Can you Beat Dark Souls Without Walking? (Dark Souls CHALLENGE) 

"Don't get yourself killed. Neither of us wants to see you go hollow" *Proceeds to spam backstep away* "Good grief he's lost his mind"

This is possibly the only time ever the binoculars were a good starting gift...

And when we needed him the most: He stood there, and hit them with a giant sword.

Kyle decided that the next step to take in Dark Souls challenge running was to take no steps at all. (well, not counting the million backsteps I suppose). Reminds me of when I was a kid and my brother would constantly slam the controller into the wall every time he lost, until I was forced to play with a broken controller out of necessity.

I liked the part where you stood there and hit them with a giant sword

GiantDad's cousin - a different kind of intimidating. He just stands there...with a giant sword. Great to have you back! Cool to see how Stray was a brick wall for the run. Kinda wonder if the IronSkin pyromancy would've helped at all.

"It has a very limited amount of I-frames." Yes, the limit of 0

Gotta love this guy. Breaking out Dark Souls content in 2023 like a champ 🎉

Interesting note about the soft humanity from hollows: it's not a random chance. Killing certain enemies (usually humanoid ones) in an area, while the area boss is alive, accumulates "points". Once you reach specific thresholds, you gain a soft humanity point-but it's not infinite. Each humanity costs more "human points" than the last, and you can only get a maximum of *10* in a single area. You also stop gaining points once the area boss is dead. Not all areas have this mechanic, but generally, when you see hollows, you can gain humanity from them.

i feel like this is a new level of masochism in terms of souls challenges

Just a correction, the hollows don't have a "chance" of dropping humanities, they drop after a certain amount of kills. Illusory Wall has a video on that mechanic.

"Dark souls is a difficult game where you have to learn the boss's attacks and learn how to dodge them..." GamersWeekend: STANDING HERE I REALISE I CAN JUST HIT THEM WITH A GIANT SWORD

Gotta say, I find you, Ymfah, and The Backlogs to be my favorite challenge run RU-vidrs. You three always find ways to make your videos funny and interesting.

THANK YOU for not duping! Everyone comes up with challenges and then starts off with 6 million souls like it ain’t no thang

Someone has to teach these runners that you don't WALK up a ladder, you CLIMB it.

This challenge was by far the most painful challenge I've ever seen, I had a hard time watching it, thanks for that.

"Standing there and hitting them with a giant sword" Is usually my method of choice in any game ever(or any giant weapon). Glad to see its effectiveness featured in this run :)

This video was a joy to watch, 40 mins felt like 5 due to how interesting the problem solving was and all the unexpected obstacles you found and yet managed to overcome.

"How much do you want yourself to suffer?" :

I like to think that the undead is taking on all these challenges in order to not go hollow

"The game would be impossible without going up ladders" *Meanwhile: Ymfah*

Shouldn't had laught so hard when I realised you named your character Lt Dan😅 Glad you're back

Welcome back bro dark souls will forever be a masterpiece and in my opinion and if it's possible, dark souls is the best game ever made, or one of the best games ever made, I love it,

Just hold the run button, easy peasy

I really love your videos long time follower, i probably watched almost all od your ds 1 and ds2 videos i don't comment much but congrats on the 100k Keep doing a great job all my love man!

I’m happy you got the silver play button it’s weird to me how your channel isn’t so much bigger cause your content is great

This shows how good poise is in Dark Souls 1. Great video as always!

Just got here! already know that is going to be a great video!

Man, so happy to see another challenge run. Keep it up man :D Love it.

Solid music choices. Love the vid

I wish you luck on the next 897k subscribers. You're one of the best challenge runners I know of on RU-vid, so god knows you deserve such!

I can think of a dozen challenge ideas but this is the last thing I thought about as a challenge. keep up the great work man

I figured the hardest part of this would be not accidentally walking when redirecting your backstep (by inputting the backstep, then buffering an analog input opposite of the direction you want to go before the backstep comes out), but the “no left analog stick” part removed any fear of that. Doing absurd challenges like these are such a great excuse to keep playing this game. Cheers, keep up the great work! It’s always very entertaining.

i like the "we could do this" bits. It's like when Olmec would explain the routes in Legends of the Hidden Temple

Congrats on the 100k gamer it's well deserved!! You've come so far

Good to have you back man been missing your challenges ❤❤

Congrats on the 100k subs, makes my day happier to see another video from this amazing channel 💜

I loved how he stood there and hit them with a giant sword.

Bro that farming spot in the forest where you stand near the clif and the NPCs fall off the cliff is an underrated farming spot. Haven't seen any other Dark souls RU-vid's us that farming spot for some reason. Good to know someone's finally doing it. 15:31

You are crazy my friend, glad to see the channel js doing great!

Missed your content this last few months, such a good channel

Congrats on the 100k always s tier content. Curse of darkness music is a fine choice such an amazing soundtrack.

He discovered the secret to unlock everything. Next time someone asks how to solve a problem. Just say "Stay there, and hit it with a giant sword"

your videos are always amazing my guy

I hear the Super Smash Bros music in these videos and I am immediately sent back several years (easily over a decade at times) to my childhood and it's like being on a crazy roller-coaster X3

I had missed your vids in the time off but great vid man 💜

mann i literally squirmed at ur photo with the yt button, u look soo happy ily!

Looking forward to another great video :)

Awesome! a new challenge video!

OH YES! KYLE IS BACK \o/ Liked already, even if havent seen it. I know it will be that good.

The return of the king!

Man I’m so glad to see you back on RU-vid.

Was kind of expecting you to use tokhi bombs for Bed of Chaos. Seems like the perfect run for that strat.

Congrats on 100k mate. You deserve it :)

Got to respect the effort to put yourself through this hell. I would have walked away hours ago.

been having a rough time of it lately, thanks for making me smile today Kyle.

Another amazing video!

missed the ds1 challenges welcome back

15:09 can't believe you skimmed over how it floats down

I just beat dark souls 1 for the first time yesterday so this is such a nice treat right after :D! Made myself some tea, got all cozy and about to watch this

heeey ! glad to see you back ! also, congrats for the 100k ! well deserved :)

Return of the legend

really good demonstration of the power of tanking hits

Yaaayyy love the vids mate, ❤🎉

My first video im seeing from you. Very impressive run, slick editing and music choice, and very effective storytelling, though maybe feel free to add some one liners here and there or something. Overall, very good stuff, keep it up ^.^

I remember when GamersWeekend first employed the generation defining strategy "Stood there and hit them with a giant sword". It cured my ovarian cancer, and I'm a guy. What a magical moment.

I'm not sure how useful it would have been, but the Uchigatana's two handed strong attack tends to fling you forwards on slopes quite consistently. May have been useful to reach the Asylum revisit,

You should do great shield only next

Nice job on 100k my boy

Every journey begins with the first step... but little did they know.

Return of the King.

The goat returns!

Congratulations on 100k

Good job on 100k!

Straight up thought this guy had a mil subs anyway congrats on 100k

This is why this game stands as one of the greatest of all time, over a decade old and people still find ways (as crazy as they can get) to creatively complete the game again

Yooo a new dark souls challenge nice

3:09 lmao, the bodies!

LMFAO from only using magic to beating the game without walking. Ymfah's blessing clearly resonates within you

I hope you continue Dark Souls 3 playthrough since i want to see what challenge runs you going to make in that game and of course i want to see you play bloodborne and Sekiro as well

"Stand there and hit him with a giant sword" is my preferred method of playing DS3, where enemy poise doesn't exist, and player poise is busted

Finally! Content!

In a game where movement's seen as king, tanking damage standing still and waving a massive sword around is surprisingly effective

Being this early is a strange feeling

For those who are struggling with Anor Londo archers at 28:31 mark ledge you can quit out to lose agro of both and upon returning to game only one on right will agro on you making it easier to deal with. After passing through those demons quickly quit out.

Congrats! 100.000

This gotta be in my top 5 favorite runs, maybe even top 3.

"We stood there, and hit them with a giant sword. We stood there and hit them with giant arrows" is my usual playstyle anyway. About the moving left and right, Ive played so many old games that dont allow you to anyway, so Ive never not known how powerful it is to have freedom of movement. This is one challenge I will never do if it causes literal headaches. I have chronic migraines, so that would be killer on me.

Thou art a true masochist and I salute you for it.

yesssssss finally back

This reminds me a lot of when I played this game without using the right stick, thanks for reminding me that I made the right choice.

I think I’m getting headache, THANKS KYLE

Welcome back Kyle! We missed you! 😊

Great video! I'm sure the bed of chaos cheese with firebombs was off the table when you didn't do it for capra, but I thought I remembered a _long_ time ago seeing a video of someone snipping the bed of chaos with the bow from the entry ramp? maybe the remaster fixed that (or maybe it was a dream who knows lol)

"He just stands there, menacingly!"

"We stood there and hit them with the giant sword" - basically ds1 guide

dude, that was awesome!

You making to asylum was pretty neat and awesome

Your skill level is amazing. Even after beating all soulsborne games multiple times, i cant beat most bosses first try. And you casually beat artorias first try without walking 😮

Drake Sword and Zweihander is some real first playthrough nostalgia lmao