Dark Souls III by spacey1 in 1:39:37 - AGDQ2019

up next we're gonna be having Dark Souls 3 with Spacey one who's excited for some Dark Souls and we're actually ready with the game right now so let's throw it over to space be one take it away all right we good all right so this is Dark Souls 3 time will start once I hit YES on this so I'm gonna go ahead and count us down 3 2 1 go so I'm Spacey 1 my twitch name is base e 1 underscore because I am apparently not fast enough to get a name without an underscore maybe you should have invited the real Spacey one here that's all I'm saying but first thing you might notice we picked assassin for a starting class literally the only reason we pick assassin for the starting class is because it starts with spoof which is a spell that negates Paul damage and it's only supposed to negate full damage up to a point and then it should kill you anyway but we have a way around that as well but even without the glitch uses a spook that we're gonna be doing it's still a very fast spell to have letting you survive more Falls than you normally could or just saving time healing the s doc that we start with is actually really bad we're literally gonna be dropping it as soon as we can this is the first boss I'm gonna be doing 13 are ones or charges are 2s and two are ones total two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen two charges are two while he's transforming now I'm gonna regens the dams like I do to more charged Artoo's to stagger and then immediately counter hit and now to our ones to finish the fight and that's boss one [Applause] and literally now we're gonna drop the eStock because we don't like the s talked but also it does save us I think for inputs over the course of the run so there is a reason that we're actually dropping it now we're just gonna run into fire link here or we can think of it kind of as the supermarket because this is where we're gonna do all our shopping for the run and it's also where we're gonna come back to level up you can only level up from the shrine and ds3 so I'm gonna buy some stuff that we're gonna use later I'm going to infuse my short-sword with fire and because this is a marathoner rod I'm also gonna let my Estes now in actual attempts we would save that for later but we're gonna do it now for safety now we're just gonna be warping to high wall and while we're running through high wall we're just gonna grab some stuff that we're gonna be using for our first glitch of the run I think which is tumble buff which is a something we'll be using for early game but I'll explain it a little more when we get there for now I'm just gonna be running through picking up some stuff so I think we could do two or three donations real quick yeah we have a couple of donations to be fed through here but while we get those up we do also want to remind you about the blood-borne incentive we're at eight hundred and sixty-four thousand out of the two hundred fifty needed so by the end of this run you speed all those donations in and a lot of them are feeding through but we could also always use more all right so first thing I'm gonna do here is I'm gonna grab the resin which resin is something to use to buff your weapon in this game like in the other Souls games but we infused our short sword with fire element so normally that means that you can't buff your weapon with resin but the tumble buff is gonna let us do exactly that there's one more item we need for the tumble buff and it's one of the most annoying to get so hopefully I don't die here or have to quit out but I may have to put out at least you'll see this guy is hairy that's not a bad attack though okay so I'm gonna get on this ladder from the right here is this guy okay or not yeah it usually just kind of runs against the ladder for a bit if you run from the left but he was already too far down the ladder I think so unfortunately I had to just quit out here so loses time but we don't die so I'll do what we have to and now one of the things you can use quit outs forward in this game is it D AG result the enemies they all return to their original spawn position if there's some other stuff we're gonna do with put outs later like for skips and stuff I'll talk about that when we get to it but already you're gonna see us using spook now just to get down here a lot faster you can do this you can do this drop a little bit differently without spook but you will take a lot of fall damage and have to heal it off which is low that's the an ember talk more about it later that's just a safety item basically so now we've got our tumble buff stuff I'm going to equip it I have to run up here to grab a banner which will let us get to the next area after we kill the second boss I have to come up here first talk to Emma very quickly and now I'm immediately gonna start prepping the tumble buff so the first step of prepping a tumble off is to try to use the item but fail you get that what we call a bud scratch animation so that's step one you can also successfully use the item and it'll still prep it for a tumble buff but in this case we want to uh we can't use the item normally so we'd rather just we have to just bud scratch and now I'm gonna drop it from my inventory this isn't technically necessary for the tumble buff but it does mean that I'm also duping the resin in addition to tumble buffing it and then I cast buck spam daggers at the end of the throwing animation the end of the spook animation and instead of throwing the daggers even though I get the dagger animation I actually used the resin ah wanted off there we have a sprout to cancel the charge there but but the RNG he was giving me I wanted to see if I could kill him without canceling thank you you can even just kill him before he buff sometimes if he gives you the red orange evil I got decided to go for it too late yeah so we rested that bonfire - uh it makes the doors open - faster actually so it's convenient it's the free Estus refill I'm gonna drop down here to get some items these are alluring skills we're gonna use these in a few places for safety they just attract enemy attention so there's a few places we can use them to uh get dogs in particular to leave us alone because dogs in this game dogs are pretty notorious in souls games in general but especially in this game they'll actually teleport like into you so it makes it really hard to consistently avoid them oh nice lag spike okay but yeah you'll probably get to see some of them teleport later is we don't have enough skulls to use them everywhere there are dogs and here I'm gonna pick up my first healing upgrade which is an Estes shard there are two types of healing upgrades in this game as the shards and undead bone shards Estus charge has increased the number of drinks I get in my ass this class which is my healing item bone shards will show up by the estus flask word down there it'll say plus whatever however many bone shards you burned and those increase how much each drink heals for so in general if I have the choice bone shards are more valuable than Estes shards in a casual playthrough like whoa and a casual playthrough you can get all the way up to 15 ask this plus the two which means if 15 drinks and two bone shard or ten bone shards but we're gonna go to six plus to rest this instead because that's what we can conveniently grab and you don't really need much more than that anyway running up to our third boss here I have to get through this area first there's a strap to actually bait the guy from the door out of the door that usually works my drink asked us about here he backed up that's fine could have been worse could have been better got clipped by the pitchfork guy all right so we're gonna but scratch again we're duping our resin again so I'm gonna take it off my bar so that I couldn't drop it into pit and this time we're actually duping fire resin that we picked up onto a fire weapons which because of the way it defenses are calculated in Dark Souls 3 means we're gonna do a lot more damage than we did with lightning and on a fire weapon and great wood is also weak to fire so he gets pretty destroyed 1 2 3 & 4 - on this hand I run away to stop him from doing an attack because I don't want him to do an attack I want him to go straight into phase 2 so I run away then I run back in now should be good him break that one hit now this is Phase two one two and then four b4 that's great would [Applause] that we just walked back to long rest that I walked back to last rested now we're coming up to the first hardest trick in the game there are two tricks that are generally considered some of the hardest in the run to that I'm most worried about the first ones coming up soon but we got a bit of a run there so if you're ready with donations we can do some donations now alrighty there I have $25 from tragic kiwi saying space these runs are always amazing I can't get enough of watching you learn and do amazing things keep up the good work spending love and support from the back couch praise the Sun that's my wife feels having a 250 sorry yeah $250 donation from Dylan mmm that says had to donate for one of my favorite games in recent years good luck Spacey and praise the Sun there go ahead and do one more and then I'll start explaining the next trick sure about an 888 dollar donation by a messenger from the galleys may this donation grant us insight into that dark beast cancer but he goes for the blood borne rider here the old blood all right so this trick I'm not gonna explain the whole trick just yet I'll wait till I did it but the important thing to know at the beginning is there's a jump that I have to do that's heard some people say it's a six frame jump some people say it's a three frame jump timing but three sounds more impressive so we'll go with that right this bonfire for safety need to make sure I have my alluring skulls on here this is the first spot we're gonna use them I'm gonna run straight off an edge throw spell near the edge where I land so that it'll uh lure some dogs to jump off for me as if they don't I have to kill them normally just lower so right here run off this tree at the correct angle oh there we go please be nice okay so he thought about not falling off there all right so this is the jump align myself up here no ok that's fine I didn't die but I didn't get it I didn't get what I needed either if I there we go we got it okay so I am now what's in what we call a def cam state this is triggered by the boxes that tell the camera to stay stationed above you when you fall to your desk so they usually put them over pits that one they put just a little bit too high we can grab it without dying and the other thing that death cam does you'll see in just a second we can't hit low triggers anymore so this part of the map is just a little bit d loaded but anything permanent like walls and trees are still here but anything that moves like enemies or say perhaps I don't know a shortcut gate that we're only supposed to be able to access from the other side yeah those are d loaded so we're just gonna do this then we're gonna quit out to get rid of the death cam because we don't want to go fight the next boss like this at least I don't feel free to do it at home if you want this skip still works on current patch and when we load back in we're just gonna pop this open and we just kept all of fare and keep we just kept skip the entire swamp all the fires we have to extinguish so it saves about a minute 40 actually it's also one of the biggest skips in the run as well as being one of the hardest so second try but not dying to it I'm pretty happy with and we're coming up to another skip immediately to if you like skips you'll like Dark Souls 3 it's paying attention here so the next boss is uh abyss Watchers and you're gonna see me do some stuff at the gate the reason I'm doing that is just to put my foot in a very specific position and to make sure that the game saves my position there this trick is not terribly difficult but if you do mess it up you can't retry it without loading a save file so even though this trick isn't too hard it can be scary like in marathons or in races it's always scary we've had people in tournaments they just go a little too fast on this skip and they mess it up and then they just kind of stall out here when they can't load a savefile our damage at this point is not great even with the tumbled off here so I took that route just to try and D aggro these guys see if they run all the way over to me I have to just quit out it looks like they're not fishing myself here I line up my camera certain way here good our two forward make sure the game saves my position so I waited a little bit quit out and reload so all that again was just to make sure the game saved my position in the specific spot if I didn't get it I will be clipped through the fog gate here which can't really get out of but this should be good we're all good okay cool so now we just load it into the fight without activating the fog gate and the fog gate as it turns out is the trigger for their AI so yeah we're just kind of gonna slowly put them out of their misery and watch the the Watchers animation here as I skip this cutscene immediately stands up yeah so his phase 2 AI for whatever reason is also tied to the fog gate this is the only boss we can glitch like this though on current patch or even on all bosses patch a lot of bosses actually worked the same way but yes ok clap for that that's fine now I'm doing another application of the tumble buff glitch I tried to use a soul and then cancelled it and then I did the tumble buff the same button combination I'd used for tumble puff casting spookiness bamming a dagger right at the end and that gives me the souls as if I had used the soul but if I drop the soul on the ground it won't be consumed so I can dupe souls that way but you can't dupe in finically that way but it's really really slow so in this run you only see us duping when we have downtime when we can't be doing something else because it's very slow to do it otherwise and you would even if you duped like forever to get really powerful you would not make anywhere near your time back but in early game in particular I'm gonna be trying to squeeze those in because I want to be able to hit mr. jump I want to be able to hit Dex soft cap on my first level up that's important I'm coming up in another sketchy area here so I want to play this safe I'll put out if I have to but the cycles on these guys can vary a lot because you can see that guy they can just get stuck on the walls like that when they're walking and that makes their patrol paths very hard to predict a lot of enemies you can predict their patrol paths but these guys just for some reason they just walk into things and then you'll have no idea where they're gonna be quite out again unfortunately so I had to quit out early there so we're gonna lose time but we're not gonna die it's quite a run back from here so I'm gonna do what we have to but this item here that I'm picking up is very important I picked up a large shard which we'll be using later but those ashes I just picked up are very important those are thing we're gonna be using I rolled there he has a follow-up or he jumps after you he'll sometimes do after that attack so I rolled to be safe but those ashes when we turned them into the shrine hatton handmaiden they will let us buy the first tier of upgrade materials I think even the wiki doesn't have it listed that Grey Wardens will let you buy normal shards the wiki's only list dreamchaser which is like a minute out of the way but we can just grab those and in general you're gonna see is picking up ashes to buy up great materials rather than you know just picking up great materials up directly we pick up like to upgrade materials and the rest we buy because it just works out a lot faster because with a titanite weapon you need like 12 of each tier of upgrade material so it ends up being like 37 materials you need total and that's just slow to pick up let's hop up here again well near doesn't actually agro here until I attack him if I come on the outside here so I'm just gonna do that to kill the first bracelet immediately seven hits on this bracelet two three four five six I don't want to break it in this position actually I want to wait what's there that was a hand hit there and hits do seriously reduced damage to the bracelet almost none that's all that coming okay there we go so that's unfortunate but we're not dead yeah hand hits dude severely reduced damage the bracelet like almost negligible at least in terms of the speed run cycle so anything anytime you swing at his arm and see the hand move you know you basically just can't count that hit but we played it safe there to make sure we didn't die does the vape will tell you really fast now we're just running down here to pick up one more upgrade material and we're also gonna grab a bonfire that we can use to warp to a boss later which is what makes it okay for us to go all the way down here to get this upgrade material because otherwise you know this one would be way too out of the way so this is the second and final upgrade material will be picking up and there's a small trick here I'm gonna go for because it doesn't waste any time to try for it but uh so [Music] basically that skeleton doesn't always follow you but basically you can activate the bone and the bonfire at the same time which brings up the bone menu while you're using the bonfire it looks cool but it saves like barely any time but it does save a little bit okay so now we're going to be gonna buy our materials here by all the homeward bones we'll use for the rest of the run and upgrade to +4 we're also gonna upgrade our Estes baller here in fusing with sharp which I got in I got the sharp Jim in undead settlement sharp Jim is very important twin blades a lot of people talk about how overpowered Sun blades are and they are really good when they're set up right but actually when you get them like as a starter weapon they're not that great they're much better weapons their scaling is what's good about them their base damage isn't very good so until you've got it infused sharp and you've got soft cap decks like we do they're kind of may never running on our way to our next boss crystal stage I think we could do a few donations on the way to Crystal stage should be fun of course of course we got a lot of love for you and the souls like games we got a Paul G rolls in with $250 saying knock it out the parks basically praise the Sun money towards the blood boy run they'll speak in a blood-borne we are just under fifty thousand dollars away that gap is closing really quick thank you guys for all the donations rolling through that time so far speak of that we have a $500 donations [Applause] fight a sound defense that says blood-borne is one thing but cutting hair that's something I definitely have to donate for alright so we just picked up a kind of an important item it's the grass crest shield and the reason we pick up the grass brush field even though we won't be using a shield the entire run other than for Perry's hello lag spikes hopefully Wow this area is super laggy for some reason hopefully it doesn't persist in other areas but the reason we pick up and carry grass crest the entire run is because even when it's on my back like this grass crest increases my stamina region and we'll talk a little bit more about stamina after the boss but having better stamina region is a big deal okay so there's two ways we can do this boss since he gave me that he didn't give me the other opener this is what I have to do strolling me here there we go you can Perry sage hog bowl and then I messed it up well that's what I get for trying to me my guess he only needs one hit oh he's ripping out the door at least okay that was my bad [Applause] focusing too much on the memes yes you have to you can parry that one particular attack but then when he's getting up from the repost you can't attack him too earlier you'll lift like that because he'll still be in iframes so I messed up the one cycle though yeah that parry is the strap area repos it's bundled for our ones now we're coming up to some more dogs this is the place where you're most likely to get to see them teleport unless I have to put out for them like immediately run past this guy this area is filled with dogs we're gonna get I think three of them on us four you're going this way maybe it's two yeah so just watch him like state now it looks like yeah there I can get one to teleport there we go yep so that's dogs in this game and it's like actually terrible because you know otherwise there are straps you could do I think they're gone that there's strats you could do otherwise you know we're like getting them caught on objects to get them stuck but dogs it doesn't matter they will just teleport straight at you the other funny thing that dogs can do is actually teleport themselves right out of the map and just die when they fall out of bounds that's satisfying when that happens I love dogs in real life by the way but not in this game okay sorry let me get my menu here all right so now I'm gonna talk about Mouse when I might explain stamina management stamina management is a big part of running this game both in fights and in just the running sections so my stamina there is my green bar and basically at the simplest sense I just want to keep bouncing that green bar between almost empty and almost full if I empty it all the way then I won't be able to sprint again until it's basically full and then if I fill it all the way obviously and just leave it full then I'm just wasting stamina so that's that's the very simplest term but the thing where it gets important is the fact that where I'm at in my stamina bar or as I'm approaching enemies affects where they're out of their patrol cycles and so like if I get to a boss or if I if I approach where an enemy loads everyone if I approach where an enemy loads with really low stamina that means I got there fast so if I then have to regen as I'm coming up to them it gives I'm moving slower than I would if I had full stamina when I load them and so that's how that's a lot of what determines enemy patrol pads and where they are in their patrol pads when I get to them so consistent stamina management is kind of the key to predicting enemy movement for the most part and then it's also it also comes into play because whether you're sprinting if you're sprinting you make more noise basically so enemies that you come up behind will hear you sooner and aggro to you sooner if you're sprinting behind them than they will if your regen stand behind them so we'll we'll do both things some enemies we will deliberately regen stamina right behind them so the aggro later and then other ones we will make sure we sprint towards we will make sure that we sprint towards [Music] what's up here make sure we sprint towards so that they a grow and try to attack early so we get a consistent pattern there we go now I'm using the dagger that I got here that I bought back in Firelink I'm just doing the dagger weapon art which is quickstep which lets me just quick step through this muck here it is the fastest way to get through this mud and then I also picked up a ring it's the first ring we're gonna get its a damage ring called Lloyd's sword ring and what it does is gives me a 10% damage boost at full health so you know in ds1 they use red to red to your stone ring which gives you like I think in that game it's 50% well it like really low health I remember how much but in this one our TSR is nerfed and also later in the game and also slower to get so we don't actually use our TSR in this one we just used Lloyd's instead which gives us 10% well it's full health so you'll see me top off a lot before bosses even when I'm when I look like I have more health than I need and that's so that I can get that 10% buff and there are some fights where that really matters for the cycle where the cycles go way different if you accidentally get hit early so sometimes you want to trade on bosses and sometimes it's not worth trading because you'll lose Louise but this is deacons deacons I think most people find this post annoying but really easy casually they are still annoying in the speedrun in other categories they're actually difficult nice jumped out at the last second that can happen obviously loses time if it does for as the he poked me there and then I got wrath of gods that's why deacons are annoying less about dying and more about just losing time we're gonna work to uh we're on our way to pontiff now a lot of people's Pontiff is the place where a lot of people get stuck first casually we'll talk about him more when we're a little bit closer at first we have to get through here though and before we even get through ears though we're gonna get our second ring actually from the big Crocodoc as I call him or the sometimes we call him pontiff dog oh but we're gonna get a ring from him he's very nicely going to hand it to us after we move him on the snoot I really like this strat it's not hard at all you just have to learn like where the foot positioning is but I still like it it looks really cool I forgot to buy some stuff I'll buy it later it's fine so you just stand right about here this attack always goes the same distance just boop him on the snood then give him some belly rubs and he nicely hands us a ring pay no attention to the death cry that's unrelated yes well this ring is a bit more complicated to explain but it's also a damage ring what it does is the way the game just describes it the game just says successive hits give you a damage buff but the way it actually works is it gives you a for each like three hits with the kind of weapon we're using within five seconds it'll give us a stack of its buff and then at each level like each number of stacks you get a different damage boost it's really only significant when you get max stacks which is three and it's three stacks you get another 10% buff but we're using twin blades so twin bleed L ones each half of the hit since there's separate hitbox this counts as one hit so we can get it a lot faster with twin blades than you could with the normal weapon oh yeah we're out of bounds by the way just really quick yeah you can clap for that it's harder than it looks but it's not not the hardest skip in the run by any means that was found by this hex or skip finding God you might see some of his skips in the blood-borne run as well he has found a lot for Dark Souls and blood-borne he's a good guy as so now this water this is deep water we're actually just gonna fast roll through this rather than using the dagger because fast rolling is faster than using the dagger the reason we couldn't fast roll through the swamp is because the muck is because it literally prevents you from fast rolling you uh you get stuck with a slower roll animation we call a fat roll I'll explain a little bit more about how that works later as well when we get to Grand Archives so here's a good example of stamina management to effect when an enemy a grows so I want to be low on stamina when I approach this chair here and then start sprinting now and see he noticed me later there because I was quiet because I have no armor on and also because I walked behind him that's just a little tiny strat otherwise you have to roll which is a little bit slower than just being able to run by him so he's our second skull but then there are three more dogs up here which are credibly mean yeah so I'm gonna have to put out hope that they don't teleport into me an attack there we go yeah that part sucks they jumped at me immediately as well which they don't always do sometimes they'll just stay there and bark at you and that's really what you want to see you can run by them and get around the corner and hopefully not have to quit out or have to heal we're having to quit out and having to heal here is low but we need to be at full health because we need our lords buff for the pontiff cycle so we're coming up to pontiff this boss is challenging a lot casual like when you first get to him but and he challenges new runners a bit too a lot because you really have to nail the cycle and it is a lot of button presses especially with twin blades that you have to do further quickly once you're used to him he's really not bad so I'm gonna parry or post stay in front of him - Oh one's parry-riposte again I press with shields for stem I'm gonna get behind me that makes them take more time turning around before he goes phase two its back out for the a le and he's just one hit from dead here as pontiff I grabbed this bonfire for safety and now we've got another long run so uh yeah why don't we go ahead and do some donations sure let's go ahead with that I have five hundred dollars rolling in [Applause] by the lika stink thing super excited for the Dark Soul three one run best of skill - Spacey one hope to see no storm ruler your man ladies and gentlemen I am pleased to announce that that donation incentive has been met nice [Applause] we have an anonymous $500 donation it says got a donate to my favorite Souls game keep up the good work everyone all right so we've got one item that we're picking up here that's of note this is what we're gonna use to buy our large yards here so we don't have to pick up anymore and then that's pretty much the only other item running through this area is scary at first but if you're consistent with your your stamina these enemies are fairly consistent and then we're just gonna be coming up to a giant elevator that we're gonna have to wait for and we're just gonna dupe once while we're waiting for that elevator but go ahead and raise some more donations you got it I've got 250 dollars coming in from lord raven saying come on people you know you want to see not only blood-borne but more gdq let's get some more blood-borne hype we have $100 donation from Jason saying finally a Souls game these games give me back the old feelings and not being able to beat it and then the relief of moving on to the next area lost my mother to cancer two years ago let's lay this boss once and for all and Kindle a fire for all the souls we lost to it money to blood-borne yeah this is like the slowest elevator in the game I think I'm gonna just rest at this bonfire anyway we're gonna definitely gonna grab it because not grabbing this bonfire if I do happen to die not grabbing this bonfire is a massive time loss well like it's like five minutes just for the run back then we're gonna run through its overnight I hope this doesn't mess up his cycle because I want you to see there's the thing he can do it's really funny hopefully he does the normal attack yeah there we go yeah so that just misses somehow you're like right there it looks like you're right in the hitbox I guess it just has a late start up but it's pretty funny now we're gonna jump down to Aldrich on these stairs here you don't actually need spook even to survive this fall without taking fall damage provided that I do not land on the chest if I land anywhere but the chest I will be fine but it saves us two seconds castings because that's the chest that's lag yes this is Aldridge the main strat here Aldridge is mostly about knowing how to punish his attacks but he's also partly about just kind of orangey we're gonna be kind of manipulating where he teleports to make sure that he doesn't give us Phase two arrows but that's about all we can manipulate it at this fight unfortunately phase one arrows is fine just do that item he also takes more damage if you hit him in the gwyndolin so we try to do that as much as possible yes so he teleports as far from me as possible so what I do is I stand very slightly on that's getting a fire too much I'll take a three cycle yes oh I stand very slightly on the opposite end of one particular corner and then when he's about to go there I start running all that damage this is the worst attack as well play it safe okay that's fine recycle [Applause] yeah so that that fight unfortunately whether you get a two or three cycle kind of just depends on what attacks he gives you and he gave me he did not give me any particularly good attacks there to get a two cycle yeah so now we're gonna buy these I'm gonna sell my souls in a normal run we've actually routed out even selling any souls at all because it is faster by a few seconds to not ever have to go into that part of the inventory but for a marathon run I'm gonna sell souls and just get a little bit of extra health and we're actually gonna get all of that extra health right now this is gonna look disgusting but I promise this is the only time will be touching vigor we do actually need at some point to get twenty vigor but for marathon safety will just get twenty four and we'll get it right now just dinner and now we're on our way to your arms so we'll be coming up to that incentive but we got one cool skip before we do but so actually we we can get a few donations before we get to the skip for sure we have an anonymous two hundred and fifty dollar donation saying let's go Dark Souls 3 we have two hundred and fifty dollars coming in from pontiff Sullivan saying stop stabbing me I worked hard for those souls no then we have a one thousand dollar donation kept anonymous but it's saying a thousand blood echoes to see Zeus make blood-borne look easy fries a beard and unlock the ladders we get one mark we have two hundred dollars coming in from tunneling geek saying bloodborne run anyone let's go alright so we're in the earth Hill dungeon this is another place people get lost a lot in casually and they hate it but we have a skip here you can do if you really hate this area you just want to get through it as quickly as possible you just okay I'll come here a little bit yes I'm gonna position myself right here cast spook again to buffer the roll input and then roll and land right that and that is just high enough and just close enough to you that you will not die from fall damage even as long as you have spook on tears of denial will also let you land there up down here I'm actually gonna work back to fire like really quick cuz I forgot that jump that I missed way back in catacombs there's a route adjustment I have to make if I miss that jump and I forgot about it and it it's not super crucial but it does make it makes one cool strap possible on one of the fights so I'm gonna go ahead and work back and grab it real quick you could just read two or three donations while I do your thing we have $170 from frost shattered saying in the name of hailstorm Network from Germany all the best for agdq hashtag Sun Bros against cancer we have another $1000 donation from Eileen the crowed it says that one-hit ko lttp run was incredible and the souls Bourne series is my favorite of all time blood-borne hype we have $50 from blood-borne incentive that says I really want to be met please alright so the next boss is his name is your he's meant to be he's meant to be a gimmick boss there's an item in his room which you can charge up and it does in sane damage to your and only to your it's just a demon souls reference basically but you can't actually kill him without it and because of the incentive that's what we're gonna do but we are still gonna pick up the storm roller because I actually use it for a setup for a skip later so we will still get to see it in our inventory I will have it equipped at one point but not for your so the trick to your without storm ruler he takes very little damage to his feet and that's the first thing people tend to notice when they start a fight with them here's the weapon okay but he takes decent damage to his head in his hands specifically when possible you want to hit you want to hit his head and then his unbrace 'red hands he's got a bracer on his one of his hands and then see you get this if you hit his head or his unbrace 'red hand you get a stagger that lets you repost them for not too bad damage and then hitting the bracer hand is still worth it because it takes extra damage and it gets you a different stagger and that staggers not as good but it still lets you get good damage so it's still worth going forward when you can't hit the other and or the head that's the less bit stagger and the missus just pays to I can still hit this and here as much as possible I want to bait that attack that lets me hit the head the stomp I'm not too worried about because it doesn't do damage go see we're getting at health bar down pretty fast actually it's definitely not doesn't take as long as some people think it does can we fit I don't think this is gonna kill the deer post oh well rip swag finish but there we go that's your now we are immediately into the next boss and this is where I bought the bleed here what bleed does is it doesn't add any extra damage to your weapon at first but it builds a bar that we can't see and once that bar fills up then it does a bunch of damage all at once so we'll see that with dancer here kind of just gonna try to focus on this fight though that's Emma again but she was dying anyway we had to put her out of her misery she was just gonna die slower if we didn't do that here to trigger the fight a bad opener business behind though nice she's in a really good position here too yep that's a spin kill [Applause] that's why I wanted to bleed because the bleed makes that's been kill possible that's a really beautiful strat to nail I'm happy I got it yeah so you can hit her while she's in her spin there her hitbox on that actually only extends kind of in front of her and sort of uh like 180 degrees in front of her so if you uh it's hard harder than it sounds I guess because like she will still track you so you have to position yourself slightly different nice slightly to the side here just balance out that good dancer fight stuck on a wall there I want to take this bonfire then I have to get this bonfire anyway and I could just risk getting hit by the guys if I want to you get iframes while you're lighting bonfires but it is possible for the enemies to hit you like right as you get out of your bonfire iframes but before you regain control of your character so potentially you can get double hit there and not with this amount of health but normally in this part of the run would be at based health still oh I was gonna rest there it's the whole reason I quit out but yeah it's risky I'll risk it in real runs though but for a marathon run and with my yeah I had enough as this but a little extra it's nice so now we're on our way to us a rose a lot of people like us they rose casually because of the lore and stuff like that and I mean the voice acting is good like I get that but it's mechanically a really annoying fight for a few reasons just hop off that elevator there yet again spook saving us time in an intended way so I'm gonna quit a specific armored combination and this matters normally in real runs they won't matter with this much extra health but normally again we're still at base health here and with this exact armored combination which is the top part is assassin then the bottom part is the Harold set which is what the extra armor we picked up we would normally survive one of his face two attacks with exactly one HP and so that allows us to be a base figure without risking and getting killed by this particular attack since it needs a bit of min maxing there even with this much health it's still beneficial to take his little damage from it as possible means I have to heal this see this is one bad thing immediate vape [Music] if he waits the vape I can at least stagger him out of it but if he doesn't right after he just staggered or if he starts the fight with it I can just hope I can hit his tail and the worst is sometimes they'll back up into a corner and do that and then you're just kind of screwed okay see that charge he's about to do that one so he finishes his normal charge with this kind of really fast charge there we go we got him nope no memes there yes he can follow up that charge with a really fast charge but then the thing is that he can just kind of go straight into that charge at point-blank range you literally cannot dodge it on reaction if you are like right up next to him I don't know why they allow him to do that right in front of you like if he only did it at long-range which he will also do it at long-range then it's fine because you can dodge it very quickly on reaction but yeah when he does it at close range there's not always something you can do about it we have a general idea of where you have to be to trigger him to do it so we try to stay out of that area we try to stay to his legs more but he can still just kind of he will like turn 90 degrees and then immediately instacharge you and so that's why we make sure to have enough armor that we can tank that one instant charge without dying because there's only so much you can do to prevent it now we're gonna go fight champ gun-deer I deliberately skipped that bonfire because its Navy was actually a lot of time if I skip that bonfire because it allows me to just bone immediately to last arrested here after I do what I need to do here so even though I'm facing kind of a long run back if I die I really want to say that times it saves an extra warp which RTA that's a lot but this is a parry boss there is some rng in this fight with how long he takes the give me a variable attack first attacks always variable this is not variable that is though now he's gonna go into Phase two which is always parable so this is free now I need one more variable attack from him for this lag spike here we go that wasn't variable anyway this is though okay so that was pretty good RNG actually that was a good fight [Applause] it was very kind of a there is this we don't need for the speedrun but for that one of the incentives were going to be going on a quick trip to the the dark grocery store the dark shopping center here and we're just gonna pick up some blueberries they they look a little gnarly I'm not gonna lie but they're the last bit of blueberries in this entire universe and the firekeepers just cheat really loves blueberries so we're gonna give her these and even though they look a little gross she'll take them there right through this illusory wall here here let's lag though goes up yep those are the blueberries bone two last rested and you know what our blueberries but small herbs so there's that too but now I'm just gonna be running to the next boss so you can go ahead and read some donations if you want awesome we have a one thousand dollar donation by a NZ thank you to everyone involved donating and watching this for coming together for something wonderful I never had more fun trying to figure out why everyone is shouting or we have a anonymous $300 donation that says blood-borne hi we have a $250 donation by Greinke's thing hey guys pretty hyped for one of my favorite games Dark Souls 3 I lost my mom last September to cancer so I hope we can cure this monster of a disease good luck to space beat 1 and I'm looking forward to you beating freedom Gayle oh me too Frida Frida is a fun fight but Gayle is a Gayle is a really fun fight and I mean he's one of those bosses where like speedrunning could ruin him for you a little bit because there's some he also has some habits that in a speedrunner really annoying but i just love him so much casually that i can't hate Gayle this is such a fun fight to do even with those minor annoyances so I'm gonna be using pale pine here just cuz it's what I have I haven't had a chance to buy more resin really just with the way it's routed so this is what I could pick up and DSA doesn't take too much elemental damage anyway [Music] doesn't make a huge deal with resin I use took six hits to go into Phase two here walk behind that and when he staggers he one trying to counter hits who's one hit away I thought I could beat him on that let's find them [Applause] just doing some quick inventory stuff okay we're gonna thank this bonfire because the print the run back to Prince's is another one that's really long it's like five minutes if you don't take any safety bonfire so just in case so now I'm gonna go ahead and explain equip load and how that relates to you like your roles to beat stuff so you may have noticed that like I'm constantly in this run taking off armor putting armor back on like putting on in this case specific pieces of armor unequipping my weapon and stuff that's all basically just to affect my equip load and see my weight ratio in the upper right hand corner there it's this 30% right now there are two cut-offs basically for weight ratio there's above and below 70 and then there's above in below 30 so 30% and 70% if you're above 70 you get what we call a fat roll animation for your roll which is like this really slow kind of yeah it's just like a really slow animation you also get reduced iframes with your rolls when your fat roll and then you get nerves damn in a regen as well sorry I was focused and so with all of that together we basically never want to be over 70 yeah it's the full Danish cancel thing that's fun you never want to be over 70 in the run we are very careful to never even briefly be at that because you can very quickly lose time if you have to even regen stamina while you're at 70 but then below 30 has a few advantages but they're a lot less basically all you get from below 30 in this game is a faster roll as in literally you roll farther in the same amount of time so it's like it carries you farther it's faster you don't get increased iframes in this game with a fast roll just a common misconception because ds1 it wasn't that way you also don't get increased stamina region below 30 in this game which again is another misconception yeah that gargoyle does that sometimes it's nice free for castles and he doesn't bother us but yes so we're basically I'm gonna be setting up my clip loads so that I have as much defense as possible when I need it but I still want to be able to fast roll if I'm not too worried but in fight that doesn't really help me at all to have fast roll so I'm going to be wearing armor for fights or anywhere else where I'm just either not planning on having to roll no matter what or if I'm just really terrified of taking a lot of damage I will just put my armor back on and so that's basically all the menuing that's the reason I'm like constantly the very first thing I did at the beginning of the run was go into my inventory take off my the top pieces of my armor there's an arrow gonna land right behind me there just so that I could roll a little bit faster on my way to gun-deer and then I don't bother putting it back on for gun deer because its gun deer all right I'm gonna put out on this door the reason I'm gonna quit out on this door is because it's uh this is another spot like in a marathon it's just kind of a crapshoot whether you get hit by these guys before you can roll because you get five frames on the door again but they can hit you right out of them before you can roll they can also kind of phase through you while you're opening the door and then block you so that you can't get through so marathon run we're just not gonna mess with that I'm just getting equipped for princess here and then this is gonna be princess it's the last bit opener so I'm mostly gonna be trying to stay behind him here because that will minimize how much he teleports I had to roll that attack don't have to roll that one though and then I'm also gonna be trying to strafe his attacks like that as much as possible which is another benefit of being behind them is it tends to bait attacks that you can just walk around which means I can save stamina for attacking rather than having to use it for rolling I'm just gonna kind of tank some of those orbs okay it's fine and then I'm trying to hit him in the back here because I want to kill younger prints lothric as fast as possible that's princess house this is not a bad fight [Applause] just gonna do Paul I'm waiting for their very long death animation cool yeah so on the second phase basically younger prints lothric he they're playing piggyback he rides on his brothers back and he will just revive Lorien infinitely if you only kill Lorien so you really want to just hit the the younger brother as much as possible and the fights over as soon as the younger brothers dead as well so there's no penalty if you only kill lothric all right so now we're gonna be running to uh kind of a secret area I guess but you know in the days of the Internet nothing is really secret for long but we need a gesture to get to this area and it's the gesture we picked up from killing us a rose and I'm gonna grab another item here this this is ashes quit out on this tour the jailers can block you and they will pretty much 100% of the time block you and getting through the mist akechi so I'm just not gonna mess with it but we're picking this up just to buy resin which we're gonna use for the rest of the run so these are the stashes but yeah we're running to arts dragon peak we needed to kill those arrows to get the gesture to get here and then there's two bosses in our dragon peak we're only gonna fight one of them now and we're gonna fight the other one later but the reason we're going there now is to get the reason we're going there now is to get another set of ashes and these set of ashes will let us buy our final tier of upgrade materials the titanite chunks specifically there is technically one more tier after that that only requires one item and that's a slab which we will buy later as well yeah so this is our dragon peak the first boss here is intended to be a gimmick fight basically you run straight up to the wyvern which is the the dragon ancient wyvern is the name of the boss shouldn't say it's the dragon people who are like super into dragon lore will yell at me but yeah he is technically a wyvern you're supposed to run up to him just kind of nope out and go left and then you climb a bunch of scaffolding basically while getting harassed by enemies runs with this whole gauntlet and then once you get to the top you can jump down from above do a plunging attack and just one shot him in the head that's the intended way we're kind of gonna do that we're just gonna take a little shortcut there's a slightly faster way so we run through his legs here watch that tail go through the right instead of the left just doop while I'm waiting for him to get into position casually so I don't have anything else to do here my weapon back out he's gonna get into position for this attack and we're just gonna do that so yeah there's where you're supposed to run [Applause] when he's doing specific attacks this little ledge here is just high enough you can just kind of reach that and then very quickly while he was dying I jumped down and grabbed a ring that's not gonna be super important for the marathon because I have extra health but there's a skip later which it requires us to take damage and you need that ring to survive that damage with 20 vigour which is the amount we normally get in the run so it's actually a very important ring in the normal routing but for us it's not gonna matter too much but it's still nice to have cuz it's a it's a 10 percent reduction on physical damage it's not nothing but we're just running through we're gonna go pick up that item to buy our large our large chunks sorry chunks I should say not large chunks and then we're just gonna go back and do some more shopping so now's a fine time for some donations as well of course of course we have some really big ones rolling in through here how about $500 vice news has appreciate everything you guys do keep up the good work I love you all in dark souls hype we have another $500 from Trev oak saying and now I deposit this in my saving weight bloodborne take my money and speaking of which we are at less than seven thousand dollars away quickly closing that clap toward blood-borne thank you guys for your tears roll donations there so far and we got a lot of this run left over so get those donations in just this part where I'm grabbing the ashes is a bit sketchy here I'm gonna have a bunch of guys just kind of barreling towards me and I'm gonna try to basically bone out right before they can hit me okay good well that didn't look nearly as scary as that sometimes does they can get all caught up on each other and stuff but that's nice when that happens then it's not scary okay so this is gonna be our last level up here so we're gonna go ahead in place we're gonna go ahead and place the cinders here this is what we get for killing certain key bosses in the game centers that we place here to trigger the final fights we're gonna place them now I'm gonna be trying to go for cancels really yeah basically if you you trigger the you trigger to the placement right as you walk off there we go and you skip the animation and as you saw it's actually pretty lengthy animation so getting those cancels actually like when you really have a good time you kind of need those my last level up here I'm just gonna get a little 429 endurance then I'm gonna give her the blueberries and I mashed through that quickly but she said thank you and that she loves blueberries okay so then I'm just going to give these to ashes here sell my souls and I'm just gonna buy some bundles some resins blast the chunks I need and then the slab this will get me to plus ten yeah that's everything okay now I'm just gonna do a little magic trick here in this cutscene yep we got it so there's an area you're supposed to be teleported the dark Firelink here some of you may remember but we're just gonna skip that you just get teleported the dark Firelink and then you have to walk up to a bonfire to teleport you here but we can actually just bone to last rested during the cutscene and it puts us here for some reason so that's what we did you have to skip the cutscene and then you have to bone out without being able to see your inventory that's just a neat little trick but so we're entering the DLCs now and we're coming up on the other hardest trick in the game it's hard for very different reasons there's a we got a bit of a run to get there but we've got a few things to explain on the way anyway so first of all I mentioned the very beginning of the run that spook is supposed to kill you if you fall like too far based on what the game considers too far it has kind of a flexible definition of too far its intended to keep you from sequence breaking like we have been but what'd you do to get past that is you can actually quit out as you hit the ground after casting spook and spook makes it so the game takes a little bit longer than normal to decide that you're dead if you don't have spook or snow Burke entering also works the buffs that spook and silver caring are basically identical at least the falls damage one the fall damage part is the same but you uh yeah you'll take a little bit to die with that on and then you can just quit out as you hit the ground but before the game decides that you're dead and the game will save your position at the bottom despite you know not killing you like it's intended to so those are what we call spook quits they actually work in Dark Souls 1 as well but the spell is a different name in Dark Souls 1 so we call them fall control foot house in ds1 or rather ds1 runners data out of here wolf did that did he spawn the other wolf to get the rest of my armor off here so yeah that's gonna be part of what we're doing is this we quit step one I need to break that bridge if I forget to break that bridge then you have to do the entire skip again so shut off the camp who forgot to break that bridge in a marathon race once that we did so shout us to him so I'm gonna line up my stamina bar with this tree you spoke again to buffer the role spam off this will let me wolf that was close that lag spike almost killed me okay take my input put me in the wrong part of the venue but I just got it in time so we're down here that's step one now this is another death cam skip so that tells you our goal ultimately is gonna be to walk through something that's d loaded but it's a little bit farther away this time where we need to go and the other fun thing about death cam fun in quotation marks oh yeah if I missed I'm that role by the way I also died but another fun thing about death cam fun in quotation marks is that your controls are messed up specifically it's kind of like tank controls turning my character like hitting left makes my character turn to the left and hitting right makes them turn to the right forward makes you run forward back just makes you kind of spaz out but there's also some other weird things about death cam like if you get hit or bonk into things it'll change the way your character is pointed without changing the way they're visibly facing so your movement once you get bonked or like hit by something can be really unpredictable also I have to dodge arrows while I'm doing this because these enemies are not D loaded and then here the camera flips which effectively flips my controls good cycle I can't see by the way just have this memorized there we go and that's the hard part we're done oh so it looks like I'm doing nothing here I'm actually climbing a ladder that bridge that we broke at the beginning became a ladder on this side and so this is the point where if you forgot to break that bridge you realize it and I have to tell you the clip of Kemp doing that in the race is just the funniest thing I feel so bad for him and he did what he did this get perfect second try again I'm very proud of him but it was hilarious so now this door here to get into the area here this is not this is not d loaded actually but past this is and so there's two things we're gonna do we're gonna get a shortcut door just to make sure we don't have to do that again even if I happen to die two frite treati is one of the harder fights so I'm gonna run over here grab this door which I'm not supposed to be able be able to open from this side as well and then once this is open I'm just gonna run straight into the free to fight little lost there we go not used to doing that in real runs obviously we just go straight for Frida and if you die oh well runs dead anyway well yes well you hit that dialog trigger there that's how I know I'm through and I'll take a moment just to turn around and show you the statue that we just walked through just so you know but you're supposed to have to go do like minutes and minutes of stuff so even though that skip takes a while it's like it still saves like at least a minute and a half and it skips fighting Vilhelm which is why we call it Vilhelm skip but yeah there's the statue that's not supposed to be still there when I'm walking through here now I just need to clip a few things before I trigger the fight make sure I have my resin I'm kind of just going to focus on Frieda [Music] that delayed swing okay we go invisible that's fine I'm actually not gonna go for the back steps and she's back against the wall like that casually if you really want to you can just wait for that in VIS and then just back stabber that was an okay phase one just love [Applause] okay so I'm gonna beat father our end all over here try and keep him out of the way of Rita's ice as much as possible I just heard her teleport that's good that's phase two that was fine now just Phase three yeah that was a good Frida ing her first ice attack just didn't go far enough and then she didn't do a second one so that's good so she always opens face to me the same way which means we always punish it the same way walk under her l1 backstab anytime you back to that Frida you can charge an r2 I get two more L once so that's a lot of damage as you can see just right off the opener then she's gonna go invisible okay I'll just think the heel safety you can wait to backstab that attack as well but she's low enough I don't want to finish her all right that was fine yeah I will take that can I also interject really quickly yes ladies and gentlemen you get to see blood-borne right after this so we're in dlc 2 now so we basically just have dlc 2 now and then a few mid game kind of cleanup bosses that we're gonna do after so we're getting close to the end of the run kind of we got one more skip here before demons which is our next boss this if is tricky trickier than it looks because it's three jumps kind of in a row and depending on how you land the first jump and then the second jump the third jump can be really tricky because you can just like slide out of where you're landing it'll make more sense once you see me do it but we'll be there in a little bit but we can do take two donations before we get there I think at least of course we have an anonymous $200 donation that says praise the Sun and praise this run we also have a one hundred fifty dollar donation from the rocks uh saying hi agdq this is my second time donating this week for a cool dartsville three run and also in memory of my grandmother who died to cancer can I get a praise those son from the audience excellent guys thank you I can't see the audience but I assume that they did it so we also have a $350 donation from the soul of cinder that says the assumed this is the jump here this is where you can slide out but I got it so that's first try angel skip this place [Applause] definitely gonna grab this bonfire for a marathon here that's another long run back if you don't grab it and now is gonna be our second use of bleed in the run as well I'll explain more about that first we're gonna start off with just lighting resin though so the demons one of them starts out like red and melee like this agroed and then the other monsters out range I want to kill the Agra one before the second one goes aggro while avoiding the ranged attacks as those ranged attacks inflict toxic on top of doing quite a bit of damage that's good and if you're fast you can even get a few hits on the the range demon before he finishes phasing so that's good nice I was a pretty good face one ok so now I'm going to apply bleed remember what I said about the way that believe Prague works so I'm hitting him I'm not damaging the boss but I am building bleep rocks so this makes sure that I get my bleep rock before the fight is over and then I can kind of loop him here and face to a little bit by kind of staying to his decide he will eventually break out no matter what though but we can't just kill the boss that way but we can get some free damage in and not have to deal with his attack RNG for a little bit so now you saw he started going into his mega attack the I don't we always just call it the spirit bomb he's gonna start going into it again which means I can kill him before he gets it off [Applause] yeah that's demons that fight can be really truly like the meteors that he does the way we do the fight like it's if you have to deal with those meteors that's really scary they do a lot of damage so it's really sketchy if you don't at least just only need like one more head but we're heading to our next to Kip now I'm not gonna say what the next boss is gonna be leave that to be a surprise I guess but we're gonna be doing a set of skips here two skips right in a row to get down to the next boss I keep taking my armor off I don't actually want my armor off here yes sir just making our way downtown right now we're gonna have to do some setup for this skip but it saves enough time that it is well worth it so why don't we go ahead and get a donation or two and while I'm sitting up oh that's fabulous no worries they have $100 donations from HS that says Dark Souls shows that no matter how bleak the world may look the smallest members can light up the world let our donations be the spark to eliminate the curse of cancer once and for all thanks to everyone involved for setting up such a great event and to all who have donated that's a good example there of accidentally or sure we'll say it's on purpose it's a good example of like how much attention you have to pay to your inventory in this game like I accidentally was fat rolling there for a little bit and the reason was because I had the wrong gloves on like you just really have to pay attention to your menuing in this game we can go ahead and get one more donation though how about a $1000 donation an anonymous one that says watching one of my favorite games with awesome commentary while helping to kill cancer and get another one of my favorites into the marathon just shut up and take my money alright so we're actually starting the skip now we need this bug to come with us we also need him to not jump off the edge which he sometimes as a fan of doing you shouldn't if I manipulate him correctly but you never know yeah so I'm using Perry's to manipulate him I hit him three times to aggro him so I'm now luring him to back to the area where I killed the Giant this is why I had to kill the Giant you don't have to do that casually I'm baiting him over here with Perry's for some reason absolutely partial dad on purpose so that he doesn't stagger me and then he will always follow up with this which if I position myself correctly click me through the floor and then I have to do his food quit out like that that's the skip and the book has a line where he says I shall partake when he does the grab attacks so that's why we we call that partake skip but the thing about that like basically the way that it works is that if you've ever been grabbed by that attack casually the bug kind of like lays you down at his feet after he's done munching on you and so if we're up on the stairs and he is not he will actually clip us through the stairs in order to put us down at the height of his feet which is very nice of him but we're immediately gonna be into another skip and this one has not been shown at a gdq yet or any marathon for that matter this is the new elevator clip that we will be using and position myself in the corner here get my camera lined up a certain way here and if I fall during the out-of-bounds I will just go the old way this is what I was using the storm roller for nice that's the elevator clip oh okay we're not we're not we're not screwed yet I can quit out save that and hopefully I just don't get the infinite fall where you load back in and immediately fall off again obviously you try not to do that but this this pillar is super annoying to get around like you want to get around it fast but it extends so far okay there we go we did it now we're dropping down onto what we can't see now but it'll load in when we hit it so this is a one pixel wide wall I fell yeah you have to jump around an invisible wall there that's fine but that's most of the out of balance so we got to do the old way now and the old way is actually another part take skip so if you're a fan of partakes we're gonna get to partake again this one is easier than the other one we're gonna do a quick Boop quit out here yeah you have to jump over an invisible wall there and it's like you're jumping from a 1 pixel wide wall onto another 1 pixel wide wall so it's that jump if you mistime it a little bit you can easily fall off but fortunately it puts us in a good position to go back and do the old way so it's not the worst thing that could happen I need to put my helmet back on here too so I'm gonna be taking damage since I'm down here I guess I'll grab this on fire just in case this run backs annoying because uh m'dear is a growed already up in the sky there if you have to run back down here alright so I'm gonna use make sure I have my shield out use daggers to aggro the bug see he'll do this same attack sequence that you recognize and I position myself right about here and if I did it right just clip through these stairs just so we're still out of bounds you will recognize where we are at momentarily just drop off here you make sure not to drop off too far to the right there's a kill box there and look who it is it's m'dear so now we don't have to fight bridge m'dear we can just go down here and fight him here [Applause] and if I do my movement consistently here I can manipulate the same attacks every time so that's what I'm trying to do about too long this is still fine though yeah this claw attack is what I wanted to get there manipulating the second one is easy even if you missed the first I might actually be able to show another thing off here okay no nevermind if you get enough damage and yeah he was one hit off if you get enough damage in before he goes phase two his face will actually just immediately explode as soon as he finished his face - rather than you having to hit him there but I didn't quite get enough damage inside that's my dear so now we have this every speedrunner hates this boss i mean some people like this is yet again another demon souls throwback basically it's reminiscent of old monk in Demon Souls but the the NPC version that you have to fight when offline in this run is just so obnoxious NPC fights in this game in general are obnoxious because they can roll a lot and just just waste you so much time because they just decide to play really passive and this fight is no exception first though I'm going to take this way down the elevator so that I can grab Florence II plus 3 which is our last ring and again it's a it's a stamina region in creasing ring and stamina region is very valuable when we can get it I'm gonna grab those those are just mixture blossoms yeah so he's right in here first of all we're gonna kill agro you don't have to kill agro he will die on his own but it's faster if you kill him the fight starts faster and Argo is kind of annoying just on his own depending on the way he opens the fight but we're just gonna be getting behind him basically and trying to stay behind him to kill him it'll take me a tell ones yeah this is the opener I don't want enough to run back this way this is behind them there we go okay now the painting Guardian will spawn the back step so now I'm kind of on a time limit I really need to kill this painting guardian before half-light spawns okay this could be a rough cycle now that was my fault we want him to keep his bow out like this this is good Wow he was exceptionally nice to me there like literally Bo the entire time and I mean I will tell I will admit I I screwed up that fire then he just gave it to me anyway so you know when the game hands you'll win you just got to take it so wasn't knowing about that boss since you didn't get to see it is that uh his katana when he's two handing it he he can just get basically the quote the player equivalent of two free are to sit in on you and it's a true combo and if you're like at all below full health it will just kill you immediately when he has a shield out he can parry you except when he's already in another animation so that's one of the things annoying if he goes shield that's like the worst thing you just have to back out and make him pull something else out most of the time and just that together that just makes that fight potentially really annoying but now we're coming up to Gail I loved Gail Gail is your reward for putting up with half light though Gail can also be annoying cuz he likes to jump away a lot in phase 1 and phase 3 but I still love him so much cuz it's just such a good fight so I'm kind of just gonna try to focus on the Gail fight here let's get in it that attack also wastes time if you can't manage to interrupt it which depends on when he decides to do it notice he can scrape his jump there though that should be facing to no see he was like about to go phase two and decided to just jump away instead yeah for Phase two [Music] that's a good opener she's gonna immediately role in trying to dagger him there so he can't do that jump to save a little time [Applause] [Music] oh good I was hoping he did that follow-up nice scale [Applause] and with that we're done with the DLCs we're just got a few cleanup bosses and then we'll head into the last boss here so next up we have a champion grave tender so I guess we're not technically done with the DLC so we have to go back to that champion grave tender this is why we got that bonfire at the beginning of Vilhelm skip so we can get down to grove tender it's actually really funny because going down the roots like the way that I went up is kind of the intended way for getting to grave tender and it's actually like the only intended way of getting to grave tender but as the speedrunners we have like five different ways to get down to Grave tender and none of them is the roots because the roost is just by far the slowest so it's funny watching this run evolve all the different ways we've used to get to grave tender over the years and how it like none of them have been the intended way so there's a strat you can do here that's a little bit slower you're running around to the back kill the dogs first and then kilgrave tender but we're gonna go yell over it's under this name is about six seconds at most but it makes this crowd a lot more fun despite a lot more fun because otherwise this is like kind of a trash mob NPC fight and that was a good wolf pattern so we're looking good right now we just got a kill grave tender before the wolf gets here that's a good example of why NPC enemies are annoying and then this men beats the enemy can both roll and block this is not what I want to see from the wolf though that's fine it's just slow see as soon as I get him to face to the fights over but that was a really good champion at least I'm glad I got to show off yellow grave tender that's the cool scrap it's just you can get triple hit by the wolves are hit by the wolves and grave tender there and it can kill you really really fast or if like the Wolves just stay really far away and you don't get a chance to kill them and then if you have to chase them around and grave tender it can just get really hectic really fast well that's why that's trad is a bit risky and now nameless this boss received a lot of hype when the game first came out for being one of the hardest I definitely don't I don't think that's wrong necessarily he's not one of the hardest in the speedrun but he's not one of the easiest either and this speedrun probably the most annoying thing about him is the chicken in phase one because the chicken has like two openers and there's one that's like a lot easier to punish than the other one so we'll see that's good opener [Music] and that's why that's good opener just immediate fried chicken you always want to finish the chicken off with a riposte because it skips its death animation [Music] looks like I'm missing a sprout here cuz I staggered him too late so I see this a little differently now it's fun okay yeah so if you stagger him [Applause] so if you stagger him while he's still doing the lightening slam attack he'll actually start doing that again immediately right after you stagger him but I just kind of got clipped by the lightning there and so that's why I didn't get it in time so I just went for the riposte for safety now we just got to run to ODK this is the second-to-last boss poor poor o DK he was um he's kind of intended to be a mid or even early game boss you're supposed to fight him with like probably a +4 maybe a +5 or something but we have a +10 now so we're just gonna come back in bullying because the category demands a wall run through here we can just take some donations of course we got $100 from Green Fairy that says my fiance introduced me to gdq and I introduced him to the Dark Soul series it seems appropriate donated his honor during this run thanks to all the runners and staff that boot that put this event together praise the PC we have an anonymous $500 donation that says thanks to all the runners and staff for putting on an amazing marathon for such a good cause you all rock shout out to my brother watching this stream praise the Sun so this is ovk he has one defense than only one defense and it only happens if you get bad positioning anyway I'll explain it after yeah that's ODK poro DK [Applause] so ODK is one defense this is hammer of Sol trapping if you're positioned incorrectly when you stagger him the last time he can actually clip you into his hammer and then you just kind of can get hit with the AoE and you still actually won't even die even with the normal amount of vigor so poor o DK that's his nut that's his only defense and it's still nope that's the wrong warp still not enough to kill you but we're finishing up the run so what we're gonna do for The Killers save the fire keeper incentive is tech is gonna sit there gonna tell me but chats not gonna know so the way this happens is we're gonna trigger a specific ending after we kill the last boss and then there's gonna be a cutscene and then I'm gonna have player control briefly and I can choose whether to kill her if I don't kill her than this it'll just fade out into a different ending so definitely if I kill her you will know that we got the kill ending because it will be clear so this is the last boss here there is one strat I can kind of go for here with sundar this cool okay it's actually a little lower the headcount that I want but mostly I'm still gonna go for it that you can roll that out a a OE by the way hip staggered him out of the wombo and that's the game so time ends when I summon the fire keeper so I'll call time in a little bit and time [Applause] what are you guys in the crowd thinks pairing or kill the first flame quickly fades darkness will shortly circle but one day tiny flames will dance across the darkness like embers linked by Lord's path ashen one hearest thou my voice still I practiced that fake out to make sure I didn't accidentally kill her [Music] [Applause] [Music] so I just really quickly shoutouts of the people who supported me forever if through my inconsistent streaming schedule all the runs and everything Horst scale Mario enduro ties radial my wife of course tragic Kiwi I want to thank b3 for modding this game to make sure it's playable I want to thank dist for trying his best to make this unplayable all the skips and stuff names for all the work he's done pushing the time lower and all the beginner resources he's put for us as well and then speed souls as a whole for existing and you know helping me get into this so if you want to learn how to do this kind of stuff please visit our discord we'd love to help people but that's gonna do it for me so thanks guys [Applause] what an excellent display of Dark Souls 3 all bosses by Spacey we have a $100 donation coming through from wiggle butts hey everyone long time watcher the first year I'm getting to watch live and donate so happy to be able to contribute to such an excellent cause as so many people in my life have been affected by cancer please put my incentive toward killing cancer and the animals [Music] [Music] we have a $50 donation coming in from Nero Kaos saying you are the best yes you we have a 307 dollar donation coming in from Sam saying this is such a nice event and for such a good cause donation goes to announcers choice and speaking of which we have a still have a couple of donation incentives to be met throughout the rest of the marathon up next will be super Gracie world thumb shredder and that's just under 70 K a way to be met so a few so I am putting my announcers choice toward that we have a 250 dollar donation coming in from Oregon saying I always enjoy watching and donating to gdq an awesome week of gameplay for an amazing cause as always worth the sleep-deprivation donation goes to thumb shredder [Music] coming in we have an 800 dollar donation from jukey it says cool runs you've got there it'd be a shame if you didn't meet your donation goals [Music] all right we're gonna be taken away to an interview of a quickie world welcome back to agdq 2019 I am darkman 70 and right after blood-borne which thanks to your donations was met just a while ago so thank you very much so after blood-borne is gonna be a run of kwikki world and we have the two runners glitch cat 7rb Machoke here and we also have a very special guest the developer of the game Val do welcome fellas thanks for having us yeah absolutely so I'll start with you glitch cat you're no stranger to kind of like the the Mario game scene you've obviously actually Daqi recently you were just in the Mario maker a game you know the race so kind of talk to me about like this perspective now you're still in a race so it's still like you know an intense race but it's a little bit different right it's yeah it's a game that's a lot different than mario maker so gotta talk to me about like you know quickie world a little bit yeah I mean Super Mario World and opposed to maker was always kind of my home that's where I came to um I played maker for a little while but I have much more of a lifelong connection with Mario world and I do think it's a it's a race and we're both trying to do our best and win but um you know and III think RB would say the same thing I mean we're really good friends and we have a history racing together so it's an exhibition I feel like framed as a race and you know win or lose like you know I'm just really happy to share the stage with my buddies and you just put on a good show awesome so RB so this is this your first gdq right first reading you've ever attended no 10 before but this is the first run you've had right nervous oh yeah I'm a little bit excited a little bit nervous but you know um it's gonna be my first time here so I'm gonna do my best both of you are pretty close in the P B's in the in this category correct yeah number one and two yeah yeah so you guys obviously pretty good at this game is that maybe put a little more pressure on you cuz you're the world record he's right behind your tail yeah himmat I I think especially with this game and even with some other games we've I think always kind of pushed each other to do better that he would get a new PB and I'm feeling around I was really good like I gotta go for that and then I would get something lower and we just I like that kind of iron sharpens iron sort of thing where we are encouraging each other to just do better and push a little bit harder for it even while we were sitting in the practice room working on this we thought we were finding new strats and like oh man like we get back we're gonna go for the world record with like these weird new strats we found so we're still like like learning and developing together I really like that about about our relationship yeah yeah yeah so RB the game quick the world it's a very as the game name implies is very fast you know it's a very short kind of a game so talk to me about like the fact that it's so short but yet you know so maybe one maybe even one death in a stage could cost you the race like how does that kind of play into your emotions till full first I don't have to worry about that too much so even in let's put the example that we start at the same time that I die first right then after that I don't have to worry about because I just need to keep going because I know that maybe glitch is gonna died after so if he died just want like I can catch up really quick so I'm not worried about that I will be worried about it if i dilate three times in the same stage sure there's a lot of opportunity for dynamic kind of changes because I think we're also gonna be going for some strats yeah some really tough that used to be TAS only like some five second time saves here and there you know they just show off the tricks and have a good time with it so I think it's gonna be a dynamic race and the person in the lead at this moment might not necessarily be the one coming in clutch check so we had some races in the in the practice room that we finished with in like a couple of seconds of each other so I feel like it's it's probably gonna be pretty tight right yeah I hope it's gonna be pretty amazing race and I'm gonna give you up I'll give it all oh so Val D I want to talk to you for a second you're right the creator of this game tell me about your thought process into making the game so obviously it's a very fast pace kaizo ask a game as you guys like to call it it's a lot different than you know games in the same genre I guess if you will yeah yeah usually kaizo tends to be really unforgiving and people tend to they want to make you suffer and I wanna take a different approach to it where I didn't want to troll the player I want to give him like a sort of uh get your feet into Kai so kind of not have the player be really frustrated so newer players can you know beat a level in a couple of hours experienced players compete to hack in under an hour but not at any point do feel like they're cheap and we also have a retry system which makes that's like go like this they don't have to go to the overworld you'd have to listen to the death jingle it just keeps going all the time gotcha but have you been maybe a little bit surprised to see how the spear ends we've been is this what you expected what do you think of like you know the speedrun of this game no I was not expecting this at all I think that this game has become more than I just don't like I so speedrun it's become a run would you not only you don't have to tell you how to create like really cool strats very risky strats to save only like maybe a second or so these guys are we gonna be doing that like really really like for example glitches PB is hundred twelve minutes and you cannot do that if you messed up even like once bit about that we have awesome alright so you're the one with the experience we've made this game you have the knowledge you know these two competitors throw it down who's gonna win it oh man alright you could say nothing and you could say no one say the game is gonna win that's okay oh no no I mean I would say heard the gdq curse 2nd place is gonna get first place in the race the most murdering for RB because we're both from Mexico he's representing our community alright well then well that's gonna do it for us I want to once again thank glitch cats have an argument choke and Val do thank you having us these gonna be the runners and of course the creator of quickie world so that is gonna be coming up or right after blood-borne so until then we're gonna go ahead and throw it over to the hosts thank you guys very much 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Channel: Games Done Quick

Views: 2,552,654

Keywords: Awesome Games Done Quick 2019, AGDQ2019, Video Games, eSports, Competitive Gaming, Speedrun, Speed, Fast Gaming, Legend of Zelda, Zelda, Super Mario 64, Mario, Mega Man, Hasty Play, Fast Run

Id: 37bvLh-g0Pk

Length: 113min 30sec (6810 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 16 2019