Beating Dark Souls or other FromSoftware games in creative manners isn’t really something new. People have attempted to do it without getting hit, without leveling up, using a dance mat, with musical instruments, and even with only the power of their mind. But they all had something in common. They could all use the most powerful move in the game: the roll.
Rolling around a boss or enemy is key to any Soul game. You need to dodge their elaborate attacks and find an opening. However, one player decided to beat the game without using this essential move. Sure, it’s not as fancy as beating Promised Consort Radahn with a tuba, but doing it without rolling is way more impressive.
This Might Be The Hardest Dark Souls Challenge Run Yet
Apart from not rolling, YouTuber Zeldasouls also added other modifiers to their run, like no getting hit, no leveling up, no ranged items or weapons, no magic, de-aggroing enemies, and, of course, no deaths (thanks PC Gamer). The roughly three and a half hour stream sees them beat Dark Souls with all these modifiers in naught but their underwear.
“This is my greatest accomplishment,” they said. “I genuinely do not have the words to describe how I feel now that this is over. I spent countless hours grinding, coming up with strats, failing, suffering, raging, all over the course of the last two years. This is undoubtedly the hardest hitless run ever done in dark souls 1, and possibly in the entire souls series.”
Two years is a long time to prepare for this run, but when you consider the limitations of this particular challenge run, it makes sense. Each encounter and boss requires a specially crafted strategy. Usually, you’d just roll yourself out of any trouble, but Zeldasouls didn’t have the luxury of doing so.
Unlike most other challenge runs that blaze through games, this one was a slow crawl. The lack of rolling meant the YouTuber needed to be extremely cautious, even in relatively easy areas of the game.
- Released
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September 22, 2011
- ESRB
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M for Mature: Blood and Gore, Partial Nudity, Violence
- Developer(s)
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From Software
- Publisher(s)
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Namco Bandai
