Welcome to my first time trying a souls game. Yes, in 2024. I'm a late bloomer, it's in the channel name. This is the Prepare to Die edition from Steam. I didn't really know much about this genre other than "is hard". I actually thought these were horror games. I was pleasantly surprised to find out they are a blend of action/adventure and rpg. I hope lovers of the series get a vicarious taste of the new experience feeling through me. 0:00 Intro 0:47 Character Creation 4:25 Opening Cutscene 9:45 Learning controls 14:20 Exploring the Asylum 16:30 Asylum Demon 24:07 Run Away! 29:02 Dying Knight 36:20 Asylum Demon 2 40:20 Freedom! 41:35 Unexpected flight 45:07 First Level Up

We delve further into Lordran and meet a couple of interesting people. Still learning the game but it keeps getting more fun. 0:00 Intro 2:24 Exploring the area 4:35 First fall death 9::37 Undead Burg fakeout 13:17 Petrus of Thorolund 17:22 Exploring the area 20:05 Skeletons! 27:27 Back to the Burg 32:00 Undead Merchant 35:25 Exploring the area 43:19 Dead men can't jump 57:15 Level up!/Outro

Still in Undead Burg. I spend a bit of time still getting used to the game. I learn more about the systems but don't make a ton of progress. Big fight with Black Knight takes me quite a while. I didn't know yet that holding your shield up greatly slows stamina recovery. 0:00 Intro 2:03 Undead Merchant again 9:55 Back to the Burg 14:40 Battle Axe! 15:24 Locked house 19:16 Black Knight 1st attempt 28:20 Black Knight 2nd attempt 36:50 Undead Merchant 41:15 Taurus Demon 45:00 Past the Bull 46:57 Solaire of Astora 49:33 Surprise! 55:08 Under the Bridge 1:02:11 Deadly stair sandwich 1:14:55 Outro

I must be hungry this time because I stumble into a couple undead sandwiches. I also die to a couple of stupid decisions! I explore a good bit of the Undead Parish and juke a giant pig. It seems like we are getting somewhere important. 0:00 Intro 1:08 Level Up 4:56 Back under the bridge 7:07 Shooting dragon butt 8:29 Undead Parish 13:17 Derp alert 15:36 Black Knight kills me 17:30 Black Knight again 20:40 Flee the Pig! 21:20 Zombie rave ends poorly 23:46 Zombie rave ends well 26:18 Mist Door 28:04 Another sandwich 32:28 Circling the Chapel 36:35 Derp death 39:18 Level Up 41:48 Outro

After a couple of really stupid (on my part) deaths, we have a pig roast. Then we explore the church, killing both that giant cleric and the magical priest. We parole a prisoner with promise of future reward, and also unlock an elevator connecting to the beginning area. 0:00 Intro 1:55 Undead Parish 4:07 Pun death 8:25 uh..poison bruh 12:50 Pig roast 14:26 Church soldiers 22:12 Andre of Astora 31:12 Siegmeyer 32:46 Sphynx scares me off 36:03 Abundance of caution 44:08 Giant Cleric 46:25 Going down 48:15 Priest wizard 50:19 They Parry?!? 55:41 Prisoner Lautrec 1:00:52 Level Up 1:02:56 Outro

We return to the graveyard and then get scared away from the catacombs. Then we explore a bit and upgrade a bit. No real progress is made in the plot, but I learned a good bit about the game. 0:00 Intro 0:42 Graveyard revenge 15:20 where is the door? 27:28 Prisoners gift 33:58 Learning movement 36:45 Outro

Finally time to ring the bell. We suffer a few deaths to the gargoyles, but it's a good fight and fun to beat. 0:00 Intro 5:18 Gargoyle attempt 1 10:52 Gargoyle attempt 2 14:42 Gargoyle attempt 3 18:18 Gargoyle attempt 4 24:22 Gargoyle attempt 5 28:37 Gargoyle attempt 6 34:20 Gargoyle attempt 7 41:00 Gargoyle succes! 47:24 Super creepy Oswald 58:51 Level Up 1:04:00 Outro

Lot's of flailing around in this one. We go back to the bridge and annoy the drake a few times but fail to progress. Then we take the express elevator down to New Londo Ruins were the ghostly residents don't welcome visitors. Much death. Little progress. 0:00 Intro 1:56 derp 8:14 Dragon surprise 15:00 Dragon teasing 19:48 Dragon shooting 27:30 New Londo ruins 32:00 stupid ghosts 36:45 ghost again 41:50 more ghosts 44:17 Outro

This is a rough one. I even considered skipping this episode. We attempt to progress past the ghosts in New Londo Ruins and fail enough that we run out of transient curses and can no longer fight them. Then we just try to run by, over and over, and fail enough that I lose my temper a bit. I get pretty disheartened but at the end of the episode I make a little progress in a different direction. Next episode goes much better, but I put this up for completeness. 0:00 Intro 1:25 Ghost fail 1 8:10 Rickert of Venheim 10:31 Ghost fail 2 13:13 Ghost fail 3 16:51 Ghost fail 4 19:28 Ghost fail 5 22:40 Ghost fail 6 25:35 Ghost fail 7 27:57 Ghost fail 8 30:15 Ghost fail 9 32:15 Ghost fail 10 34:15 Ghost fail 11 36:22 Ghost fail 12 38:39 Ghost fail 13 40:28 Mad me, and snoring? 42:05 A secret? 44:45 Blind catacomb rush 48:13 Outro

In contrast to last episodes disaster, we actually make lots a progress this time around. We go back to the drake armed with some internet knowledge and take his tail. We still get killed a bunch though. Then we find our way down below the Undead Burg and meet a very scary boss, the Capra Demon! 0:00 Intro 1:24 Back to the Burg 3:13 Shopping in the Burg 4:27 Drake tail 10:35 Drake attempt 11:45 Weapon tryout 16:31 Drake attempt 2 18:46 Going down 23:20 Griggs of Vinheim 26:40 Ninja ambush! 28:25 Another ambush! 31:30 Aqueduct merchant 36:52 Capra Demon! 40:03 Capra Demon 2 40:45 Outro

This time we take down the Capra Demon! Then we splash around in the sewers for a while. We fight some crazy looking bug/frog/fish demon things and get cursed to death. Then we find a very strange man selling crystal equipment. We buy the shield. 0:00 Intro 3:37 Capra Demon 8:20 The Depths 13:08 Butcher 16:24 Down in a hole 20:22 Another hole 21:20 Cursed! 24:46 Farming souls 34:29 Purging stone 35:10 Back to the Depths 37:50 Slimed! 39:55 Laurentius 42:14 Slime hallway 45:50 Back to the pit 55:10 Domnall of Zena 1:05:49 Bonfire and outro

This time around we finish exploration of the depths and conquer the boss down here. The Gaping Dragon is a really cool design but a somewhat uneventful fight. He goes down slowly, but without much actual effort. 0:00 Intro 0:35 Depths Exploration 4:35 Rat Lunch 09:10 Slime Train 15:02 Basilisk Bash 23:00 Overlook Arena 29:53 Gaping Dragon 40:17 Now what? 48:00 Outro

We kick off this episode with an explanation of some off camera farming I did. Then we make our way back to Andre the Smith and finally kill that evil Sphinx thing that chased us away earlier. Moving past, we enter Darkroot Garden and start climbing down a long series of switch backs into Darkroot Basin. 0:00 Intro 0:38 offline hijinx 4:03 Gear upgrades 5:35 showing the farm 9:00 leaving the depths 11:16 undead berg 16:50 frickin finally 19:40 Helkite bridge 21:41 Parish farm 25:00 Andre 27:18 Titanite Demon 31:05 Darkroot Garden 32:18 Darkroot Basin 34:45 Black Knight 39:14 Bonfire and outro

This time around we head back up the cliff and explore the Darkroot Garden. Many ambushes in this area but some really good loot too. We summon a witch who helps us kill a boss. I can see this Moonlit Butterfly being quite difficult without the witches help. 0:00 Intro 1:00 Valley of Drakes 6:10 Inventory cleaning 8:17 Back to Darkroot Basin 10:29 Darkroot Garden 13:05 Ambush 14:30 Stone Knight 20:24 Tree Snakes 26:06 Witch Beatrice 27:40 Moonlit Butterfly 30:30 Past the bug 32:24 Heading back 37:30 Level Up 40:49 Outro

We cover a lot of ground in this episode. We start out finishing the first section of Darkroot Garden, then we link up with Undead Berg through the watchtower. Inside we fight a dude with a dragon tooth for a weapon. Back down below in the Darkroot Basin we come across a giant hydra! It looks scarier than it actually is and it goes down with little trouble. Then we further explore the forest meeting giant murder cats and a club of gank ghosts that accepts us as a member. We stop short at the giant door as I am a bit intimidated by it. We will get to that next time. 0:00 Intro 1:30 Darkroot Garden cleanup 12:38 Darkroot Basin 14:29 Havel fight 21:56 Golem brawl 23:55 Hydra! 35:25 Explore the lake 40:01 Creepy Forest 43:41 Ghost gank 49:52 Giant cat things 54:55 Mushroom forest 55:45 Forest Covenant 1:03:52 Big ones pack a whallop 1:12:39 Ominous door 1:14:04 Forest Exploration 1:19:36 Back to Andre 1:26:55 Outro

This time we have a lot of shopping to catch up on. We have picked up some new embers and equipment and Andre is here for us. Then we head back up to Firelink and meet our new friends. More shopping ensues. We finally make it up to the giant raven and he takes us back to the Undead Asylum where we find some new enemies and get killed by them! 0:00 Intro 0:32 Andre 8:44 Back to Firelink 12:28 New friends! 23:58 Parkour time 26:20 Undead Asylum 28:55 Really? 33:30 bird nest swaps 34:53 Black Knight 37:08 ex-friend 41:02 Black Knight 2 44:40 Outro

This time we finish up the Undead Asylum and slay the Stray Demon. Then we head back down to Darkroot and open that mysterious door with the Astorias crest we bought from Andre. Then we get pet by the doggy! 0:00 Intro 1:06 First attempt 2:13 Second attempt 3:15 Third attempt 8:30 Fourth attempt 11:43 Stray Demon Kill 18:08 Exploring the asylum 29:20 Firelink Shrine 33:30 Andre 35:50 Darkroot Garden 39:10 Giant door 40:08 Good Doggy! 40:51 Jog back 42:10 Outro

Flush with newfound power, we head back to the New Londo Ruins to claim vengeance on those ghosts. I suffer deja vu as I get wrecked by spooks over and over again. We do get to see everything down here this time, unfortunately it isn't much. Obviously this area will be important later. 0:00 Intro 1:30 New Londo ruins 6:45 Second attempt 14:16 Third attempt 19:20 Fourth attempt 26:14 Fifth attempt 31:12 Shopping detour 34:49 Sixth attempt 46:10 Creepy Ingward 52:10 Disappointed 55:37 Outro

This time we take a careful plunge into Blightown. We manage to see pretty much all of the upper portion. Lots of creepy enemies and some tense moments with toxic darts. 0:00 Intro 2:07 Blightown door 3:18 welcome committee 5:40 Toxic darts 8:25 Diversion 10:40 You ok bro? 12:46 Bonfire 15:21 Hot dogs 16:35 Ladders and darts 20:16 Demon tumor? 28:18 Falchion + Mosquitos 38:06 Tumor excision 42:48 Leap of faith 44:49 Wiggle bridge 49:09 Success! 50:07 Outro

This time we continue our Blightown exploration and clean out the depths below. We ride a water wheel up and find a nifty connection to Valley of Drakes, which leads to New Londo Ruins, which then leads to Firelink. Back in Firelink we find that the firekeeper has been murdered! 0:00 Intro 08:15 Finally the bottom 10:30 Big tree 15:55 Pyromancer gear 17:25 Bonfire 22:48 Maneater Mildred 24:14 The Easterner 28:47 Chunkster Trio 32:56 Water wheel 34:44 Toxic! 39:30 Whoops 46:10 Key and Tunnel 47:42 Valley of Drakes 49:15 Murder at Firelink! 53:55 Back to Blightown 55:45 First attunement 58:33 Outro

This time we enter the spider hole and take on Quelaag the flaming spider centaur lady-thing. She is far more scary looking than dangerous though so she goes down pretty easily. Then completely unexpectedly we find the other bell and wake up a giant! Choosing to delve deeper we uncover a secret door with another spider lady as a fire keeper. Then further down we enter hell itself apparently. The demon ruins is pretty intense. Here we find the grotesque Ceaseless Discharge and vanquish it on our second attempt. 0:00 Intro 1:50 Lower Blightown 4:42 Quelaag's Domain 5:54 Quelaag 10:35 The bell 11:50 More down 12:30 Fake wall 14:04 Spider fire keeper 17:57 Demon Ruins 20:05 Archery practice 22:14 I didn't learn the first time 26:10 Ceaseless Discharge 33:40 CD kill 41:17 Outro

This time we delve as deeply as we can into the Demon Ruins. We kill a whole herd of Taurus Demons, hot foot dash for loot, and then fight a pack of Capra demons! Next up is weird stone pupa monsters and giant fire breathing millipedes! Where does that giant door lead? Don't know. 0:00 Intro 0:55 Demon Ruins 2:30 Capra Demon redux 3:25 Taurus Demon party 6:15 Try again 9:07 And again 24:45 Finally! 28:43 Deeper down 30:35 Many Capras 35:50 Stone pupa? 44:45 Big door closed 47:45 Millipede ambush 50:35 Outro

This time we head into Sen's Fortress for fun and prizes! We don't make it all the way through but we tackle many of the different challenges and kill and giant! 0:00 Intro 2:09 Sen's Fortress 3:45 Pendulums? 7:53 Giant Iron Balls 8:53 Onion Knight! 16:45 Squished 21:20 Control room\ 23:58 Squished 24:30 Mimic! 27:05 Trick hallway 27:56 Doors and Corners 31:23 Whoops 34:00 Sphinx fights 42:20 Secret ladder 42:44 Iron Giant 44:50 Outro

This time we stick around in Sen's Fortress and I am totally off my game. Fail, fail, and fail again. No real progress is made so I call it quits before getting too frustrated. Next time we do much better and finish it out. 0:00 Intro 3:04 First death 6:07 Second death 7:55 Third death 14:57 Fourth death 19:10 Fifth death 22:10 Sixth death 24:15 Seventh death 33:30 Eight death 33:50 Outro

This time around we come back to Sen’s Fortress with a fresh perspective and finish it out. I did a little farming in between and paid more attention to the equipment I have. The Grass Crest Shield should have been my main all along! At the end we get taken to Anor Londo. This looks like a cool place but we will have to wait till next time to check it out thoroughly. 0:00 Intro 5:00 My new loadout 6:36 Trying poison 8:00 No balls? 9:50 Sketchy crossing 10:45 Archery duel 13:00 The top floor 14:27 Great balls of fire! 17:30 Giant cheese 23:45 Ricard 26:10 Hidden bonfire 28:56 Flame stoneplate ring 32:19 Failed jump 34:00 Knight of Berenike 41:35 Iron Golem 43:50 Anor Londo 47:50 Giant Knights 52:30 Fire Keeper and outro

This time we take on the majesty of Anor Londo! There are some unexpected paths we follow here. Parkour on the cathedral. Then we fight a bunch of holy ninjas. Our appreciation for art takes and unexpected turn and we are pulled into a new world! 0:00 Intro 1:15 Giant plucker 5:21 Mimic! 7:52 Ominous Door 9:40 Lightning Gargoyle 13:40 Lost 17:28 Inspiration? 18:40 Tightrope 19:10 Cathedral Ninjas 25:30 Spinning platform 29:50 More priest ninjas 32:30 Great Painting 39:48 Flaming Tumor 41:26 Harpies 48:03 Dead men can't jump 48:47 Outro

Still trapped in the Painted World, we explore our options in this snow covered fortress. I am way more intimidated by the Phalanx then it deserves. It actually becomes a super easy farm for souls. 0:00 Intro 1:06 Puss bags 4:10 Jump fails 7:38 Oops 17:30 Zombie Dragon 24:06 Zombie Dragon take 2 28:32 Exploring the Tower 45:15 Phalanx 49:40 Outro

This time around we finish off the painted world, after some serious soul farming of course. We meet a giant lady with a tail and a scythe. Boss music plays so I feel like we are invited to attack her but she is peaceful so we just leave. Back to Anor Londo! 0:00 Intro 2:03 Angel Eyes 5:16 Graveyard 8:36 King Jeremiah 10:40 Church 14:00 Church Basement 17:47 The well 21:07 The bridge 23:00 Not boss? 24:25 Back to Anor Londo 31:30 Outro

Back in Anor Londo, after being so rudely abused by our appreciation for fine art, we take on the kingdom of the giants. These must be some very devoutly religious people since there are 2 cathedrals and a chapel in here. 0:00 Intro 1:28 Many steps 6:15 Wiggle Demons 8:50 More parkour 9:30 Dodging Spears 13:00 Solaire! 14:40 White Knights 16:15 Mimic 17:41 Fireplace 25:20 Bedrooms 28:23 Onion Knight! 34:00 chapel sphinx 37:25 another cathedral 44:15 Outro

This time we make it to the end of Anor Londo. We summon Solaire to help in the fight with Ornstein the Dragonslayer and Smough the Executioner. It's a pretty great fight, but one we ultimately lose. Ah well, next time! 0:00 Intro 1:55 Cathedral top floor 2:48 Dragonslayer Bow 5:55 Giant smith 15:18 Cathedral 19:16 Invade the murder 40:50 Ornstein and Smough 44:30 Outro

This time we get serious and defeat Ornstein and Smough. Unfortunately you only get loot for the last one you kill so I miss out on the Dragon Spear because I don't get Ornstein's soul. We meet the princess of the giants Lady Gwynevere. She tasks us to kill her dad. Fratricide by proxy? But he's already dead? We go back and join the spider lady covenant and learn a neat fireball spell. The Onion Knight is at Firelink and is "going below". Frampt likes our Lord Vessel and eats us and takes us on a journey. He tasks us with gathering special Lord Souls to fill the vessel. Two regurgitations later we visit all the black smiths to see what options are available now then wrap up for the episode. 0:00 Intro 4:42 Let's go Solaire! 13:09 Lady Gwynevere 21:00 Quelaag's Domain 22:50 Onion Knight! 24:00 Resurrection 29:30 Frampt eats me 34:40 Blacksmith round up 45:03 Outro

This episode kicks off with me explaining what I've farmed and purchased. Next we go on a tour of all the nifty secrets I bumped into and changes in the world I've found. One of these leads to an enormous surprise in the form of a new zone. We spend some time not learning to fly as we descend the roots of Great Hollow. 0:00 Intro 0:25 Weapon Showcase 6:00 New Meta unlocked 6:20 Armor Showcase 8:45 Farming overkill 12:35 Xanthous set 16:10 Max Twinkle 17:31 Spiral stair bottom 25:17 Onion Knight! 28:16 Double secret?? 29:50 That's a lot of down 35:30 Try again 49:00 Big oops 49:50 and again pls 52:25 I can fly! 53:50 Success! 54:07 Outro

This time we finish out the Great Hollow and find yet another area at the bottom. The Ash Lake is pretty small but creepy. It seems both of these areas are only accessible one way, through the double secret wall in Lower Blight Town. We fight another Hydra! And we meet a Great Stone Dragon! 0:00 Intro 3:45 Half way down 6:40 Blue chunk 10:40 This will go well 16:20 Recovery 21:00 Mushrooms 25:22 Ash Lake 28:55 Black Hydra 35:40 Murder Clams 39:14 Annoying tree 46:00 Great Stone Dragon 51:00 Outro

This time we delve into the dark! The dead rest not beneath Lordran and the Catacombs beckon. There are a few traps and twists to overcome and a whole lot of skeletons, necromancers, and exploding heads. The constantly resurrecting skeletons can be put down for good (at least until you rest) with a divine weapon, or you can kill the necromancer responsible for animating them. This is a cool place. 0:00 Intro 0:57 Graveyard 1:53 Catacombs 3:35 Divine null? 5:08 First Bonfire 6:10 First Necromancer 10:44 Traps! 12:50 Second Necromancer 14:10 Lever 2 15:20 Collapsing grave 19:30 Lever 3 20:23 Skeleton smith 26:33 Skelly Wheels 28:40 Black Knight 29:31 Third Necromancer 36:55 Sphinx 38:35 Coffin nap? 41:30 Not secret secret 43:50 Fourth Necromancer 47:52 Secret wall and outro

This time we finish the catacombs and delve into the Tomb of Giants. We have to fight a strange boss called Pinwheel. We save the priestess and put her retainers out of their misery. Then we are scammed by a shady guy and his "treasure". 0:00 Intro 0:50 Looking, not leaping 2:20 Splat 5:21 Retrieval 6:05 Careful drop 7:52 Another drop 9:40 Pinwheel 13:21 Tomb of the Giants 16:22 Giant skeletons 18:22 Liar's treasure 20:12 Bone column 21:10 Hollow clerics 22:05 Priestess 24:06 Fake wall 28:45 Catacombs 42:55 Tomb again 45:52 Revenge 48:10 Ooops 48:40 Outro

This time we struggle a bit in Tomb of Giants, ultimately losing all our souls and humanity. Rather than struggle through I turn around and try to tackle New Londo Ruins yet again. Much progress is made this time and the old healer guy gives us a key to the floodgate now that we have the lordvessel. With the waters receded we can delve much deeper and encounter new enemies and the very large ember. Finally, max claymore! 0:00 Intro 1:36 lost...ish 3:28 Tomb of Giants 5:04 Retrieval 6:00 Dog skeleton thing 6:53 Much dead 13:04 Tomb again 13:40 Annnnnd it's gone 14:25 Someone missing in Firelink 16:50 New Londo 21:12 Healer gives me a key 25:23 Open floodgate 26:53 Darkwraiths 30:45 Amalgamated horror 34:05 Shortcut elevator 36:09 Very large ember 37:12 Maxing weapons 41:30 Outro

This time we finish out New Londo with a fight with the Four Kings. Finally done with these troublesome ghosts! Then we take another shot at the drake on Hellkite Bridge but he bugs out again and seems impossible. Frustrated, we turn our attention to more important matters and head toward the Dukes Archives above Anor Londo. We make a good bit of progress into the library before I need to call it for the night. 0:00 Intro 2:07 New Londo drained 8:45 A slight rough patch 13:31 Four Kings 24:20 Drake attempt 27:30 No Drake? 30:30 Drake attempt 2 33:20 Anor Londo 35:30 Hall Hog 40:23 The Dukes Archives 42:26 Dead 53:10 Outro

This time we continue through the duke's archive, killing crystal zombies all the way, until we come across Seath the Scaleless. He kills us, in what seems to be a scripted death, because we spawn in a prison within the archives. We break free and must fight through his snake men guards and his twisted Cthulu horrors. Back in the archives we fight our way through an army of crystal skeletons and moving staircases until we finally break outside. 0:00 Intro 0:30 Welcome committee 3:50 the jank must flow 4:55 Crystal knight 5:42 Seath the Scaleless 6:46 Prison 8:40 Easy escape 9:51 Eldritch prison guards 16:12 Ground floor, hardware and horror 18:08 Is fren? 19:38 Music critic 24:16 Big door 26:00 Books and stairs, for days 31:32 Bonfire balcony 38:35 Library storage 43:44 Outro

We exit the library into a courtyard filled with crystal golems. We meet the daughter of the onion knight! We head down into the crystal cave at the end of the courtyard. This is ridiculous! Invisible platforms and much death. 0:00 Intro 0:30 Courtyard golems 4:12 Onion Daughter 5:26 Crystalline set 7:15 Crystal Cave 8:51 Invisible floors 12:50 Don't disturb the moths 14:52 Second try 20:42 Third try 27:29 Fourth try 30:52 Duke's Archives 34:52 Deadly impatience 41:29 Book/Prison tower 46:42 Firekeeper soul 47:07 Outro

Armed with internet knowledge we finally cross the Crystal Cave and get our revenge on Seath! We absorb his lord soul and head back to Firelink to talk to everyone around. Deciding to finally stop being scard of the Tomb, we delver through the catacombs once more. 0:00 Intro 1:10 Platforming fail 2:10 Platforming success 6:55 Crystal Cave 9:34 Evil clams 11:32 Seath rematch 16:35 Seath attempt 2 19:15 Firelink 31:19 BOOM! dead 33:57 Catacombs 42:16 Tomb of Giants 45:09 Outro

This time we finally finish delving into the Tomb of Giants. On the way down a Black Knight falls dead at our feet and gives us his halberd. At the bottom we find Gravelord Nito and take his Lord Soul from him. 0:00 Intro 0:40 Bad dog 1:29 What in the... 5:16 Retrieval? 12:38 Bonfire 13:52 Double dog dare you 19:36 Paladin Leroy 23:50 Pinwheels 32:09 Gravelord Nito 36:07 Inventory cleanup 41:40 Outro

We travel below the Demon Ruins now that the way is opened. Inside we fight a couple of bosses, with Solaire helping us defeat one of them. We obtain a ring that let's us run on lava and opens up quite a bit more exploration for us. We travel through a truly bizarre area with an army of zombie dragon butts, then we head into an ancient maze of a temple. Along the way we encounter the Onion Knight and help him in his heroics. Sadly, we witness the fall of Solaire as he is taken by some kind of sun parasite and tries to kill us in his madness. I will praise the sun in your stead brother, rest in peace. 0:00 Intro 0:36 Demon Ruins 2:00 Pride goeth... 8:54 Behind the veil 12:33 Demon Firesage 14:25 Beyond the sage 15:34 Shortcut up 18:00 Bonfire 19:00 Solaire, my boy! 19:30 Centipede Demon 23:40 Firewalker 24:30 Sad Solaire and bonfire 28:30 Are those dragon butts? 32:55 Hidden Bonfire 35:00 Out of the fire, into the maze 38:29 WTF? 41:28 Dark Knight Kirk 44:18 Dropping in on the Onion Knight 1:00:40 Sphynx 1:01:40 Fairwell Solaire 1:06:40 Shortcut opened 1:08:18 Outro

We plunge back through the Lost Izalith and go down a slide to a very strange boss. The Bed of Chaos is not a traditional fight but it does have it's challenges. Ultimately, it's not too difficult as long as you don't get surprised by the sudden falling floor. After claiming the last Lord Soul we head down to Darkroot Basin and find the portal to Oolacile. We are pulled back in time and face the chimeric guardian of this sanctuary. Then we meet a chatty mushroom and some homicidal gardeners. 0:00 Intro 3:44 Lost Izalith 7:20 Bed of Chaos 13:33 Firelink 15:54 Andre 17:22 Darkroot Garden 19:31 Darkroot Basin 21:30 Portal 22:27 Sanctuary Garden 23:35 Sanctuary Guardian 28:40 Mushroom Lady 32:51 Royal Wood 58:15 Creepy vendor 1:01:05 Outro

We kick off this episode with a bang. The bang of my armored corpse hitting the riverbed below. But this is Dark Souls, we persevere. We enter a chapel like structure and find the famed Artorias. The great knight is clearly corrupted by some evil taint and trails black sludge and mist. It's a cool fight but we prevail and put him out of his misery. Then we make an abortive attempt at traversing the forest chasm. The dragon down here doesn't appreciate visitors. After a few deaths we decide to go down into the Oolacile township instead. The soundscape here is amazingly creepy. Gibbering, squelching, wailing freakish monstrosities guard the many nooks and alleys as we discover hidden treasures while constantly descending further into this mad place. A timely elevator gives us a nice short cut to a bonfire before we delve further. 0:00 Intro 0:36 That first step is a doozy 2:55 Artorias 7:13 Tower exploration 11:10 Forest chasm 15:00 Dragon 15:30 Artorias' soul 19:12 Retrieval 20:10 Dead again 22:22 Retrieval and Death 23:30 Oolacile township 26:22 Back passage 29:55 Silver pendant 36:20 Pendant testing 42:20 Crest Key 43:50 Elevator 44:25 Outro

We continue further in the depths of the Oolacile Township, killing the warped denizens therein. At the bottom of the town, in the dungeons in fact, there is a crack in the wall leading to the Chasm of the Abyss. Lot's of mutants here and an army of souls. The humanity itself given form. We chase the cat lady, friend of Artorias, to an elevator shortcut. Equipped with the pendant we try to take on the Dragon again, thinking it will protect us from his dark breath. Apparently the dark is just color, as it does fire damage still and we die quickly. Ok then, back to the abyss. 0:00 Intro 0:54 New depths 1:29 Smoked 4:50 Amalgam w/ flail 6:30 Elevator surprise 8:20 Chasm of the Abyss 9:40 Make sure they are dead 13:12 Lost souls 13:50 Fake floor 15:16 Elevator shortcut 18:42 Dragon fail 21:16 Dragon fail 2 23:30 Dragon fail 3 25:10 Chasm of the Abyss 29:19 Horde of damned 31:59 Outro

A lot happens in this one. We head up the tower and meet Gough, who shoots the black dragon down for us. We head back to the canyon and this time we can take the fight to Kalameet. It's not an easy fight but we prevail. Returning to Gough, he gives us his bow and tells us the story of the corruption plaguing this place. We head down into the Chasm of the Abyss to cut out the source. Along the way we find that the cat was leading us to a hidden Sif! Here in the past he is a normal sized wolf and we must free him from his spirit prison. Delving deeper into the chasm we come to the origin of the taint. Manus the Father of the Abyss must be put down to stop the hateful spread. With the help of a newly freed Sif we bring an end to the corruption and free princess Dusk. She doesn't speak to us, but Elizabeth the mushroom shares her gratitude. 0:00 Intro 0:45 Gough 4:20 360 no scope 7:58 Kalameet 10:35 Kalameet 2nd attempt 16:05 Riddle I can't solve 19:36 Gough's bow 24:56 Chasm of the Abyss 26:08 Fake wall 26:50 Killed by a soul 29:27 Saving Sif 33:18 Going deeper 35:09 Manus, Father of the Abyss 40:20 Dusk rescued 42:48 Gough cares not 44:48 Elizabeth's gratitude 46:00 Outro

This is it! The end of an incredible adventure. We put the last of the Lord Souls in the great brazier and head for the heart of the rot. Gwyn, architect of the fall of this world, must be replaced. We must fight through his host of knights as we travel through the blasted land where he holds court. It looks like the epicenter of a massive explosion. Gwyn himself is no pushover and I get my undead teeth kicked in a fair handful of times. I'm old-school though, perseverance is an old companion. We prevail in the end and ascend the throne of Gwyn. What happens to Lordran now? 0:00 Intro 0:30 Sleepy Frampt 2:30 Filling the Lord Vessel 3:56 Kiln of the First Flame 7:12 Black Knight set 9:44 Lord Gwyn 11:20 runback 15:10 Gwyn 2nd attempt 17:55 runback 19:36 Gwyn 3rd attempt 20:31 runback 22:30 Gwyn 4th attempt 24:32 runback 26:12 Gwyn 5th attempt 27:23 runback 28:55 Gwyn 6th attempt 30:02 runback 33:58 Gwyn 7th attempt 35:50 runback 37:32 Gwyn 8th attempt 38:33 runback 40:13 Gwyn 9th attempt 40:44 Victory!!!!!! 42:05 Ending cutscene 43:00 Final thoughts 45:40 New Game + 48:10 Outro