Dark Souls - Any% Speedrun - 20:23 (World Record)

Pinning these FAQ's so I dont have to answer them a ton: Q: why not just use Sens gate skip? Why kill quelaag and gargs? A: You need to visit firelink altar in some capacity in order to do the wrong warp into the kiln. The only 2 ways to do that are to ring both bells and wake up frampt, or to talk to kaathe after killing 4 kings and sif. If you have a good damage source early on, its just faster to kill quelaag and gargs early just to avoid backtracking and extra bonfire activations/resting/warps. This route is over a minute faster than the previous dragon tooth route that used sens gate skip. Routing wins Q: Is this the Remaster or the original release? A: This is the original release. "Dark Souls" on speedrun.com/ is the original release's leardboard for this run, and remaster has a separate leaderboard. This is due to both games having a substantial amount of differences like glitches being patched or introduced in the remaster, the in game timer working differently, and the fact they're 2 separate games with some other differences that make them not 1:1 for leaderboards or routing purposes.

Soldiers in Undead Burg: "Hey remember that naked guy that ran through here 20 mins ago? He just killed Gwyn".

gets world record "ok the run was bad"

-just finished customizing my character, what about you? -just killed O&S lol

As someone who's never played Dark Souls, I don't understand why people say it's so hard. This guy shows that it's really easy

That skip to Quelaag took me hella off guard, I never knew of that one, GJ man

8:37 UGHH 🗣️

"You leave me no choice but if this is our fate.. so be it." 7:58

12:45 this never gets old

I hadn't watched a DS1 speedrun in like 10 years, crazy how smooth it has become. Huge GG

Imagine being Gwyn in this situation, some random ball idiot that has run past every single one of your knights pulls a gigantic sword out of his ass and begins smacking you with it while making weird gestures

Babe wake up a new dark souls wr just dropped

"My parents aren't at home, skeleton!" Chosen undead:

That Taurus Demon fight was hilarious. I love the Souls games but I don’t know anything about the speedrunning strategies. I’m so amused that for some reason the brightness settings were opened up for a moment there. What even is that 😂

I've been reading the comments of you answering the questions, it's mind-blowing how you do these strategies Goated run, dude

as I was watching this during my lunch break it dawned on me: "I can watch an entire playthrough of Dark Souls while I have lunch" lol

Dark Souls speedruns are like eye-candy, especially WRs, even with some of the hiccups. It's just so pleasing to watch. Congrats, man.

Dang i havent watched dark souls speedruns in a bit, the routing changed quitee a bit, fighting taurus demon, going to merchant, no red tearstone, no bkh

it's insane that we still see new world records on Dark souls PTDE, and I love it

Defeating the final boss in a few seconds and finishing it with a parry is so clean.