Alas, I never will be able to start the game, assassinate the Demon Firesage, and then let my character go hallow. It's my personal canon that every character that doesn't beat the game goes hallow and harasses someone in another game.
@@sirbill_greebi3811 I'm not sure why they would become sanctified instead of empty... But yes, I agree, going hollow is literally the player giving up.
There's a video by NGPlus (Beating Dark Souls Bosses in Alphabetical Order) where he shows a very convoluted way of reaching Kalameet (and Artorias) while skipping the Guardian, requiring another player dropping a Purple Cowards Crystal (in itself a difficult thing to pull off, because it shouldn't be droppable) and using it to arrive at the multiplayer arena right after Artorias. From there, even Manus is reachable, since you can meme roll from one of the elevator pits down to the chasm of the abyss, if I recall correctly.
In same video he also got bed of chaos first (as we do not count asylum demon in the current challenge- for him it was second cause alphabetical order) I think it mean only none viable ones are 4 kings and gwin are not possible? Unless i missed someone
If you're on android mobile you can slide down then back up while keeping hold to keep full screen but remove end cards. Tablets will do it with miniplayer but idk about iOS
I think it's kinda weird to rate Capra Demon's difficulty "without the dogs" considering that is in fact part of the fight and very much makes the experience of beating Capra demon first harder.
@@mrtisfree As far as I can tell, he's rating the overall difficulty. He explicitly mentions the difficulty of the boss itself for every entry, and with Capra demon went out of his way to say "without the dogs this isn't much to talk about". Either way, my point isn't really about how he rates it, but more so about how that specific comment doesn't make much sense unless you also demonstrate the cheese strategy (which he didn't).
Another useful thing if you fight pinwheel first: If you can navigate through the darkness you can get the silver serpent ring. So 20% more souls for the entire game
I had an invader drop it to me while I started undead burg and like 20 large souls. Then 20 minutes later was trolled by an invader using force spam to force me off a cliff.
I agree that would come in handy but that return journey is gonna be a real pain in the ass and if you're good enough to be able to do that you probably don't need the souls to be honest.
@@kie2 That's why I normally skip the return journey by just going down there without resting on any bonfire on the way and just die to get out of there. If you know where to go, and use a few drops as shortcuts, it's not too difficult.
4:30 - The other benefit to taking out Pinwheel first is that you can then go into the Tomb of the Giants and beeline for the Silver Serpent Ring with the Ring of Sacrifice you can get under the aqueduct equipped then just jump off. You'll keep your Pinwheel Souls and also have the Soul boosting ring from day 1.
4:05 Man I enjoy Runescape's music, this song was stuck in my head for decades. This was a nice video, rather than doing a challenge run you're exploring all the bosses you could potentially fight first.
Fun fact: A madman by the name of NGPlus made a video about beating the dark souls bosses in alphabetical order. He was able to find ways to fight Bed of Chaos, Kalameet, (and by proxy, Manus) first. (I think Artorias might have been possible, too!)
@@serraramayfield9230 Basically you have a friend drop the Purple Coward's Crystal in Firelink so that you can pick it up and us it to wrong-warp outside of the combat arena in the DLC.
"This scope wouldn't be touched again in Elden Ring." Dark Souls 2 literally had 4 paths you could choose between right off the bat, lol. 5 or 6 if you count the two locations in the pit and the miracle gate being unlocked by the maiden from Heide's Tower of Flame.
Yeah but people hate DS2 so they'd prefer it didn't exist probably and hate when it's brought up, personally it's my favorite because of how free it feels
Ok, that Deom FIresage pllunging attack really caught me of guard. I had no Idea what you where going to pull there and I never expected that...somehow. Beutifully done Video.
You can also fight Artorias first. If you have a friend summon you they can drop the purple cowards crystal for you (which is another ordeal on itself as it requires maxing out the invisible item burden before entering the PvP arena fog gate, causing it to be sent to the empty chest in firelink, then constantly try to pick it up, moving it towards an area where you can summon another player a few pixels at a time) so that you can perform a wrong warp with it and go straight to the Artorias arena.
I once read you can do Four Kings as second boss since you only need ring from Sif and you don't need to have lord vessel since there is no barrier to them
I believe if you don’t have the Lordvessel you have to kill the guy down in New Londo to get the key to open the floodgate. I don’t think he gives it to you without the Lordvessel
Master key, down to new londo, path to valley of dragons,up the elevator to darkroot garden in the other side of the bridge, get to Andre, either kill him or buy the artorias thingy,go for sir and then back to new londo right?
@@danielfraiz74 You don't need the Artorias Crest. Near the waterfall left to the Hydra in Darkroot Basin, there's a ladder you can climb that leads you to Sif.
Hello everyone, thank you for watching. Not sure when the next upload will be but I've got some good stuff in the pipeline. Have a nice day. Edit: Oh and I guess I'd like to say the difficulty ratings I put in the video refer to the methods used to get to the boss, not the fight itself. It's just my opinion anyways just to give some people that aren't too familiar with the glitches a way to understand the effort needed to pull them off.
Any chance of a DS2 video like this? It actually has more bosses available for a first boss before glitches (not sure about with) Last Giant, Pursuer, Dragonrider, Old Dragonslayer, Royal Rat Vanguard, The Rotten, Scorpioness Najka, and the final 3 are extremely tedious, Dragonrider (duo), Darklurker, and Aava, the King's Pet. 10 total and there is no tutorial boss so they are truly your first boss
1:43 I thought he was doing a reference to umineko as he talked about summoning beatrice, was fighting a butterfly and talked about a huge amount of souls. Turns out the character beatrice from dark souls is probably an actual easter egg refering to the golden witch beatrice from umineko
So happy to be recommended a new Dark Souls challenge channel! I will literally never get tired of DS1 content, any excuse to return to Lordran for 20-30 minutes of self-imposed torture is a good one. There's a lot of potential for challenges with mods, too, such as Fog Wall Randomizers and "Use what you see" item randomizer runs which I would love to see more of :)
I had been theory crafting this for a while now, and I actually had no idea gaping dragon was reachable that way so I had written him off. For those not aware, you can "skip" asylum demon. You kill him to get the big pilgrims key to move to oscar, but quit out before his death is actually registered. That way you reload and he's still alive and technically not beat, but you did kill him so I can understand not counting this. If you do count it that really does make every boss first try. As others have pointed out, that bosses in alphabetical order video has some great bits of information. BoC is reachable first boss, and so are artorias, manus, and kalameet even if it is incredibly difficult (especially kalameet) and require some online shenanigans. That just leaves Nito, Four Kings, and Gwyn as unreachable as a first boss. Nito seems the most likely to fall. You can wrong warp past pinwheel from where you join the gravelord covenant. You just need to find a way to glitch past the golden fog wall. I haven't looked into but I would bet there is a way past it. Not like many people are glitch hunting this because it wouldn't have any speedrun uses. Four kings is so tantalizingly close. You can reach the area in a multitude of ways without beating any boss, but you can't survive without the ring from sif. No way to get the ring without killing sif, but there is a glitch that allows you to equip certain items in other equipment slots, and if the IDs match up it will be valid. You can get a lot of rings this way, but not the one we need so sadly. We can also get out of bounds and see the "fifth" king which is found under the arena. The fifth king is never fought directly and is only used for keeping track of the boss health (and possibly for the cutscenes?) But there's no known way to hit or attack him. With so many possibilities you would think the four kings would have some crack, but alas. Gwyn of course is almost certainly never to fall. Finding a way to reach him first would revolutionize the any% route. He can be reached second I believe using sens gate skip, iron golem skip, then beat O&S and then wrong warp. I still believe there is some way to reach the arena without wrong warp even. You can drop past the sealed door and into the kiln directly to the right after andre's room. If you have a bloodstain on those steps leading down into the kiln you can see you are falling directly onto it. Jump onto the railing on the right outside of andre's and aerial roll onto the terrain below. Quit out and arial roll underneath the chapel. If you have you're bloodstain in the right spot you'll go right on top of it. **All** that you need is a way to keep the kiln map loaded while at the chapel and not die to fall damage ;) Ofc finding something revolutionary about map loading/unloading is highly unlikely, but I want to believe.
In DSR, after doing the Sen's Skip, if you rest at a bonfire, there is still a way to get back out. It involves jumping out of bounds and memerolling off the top of the fortress.
Oh wow, didn't realize how quickly I clicked! I'd say that Quelaag and Taurus probably don't both deserve the same rating as first bosses, she's gotta at least be a 1 rather than a 0 outta 10. And I'm not sure I'd call the skips full 10/10, there are some set-ups that make em more consistent, making the RNG more about baiting attacks. Had no idea about that last one though, what a great finish lol
For the past few years, well since DSR came out, I always go to the Catacombs to take out Pinwheel first, then to Blightown using the Master Key. The Catacombs is fun as hell really low level, and I love Blightown in DSR. In original DS, it was a disaster, like 15-20 fps. Now it’s awesome. Great video! I dig this stuff.
2:55 "you miss captivation" uh... you meant captivity? x)) very cool video though, was super entertaining to watch and while the editing is very splinplstic, it gets the job done ^-^
The title is wrong, because all of these are the second boss fight; you had to fight Asylum Demon first. Even if you utilize one of the various methods to avoid killing the Asylum Demon, you still had to enter the boss fight and engage with its mechanics. You still get a boss life bar and you still have the (small) chance of being killed by the Asylum Demon. You still "fight" the boss, even if you don't kill it. There is precisely ONE boss that you can fight first.
While the back half of the game is a lot more linear (basically being a straight shot from Drangleic Castle to endgame) I think DS2 is just about as non-linear as DS1. You have two routes open to you from the start (three if you grind for 1370 health or the silvercat ring) and going even a little bit into one of those will open two more (beat Dragonrider to get access to Huntsman's Copse, or get a Fragrant Branch of Yore to get access to the Shaded Woods).
"Alright Iron Golem, your task is to make sure only the worthy can get into the city." Iron Golem: *yeets some random undead into the city* "YOU HAD ONE JOB!!"
DS2 pioneered the open world soulsborne , with nine or ten bosses available as the first boss WITHOUT glitches . The pursuer ( depends if you count the one where he falls into the fight without a cutscene ) The last giant Dragonrider Old dragonslayer Royal rat vanguard The rotten Scorpioness Najka Aava , the king's pet Darklurker Dragonriders
Haven’t watched the video yet but without any glitches at all, the ones that come to mind are Taurus, butterfly, gargoyles, quelaag, sif, Capra, stray, and pinwheel
I accept that pronunciation of Quelaag. At 2:57 instead of "captivation" I think you wanted the word "captivity." Captivation would be the state of being captivated or in awe of someone or something. Great vid. I'll have to watch some more from you.
You can beat firesage in the remaster too You have to do the same glitch that you used to kill the centipede but instead of trying to fall down you try to go back
I thought I was the only one who got Rite of Kindling first in a run (and usually the Great Scythe), can really be helpful when you're new to the game Great video 💯
I have seen a lot of cool boss skip type stuff in my years of dark souls enjoying but the fucking demon firesage plunge attack might be the coolest thing I have ever seen done, and the most unexpected.
I think a quick explanation of what the death cam actually is and how it works would go a long way for new players. Otherwise, it's a great video and could serve as an (unintentional?) introduction to the speed souls community. It makes me so happy to see people still putting out content on a decade-old game that I spent so much of my life on.
It would have been nice to see a summary... How many bosses were low difficulty? How many total? Also I'm curious how many of the 165 Elden ring bosses can be fought first without glitches... I bet it's a huge number
Same I wasn’t aware anywhere else existed so I was like 🤷♂️ guess I’m supposed to die 500 times before fighting a boss. Dark souls is supposed to be hard after all 🤷♂️
@@gears132 Those skeleton wheels were hell. When you’re a level 10 new player you don’t have the stats or game knowledge to kill, outrun, or tank them. I ended up grinding to level 30 on the skeletons, beat Pinwheel first try and then trying to go into Tomb of Giants only to get blocked by that fog.
Something useful to note for PtDE players using DSFix attempting the final glitch - you don't actually need to restart the game to switch to 30FPS, just hit backspace a few times. This toggles DSFix's FPS override.
the morning star under the elevator to the church is actually pretty good against stray demon even unupgraded (because all "fat" enemies bleed really well) and easily gotten right away. I like doing stray before gargoyles in to also get another try at some black knight weapons and grab the doll early
Something interesting I found out doing a lot of early game scurrying around like this is that you can actually climb the ladder up to the forest hunters area without killing the hydra. Sometimes they just can’t nail you with enough water bullets but sometimes you will just die too. Come to think of it you might even be able to quit out near the bottom for more consistency but I haven’t tried it
9:30 you needed 15 flasks to do ceaseless skip, which would require you kill pinwheel first, unless you 1) can find a more optimal way to do the skip with only 10 flasks, 2) are playing in NG+ and kindled a bonfire in a previous playthrough to get 15 flasks before entering the demon ruins, or 3) wait by a bonfire that players have to light when they first reach while in online mode and afk to get up to 15 flasks (for those that don't know, if you're close to a bonfire that another player activates in their world, and you're playing online, you will get a bonus flask)
I know this is extremely late, but the video was using +0 flasks so you could potentially make the skip with 10 flasks if you grab a couple firekeeper souls and upgrade it. Just +3 is enough to get double the health per flask so you'd already be looking at a very comfortable 8 flasks for the skip. Or you know... just pop a couple of humanities for healing.
Another comment already said this but all the dlc bosses are possible with multiplayer shenanigans But you can also do Nito and Bed of Chaos first, from the same NGPlus video, you can use the coffin to get into Nito's bossroom, the force quit wrong warp to the start of the Tomb of the Giants. For Bed of Chaos you can use the Centipede demons grab attack to teleport past his bossroom, it's the same glitch as the worm to get into Centipede and as the Iron Golem skip So out of the 25 bosses ( not counting Asylum demon) 23 are possible as the first Only missing ones are Gwyn and the Four Lords Four Lords are definitely impossible without killing Sif Gwyn might be possible, but it probably would've been found already since it'd be very useful for any% speedruns
Can't you Wrong-Warp to get to the Kiln of the First Flame? I thought I saw speedrunners doing that by cancelling the animation for Homeward Miracle and then quickly resting at the Undead Parish bonfire above Andre.
@@leithaziz2716 To do that you need to have rested at the Firelink Altar bonfire You can't do that until you ring both bells It could be possible if you somehow skipped past the Gargoyles, ring the bell, then do the Quelaag skip, ring her bell and then wrong warp I don't think there's a way to skip the Gargoyles though
Damn, had the same idea for this very video, but ya beat me to it! XD This list is put together without factoring in glitches, and not counting the initial tutorial in Undead Asylum, until after you arrive in Lordran for the first time. It also requires that the player take the Master Key as their starting gift. * = Required to complete game. First Boss: Tarus Demon Capra Demon * Bell Gargoyle/s * Quelaag * Sif (Crest of Artorias required, or fight Hydra) Moonlight Butterlfy * Pinwheel Stray Demon Second Boss: (Requires the defeat of one previous boss to access) Gaping Dragon (Capra) * Four Kings (Sif -> kill Ingward for key) * Ceaseless Discharge (Quelaag) Third Boss: (Requires two Bells of Awakening) * Iron Golem Fourth Boss: (Requires access to Anor Londo) * Ornstein and Smough Half-Breed Priscilla (Peculiar Doll required) Dark Sun Gwyndolin (Seance Ring required) Fifth Boss: (Requires Lord Vessel) * Seath the Scaleless DLC - Sanctuary Guardian (Rescue Princess Dusk and get the Broken Pendant) Sixth Boss: (Requires Lord Vessel+) Demon Fire Sage (Ceaseless) Centipede Demon (Ceaseless) * Gravelord Nito (Pinwheel) * The Witch of Izalith (Ceaseless, potentially Centipede Demon) DLC - Atorias the Abyss Walker (Sanctuary Guardian, does NOT require Lord Vessel) Seventh Boss: (DLC only) Kalameet Manus, Father of the Abyss Final Boss: (Requires access to the Kiln of the First Flame) * Gwyn Lord of Cinder (Requires a minimum of 11 bosses to reach)
Cool video, just wanted to add that you can actually do bed of chaos as second boss too, get 30 humanities, do the quelaag, enter the chaos coven, get to 2nd tier, do the ceaseless skip, go to bed of chaos through the solar worms tunnel
@@MrMetagross What if you do that on the PTDE version and do the skip to the firesage. The fog gate closes his arena, so if you kill him, you should be able to access everything after him, right?
There is actually a somewhat easier way of skipping the golden fog gate at dukes archives. It requires some out of bounds parkour but I believe its used in the ptde all bosses speedrun and maarionete speedruns has a tutorial on it.
it's more complex but doesn't require fall control, the ring, meme rolling, or the fact that if you don't wanna get softlocked you can't hit the bonfire in Anor Londo and thus can do it without doing golem skip every time. I'd definitely go for it if I was trying to beat the DLC first.
I actually just tried it today and quelagg is a very easy boss to do early. If you kill mildred and then summon her for quelagg all you need is either 30 or so arrows or some amount of spells. By shooting her torso repeatedly you can nearly stunlock her whil mildred does the damage. You then have acess to ceaseless discharge for even more easy souls.
@@CodeYaMaster he did it in the video just saying imagine a first time player does all these sequence breaks accidentally and when asked who their first boss was the answer: Priscilla
@@williame2258 he didn't. He showed that you can do stray first and how to get to anor londo without any bosses, but he didn't show how to get the doll that you'll usually only get after stray
@@CodeYaMaster You probably searched this up already, but you don't need to kill stray demon. When you return to the Asylum by ordinarily just running through Firelink --> (with master key or by opening the New Londo flood gates) Valley Of Drakes --> Darkroot Basin --> Darkroot Garden --> Undead Parish --> Firelink, you can just run back to the starting cell by circumvating the crumbling floor and pick up the doll.
If I'm remembering correctly, back in the very first few patches of the game on the original console releases, prior to the prepare to die edition, there was a set of glitches that allowed you to fight gwyn almost immediately. The only thing I can't quite remember is whether any other bosses had to be fought first. Edit: Finally found stuff on this, and unfortunately the lordvessel still needed to be acquired to perform the wrongwarp glitch, it only bypassed the lord souls. Though I have to wonder if the lordvessel really requires killed bosses, given it's possible to at least reach O&S without killing any other bosses.
first thing first, you need to skip the asylum demon with the black fire bombs, but in that case, you can't no longer pick the dull since it requires that the new lair be loaded on undead asylum so technically you can't go to the painted world; great video noun the less, keep up the good work
I thought that you could skip queelag than spend 30 humanity and your first boss is bed of chaos. Doesn’t it work ? Edit: I just realized that the golden fog gate stops you from doing that
You can plunge to Firesage and quit out, it should put you in that corridor between gold fog and Firesage fog. Just pay up 30 humanities prior and there you are - BoC as first boss after Asylum.
@@undeadmercenary2080 Quitting out in the firesage arena would propably put you back next to the elevator you fell down, since that's the last stable ground you stood on.
@@Markus-8Muireg You would think but maybe not, quitting out while falling through the death plain in Old Londo Ruins lets you wander around an unloaded [underwater] ruins. Source: I'm a filthy pleb who spam quits to beat gravity.
After killing pinwheel i go back to the bonfire, use the souls and then go straight to tomb of the giants to get the CSSR for the extra souls in every boss fight.
That Demon Firesage plunging attack was a thing of absolute beauty, I actually gasped when it happened
Alas, I never will be able to start the game, assassinate the Demon Firesage, and then let my character go hallow.
It's my personal canon that every character that doesn't beat the game goes hallow and harasses someone in another game.
Reminded me of plunging in the Old Chaos when fighting the Ivory King in DS2
@@sirbill_greebi3811 that's just.. the actual story lol
When I first faced him, I missred the name and thought he was "Demon Fire sausage" 😂
@@sirbill_greebi3811 I'm not sure why they would become sanctified instead of empty...
But yes, I agree, going hollow is literally the player giving up.
There's a video by NGPlus (Beating Dark Souls Bosses in Alphabetical Order) where he shows a very convoluted way of reaching Kalameet (and Artorias) while skipping the Guardian, requiring another player dropping a Purple Cowards Crystal (in itself a difficult thing to pull off, because it shouldn't be droppable) and using it to arrive at the multiplayer arena right after Artorias.
From there, even Manus is reachable, since you can meme roll from one of the elevator pits down to the chasm of the abyss, if I recall correctly.
In same video he also got bed of chaos first (as we do not count asylum demon in the current challenge- for him it was second cause alphabetical order)
I think it mean only none viable ones are 4 kings and gwin are not possible? Unless i missed someone
Nito before pinwheel is there too
@@MazerTime cant you skip pinwheel with the wrongwarp glitch when you are in nito arena (using tombstone)
@@aleksissenkovs7730 Yes indeed
@@MazerTime Correct, I have hopes we'll work out Four Kings one day
The Demon Firesage attack was amazing! I wish I could see it properly without the end cards though
If you're on android mobile you can slide down then back up while keeping hold to keep full screen but remove end cards. Tablets will do it with miniplayer but idk about iOS
I'm using the extension that has the option to hide them, helped a lot for this exact moment.
@@ledsenkatt Great tip!
@@ledsenkatt I didn't know that, thanks!! :)
What's even more wild imo is that the Four Kings can be your second boss fight
how else would people be twinking in undead parish? mule saves and cheating?
actually you can fight them first... and I think you could theoretically fight bed of chaos first aswell, but I am not sure
@@mortisimo8934 You automatically die in the Abyss without the ring from Sif
@@DireBowser I know, but with help of glitches I think you don't even need the ring, but I never tried it...
I've done that, it's not recommended
I think it's kinda weird to rate Capra Demon's difficulty "without the dogs" considering that is in fact part of the fight and very much makes the experience of beating Capra demon first harder.
Its a part of the fight so. it should be taken into consideration
Yeah I guess he's rating the boss not the boss fight
If you’re willing to do skips to get there first, then you might as well kill the dogs before starting the fight.
He rates it on how hard it is to get to not the fight itself
@@mrtisfree As far as I can tell, he's rating the overall difficulty. He explicitly mentions the difficulty of the boss itself for every entry, and with Capra demon went out of his way to say "without the dogs this isn't much to talk about".
Either way, my point isn't really about how he rates it, but more so about how that specific comment doesn't make much sense unless you also demonstrate the cheese strategy (which he didn't).
Another useful thing if you fight pinwheel first:
If you can navigate through the darkness you can get the silver serpent ring. So 20% more souls for the entire game
I guess you could summon Dusk first if you kill the Hydra and then you can use cast light to help with the dark
I had an invader drop it to me while I started undead burg and like 20 large souls. Then 20 minutes later was trolled by an invader using force spam to force me off a cliff.
I agree that would come in handy but that return journey is gonna be a real pain in the ass and if you're good enough to be able to do that you probably don't need the souls to be honest.
@@kie2 That's why I normally skip the return journey by just going down there without resting on any bonfire on the way and just die to get out of there.
If you know where to go, and use a few drops as shortcuts, it's not too difficult.
@@nishiki42 I've only beaten ds1 like 5 times so I guess I'm not on that level yet. I only really do that not resting thing for quelaag.
4:30 - The other benefit to taking out Pinwheel first is that you can then go into the Tomb of the Giants and beeline for the Silver Serpent Ring with the Ring of Sacrifice you can get under the aqueduct equipped then just jump off. You'll keep your Pinwheel Souls and also have the Soul boosting ring from day 1.
4:05 Man I enjoy Runescape's music, this song was stuck in my head for decades. This was a nice video, rather than doing a challenge run you're exploring all the bosses you could potentially fight first.
Fun fact: A madman by the name of NGPlus made a video about beating the dark souls bosses in alphabetical order. He was able to find ways to fight Bed of Chaos, Kalameet, (and by proxy, Manus) first. (I think Artorias might have been possible, too!)
I'm been made aware
How the fuck do you fight Manus first?!
@@serraramayfield9230 Basically you have a friend drop the Purple Coward's Crystal in Firelink so that you can pick it up and us it to wrong-warp outside of the combat arena in the DLC.
"This scope wouldn't be touched again in Elden Ring."
Dark Souls 2 literally had 4 paths you could choose between right off the bat, lol. 5 or 6 if you count the two locations in the pit and the miracle gate being unlocked by the maiden from Heide's Tower of Flame.
You can even go to Eleum Loyce or fight Darklurker as your first boss, that's how open the start is.
it wasnt until my third playthru that i did all the weird ormus stone walls in prison planet and learned how much of a rat maze it is
Yeah but people hate DS2 so they'd prefer it didn't exist probably and hate when it's brought up, personally it's my favorite because of how free it feels
@@LilyApus Same with me. DS2 is honestly my favorite game by From Soft, second only to Elden Ring.
Ok, that Deom FIresage pllunging attack really caught me of guard. I had no Idea what you where going to pull there and I never expected that...somehow. Beutifully done Video.
You can also fight Artorias first. If you have a friend summon you they can drop the purple cowards crystal for you (which is another ordeal on itself as it requires maxing out the invisible item burden before entering the PvP arena fog gate, causing it to be sent to the empty chest in firelink, then constantly try to pick it up, moving it towards an area where you can summon another player a few pixels at a time) so that you can perform a wrong warp with it and go straight to the Artorias arena.
kid yea yea we hear you, ain't no one doing all that just to skip sanctuary guardian 😂
@@ramrodbldm9876 You can say the same about any of the gliches showcased on this video. smh.
@@ramrodbldm9876 I did 😅
Stolen valor comment
I once read you can do Four Kings as second boss since you only need ring from Sif and you don't need to have lord vessel since there is no barrier to them
I believe if you don’t have the Lordvessel you have to kill the guy down in New Londo to get the key to open the floodgate. I don’t think he gives it to you without the Lordvessel
That's true
Master key, down to new londo, path to valley of dragons,up the elevator to darkroot garden in the other side of the bridge, get to Andre, either kill him or buy the artorias thingy,go for sir and then back to new londo right?
@@danielfraiz74 You don't need the Artorias Crest. Near the waterfall left to the Hydra in Darkroot Basin, there's a ladder you can climb that leads you to Sif.
@@leithaziz2716 ah true dat, I always forget that path because I avoid it because of the damn 3 big cats
I'm always surprised to see something I didn't know about Dark Souls even after 10+ years. That new Duke's skip is insane.
Awesome video!
Man DS1 really had a lot of replayability, it''s really timeless.
Even the normal order was such a big challenge for me.. I coudln't imagine beating some of the bosses earlier!
Hello everyone, thank you for watching. Not sure when the next upload will be but I've got some good stuff in the pipeline. Have a nice day.
Edit: Oh and I guess I'd like to say the difficulty ratings I put in the video refer to the methods used to get to the boss, not the fight itself. It's just my opinion anyways just to give some people that aren't too familiar with the glitches a way to understand the effort needed to pull them off.
Any chance of a DS2 video like this? It actually has more bosses available for a first boss before glitches (not sure about with)
Last Giant, Pursuer, Dragonrider, Old Dragonslayer, Royal Rat Vanguard, The Rotten, Scorpioness Najka, and the final 3 are extremely tedious, Dragonrider (duo), Darklurker, and Aava, the King's Pet.
10 total and there is no tutorial boss so they are truly your first boss
6:20 imagine going through Painted World of Ariamis right after the asylum. Good luce trying to surpass those pesky skelleton wheels.
1:43 I thought he was doing a reference to umineko as he talked about summoning beatrice, was fighting a butterfly and talked about a huge amount of souls. Turns out the character beatrice from dark souls is probably an actual easter egg refering to the golden witch beatrice from umineko
My friend: “It doesn’t matter if you’ve never played the game before, just take the giant club and the master key and run straight to Quelaag!”
0:15 that O&S combo would've been so sick if not for the s.
So happy to be recommended a new Dark Souls challenge channel! I will literally never get tired of DS1 content, any excuse to return to Lordran for 20-30 minutes of self-imposed torture is a good one. There's a lot of potential for challenges with mods, too, such as Fog Wall Randomizers and "Use what you see" item randomizer runs which I would love to see more of :)
I had been theory crafting this for a while now, and I actually had no idea gaping dragon was reachable that way so I had written him off.
For those not aware, you can "skip" asylum demon. You kill him to get the big pilgrims key to move to oscar, but quit out before his death is actually registered. That way you reload and he's still alive and technically not beat, but you did kill him so I can understand not counting this. If you do count it that really does make every boss first try.
As others have pointed out, that bosses in alphabetical order video has some great bits of information. BoC is reachable first boss, and so are artorias, manus, and kalameet even if it is incredibly difficult (especially kalameet) and require some online shenanigans.
That just leaves Nito, Four Kings, and Gwyn as unreachable as a first boss.
Nito seems the most likely to fall. You can wrong warp past pinwheel from where you join the gravelord covenant. You just need to find a way to glitch past the golden fog wall. I haven't looked into but I would bet there is a way past it. Not like many people are glitch hunting this because it wouldn't have any speedrun uses.
Four kings is so tantalizingly close. You can reach the area in a multitude of ways without beating any boss, but you can't survive without the ring from sif. No way to get the ring without killing sif, but there is a glitch that allows you to equip certain items in other equipment slots, and if the IDs match up it will be valid. You can get a lot of rings this way, but not the one we need so sadly. We can also get out of bounds and see the "fifth" king which is found under the arena. The fifth king is never fought directly and is only used for keeping track of the boss health (and possibly for the cutscenes?) But there's no known way to hit or attack him. With so many possibilities you would think the four kings would have some crack, but alas.
Gwyn of course is almost certainly never to fall. Finding a way to reach him first would revolutionize the any% route. He can be reached second I believe using sens gate skip, iron golem skip, then beat O&S and then wrong warp. I still believe there is some way to reach the arena without wrong warp even. You can drop past the sealed door and into the kiln directly to the right after andre's room. If you have a bloodstain on those steps leading down into the kiln you can see you are falling directly onto it. Jump onto the railing on the right outside of andre's and aerial roll onto the terrain below. Quit out and arial roll underneath the chapel. If you have you're bloodstain in the right spot you'll go right on top of it. **All** that you need is a way to keep the kiln map loaded while at the chapel and not die to fall damage ;) Ofc finding something revolutionary about map loading/unloading is highly unlikely, but I want to believe.
2:13 but it does have dogs. I'm sorry I cannot accept 0/10 for the Capra Demon, it's at least a 1, 2 if you're SL1.
That plunging attack was so beautiful
Blocked by annotations which i cant turn off
Well after reading these comments, I do appreciate all the mentions. Cool video idea :)
In DSR, after doing the Sen's Skip, if you rest at a bonfire, there is still a way to get back out. It involves jumping out of bounds and memerolling off the top of the fortress.
Oh wow, didn't realize how quickly I clicked! I'd say that Quelaag and Taurus probably don't both deserve the same rating as first bosses, she's gotta at least be a 1 rather than a 0 outta 10. And I'm not sure I'd call the skips full 10/10, there are some set-ups that make em more consistent, making the RNG more about baiting attacks. Had no idea about that last one though, what a great finish lol
My brain grows every time I watch your videos😂
I knew about all of these glitches except for the quitout on the duke's archives elevator jump, that's pretty clever. Nice video!
For the past few years, well since DSR came out, I always go to the Catacombs to take out Pinwheel first, then to Blightown using the Master Key. The Catacombs is fun as hell really low level, and I love Blightown in DSR. In original DS, it was a disaster, like 15-20 fps. Now it’s awesome.
Great video! I dig this stuff.
2:55 "you miss captivation" uh... you meant captivity? x)) very cool video though, was super entertaining to watch and while the editing is very splinplstic, it gets the job done ^-^
The entire Internet at my fingertips and I’m watching another Souls video. Great content !!
This is literally exactly what i was curious about like two days ago, thank you youtube algorithm
This channel is my new favorite 🙏🏽
The title is wrong, because all of these are the second boss fight; you had to fight Asylum Demon first.
Even if you utilize one of the various methods to avoid killing the Asylum Demon, you still had to enter the boss fight and engage with its mechanics. You still get a boss life bar and you still have the (small) chance of being killed by the Asylum Demon. You still "fight" the boss, even if you don't kill it.
There is precisely ONE boss that you can fight first.
Nah
And as you didn’t hear what he said in the video. He said first boss you can fight after reaching firelink shrine…
Nice try being slick
I saw someone mentionning it , but this would be sick in ds2, anyway awesome vid Meta
awesome video! just earned yourself an sub for going up and beyond!
I had no idea you could summon Paladin Leroy in the catacombs. Over a decade later and I'm still learning new things about this game.
While the back half of the game is a lot more linear (basically being a straight shot from Drangleic Castle to endgame) I think DS2 is just about as non-linear as DS1. You have two routes open to you from the start (three if you grind for 1370 health or the silvercat ring) and going even a little bit into one of those will open two more (beat Dragonrider to get access to Huntsman's Copse, or get a Fragrant Branch of Yore to get access to the Shaded Woods).
Great video, dude! Glad to see it's only 5 days old and already has 75K views.
some of these glitches are just insane. had no idea all of that was possible.
"Alright Iron Golem, your task is to make sure only the worthy can get into the city."
Iron Golem: *yeets some random undead into the city*
"YOU HAD ONE JOB!!"
Id like to see this done for ds2 as there’s no tutorial boss and theoretically you could fight the rotten as your first boss
DS2 pioneered the open world soulsborne , with nine or ten bosses available as the first boss WITHOUT glitches .
The pursuer ( depends if you count the one where he falls into the fight without a cutscene )
The last giant
Dragonrider
Old dragonslayer
Royal rat vanguard
The rotten
Scorpioness Najka
Aava , the king's pet
Darklurker
Dragonriders
Can't wait for the Dark Souls 2 version, with how maaany first options there are.
Excellently made. Good job and thank you.
4:40 leroy goes down there automatically if youre wondering you probably did that cuz the phantom walks to the middle when the bos isn‘t in yet
Haven’t watched the video yet but without any glitches at all, the ones that come to mind are Taurus, butterfly, gargoyles, quelaag, sif, Capra, stray, and pinwheel
Cool video I recently started Dark Souls back and I'm definitely going to take on Pinwheel early!
The firesage one was crazy. Never seen that one before.
This was the coolest soulsborne video ive seen in years
"Lets watch" - Slaps end card in front of footage.
Sea Shanty 2, good lad.
I accept that pronunciation of Quelaag. At 2:57 instead of "captivation" I think you wanted the word "captivity." Captivation would be the state of being captivated or in awe of someone or something. Great vid. I'll have to watch some more from you.
Which boss do you wanna face first?
This guy: Yes
You can beat firesage in the remaster too
You have to do the same glitch that you used to kill the centipede but instead of trying to fall down you try to go back
My jaw literally dropped at the end how do I keep learning shit about this decade and change old game
I thought I was the only one who got Rite of Kindling first in a run (and usually the Great Scythe), can really be helpful when you're new to the game
Great video 💯
I have seen a lot of cool boss skip type stuff in my years of dark souls enjoying but the fucking demon firesage plunge attack might be the coolest thing I have ever seen done, and the most unexpected.
I think a quick explanation of what the death cam actually is and how it works would go a long way for new players.
Otherwise, it's a great video and could serve as an (unintentional?) introduction to the speed souls community.
It makes me so happy to see people still putting out content on a decade-old game that I spent so much of my life on.
2:57
Captivity, not captivation.
I always go for pinwheel first for a good cash of souls and the silver serpent ring.
I was thinking about this the other day
I love ds1 so fucking much it's unreal
Music for the Gaping Dragon section was unfathomably funky
It would have been nice to see a summary...
How many bosses were low difficulty?
How many total?
Also I'm curious how many of the 165 Elden ring bosses can be fought first without glitches... I bet it's a huge number
I’ll just say I did Pinwheel first and 99% if my time in the catacombs was getting there lol
Same I wasn’t aware anywhere else existed so I was like 🤷♂️ guess I’m supposed to die 500 times before fighting a boss. Dark souls is supposed to be hard after all 🤷♂️
@@gears132 Those skeleton wheels were hell. When you’re a level 10 new player you don’t have the stats or game knowledge to kill, outrun, or tank them. I ended up grinding to level 30 on the skeletons, beat Pinwheel first try and then trying to go into Tomb of Giants only to get blocked by that fog.
There's a reverse sins skip if you want to rest inside
Something useful to note for PtDE players using DSFix attempting the final glitch - you don't actually need to restart the game to switch to 30FPS, just hit backspace a few times. This toggles DSFix's FPS override.
the morning star under the elevator to the church is actually pretty good against stray demon even unupgraded (because all "fat" enemies bleed really well) and easily gotten right away. I like doing stray before gargoyles in to also get another try at some black knight weapons and grab the doll early
I actually really enjoyed this vid. Also. Seeing a darksouls boss have a 0/10 difficulty rating made me spit out my coffee 🤣
Something interesting I found out doing a lot of early game scurrying around like this is that you can actually climb the ladder up to the forest hunters area without killing the hydra. Sometimes they just can’t nail you with enough water bullets but sometimes you will just die too. Come to think of it you might even be able to quit out near the bottom for more consistency but I haven’t tried it
9:30 you needed 15 flasks to do ceaseless skip, which would require you kill pinwheel first, unless you 1) can find a more optimal way to do the skip with only 10 flasks, 2) are playing in NG+ and kindled a bonfire in a previous playthrough to get 15 flasks before entering the demon ruins, or 3) wait by a bonfire that players have to light when they first reach while in online mode and afk to get up to 15 flasks (for those that don't know, if you're close to a bonfire that another player activates in their world, and you're playing online, you will get a bonus flask)
I know this is extremely late, but the video was using +0 flasks so you could potentially make the skip with 10 flasks if you grab a couple firekeeper souls and upgrade it.
Just +3 is enough to get double the health per flask so you'd already be looking at a very comfortable 8 flasks for the skip.
Or you know... just pop a couple of humanities for healing.
@@Dadik2580 since watching this video ive seen ceaseless skip done with significantly fewer flasks, so yeah, you don't need to kill pinwheel first
coldest ending to the video I could've expected
Awesome video, instant sub :D
Sif : 0/10 difficulty
Over 9000 emotional damage.
Another comment already said this but all the dlc bosses are possible with multiplayer shenanigans
But you can also do Nito and Bed of Chaos first, from the same NGPlus video, you can use the coffin to get into Nito's bossroom, the force quit wrong warp to the start of the Tomb of the Giants. For Bed of Chaos you can use the Centipede demons grab attack to teleport past his bossroom, it's the same glitch as the worm to get into Centipede and as the Iron Golem skip
So out of the 25 bosses ( not counting Asylum demon) 23 are possible as the first
Only missing ones are Gwyn and the Four Lords
Four Lords are definitely impossible without killing Sif
Gwyn might be possible, but it probably would've been found already since it'd be very useful for any% speedruns
Can't you Wrong-Warp to get to the Kiln of the First Flame? I thought I saw speedrunners doing that by cancelling the animation for Homeward Miracle and then quickly resting at the Undead Parish bonfire above Andre.
@@leithaziz2716 To do that you need to have rested at the Firelink Altar bonfire
You can't do that until you ring both bells
It could be possible if you somehow skipped past the Gargoyles, ring the bell, then do the Quelaag skip, ring her bell and then wrong warp
I don't think there's a way to skip the Gargoyles though
Damn, had the same idea for this very video, but ya beat me to it! XD
This list is put together without factoring in glitches, and not counting the initial tutorial in Undead Asylum, until after you arrive in Lordran for the first time. It also requires that the player take the Master Key as their starting gift.
* = Required to complete game.
First Boss:
Tarus Demon
Capra Demon
* Bell Gargoyle/s
* Quelaag
* Sif (Crest of Artorias required, or fight Hydra)
Moonlight Butterlfy
* Pinwheel
Stray Demon
Second Boss: (Requires the defeat of one previous boss to access)
Gaping Dragon (Capra)
* Four Kings (Sif -> kill Ingward for key)
* Ceaseless Discharge (Quelaag)
Third Boss: (Requires two Bells of Awakening)
* Iron Golem
Fourth Boss: (Requires access to Anor Londo)
* Ornstein and Smough
Half-Breed Priscilla (Peculiar Doll required)
Dark Sun Gwyndolin (Seance Ring required)
Fifth Boss: (Requires Lord Vessel)
* Seath the Scaleless
DLC - Sanctuary Guardian (Rescue Princess Dusk and get the Broken Pendant)
Sixth Boss: (Requires Lord Vessel+)
Demon Fire Sage (Ceaseless)
Centipede Demon (Ceaseless)
* Gravelord Nito (Pinwheel)
* The Witch of Izalith (Ceaseless, potentially Centipede Demon)
DLC - Atorias the Abyss Walker (Sanctuary Guardian, does NOT require Lord Vessel)
Seventh Boss: (DLC only)
Kalameet
Manus, Father of the Abyss
Final Boss: (Requires access to the Kiln of the First Flame)
* Gwyn Lord of Cinder (Requires a minimum of 11 bosses to reach)
How would you kill Capra first without the master key? I havent played the game in so long i don't remember
@@DrClock-il8ij you can make a risky jump in upper burg
@@Gakusangi Oh right. I guess thats not a glitch even if not intentional.
@@DrClock-il8ij and as far as recall, it wasn't "fixed" in the remaster either.
@@Gakusangi No shortcuts were fixed in the remaster. You can still skip Capra and half of Anor Londo
THE DEMON FIRESAGE?! Wow. GOTTA remember that for speedruns.
"Sif isnt too bad, again, especially with BLEED weapons.". You monster. 😧
4:40 i use to visit Molinito after escaping from the asylum with my reinforced club +5
My man did NOT casually drop Runescape music into this video. I'd recognize that shit anywhere.
You're god damn right
Cool video, just wanted to add that you can actually do bed of chaos as second boss too, get 30 humanities, do the quelaag, enter the chaos coven, get to 2nd tier, do the ceaseless skip, go to bed of chaos through the solar worms tunnel
You could also do Bed of Chaos first by skipping Quelaag and offering 30 humanity to her sister for the shortcut by farming the rat near Firelink
Unfortunately you couldn't as you would need to get past the golden fog door but I guess I didn't touch on that in the vid so that's my bad.
@@MrMetagross What if you do that on the PTDE version and do the skip to the firesage. The fog gate closes his arena, so if you kill him, you should be able to access everything after him, right?
@@EwiwasSmile while true, it would mean you still couldn't fight bed of chaos first.
@@MrMetagross Oh, I see.
@@MrMetagross oh right, my bad. I always forget that the boss fog and the golden fog are 2 different ones
Super interesting video, thanks!
During my first playthrough I actually accidentally performed the Worm Glitch but then I fell down from the invisible platform and died to lava.
Fun idea I liked watching it
There is actually a somewhat easier way of skipping the golden fog gate at dukes archives. It requires some out of bounds parkour but I believe its used in the ptde all bosses speedrun and maarionete speedruns has a tutorial on it.
Trust me, it isnt easier lol
it's more complex but doesn't require fall control, the ring, meme rolling, or the fact that if you don't wanna get softlocked you can't hit the bonfire in Anor Londo and thus can do it without doing golem skip every time. I'd definitely go for it if I was trying to beat the DLC first.
I actually just tried it today and quelagg is a very easy boss to do early. If you kill mildred and then summon her for quelagg all you need is either 30 or so arrows or some amount of spells.
By shooting her torso repeatedly you can nearly stunlock her whil mildred does the damage. You then have acess to ceaseless discharge for even more easy souls.
Always remember: plunging attack is the most reliable move in the game. Also I think it would be worth it to mention the true Asylum demon skip
the demon firesage pluge literally made my jaw drop
Obvious answer is 1, any bosses after that won't be first!
Can you imagine a first time souls player killing Priscilla as their first boss 😂
No
How do you get the doll tho without doing stray demon first?
@@CodeYaMaster he did it in the video just saying imagine a first time player does all these sequence breaks accidentally and when asked who their first boss was the answer: Priscilla
@@williame2258 he didn't. He showed that you can do stray first and how to get to anor londo without any bosses, but he didn't show how to get the doll that you'll usually only get after stray
@@CodeYaMaster You probably searched this up already, but you don't need to kill stray demon. When you return to the Asylum by ordinarily just running through Firelink --> (with master key or by opening the New Londo flood gates) Valley Of Drakes --> Darkroot Basin --> Darkroot Garden --> Undead Parish --> Firelink, you can just run back to the starting cell by circumvating the crumbling floor and pick up the doll.
If I'm remembering correctly, back in the very first few patches of the game on the original console releases, prior to the prepare to die edition, there was a set of glitches that allowed you to fight gwyn almost immediately. The only thing I can't quite remember is whether any other bosses had to be fought first.
Edit: Finally found stuff on this, and unfortunately the lordvessel still needed to be acquired to perform the wrongwarp glitch, it only bypassed the lord souls. Though I have to wonder if the lordvessel really requires killed bosses, given it's possible to at least reach O&S without killing any other bosses.
so in theory you could have fought O and S first, and then gone right to Gwyn lol
You could also reach Bed of Chaos with duping Humanities and giving them to Quelaag's sister in order to use the shortcut.
first thing first, you need to skip the asylum demon with the black fire bombs, but in that case, you can't no longer pick the dull since it requires that the new lair be loaded on undead asylum so technically you can't go to the painted world;
great video noun the less, keep up the good work
I love ridiculous video ideas like this, there’s always an original idea in this game
I thought that you could skip queelag than spend 30 humanity and your first boss is bed of chaos. Doesn’t it work ?
Edit: I just realized that the golden fog gate stops you from doing that
You can plunge to Firesage and quit out, it should put you in that corridor between gold fog and Firesage fog. Just pay up 30 humanities prior and there you are - BoC as first boss after Asylum.
@@undeadmercenary2080 Quitting out in the firesage arena would propably put you back next to the elevator you fell down, since that's the last stable ground you stood on.
@@Markus-8Muireg You would think but maybe not, quitting out while falling through the death plain in Old Londo Ruins lets you wander around an unloaded [underwater] ruins.
Source: I'm a filthy pleb who spam quits to beat gravity.
"This boss will likely kill you in one hit"
Difficulty 1/10
He said that the difficulty is based on how difficult its actually GETTING to fight the boss as your first boss, not for the actual fight.
3:06 Become an egg? Not again...
After killing pinwheel i go back to the bonfire, use the souls and then go straight to tomb of the giants to get the CSSR for the extra souls in every boss fight.