DARK SOULS™: Prepare To Die Edition

DARK SOULS™: Prepare To Die Edition

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How to beat Dark Souls FAST: Shortcuts and Useful Tips!
By Naewulf
Spoiler / New Player / Guide Alert
This content was created for those who already know their way in the game, and want to see new ways of doing stuff. If it's your first playthrough I STRONGLY recommend you to AVOID WATCHING TO THIS GUIDE until you finish the game for yourself, or you will lose much of the experience. On the other hand, if you come here after you know your way, you will be able to get even more out of this game, and in that case I do recommend you to watch this.

How this works
Part 1 to 24: Full Playthrough
Part 25 and on: Extra tips (bonus videos)

About this guide
This is how I play Dark Souls. I find it a fast and fun way to go through the game, exploiting many shortcuts and boss strategies that could make your life easier, so I have decided to share them with you.

With that said, some parts that I really dont think it's worth showing because there's nothing interesting to show (Blighttown, Depths, some parts of Lost Izalith and Undead Burg, DLC, Painted World for example... we don't even get to see the red drake for the whole playthrough... haha!) were skipped, but some parts that I really could skip but I like to do for souls, fun or because it's fast and easy enough, those are in the guide. Like I said, it's how I like to play the game, and how I found it most entertaining.

Some of those main playthrough skipped parts may be interesting for a bonus video, even though they were not interesting for the main "fast" playthrough, and may appear later in one of them (like DLC content has a "cheese" bonus video for Manus, the last boss, or the Capra Demon cheese).

I've made some leveling, crafting, farming and other boring stuff, but I cut those off the videos to keep things going fast and to show only what's really interesting or could be new for some, but always following a sequence. The next video starts exactly in the same place the last one ended (except for the bonus videos of course). That way I could go straight to the point.

About Cheesing bosses and the shortcuts
Cheeses, Shortcuts or Tips that depend on quit and reloading (except when we kick Lautrec off the ledge), glitches, clipping through walls, enchanting unenchantable items or exploiting unintentional behavior of the game will also be left out of this guide, because I consider that cheating and no one likes cheaters right?

Well, cheesing bosses is kind of cheating, but at least FROM SOFTWARE has given us the tools (items, terrain or IA behavior) that allow us to do that (at least the ones in this guide) in a legit way, which is completely different from making a boss go out of bounds and die on a glitchy way or 1-hit bosses with a glitched crystal enchanted Dragon Greatsword.

Final words
This time there are no comments, just pure gameplay, and the objective is to help everyone without language barriers.

Hope it helps. If you have questions I will be happy to answer them, and please don't forget to rate the guide, since I need that feedback so I can plan stuff for the future.

Oh, and sorry about my english xD
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#01 - Undead Asylum
#02 - Grass Crest Shield, Black Knight Halberd and Havel's Ring
#03 - Taurus Demon
#04 - Undead Parish #1
#05 - Undead Parish #2
#06 - Bell Gargoyles
#07 - Quelaag and Ceaseless Discharge
#08 - Sen's Fortress
#09 - Iron Golem
#10 - Anor Londo and stairs shortcut
#11 - Ornstein & Smough
#12 - Moonlight Butterfly
#13 - Sif
#14 - New Londo Ruins and Ingward kill shortcut
#15 - Four Kings
#16 - Demon Ruins
#17 - Demon Firesage & Centipede Demon
#18 - Lost Izalith, chaos servant shortcut and Bed of Chaos (firebombs cheese)
#19 - Catacombs, drop down shortcut and Pinwheel
#20 - Tomb of the Giants, drop down shortcut and Gravelord Nito
#21 - Duke's Archives #1
#22 - Duke's Archives #2 and elevator shortcut
#23 - Crystal Cave + Seath
#24 - Gwyn (last boss, no shield)
#25 - [BONUS] How to cheese Capra Demon
#26 - [BONUS] How to cheese Stray Demon
#27 - [BONUS] How to cheese Sif, the Great Gray Wolf
#28 - [BONUS] How to cheese Gravelord Nito
#29 - [BONUS] How to cheese Manus, Father of the Abyss
#30 - [BONUS] How to cheese Taurus Demon (without plunging attacks)
#31 - [BONUS] How to cheese Gwyndolin
#32 - [BONUS] How to cheese Quelaag
#33 - [BONUS] How to cheese Knight Lautrec (GLITCH)
#34 - [BONUS] How to cheese Crossbreed Priscila
#35 - [BONUS] How to cheese Demon Firesage
#36 - [BONUS] How to Cheese Knight Lautrec (NO GLITCH)
31 Comments
Naewulf  [author] 1 Apr, 2022 @ 5:07am 
You're welcome Cali (=
Cali;WTK 18 Mar, 2022 @ 11:25am 
Awesome guide bro, tyvm
Naewulf  [author] 24 May, 2018 @ 5:02am 
Thanks man! I hate when I have to endure 50min videos just to know where to go next, this is why I made this xD
Naewulf  [author] 19 Jul, 2016 @ 4:43am 
thanks hunter bro!
Hunter 2 Jul, 2016 @ 4:54am 
awesome
Naewulf  [author] 29 Jun, 2016 @ 6:57am 
Yeah, and he even goes into musou mode when smough dies! lol! Thanks for watching bro!
Pvt. Parts 28 Jun, 2016 @ 8:03pm 
dragonslayer ornstein looks like hes from dynasty warriors, and by the way nice guide
Naewulf  [author] 10 May, 2016 @ 4:05am 
Thanks bro!
Xslay 8 May, 2016 @ 3:31am 
Really good job:steamhappy:
Adis 13 Oct, 2015 @ 5:27am 
Np =)