My favourite piece of piano music ever, gets me in the feels every single time, especially when it plays during the ending cutscene with Tidus saying goodbye.
You are the first Souls - challenge run person that popped into my homepage and got me interested into doing it and watching all these other great people doing it. Great job this was insane!
I love how dark souls challenge runs are always so inspirational and uplifting Just as our lord and savior lemon says "It always seems impossible until you do it "
Well I think the obvious improvement would be if I had one shotted the bosses in alphabetical order.. ....seriously thank you, that's high praise! 😊 Love your work!
How you reacted upon finally one-shotting Manus was pretty much how I reacted upon finally defeating him at all. Action games are not my forte. I grew up on a diet of JRPGs. The fact that I'd finally got in enough perfect dodges and timely strikes to take down easily the toughest boss in Dark Souls felt like a gargantuan achievement for me. This is something else. Well done.
I’ve been playing DS1 while watching this, and the skit of you grabbing your ps5 controller and loading onto your character basically perfectly matched up with me doing it. I feel cool as hell now
Mad respect and huge congrats. You achieved your goal, but most importantly you didn't give up. I'm pretty sure this video will be great inspiration for both players and content creators, and for people who have very hard goal to achieve and are/were very close to abandon it.
I would say the four kings have different health bars because when you lock on you can see a health bar so while they share one at the bottom of the screen you did it still
@@equious8413 depends! With some like Fire Tempest, it's not very possible because the abyss does some weird shit to the fire pillars. With some other kind of AOE, it might be possible. But hard to survive that long plus you're down a ring slot
@@JKLeeds I think the AI of the kings is also kind of an issue with the AoE multiple Kings strategy. Typically even with multiple Kings they seem to follow a pattern where one will be close to you, and the others hang back and harass you with ranged attacks, this would leave an obnoxiously small window to pull off a multihit when they're shuffling around which king is doing what.
i remember watching a video where someone also equipped something that made his character reconver 1% health per second, enabling him to keep "power within" going much longer.
@@JKLeeds We love to hear it. You, press continue, lemon, baron and people like toto triceps and the smaller people in the community gave me the motivation to try challenge running. Sadly real life hit and i didnt have the time to finish one yet, but i have come pretty far on some, which i honestly didnt expect. Love the community and its always entertaining to see what players better than me can do. (bet i missed someone in my mentions but hey challengers community love y'all (: hehe)
I like the idea of assigning point values to actions (basic boss kills +1, big boy bosses +2, levels -1, upgrading a weapon -1 etc) and competing for points in a run 🤔
G fucking g man on that manus fight I was over the moon you finally did it I know the heartache of not being able to kill a boss and going at it over and over and over so we’ll done bro you should be proud of yourself ❤
After many many hours of my life spent playing dark souls I never ONCE considered using the slope in qulaags boss room to plunge attack. That's kinda freaking awesome and more than a little impressive!
Aint there a firespell out there you can keep pressing and you can just flamethrower the four kings out of existence, since you only pressed the button once?
This is the same as somethodox's video 10 years ago. Great series i still remember watching it when it first came out. Your video was great, also the first video of yours i saw. Definitely subscribed
Yeah I actually remember watching that video all that time ago, it was one of the first Souls challenge runs I ever watched, so getting to try recreate was a cool experience! Glad you enjoyed the vid and welcome 😄
Great run and props to your patience with manus! You didnt get the point for one shotting dusk after the manus fight. She only spawns once there and if you die after the fight she despawns.
a hot tip for the pyro glove and power within. upgrading the glove doesnt increase the buff but it does increase the damage you take from it, so if you are able to get a second glove, its worth it to keep one level 1 to use power within and another max to use other pyromancies!
Hey so not sure where you heard this but I can 100% confirm that's not the case. The damage taken is the same regardless of Pyro glove upgrade, at least in the most recent versions of DS1, not sure if maybe it was different in the day one version or something but right now the damage you take from power within doesn't change unless you equip lingering dragoncrest ring.
3:30 Not considering Asylum Demon (who isn't included in the rules of this challenge) you only have to beat one boss to get the pyromancy flame: Capra Demon.
A oneshot run is honestly one of the best experiences to do IMO. I once did it on NG+ after trying to platinum remaster. Instead of killing the bosses naturally, I decided to see if a one shot run is doable. and Man, discovering the Dark Bead trick just cut probably 5 hours of NG+ down to just 2. The only thing that made it somewhat non-legit was that I had to do the Soul dupe to get my Int to 99 since my NG character was a Quality build, and I ended NG with only 9 INT.
Although i love DS challenge runs and have seen a lot of them i think i never saw your channel. Which is really a shame because, besides the obvious skill, your narration and humor is really nice...kinda like Lemon. So congrats and i'll wait for Lemons video :)
While obviously it would be amazing to get that true one shot, 4 kings arguably falls into the multiple health bar rules because of the odd way damage is calculated for him (see max number of kings spawned by Limit Breakers for break down of said mechanic)
Aye Bru I feel you on that, I remember when I tried doing sl1 for the first time, then when I beat that I started my own one shot run, I am personally still stuck stuck on manus for a week straight, I’m not giving up till he is dead idk that’s just how I am
Those vids are definetly worth a watch, especially his elden ring video. It's both really informative and really entertaining with so many weapons I've used from the game
10 points for anyone who recognises the music playing around the Manus section
the first song is zelda oof when ganon appears
FFX To Zanarkand!
Great video JK.
Looking forward to seeing the rest of the challengers on the backlogs.
To zanarkand 😢
It sounded very much like FF music, but had to google 'To Zanarkland'. 5 points maybe?
My favourite piece of piano music ever, gets me in the feels every single time, especially when it plays during the ending cutscene with Tidus saying goodbye.
It always seems impossible until it is done :)
Great quote! I think I heard some guy on UA-cam say that one time 🤔😂
he said the thing haha
Sooo.... Someone _actually_ one shot The Four Kings? ^^
(He’s talking about dying to pinwheel)
Hi Lemon!
Mad respect for manus. I dont even have the patience for manus in a normal run.
It nearly killed me 😂
@@JKLeedslooks like it did😂
@@yadigg4775 Multiple times!
Lemon specifically said to NOT kill priscilla? I'm astounded
I think primarily because of the potential glitch situation. Or maybe because waifu...who knows?
@@JKLeeds Must be due to waifu since you can aggro her then reload, enter the fog and maneuvre around her while she's invisible to get a kill.
@@JaneDoe-mp4dhPriscilla too wholesome to kill.
Poor Priscilla
You are the first Souls - challenge run person that popped into my homepage and got me interested into doing it and watching all these other great people doing it. Great job this was insane!
Ah that's really nice feedback! Glad youre liking the content 🙂
I really hope iron pineapple is participating. He did this five years ago.
I think I saw that one a while back
I'm sure glad I don't have to go through all of that as well...
... oh wait...
You'll be fine, just continue to press on 😄
*It was at this moment that he knew he forked up*
I love how dark souls challenge runs are always so inspirational and uplifting
Just as our lord and savior lemon says
"It always seems impossible until you do it "
Words to live by!
I love the Banjo and Kazooie sounds going on for no reason at all.
Hope they're weren't too unBEARable 😁
Loved the banjo Kazooie sound effects. Snow world form the game for the Manus win was epic.
Great stuff, can't see how it could be improved much over this. Well done
Well I think the obvious improvement would be if I had one shotted the bosses in alphabetical order..
....seriously thank you, that's high praise! 😊 Love your work!
How you reacted upon finally one-shotting Manus was pretty much how I reacted upon finally defeating him at all. Action games are not my forte. I grew up on a diet of JRPGs. The fact that I'd finally got in enough perfect dodges and timely strikes to take down easily the toughest boss in Dark Souls felt like a gargantuan achievement for me.
This is something else. Well done.
Yeah that was also me the first time I ever beat Kalameet! This was next level though. Glad you enjoyed the video 🙂
I’ve been playing DS1 while watching this, and the skit of you grabbing your ps5 controller and loading onto your character basically perfectly matched up with me doing it. I feel cool as hell now
Mad respect and huge congrats. You achieved your goal, but most importantly you didn't give up.
I'm pretty sure this video will be great inspiration for both players and content creators, and for people who have very hard goal to achieve and are/were very close to abandon it.
Haha I hope so! Thanks for the kind words 🙏
First attempt the next morning after failing 30 times the previous day is classic dark souls 😂
that's quite the throwback, this is vageta311's one-shot challenge.
just checked the video, that was 10 years ago xD
I would say the four kings have different health bars because when you lock on you can see a health bar so while they share one at the bottom of the screen you did it still
In my own mind I'm still happy with it but yeah the specific rules of Lemon's run stated that it had to be the whole bottom health bar in one hit
@@JKLeeds how possible is it to let multiple kings spawn and hitting them with one big ass AoE?
@@equious8413 depends! With some like Fire Tempest, it's not very possible because the abyss does some weird shit to the fire pillars. With some other kind of AOE, it might be possible. But hard to survive that long plus you're down a ring slot
@@JKLeeds I think the AI of the kings is also kind of an issue with the AoE multiple Kings strategy. Typically even with multiple Kings they seem to follow a pattern where one will be close to you, and the others hang back and harass you with ranged attacks, this would leave an obnoxiously small window to pull off a multihit when they're shuffling around which king is doing what.
Yeah I had a few attempts and trying to get them all together is far from easy
hey that's Vageta311's exact one-shot challenge ruleset
what a legend he was
The Manus story is one to tell your grandchildren... It was glorious
Guess you coulda agro'd Priscilla with weak attacks, returned to the bonfire then walked to her fog gate again to oneshot her while she is agro'd 🤔
24:47 bro’s playing with a disconnected controller, no wonder he can’t do it
😂😂😂
i remember watching a video where someone also equipped something that made his character reconver 1% health per second, enabling him to keep "power within" going much longer.
damn love lemons stuff glad to see ya participating
Me too! He was one of my inspirations to become a Souls UA-camr myself
@@JKLeeds We love to hear it. You, press continue, lemon, baron and people like toto triceps and the smaller people in the community gave me the motivation to try challenge running. Sadly real life hit and i didnt have the time to finish one yet, but i have come pretty far on some, which i honestly didnt expect. Love the community and its always entertaining to see what players better than me can do. (bet i missed someone in my mentions but hey challengers community love y'all (: hehe)
What a lovely message! It's a great community for sure! Hit me up when you drop a vid, I'll give ya a watch for sure 🙂
Thank you for making such great content
You're too kind 🙂 thank you for watching it!
"Do you have police where you live?" is perhaps one of my favorite guest Lemon gags.
Funnily enough, it's one of mine too 😄
You should have seen the smile on my face when you finally killed manus - I began to tear up
Hey, nice job! Your persistence and patience with this was pretty incredible.
-one of Lemon's moderators
Thank you so much 💗
The banjo background music is incredibly nostalgic, love it
Thank you! It brings a big smile to my face ☺️
No matter where you end up in the competition, this was really great and impressively done!
Thanks! I'm fairly certain I won't place high but I'm proud of what I did here and 🙂
@@JKLeeds You should be. And I'm sure Lemon, the patience elemental himself, is proud too.
@@JKLeeds when are the results in, and where can I check them?
Probably not for another month or so, Lemon will release the video on his Backlogs channel (I'll probably be last place 😂)
@@JKLeeds give yourself some credit men, you did great!
I like the idea of assigning point values to actions (basic boss kills +1, big boy bosses +2, levels -1, upgrading a weapon -1 etc) and competing for points in a run 🤔
Yeah it's a cool concept 😎
G fucking g man on that manus fight I was over the moon you finally did it I know the heartache of not being able to kill a boss and going at it over and over and over so we’ll done bro you should be proud of yourself ❤
After many many hours of my life spent playing dark souls I never ONCE considered using the slope in qulaags boss room to plunge attack. That's kinda freaking awesome and more than a little impressive!
Me neither before this run! 😂
Great Video my Guy❤
And great puns with the bosses names near the end 😂😂😂😂
Thanks my dude! Sometimes I just go into the zone and I see nothing but puns. I call it PUNnel vision
@@JKLeeds God damn stop it already 😆😂😂😂
Great work Mate you got a new sub here.
Aint there a firespell out there you can keep pressing and you can just flamethrower the four kings out of existence, since you only pressed the button once?
When you tickled the Taurus Demon off the edge I couldn't help but chuckle.
Lmao that man screaming sound effect when npcs fall off cliffs gets me every time lol
This is the same as somethodox's video 10 years ago. Great series i still remember watching it when it first came out. Your video was great, also the first video of yours i saw. Definitely subscribed
Yeah I actually remember watching that video all that time ago, it was one of the first Souls challenge runs I ever watched, so getting to try recreate was a cool experience!
Glad you enjoyed the vid and welcome 😄
Dude, great work and video, I was so surprised to see you only have 15k subs, you’re gonna make it big
Using Ganondorf's theme for Manus fits pretty well.
Great run and props to your patience with manus! You didnt get the point for one shotting dusk after the manus fight. She only spawns once there and if you die after the fight she despawns.
a hot tip for the pyro glove and power within. upgrading the glove doesnt increase the buff but it does increase the damage you take from it, so if you are able to get a second glove, its worth it to keep one level 1 to use power within and another max to use other pyromancies!
Hey so not sure where you heard this but I can 100% confirm that's not the case. The damage taken is the same regardless of Pyro glove upgrade, at least in the most recent versions of DS1, not sure if maybe it was different in the day one version or something but right now the damage you take from power within doesn't change unless you equip lingering dragoncrest ring.
That manus kill is why we take breaks when we’re struggling. Ggs
Lemon JUST released his complication video a few days ago!
he said it took a long time, because there was just so much footage to go through.
That was excellent 🙏🏻
Way I see it, you ARE one of ‘those’ UA-camrs that we admire so much
Ahh you're too kind 🙂 I don't think I'm there just yet but hope to be someday!
Oh, I remember practically the same challenge from about 10 years ago on vageta's channel
This is indeed a variant of that chap's
First time I’ve seen that way to dodge the barrel and kill the knight damn
I haven't even noticed that you used your same yoke twiche😂 such a great video. Love it❤
when it floats down, absolutely laughing my ass off XD
10:17
I lol'ed pretty hard tbf
oh i just got, it floats down HAHAHAHAAHA shitting myself
Silver septent ring is your friend. Doubles souls gain. You can put it on when the boss is in its deathanimation to get double souls ;)
I miss my mexican chicken baguette from Greggs :(
I'm really enjoying this contest.. so many faces i didn't know!
It was really fun to do actually....well apart from Manus 😂
The Manus bit made me cry
Excellent work!
Me too, but probably for different reasons 😂
3:30 Not considering Asylum Demon (who isn't included in the rules of this challenge) you only have to beat one boss to get the pyromancy flame: Capra Demon.
Yeah that's true actually, forgot you can get to Capra without beating Taurus Demon.
@@JKLeeds Not that it really matters in the end, you beat the challenge anyway.
You are the only person I have seen get the boosted hit on the last hit he takes.
Great job on the run and delivery of voiceover, very nice video
Thank you 😊
Your videos are so relaxing man
A oneshot run is honestly one of the best experiences to do IMO. I once did it on NG+ after trying to platinum remaster. Instead of killing the bosses naturally, I decided to see if a one shot run is doable. and Man, discovering the Dark Bead trick just cut probably 5 hours of NG+ down to just 2. The only thing that made it somewhat non-legit was that I had to do the Soul dupe to get my Int to 99 since my NG character was a Quality build, and I ended NG with only 9 INT.
Yeah I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it....up until Manus 😂😂😂
The manus fight is bonkers. Take a sub, look forward to more from you.
Thank you! Glad you liked it, I've just about recovered from it a month later
Also the large club is just fuckin hilarious to use
Although i love DS challenge runs and have seen a lot of them i think i never saw your channel.
Which is really a shame because, besides the obvious skill, your narration and humor is really nice...kinda like Lemon.
So congrats and i'll wait for Lemons video :)
Thank you! Glad to hear you enjoyed the video and welcome to the channel 🙂
The Banjo-Kazooie soundtrack in the background makes this video just that much better
It’s my first time seeing one of your videos and I absolutely loved it!!! great challenge run and the manus fight really amazed me😆
Welcome 🙂 glad you liked the video!
They say that determination is the determining factor in success.
In this case, it's probably more stupidity of not knowing when to give up 😂
Super entertaining. Instasub! Congrats on Manus.
I absolutely love the puns 😂
Great Job on the challange and i'll be looking forward to your next Videos 😊
Thank you! I'll have more videos and more puns coming VERY soon. I particularly like challenge runs that are PUNishing
Just found your content. I enjoyed this! I loved the sound effects too. I kept thinking “Is that Banjo Kazooie?” 😂
Glad you liked it and welcome! 🙂 I can confirm it is indeed Banjo Kazooie! A cherished childhood game of mine 😄
@@JKLeeds Same here. One of my first favorite games. I obsessed over it!
Keep up the good work
I loved the goofy sounds effects
Great video my friend! :)
This comment's gonna cost you extra 😉
Thanks brother!
Man, A German Spy used to do stuff like that too.
Before searching, I'd never heard of this guy and I thought you were saying an actual German spy was playing Dark Souls 😂
Well done, especially with defeating Manus
Thanks friend! I nearly went hollow but it was...worth it? Maybe? 😂😂
honestly, 4 kings should be worth 50 points hahahahahaha
Just got me wanting to play DS1 again.
This was incredible, dude! Great job!
Thanks regular viewer man 😃
@@JKLeeds wouldn’t miss a great video from you, man 🫡👊🏼
Glad to have you my dude!
Ya did good JK Leeds, hope you get a lot of points
Thank you 😊
You are the best Dark Souls youtuber, I MEAN IT.
u rly an underrated ass souls tuber, always coming back to ur content🔥🔥
Thanks brah! Glad you like it 🙂
@@JKLeeds keep it up goat🐐
While obviously it would be amazing to get that true one shot, 4 kings arguably falls into the multiple health bar rules because of the odd way damage is calculated for him (see max number of kings spawned by Limit Breakers for break down of said mechanic)
someone one shotted them... meaty jesus on yt
16:34 love tye Banjo Kazzoie sounds and tracks lol 😆
Me too 😄😁
11:30 what a great song 🎶
being forced to miss dusk sucks but manus alone is crazy
It was an awesome video. My only gripe would be the overuse of the Banjo Kazooie sound effects. Besides that this was really cool.
Excellent video! Can’t believe you bested Manus. Also I hope you’re enjoying Tears of the Kingdom if you’ve had any free time
Oh my friend, we're 250 hours deep into Tears of the Kingdom 😆 absolutely love it!
Glad you liked the video 🙂
Congratulations on Manus!!!!!
4:28 "Honestly it often feels less than that" this is so true lol.
Some of the other guys in the challenge said it took like 8 hours to farm them 😱 plus the Torso stone doesn't increase pyro damage
I love these sound effects
A tribute to a childhood favourite of mine 😄
Very good challenge !
So that's what Lemon's cooking
Sad to see the run didn't end with Moan%. Would have been the absolute best way to finish it off.
Great stuff all the same
Aye Bru I feel you on that, I remember when I tried doing sl1 for the first time, then when I beat that I started my own one shot run, I am personally still stuck stuck on manus for a week straight, I’m not giving up till he is dead idk that’s just how I am
You showing me that he needs to jump and you explaining that will be useful cus never knew that so thanks, Good job on beating it
Thanks! It's a literal lottery so good luck!
Have you seen Infernoplus' one shot series, it's has pretty creative ways to one shot bosses in this series
I have not, I'll give it a watch!
Those vids are definetly worth a watch, especially his elden ring video. It's both really informative and really entertaining with so many weapons I've used from the game
The four kings has final been 1 shot properly
Really makes me want to play Banjoo Kazooie
So much nostalgia!
8:59 you monster! 😂
Meaty Jesus actually killed the 4 kings glitchless but it was pretty annoying to do
I have seen someone oneshoting four kings, it is a video called “ the true power of darkbead”
My bad he did not one shot , he two shot them
Yeah I saw that exact one! I searched a long time for 4 Kings one shot vids
He almost went hollow there
Essential Garg-oils
My man
You know it!
My man here loves banjo kazooie 🤣
That was fun.
Watching you try this was really painful…
Funnily enough, trying it was actually also really painful 😂