters.
There are mods that allow you to control an enemy. You would have this enemies hitboxes, attacks, etc. and since Ornstein is bigger than the player you would not fit through small hallways, making this run impossible.
The Zweihander’s really good! Not sure how much it would benefit from the Leo Ring, but I used the Dragonslayer armor and Zweihander for my first playthrough as well
The fire sage is weird it’s usually an easy fight but I’ve had a few runs were the ai becomes really hard and just keeps spamming those bombs making it nearly impossible to do physical damage like every time you get behind it it bombs you from the front
@@redfoxrpg i just fought the hellkite drake last night and i swear it was buged damn thing spamed fire the entire time couldn’t get one hit off before getting staggered by fire i had to kill it with the great bow luckily i had all the fire defense so I could just sit there and take it
I would of watched the rest of this but the way you killed the hellkite drake was so shameful, ornstain would never do something so cowardly and would fight head on
Unfortunately, while I was playing the OG Dark Souls 360 version, it’s a transfer from the 360 to the Series X I was playing on lol, would’ve been cool to do the run on the 360 tho
@@redfoxrpg First of all, how nice of you to comment! :) second, because I can't really mod the game due to lack of knowledge and modding compitance what I did was use the regular spear and didn't really struggle with any boss since I didn't adhere to realistic leveling and just leveled whatever I wanted and as much as I wanted so I kinda curcumvented that whole issue 😂 but after I defeated o&s I ascended the spear making it the dragonslayer spear and got his very overly priced armour but to answer your question; I think it was gwyn that gave me the most trouble, I always seem to struggle with him the most whenever I revisit the game, which I for one find actually quite fitting! Overall I would say I enjoyed doing it a lot, and I have to planed challenges I am excited to try out which I will tell you about in a somewhat hope that you might make a video out of it as well which are my ds3 moonlight greatsword where I plan to get it early and see how it goes beating the game with it and my other plan is also in ds3 where I plan to only level luck and vitality, I think a luck based run would be interesting and I've heard it increases blood and poison buildup making it decidedly not completely useless! And I would level vitality a little because I'm not a complete sadist ;3 Sadly I won't be home for another two days so it will take a while to get started but if one or both of those runs seem the slightest bit intriguing I would be very honoured if you chose to make a video out of them :) no pressure of course!
@@mightbemolin8153 I feel your pain about not being able to mod, I had to spend half a week beating the game normally first and making sure to get Ornstein’s gear for the run only to have to beat the game on NG+ for the challenge! Also, yeah, Gwyn was easily the second hardest for me (more time spent attempting S&O, more attempts on Gwyn) and would’ve been practically impossible for had I not parried lol, as for the challenges, they sound very interesting and could be fun to do after I run the gauntlet of boss cosplay runs!
@@redfoxrpg Yeah, and the thing that confuses me the mpst is that I had gotten modding to work but then it suddenly stopped working and don't know why.. Anyway! I didn't know you were doing a whole boss gauntlet! That is really cool and I really want to see those videos when they come out! Definitely making sure I'm subscribed with the bell turned on if I'm not already!
Where did you get that Gwyn & knights lost the war with demons ? They did not, demons were contained in Izalith, and some were forced to serve Gwyn (winged demons).
Straight from Gwyn’s wiki page: “During the war their armor and weapons were charred black but despite their strength Gwyn's knights failed to defeat the demons or the Bed of Chaos, ending up retreating and only managing to banish the demons underground while also enslaving some lesser demons who would become servants of the gods.” Not only did they get charred in the war, but rather than actually beating them, they had to settle for sealing them off because they couldn’t win against them.
@@redfoxrpg They failed to defeat is not equal to lost the war. Plus, they banished demons underground (Izalith) and forced some demons to serve the gods. In other words, they did win, but it was conditional victory. There is also cut dialogue for Quelaag where she says that creatures of Chaos accept their banished fate, and mentions some Pact (presumably with Gwyn) which bans undead to enter demon's domain but also bans demons from exiting it.
Wouldn't have Ornstein, in-character, face the Artorias of the Abyss DLC? His companions are there, Ornstein would surely mercy kill Artorias and defeat Manus and Kalameet if given the chance; with the Santuary Guardian receiving the same treatment as the Gargoyles and Iron Golem. I still throughly enjoyed the video, but I'm curious in that regard
Oh yeah, you’re 100% correct: Manus is easily a huge issue for Ornstein, Artorias would’ve been a mercy kill, and Kalameet would be a perfect final dragon, but unfortunately for this run I was using the Xbox 360 version of Dark Souls and the DLC is no longer available for purchase, so while I might do a small DLC run for Ornstein in the future to finish off the DLC bosses, the reason I didn’t do the DLC this time around was entirely a me problem lol
for Priscilla, wouldnt ornstein let her live after knowing she was a pacifist (unless attacked) and she posed no threat to anor londo? , i mean after all, if gywn really wanted to, he would have killed her, or ordered someone to do it
It’s my understanding from the lore (most of which being up to interpretation) that she was banished to the Painted World because Gwyn and the gods feared the power of the Lifehunt Scythe, one of the only things powerful enough to actually kill them. While Ornstein would certainly slay her with a heavy heart due to her not wanting to harm anyone, I personally believe he would still kill her given the chance due to A) the threat she presents and the desire of the gods for her to be destroyed and B) her half dragon nature
For this run, I was playing on OG Dark Souls for the Xbox 360, and I unfortunately don’t have the DLC (which is no longer available). Some runs in the future will be on the Remastered version and will include the DLC
His Heavy Lightning Spear attack is basically the Lightning Spear miracle (same animation and effect, just from his spear and not a talisman) and in the lore he 100% can use Lightning Spear as even in the opening cutscene we see an army of fodder Silver Knights do it, so it’s okay
Absolutely, I’ll probably use a combination of two-handed, left handed and right handed since he occasionally two hands his blade, is left-handed naturally, and wields it in his right hand when we fight him due to his broken arm
@@DFFfanalltheway I’ll use the shield for a portion and will try to use all of the Artorias Swords and equipment, I’ll have a more organized ruleset for it down the line
Ornstein is a woman you can see how the armor curves around the chest and also just has a feminine figure with a skinny waist and large hips and so many people think she's a dude
Quick, someone tell Miyazaki he misgendered Ornstein in the armor set description! “Armor of the dragonslayer Ornstein, who guards the cathedral in the forsaken city of Anor Londo. Ornstein is believed to be the captain of the Four Knights. *His* golden lion helm is imbued with the power of lightning and should provide good protection against it.”
It's on the OG Xbox360 version where the DLC is no longer available for purchase, so I couldn't do the DLC in this run, but for the eventual Artorias and Gwyn runs, I'll be doing those on the Remastered version and I'll be completing all DLC bosses as well
Nah, it’s just that I’m playing OG Dark Souls on the Xbox, so the DLC is no longer available for purchase. I’ll do some runs in the future on the Remastered version and do all the DLC as well
No problem my good sir,now if you don't mind:can you best dark souls 3 as the Abyss watchers? It's L1 when two handed makes a combo and helped me best deacons first time
Why should you beat DS as ornstein, if you can beat it fist only? The question in the title is very obsolete and thats why i havent clicked yet on this video since now
People have beat the game SL 1 with only the broken sword and with all enemies as Gwyn, if that’s possible, there is practically no challenge more difficult than those, making all challenges runs from those videos on obsolete by that logic, but I’m glad you watched and commented, it helps to boost algorithm attention for the video so that more people can see and enjoy it
It’s a little confusing, but his leaving can be interpreted in either two ways: he left and sacrificed his life to continue the Age of Fire and save his civilization and people or he selfishly used his soul to stop the end of the Age of Fire to stop humanity from taking the world from his people and children, abandoning his people in the process.
@@redfoxrpgalr that is good. Don’t want to spoil the game. I am actually subscribed to that other RU-vidr. He does a lot of runs similar to that one also just subbed to your channel.
Nono, you’re right, I messed up there and I appreciate you saying something, someone else pointed it out as well and I was kicking myself because I knew something about that didn’t feel right while recording audio