Dark Souls: 219 Discoveries 

I hit my boy up, paladin Leroy and I asked him how he felt about this, and he said "liar"

Have YOU seen Pinwheel's second phase? No? THEN IT COUNTS. yes, this is a joke

The only way to see the second phase is to go in kick only with the orange charred ring

redditors need to be hanged

I wish they made him a lot harder, his boss theme is one of my favourites

Throws carving: *very good*

Eingyi does too btw

For real, did the devs make Andre this strong on purpose? I have to wonder why.

@@authenticbaguette6673 it’s because he’s buff

@@authenticbaguette6673 probably because he is an important npc and they want you to have time to reconsider giving oscar a visit rather than having him just die before you get a chance

Has to be done

I know dark souls came first but Man-Eater Boars: *first time?*

i can never catch them when i run after them

That was very cool.

Nah he used an emote or something that lowers the character position and just stood up

YES, UNDEADS CAN XIT

Expert world design

You literally start in the shit.

Just... ew

That's more detail than the entirety of Dark Souls II

The only actual difference is he spends the entire phase staggered from phase 1

I actually saw his second phase. I hit him exactly once and it triggered.

@@gl1tchspectre_ you had just enough damage to not kill him outright

@@sakura368 Pretty much. Nothing one more smack couldn't take care of though.

(*DEAD*)

Had to be done

don't worry. They all died in DS3.

Disney: and what if there is no Mushroom Parents left?

Wow that's a very specific detailed, I would have never noticed it

So are the clouds

It's rude to mock a blind guy

he's blind tho, give him a chance xD

I guess he was just doing the ds2 0 int mage build

I feel bad fighting him, it's literally a fight against a disabled dragon lmao I'm still taking that moonlight greatsword tho

The Games nah fuck him and his crystal curse attack. No guilty for dragons

So is Patches actually thinking you’re insane or that it’s a bad day?

Both and your character has to be insane to have gotten there he probably also spied you fighting ceaseless from there.

The devs got that right.

@@personman1148 after seeing that imagine how he feels when you approach him

@@miufke_ guessing he feels like its a bad day

Throws carving: *very good*

the father statue is the giantdad who thinks your not a casul

It's representing that the mom statue is a bitch because he's giantdads kid too

There's one RU-vid of someone killing Kalameet without speaking to Gough beforehand, but he cheated.

The best bit is that you can see your bloodstain (which glows quite brightly) from ANY distance. Makes the world feel much more real.

Yeah I love doing that when playing ds3

Especially with Anor Londo that stretches further with 3d models than u can see

​@@LakeofMud it's great, yeah. the bloodstain thing can be used to show that some distant geometry doesn't match up with real location, they used alternate renderings to save on processing of course. Sometimes the location is adjusted in order for you to see it better (such as duke's archives from the hellkite bridge. it's shown slightly bigger and a bit closer than it is, otherwise you'd barely be able to see it)

What's also cool is that for the most part, the sizes of each area don't change depending on your distance. Most are accurate in their size to the actual places.

Yeah, the whole dlc reflects that whole area

The Royal Wood is Darkroot in the past. Take Marvelous Chester, he's been theorized to have been from Yharnam and that's why he favors a crossbow in a world without guns

yes, ds1 introduced time travelling, thats why artorias gets credited for everything you do in the past, and we got the ringed city dlc. or the memories in ds2

It's not exactly "time travel" Time collapsed on itself It stops going on when fire fades, so basically anything it's happening at the same time That's why u can summon npcs, they were there before you, but because time stands still, they're at the same time still there Ringed city it's just the consequence of everything happened colliding

@@angeloambrosio1721 Interesting way to canonize Pvp when you could've said It's not canon and no one would've had a problem with it

let him sleep... perhaps his dreams will be happier than the world he would awaken to... :(

@@chargetrick he wakes up in Dark Souls 3 and changes his name. Patches doesn't forget sh*t though.

You can save Siegmeyer if you kill all the Chaos Eaters on that ‘’sewer’’ before talking to him you get a ring instead of a Slab

Similarly to the fate of literally every character you meet in all 3 games

@@natanmadureiro8152 He'll still die, he'll go hollow and Sieglinde will kill him for good.

and then proceed to stab it in the ass

Yeah I was looking for the comment on that. That was absurd.

with a wooden shield

Really reminds me of sekiro, i wonder if it was a reference all along

"Parry this, you casual" "K"

It's uhhh Yeah it's pretty high up there I suppose

@@mattsmith457 I think Limit Break missed it in their projectile deflector vid too so it's really nuts

I'd like to see a pvp vid using that tech to blow oncoming invaders to their deaths. you could think it as playing baseball with your dad.

You can feel the wrath of the gods!

Pray the sky!

Robert Baratheon vibes

Pokemon games had much love in a few bytes

@@Virohthe difference is Pokémon is a horrible game

Then you haven't played a metal gear game

I would argue that maybe dwarf fortress has a bit more detail/bit but ds really is a masterpiece

​@@half-death8095yeah but it didnt originally have graphics. Thats a helluva trade off

Ohh shoot! This is a 2020 video!? Bruh this game really does never dies, and that's for good reasons. They didn't make a whole new genre called souls-like for no reason

I have to agree with both of you this game Never Dies and and it's one of the better games out there that could exist

Best. Community. Ever.

It’s one of the worst ones

EyePatched Fox Go on social media, you’ll change your mind for sure.

underrated comment right here!

It has an option select lol

@@blazaybla22 looool for honor refrence

@@chloewinnaa1515 For honor? Wait what is the for honor reference here?

@@ncrranger6327 bc this person is a genius. Look up schrodinger's cat

I wish I had known about it earlier, time for a miracle build just to do it

Entire Dark Souls series any% speedrun

D E E P E S T L O R E

Those mushrooms have probably the most developped ai of the game.

Only in the forest. The ones in the tree will slide and try to kill you

Yeah, and real kids do it to! Shits so cute

the children may run but i run faster

@@hamsandvich8956 Stop attacking kids!

Same, I didn't know he had one until people told me about it even after I killed him.

It's actually the best way to fight him if you want to get his tail since it brings him forward

Having Seath breaking his immortality crystal is what I do in literally every single run. That makes so much easier to run and cut his tail off.

Nice

Right i LOST my dammmm MIND

I actually did this out of curiosity, and I freaked out when it smacked me down regardless.

@@joe6185 its a good thing i was sitting down

I found that after playing Remastered on PC, it blew my mind but I think he still does the same attack as if you're on the other ledge, bringing you down and killing you instantly

Exactly what I thought too 😂

This means a lot, thank you

@@LakeofMud pet tr4ns

No.

@@stevenhetzel6483 eat bi

No

i always make sure to learn combustion before heading to Blight Town...cooking them is cheap and satisfying.

I think a decent amount of it comes from datamining, not always necessarily something people just happened to notice as they were playing the game

Textures get loaded into memory in batches, and since dark souls doesn’t have traditional load screens between areas, a lot of this is done in the background as you transition between areas, during elevators n junk where you can’t see either area directly. So it probably doesn’t say “hey give me texture 0F382.png,” it says something more like “hey give me whatever ‘the floor texture’ of this batch is” and since whatever flag to remove the blighttown texture from memory never got the chance to do its thing, cause you’d never be expected to run from all the way there, it gets pulled first, probably due to some item ID shenanigans General unimportant textures may be flagged this way for efficiency. Obviously you want to make sure you’re specific when asking for the boss textures, but a dirt floor is usually just a dirt floor, so it’s not worth stressing over edge-cases like this.

@@IanZWhite00 good explanation, I agree this makes sense. But how did someone notice this small detail lmao.

FR

Why would you do this, I IMMEDIATELY cried :'(((

@@ChewFingers why? Explain me please, im new to this series

@@malbrogeez4767sad piano music and limping dog. It's not some deep lore.

Yes, he said this in an interview. Not sure anyone really plays that way because it's not a well known mechanic, but it's a clever idea!

it's such a brutally counterintuitive idea that NOBODY would notice.

@@AAAAA_BRAD it's a reference to the concept of "pharmakon" See also poison moss in DS2 or contact medicine in Sekiro or the healing blood of Old Yharnam in Bloodborne.

@@core-nix1885 Wait, so lemme get this straight. Is a pharmakon a remedy that happens to be poisonous/harmful? If so, that's a really interesting concept.

@@AAAAA_BRAD Preface: I don't actually know Greek, or much philosophy (so take these musings with a pinch of salt). In this context, yes, but there's also pharmakeia meaning sorcery/pharmacy, pharmakeus meaning sorcerer/remedician and pharmakós meaning scapegoat/exile/sacrifice I think the idea (as implemented in these games) is taken from Derrida's essay "Plato's Pharmacy", wherein he deconstructs Plato's assertion that writing is a kind of "pharmakon" Derrida's project of "deconstruction" is tied into this idea that the West privileges speech over writing, as it privileges presence over absence (the writer/reader aren't simultaneously present whereas the speaker/listener are [or were before the advent of video but I digress]) Indeed, the whole concept of Disparity in Dark Souls is, I feel, a play on Derrida's idea of biased pairs of opposites. "Light and dark", and "fire and dark" are just metaphors for "presence and absence".

What about Frampt and Kaathe

true

What about the Fair Lady?

Human npc*

@@geecko5026 they chew on air all the time xD

you can also sell it for 1000 souls to frampt (feed)

I think you also steal it off of players that have it if you kill them in pvp and you do not already have it.

where in the video

3:20

@@FriezaSucks You were probably in the forest covenant. The pendant is a possible reward from that.

Not only in your eyes now

Meanwhile all modern western games will literally tell you, hint at, or have a direct waypoint to every single little detail and hidden area. I don't think I've ever seen a western game hide an area as big as Ash Lake or Painted World of Ariamis, or even the entire Artorias DLC behind such completely obscure, hidden, and far out of your way paths. All mainstream developers think it's a waste of money and effort to hide away content they worked hard on, yet look at every single Fromsoft game since Dark Souls blowing up despite doing that.

@@awesomethecool Western games are more "consumable" you pick them up and move on to the next one 2-3 months later. From software games have a much longer time span imho.

@@SerBallister Exactly. I've heard of someone enjoying Dark Souls 1 consistently for years, beaten it many many times, and suddenly he learned about the painted world.

Yeah same, the thought that would be smart ass move is beyond me

I remember thinking “alright time to put on a better ring” then just DIES

Yeah... having 1m souls and removing the ring then getting devoured by the abyss and then jumping back down there forgetting to put the ring on was my nightmare...

xLionsxxSmithyx holy shit dude after what happened to you ? I'll farm some souls for you shiiiit

A pure toxin on a blade directly into your blood vs a toxin that has to work through your skin and make it's way into your blood. Makes sense in the real world.

Blowdart not knife

It's less damaging if you're toxic yourself!

I think it's a metaphor for the souls community and the whole git gud phase

@@arbiter- who are you replying to?

there is no chosen undead thats the point

I dont think Andre is even undead, i think he's more like a god or a demigod since he lived for possibly hundreds of thousands of years in DS3 and didnt change a day since DS1 if not to say he looks better

Andre isn't even undead though

Me, after eating Taco Bell

oooo that's right, there is a king under the stage and all 4 are actually connected to HIS healthbar

Bloody hell, I was so upset because I couldn't kill four kings with my Lifehunt Scythe. This makes complete sense. Those bastards are going to suffer now that my bleed resistance bar is as long as my stamina bar ha-ha!

@@darksunqueen4729, go get 'em!

Just throw your undead piss

*BLOODEH SPY!*

But she has the spycicle.

Yeah... totally didn't forget it was a mimic!

kinda cute tho

A lot of details shows how he really knows a lot about DS. Some people make DS videos only to get some views not knowing shit about the game but notice how in this video he not fight back some beloved characters and was even "revenged" after killing one of then. The details in a video about details.

vengardium leviosa~ welcome to Hogwards

​@@user-yn9se6or2dStop it, Ron! Stop!

2 years late, but they can't spawn if you aren't playing online

So...how are you now?

@@gravewalker3868 petting tr4ns

It’s very soon good sir!

right? it shows just so so much love for their creation.

So many devs/studios are terrified of having you miss any little thing while this game had multiple full zones and bosses I missed my first time through. It really is amazing how much they trust the player and the player base, and yeah the insane amount of little details are just so cool. You could really see how much Miyazaki mattered when the abomination of DS 2 came out and they thought the whole point of the game was difficulty and butchered it pretty much. Thank god 3 was given proper resources to be a good entry in the series!

They could have used all of this effort to make a better Bed of Chaos/Demon Ruins/Izalith... I'd trade them for that.

@@jjcoola998 huh, we wont know until DS2 video comes out

@@Jesse__H not really, ds series has a lot of problematic decisions and things that MUST be fixed, but they won't do it lol. Like, remember when Dark Souls came out for PC? It was horrible, and they didn't do a SINGLE THING to fix problems like disgusting keyboard controls, stupid ass bugs, broken collisions with ground and etc. Yes, they did a lot of work to make game deep. But sadly, the more you play, the worse it goes for you because of idiotic decisions that devs done, that they don't want to hear their community, don't want our feedback, our help. It's really makes me mad to think about it, because I really liked this game, but with every new game that they do, I realize that they don't give a damn fuck about everything.

Same

My job is done.

@@LakeofMud Subbed. Nice content!

Same, this video is amazing

don't know if it was covered in this video but Vow of Silence also cancels the Firesage and Stray demon's area of effect attack.

*I’m gaining knowledge*

Does*

Dark hexes are not the same as sorcery so this makes perfect sense.

@@machineelf9459 No, actually, since Vow of Silences prevents all casting, not all sorceries. Miracles, pyromancies, sorcery, and even player-casted DLC spells - it doesn't specify or exclude any of them; they all are prevented. Apparently, according to the first reply, it also prevents Stray Demon and Firesage Demon from casting AoE attacks? But the first part is definitely true.

Still don’t understand the reason for the male undead damage sound effect being a moan of all things…

Bloodborne was my first Souls game then elden ring. playing DSR for the first time right now and getting the DS trilogy was easily one of the best decisions in gaming ive ever made

Exactly! Just when I thought I knew everything in this game.

Same here !

LOL

At least the fingers don't have skin on them anymore hahaha right???

Ahh, thank you! I do agree that some are a little obvious in hindsight, but overall I'm very happy with how the video turned out! Glad you enjoyed it.

For die-hard fans, it's always the small stuff that shocks us the most!

I had no idea, I wonder if you can bait the demon to attack the center one while you jump to the other

​@@pap00she'll smash whichever platform you happen to be on.

He should have just got some headphones

His hat muffles the sound

It could be a thing that happens in the mind of someone

Nah, he simply couldn't catch crystal lizards.

That's not a discovery. There are numerous humans who never beat Asylum who noticed that.

@@funkymachine better discovery than half of the other things in this vid

It's not. The grave Sif guards which the hornet ring is behind is the where you fight the sanctuary guardian in the DLC.

@@thorn6070 you're both wrong actually, it's the oolacile sanctuary itself, with all the statues and elizabeth

like how the left handed stone knights are left handed.

"kindling a bonfire makes it brighter." yes, it literally happens in front of your eyeballs

"Ornstein and Smough face each other" That one cracked me up

You can see Demon Ruins and Ash Lake from the Tomb of Giants" How on earth could you miss that

:(

plin plin plon

Not really Edit: just thought I should leave this here; “Unicorp CEO never fucking said. THAT’S a fucking strawman. Never claimed emotions are childish, don’t put words in my mouth. The sooner you realise you’re trying to mock and belittle someone for saying “not really” over a fictional dog just because they made the obvious statement that they’re not sad, the sooner you’ll stop acting like a child on the internet who can’t handle opposition. You’re proving my point. You’re a child. You’re going so far as to say I’m heartless because...? What reason? None. You don’t have a reason. You’re fucking triggered. What, did I hurt pwoor bwabies fweewings? Wah wah cry me a fucking river. The idea that you’re so goddamn offended that I said “not really” is comical. And the fact that you’re actually attempting to mock and belittle me all because I said sif isn’t really sad is fucking golden. Sif isn’t really sad. Learn to accept that. They’re an archetypal stereotype. The stereotype being dogs in fiction having zero personality or character being shown whimpering or limping to invoke an arbitrary response from the audience. And then having said audience irrational side with said dog attacking people for not being easily influenced to an almost ridiculous degree. The stereotype being the cliche tactic, and the relation being your childish behaviour in reaction to said tactics. The archetype being the dog. There is no need for effort or development. They simply need to include the dog with a sign around their neck saying “innocent” and then all that’s left is for people like you to project assumptions unto the dog. When said dog shows an extremely obvious and lazy sign of being injured or upset you are expected to find it sad. And you being easily emotional influenced WILL find it sad. As I said taking irrational reaction to the fact and even going so far as to attack someone for not appealing to your bias. It’s almost funny if it weren’t so pathetic. I don’t like sif. His moveset is trash, his hit boxes are trash, he’s unbelievably easy and ridiculously simple to exploit (literally just walk near him and he physically can’t reach you) and his lore is practically nonexistent bc as I said he’s literal archetypal sad character. He’s not sad and he has no personality. You’re just expected to feel sad bc they said so and the only reason artorias existed is so that he can act as some kind of fuel to make sure people like you get the idea that you’re suppose to feel sad.. But you’re predictable.. I said “not really” and I fully expected a plethora of fucking immature bullshit from some overgrown man children, and that’s exactly what I got. Go look in a mirror. Bc the fact that I was easily able to play you by you just being in such a predictable mob is exactly why you need to reflect on your life. But as I said, It would be funny if it weren’t so goddamn pathetic” Really childish behaviour from all of you

@@znightowlz6585 I don't think they're taking into account people who have no heart

Unicorp CEO it’s not about having no heart it’s about not being a child

His arm isn't broken

@@fdafafaaff4341 Yeh, it is it's broken because he was protecting Sif from the darkness of the abyss (+manus) with his massive great shield but the abyss was so strong it broke his fucking arm (which is nuts because that shield is stable as fuck). So before he was taken by the abyss he used his great shield to cast a spell that would protect Sif if she stayed within the spell's radius. Then Sif had to watch as the abyss took him... and then we save her later. (Thanks for letting us, Alvina!) Hah... yeah... imagine the fight between you and Artorias if he actually had his fucking great shield. You'd be fucked.

@@fdafafaaff4341 Or were you talking about Sif? I mean a great method for beating Sif as a boss is to go under her and slash her legs... so of course her "arm" would probably be severely damaged if not broken.

I wouldn't call it "realism" since it's fantasy, just consistent

so sad…

she can't see, and she can't even communicate due to the language the sisters speak. It is... a lot more likely and quite sad to see.

What a bitch, lmao

@@T1Slam bro that's racist....

@@leoortiiiz ...what?

@@leoortiiiz More like Discrimanting but okay?

so DARK magic requires less intelligence? Oh no...

@@PreggoJohn Oh wow that's dark

Dark magic is not bright. Much like it's users i guess

@@PreggoJohn in order to be truly intelligent you must not fall prey to your emotions which is what dark magic runs off of

Get oNe ShoT CaSual

They hit like gunshots too.

Dark Souls: Prepare to America

It might just be a slowed down gunshot sound effect lol

@@chyguy3776 Just like the estus sfx is a slowed down water drop.

Like how the scale-searching dragon eye has the same pulsing effect as the wolf ring?

Half of these were extremely obvious though. Like that "secret path" around the undead dragon... Really? "Secret"?

@@aiellamori its like ppl «finding» secret caves, dialogues in Skyrim still even in 2021

I've not started working on a DS II discoveries, no. Might happen one day, but I don't want to promise anything!

@@LakeofMud I'll be waiting! ^^

Dark souls be the real size queen.

Miyamoto

Did I legit make one

Nah I don't think that was supposed to imply that. 'specially since he didn't point it out specifically. But I can't confirm if it disappears immediately anywhere upon quit & reload. Lack of PC rn.

You are correct. All story related items, if dropped and save quit, will return to the Firelink chest. I came to the comments to see if someone mentioned this one lol

Yes, but doesn't Snuggly usually outright reject most items?

@@aestheticleo7507 yes, thats why its in the video.

@@aestheticleo7507 He has nothing to reject, the item disappears as soon as he quits the game.

Nah

I mean she let's you leave so...

...so the phalanx, toxic hollows, undead dragon, wheel skeletons, and murder crows dont exist?? the shish kabob hollows are what dispel the illusion that the painted world is peaceful??

@@anonymousanonymous8216 A fait point lol