I'm currently working on a "Depopulating Drangleic" run of DS2, and this video pops up in my feed! Happy to see other people still enjoying DS2! Great video, you got a new subscriber :)
@@greatconfabulatorI mean that's good since you kinda can just softlock yourself if they didn't respawn I know that exists CoC pact but i bet almost no one would know if they do that
You said that one of the possible requirements to be considered true cheese is for the boss to be harmless to you, and under those rules, the cheese for the Royal Rat Authority is true cheese. After all, the only threat in that fight are the small rats
Yoooo! Happy to contribute to some DS2 content! The pursuer dupe was collaborative effort after I discovered you could spawn a fake Dragonrider in Heides. Then, me Elo and Doom338 figured we could duplicate pursuer too. And current patch partywalk was found by me :) There is an alternative way of doing Attunement glitch on console. It's done by sitting at the bonfire in Iron keep thereby dying and you are able to navigate the menu and attune there
@@nathanjora7627get as far as you can from the bonfire on the lava side and interact with it, you'll sit down in the lava while in the bonfire menu and eventually die. Before death you need to open the attunement menu and hover over the spell you want to swap to and time the input right before the load similar to PC Sorry I don't have a video on hand but I hope the explanation sufficed.
I read the title as "How many bosses can you turn into cheese"... I won't lie, I'm disappointed by the lack of polymorphic cheese chicanery. However, this is still a great vid!
I like how most of these cheeses are significantly more difficult than actually doing the bosses in DS2. That you have to do the levels, which are harder than the bosses, to be able to cheese the boss is hilarious.
Right, he looks so awkward, like.... "uhh... I thought you wanted to fight. So uhmmm, I... I am not much of an small talker, if you do not want to fight I will just... leave. If that is ok with you. Not that I think youa rea bad talker, I just, uhmmm, I only know how to fight ok? Really, I don't know why i can't stop talking... this has never happened to me before.... I am trying to leave... just that the lava is quite deep, and it is hard to move on lava. Have you ever moved on lava? I suppose not.... well, anyway, could you please just stop staring... please. If I could leave any faster I would"
I love this video. It takes me back to the Lobos challange run days where challenge run videos were more long form and informative than the cheap, click bait they are now.
The tiniest of tweaks but since there was a decent amount of sniping left, Bow of Want might've been a nice upgrade, given you were already on lightning arrows anyway
47:37 I remember seeing this cheese in a video ages ago although with the firestorm spell so it could be done at level 1. I even used it myself on occasion but when I went to look for the video it had disappeared from the internet so I couldn’t share it with other people so I’m thankful I have documented again
I love these videos so, so much - seeing strategies from speedruns applied in niche ways or different glitches alltogether that aren't helpful to speedrunning is really interesting :)
Why does this have less than a few thousand likes? This is literally perfectly formatted! Tells you everything you need, and some thing wayyy in advance. Gives proper information on why something does what it does to glitch in the needed manner, etc.
I'm loving all the creative way to turn the game's peculiar mechanics against it. Great narrative: clear and well-paced ❤ Also, holy s-, the Iron King cheese had me in tears. He looked so embarrassed 😂😂😂
There's also a spell attunement glitch for console but you need the iron keep starting bonfire. You can sit far enough to die whilst in the spell menu and switch out your spell for another (press x as soon as the menu disappears and screen blacks out)
With a well built character and fully upgraded twinblade and a brightbug, I've seen speedrunners take down Ehlana while she's still monologuing. Looks pretty cheesy to me.
Hearing Souls content creators casually talk about the BONKERS glitchs and skips in the games is so weird sometimes (and always fun). Like "yeah, just parry this guy with the camera tilted exactly 76 degrees on the horizontal and then roll three times to appear at the other side of the world". Beautiful.
the skeleton lords fight reminds me of those videos where the camera has been positioned high up and angled just right to make everything look like toys.
the fact vendrick's cheese is still so difficult is maybe the most fitting thing ever for the bulkiest and nost damaging boss in the entire game. ggs tanimura
I remembered two other things：First you can leave Rat Vanguard area by use butterfly jump, through the window and jump onto the hallway, even if you falls into a ditch, soul appease still work. Another thing Ivory king AI broken in current patch is actually exist, you need a player white phantom standing in a very specific position when she came out of the door, I saw it in a video a few years ago, but don't know the details and lost this vedio.
I followed your jump at 2:00 and I literally don't get enough forward momentum to make the jump, I'm running out of effigies :( (Edit: apparently the B button causes you to lose momentum so I swapped to LS and it worked flawlessly)
For Elana, I know it’s possible to completely skip her and get into the small cave before Sinh. It’s done by parry walking, building up speed, grabbing a certain ladder in the pyramid area, and doing the ladder glitch to slide infinitely down into the cave. Would it be possible dark fog her from the cave end this way? The hit box might just be large enough.
She can't be hurt without triggering the fight first unfortunately. It is possible to trigger the fight and get back out of the fog gate; but there's no way to get back up to the ladder used for the skip once you're down there.
The intended cheese for Covetous demon doesn't require a great bow, a normal bow can do it but you have to use iron arrows, and in my most recent playthrough Dark Orb also worked to break the pots, I wouldn't be surprised if a soul arrow or lightning spear also did the trick.
24:00 "Some of you may be wondering about the cheese where you break the jars with the hollows in them, but that requires a greatbow" No it doesn't, it just requires iron arrows.
I feel like the whole setup segment is a "Drangleic Tour Guide - Must do" lol. No matter what build I do, I always try to do those things as soon as possible
Clear bluestone ring+1 next to the cloranthy ring +1 no need to buy the inferior version you absolute NOOOOB. Kidding, Great video. I'm gonna have to try that parry walk, just about the only thing I haven't done yet.
I'm surprised you didn't mention semi-cheese for Fume Knight, where constantly healing triggers him to attack you, leading to him either delaying or completely ignoring his second phase.
Fume knight CAN be cheesed, only a little. If you keep sipping or healing you'll bait out his overhead slam, which makes it impossible to change phases
Finally, someone who understands actual cheese. I made my username on all games EldenCheese because I loved finding ways to cheese bosses in dark souls... And then, a few years later, they made Elden Ring. I think they stole my name lol
You can prevent the Fume Knight from going into his phase 2 by drinking estus, as he'll prioritise trying to punish you over doing the phase transition. If you time this well between doing attacks, you can kill him without him ever going into phase 2.
Drinking Estus causes him to use the sword slam that gives his sword the empowered look. While that is active, we can't transition. I think it lasts about 20 seconds, so be sure to drink the Estus again before it fades. :)
No joke, Elden Ring has so many ridiculous cheeses. I never fought a tree avatar or Night's Cav normally. There is always the high ground, or poison mist, or Comet Azur...
Tbh i played elden ring first, finished ds1 and am doing ds2 rn. Dark souls to me is overall easier (still challenging tho) but that could be because in er i never reallt cheesed and never summoned so i learned how to play against the bs adhd elden ring bosses which makes dark souls slower pace easier in comparison
@@Nin_tony Probably, but they tend to have a convenient high ground nearby and rock sling go brrr (if it's a bit far away, I lure them with the bow). Even the Dragonbarrow Avatar is easy money this way.
the Vendrick true cheese is probably a harder challenge than beating the game normally and very time consuming... i wonder how people find this stuff, very interesting
21:00 You actually don't need to fight these skeletons and necromancer. One way is gower ring + lingering flame, another way is glitch + safe zone. I upload a short vedio to show these methods.
Small correction on Gank Squad: There's a chance, a small one, that the havel NPC can jump attack and hit you Source: Me farming the boss for Bonfire Aesthetics :P
Keeping a tally of failed bosses. Note, that I don't consider the summons cheese for a few reasons. One, it's not you cheesing, it's them. Two, they're intended mechanics. Three, it's the equivalent to using a second real player, something that to me invalidates the cheese because nothing is stopping you from just having someone really good at the game do everything for you and calling that cheese. 1. Mytha (summons) 2. Rat Authority (reasons given in video) 3. Freja (summons) 4. Rotton (summons, also it's mentioned it isn't even consistent) 5. Darklurker (reasons given in video) 6. Twins dragon riders (summons) 7. Velstadt (summons, also not consistent) 8. Aldia (summons, don't see why they were needed though) 9. Alana (given in video) 10. Sinh (given in video) 11. Fume Knight (given in video) 12. Ivory King (given in video Total 29/41 bosses.
the old iron king left his oven on and had to go home
29:39 ironic you couldn’t find cheese for the rat wouldn’t you agree?
The setup to make the Vendrick cheese work is legendary, lmao. Great job!
I'm currently working on a "Depopulating Drangleic" run of DS2, and this video pops up in my feed! Happy to see other people still enjoying DS2! Great video, you got a new subscriber :)
I am too, it turns out some sections cannot be emptied...like the statue room in the castle.
@@greatconfabulatorI mean that's good since you kinda can just softlock yourself if they didn't respawn
I know that exists CoC pact but i bet almost no one would know if they do that
Bro is doing a genocide run
@@greatconfabulator if you close your eyes when you walk through then you won't know if they're there or not!
"depopulating drangleic" that's just my OG playthrough when I was too shitty to get thru a level without clearing everything
You said that one of the possible requirements to be considered true cheese is for the boss to be harmless to you, and under those rules, the cheese for the Royal Rat Authority is true cheese. After all, the only threat in that fight are the small rats
Rats do love cheese
Yoooo! Happy to contribute to some DS2 content! The pursuer dupe was collaborative effort after I discovered you could spawn a fake Dragonrider in Heides. Then, me Elo and Doom338 figured we could duplicate pursuer too. And current patch partywalk was found by me :)
There is an alternative way of doing Attunement glitch on console. It's done by sitting at the bonfire in Iron keep thereby dying and you are able to navigate the menu and attune there
Have you documented the way to do the attunement glitch on console ? I’m not finding it on your channel
@@nathanjora7627 No, i play on pc. I don't think youtube allows me to send links. So just search for ds2 attunement glitch console or something :)
@nathanjora7627 No, im on pc. Someones made a video though! Just search for attunement glitch console :)
@@nathanjora7627get as far as you can from the bonfire on the lava side and interact with it, you'll sit down in the lava while in the bonfire menu and eventually die. Before death you need to open the attunement menu and hover over the spell you want to swap to and time the input right before the load similar to PC
Sorry I don't have a video on hand but I hope the explanation sufficed.
I read the title as "How many bosses can you turn into cheese"... I won't lie, I'm disappointed by the lack of polymorphic cheese chicanery. However, this is still a great vid!
I like how most of these cheeses are significantly more difficult than actually doing the bosses in DS2. That you have to do the levels, which are harder than the bosses, to be able to cheese the boss is hilarious.
It's not about the practicality, it's about sending the message XD
That goofy animation for the Iron king made my day
Right, he looks so awkward, like.... "uhh... I thought you wanted to fight. So uhmmm, I... I am not much of an small talker, if you do not want to fight I will just... leave. If that is ok with you. Not that I think youa rea bad talker, I just, uhmmm, I only know how to fight ok? Really, I don't know why i can't stop talking... this has never happened to me before.... I am trying to leave... just that the lava is quite deep, and it is hard to move on lava. Have you ever moved on lava? I suppose not.... well, anyway, could you please just stop staring... please. If I could leave any faster I would"
25:00 actually, you don't need a Great Bow, you can use Heavy Arrows or Heavy Bolts, both of which can destroy environmental items.
yup, learned this one doing a bow only run trying to figure out how to break the rocks in the crypt
Iron arrows
Babe wake up a new entry in the true cheese series just dropped
Shut up!
very original comment. you just know those comments are from incel basement dwellers.
I love this video. It takes me back to the Lobos challange run days where challenge run videos were more long form and informative than the cheap, click bait they are now.
21:47 I’ve never seen that falling death for the chariot. I’ve always just pulled the lever to make it crash into the gate
Tbh the classic roll and plunge to beat the dragon rider is and always will be the best
Man I havent smiled much all week, but you changed that in the last minute by uploading this vid. Absolutely love your videos dude! Keep it up!
OH, it's the poopwalk guy, fucking legend. I love Dark Souls 2 content, fantastic vid
The tiniest of tweaks but since there was a decent amount of sniping left, Bow of Want might've been a nice upgrade, given you were already on lightning arrows anyway
A whole hour of cheese? We eating good today
Super happy you made another one of these! Can’t for potential episodes on DS3 and Elden Ring :3
47:37 I remember seeing this cheese in a video ages ago although with the firestorm spell so it could be done at level 1. I even used it myself on occasion but when I went to look for the video it had disappeared from the internet so I couldn’t share it with other people so I’m thankful I have documented again
Super interesting to see how different ai breaks work here than in Bloodborne and DS3. Great vid!
Great video, absolutely insane how much work must’ve went into this
56:06 aka the Vaush Valley
**"No Cock Like Horse Cock" starts playing in the background**
I didn't even know that was a thing, but apparently, you're my "top gaming creator" on my youtube gaming wrapped
Absolutely love your DS videos. Please keep up the awesome work!
30:41 you can use a trap of lingering flames to one shot him when he jumps down!
16:47 sudden music stop never gets old
I really like your videos, you're my favourite dark souls content creator!
Am I alone finding it sort of beautiful that Vendrick, Last Giant and Ancient Dragon are all connected together by cheese as well as lore?
I love these videos so, so much - seeing strategies from speedruns applied in niche ways or different glitches alltogether that aren't helpful to speedrunning is really interesting :)
i have such a deep appreciation of ds2 and these videos give me life fr
24:53 I don't think you do need a greatbow for this. If my memory is correct, a normal bow with iron arrows works, as do most spells with a hitbox.
* runs behind pillar, still in view of the boss *
Sir Alonne: wh- ho- how.... HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE!
There is a rare bug with ivory in both versions where sometimes after he backflips his ai breaks and just stands there
29:15 **Imminent Triumph plays**
Why does this have less than a few thousand likes? This is literally perfectly formatted! Tells you everything you need, and some thing wayyy in advance. Gives proper information on why something does what it does to glitch in the needed manner, etc.
As if 300+ DSR glitches isn’t enough, this vid will definitely help for DS2! Great vid
I love this game and that spell exploit was so cool to learn about that I subscribed!
I'm loving all the creative way to turn the game's peculiar mechanics against it. Great narrative: clear and well-paced ❤
Also, holy s-, the Iron King cheese had me in tears. He looked so embarrassed 😂😂😂
3:48 A player true position desync glitch?
Parry walk, the player true position desync glitch!!
26:15 Mytha starts screaming as soon as the NPCs enter the fog gate. It cracked me up 😂
There's also a spell attunement glitch for console but you need the iron keep starting bonfire. You can sit far enough to die whilst in the spell menu and switch out your spell for another (press x as soon as the menu disappears and screen blacks out)
"How to cheese Dark Souls 2 Bosses"
Step 1: Abuse every Glitch known to man. Don't worry they're "Easy".
onlookers look on in horror as this man breaks dark souls 2s kneecaps, fantastic
Great vid!
I love the cheese color, nice cheese touch
Impressive; didn't think you could do the Fallen Giant jump without the cat ring.
Those skips with the Parry Walk trick were nice.
Feel asleep to the DS1 video last night, oh boy here we go again.
your effort is insane
With a well built character and fully upgraded twinblade and a brightbug, I've seen speedrunners take down Ehlana while she's still monologuing. Looks pretty cheesy to me.
Hearing Souls content creators casually talk about the BONKERS glitchs and skips in the games is so weird sometimes (and always fun). Like "yeah, just parry this guy with the camera tilted exactly 76 degrees on the horizontal and then roll three times to appear at the other side of the world". Beautiful.
This isn't just any kinda of cheese, this is Premium Nacho Cheese. Well done!
the skeleton lords fight reminds me of those videos where the camera has been positioned high up and angled just right to make everything look like toys.
With the chariot boss you can shoot poison arrows and lighting arrows to finish the boss quickly
the fact vendrick's cheese is still so difficult is maybe the most fitting thing ever for the bulkiest and nost damaging boss in the entire game. ggs tanimura
One of the many reasons I love dark souls 2 so much
I remembered two other things：First you can leave Rat Vanguard area by use butterfly jump, through the window and jump onto the hallway, even if you falls into a ditch, soul appease still work. Another thing Ivory king AI broken in current patch is actually exist, you need a player white phantom standing in a very specific position when she came out of the door, I saw it in a video a few years ago, but don't know the details and lost this vedio.
I followed your jump at 2:00 and I literally don't get enough forward momentum to make the jump, I'm running out of effigies :( (Edit: apparently the B button causes you to lose momentum so I swapped to LS and it worked flawlessly)
That's so funny XD why would that have an effect on the jump itself? Thank you DS2, very cool
@@Shin.chichi You stop sprinting when you let go of the B button to press it again
Darksouls 2 ia my favourite content to watch while falling asleep
For Elana, I know it’s possible to completely skip her and get into the small cave before Sinh. It’s done by parry walking, building up speed, grabbing a certain ladder in the pyramid area, and doing the ladder glitch to slide infinitely down into the cave.
Would it be possible dark fog her from the cave end this way? The hit box might just be large enough.
She can't be hurt without triggering the fight first unfortunately. It is possible to trigger the fight and get back out of the fog gate; but there's no way to get back up to the ladder used for the skip once you're down there.
@ Ah damn. At least you tried. Great video.
The intended cheese for Covetous demon doesn't require a great bow, a normal bow can do it but you have to use iron arrows, and in my most recent playthrough Dark Orb also worked to break the pots, I wouldn't be surprised if a soul arrow or lightning spear also did the trick.
24:00 "Some of you may be wondering about the cheese where you break the jars with the hollows in them, but that requires a greatbow" No it doesn't, it just requires iron arrows.
Covetous demon being harder to fight while cheesing it then just fighting it normally is very poetic to ke
I feel like the whole setup segment is a "Drangleic Tour Guide - Must do" lol. No matter what build I do, I always try to do those things as soon as possible
The bearer of the curse knows his true position at all times. He knows this, because he knows his visual position.
was supposed to sleep to this but its too interesting
24:53
The pot hollow cheese doesn't actually need a greatbow!
They can be broken with iron arrows, heavy bolts, Soul Arrows, or even throwing knives!
Clear bluestone ring+1 next to the cloranthy ring +1 no need to buy the inferior version you absolute NOOOOB.
Kidding, Great video. I'm gonna have to try that parry walk, just about the only thing I haven't done yet.
Beside critiques this vid was the only DS2 related content I could watch ;).
I recall seeing somewhere a light cheese for the fume knight that prevents them from entering their second phase
You are doing God's work. Peak Souls 2 deserves this.
For me, a "personal cheese" with fume knight is using the Velstadt helmet to insta transition him into phase 2 because I am better at phase 2 than 1
2:15 the way she thuds just for you to step over her sent me. That was hilarious 😂
Love your content bro, you should upload some bloodborne challenge vids :)
4:19 THE WHAT?????
HECK YA I WAS WAITIN G FOR THIS ONE! HERES THE CHEESEEE
I'm surprised you didn't mention semi-cheese for Fume Knight, where constantly healing triggers him to attack you, leading to him either delaying or completely ignoring his second phase.
''parrywalk'' a Splee5556 documentary
video game journalists gotta love this
Fume knight CAN be cheesed, only a little. If you keep sipping or healing you'll bait out his overhead slam, which makes it impossible to change phases
Hexes and rapiers are all the cheese you'll ever need.
Profound Still works on Darklurker, while it's active the only attack he can perform is his melee attack
Finally, someone who understands actual cheese.
I made my username on all games EldenCheese because I loved finding ways to cheese bosses in dark souls... And then, a few years later, they made Elden Ring. I think they stole my name lol
You can prevent the Fume Knight from going into his phase 2 by drinking estus, as he'll prioritise trying to punish you over doing the phase transition. If you time this well between doing attacks, you can kill him without him ever going into phase 2.
Drinking Estus causes him to use the sword slam that gives his sword the empowered look. While that is active, we can't transition. I think it lasts about 20 seconds, so be sure to drink the Estus again before it fades. :)
Elden Ring fans playing Dark Souls II for the first time:
No joke, Elden Ring has so many ridiculous cheeses. I never fought a tree avatar or Night's Cav normally. There is always the high ground, or poison mist, or Comet Azur...
@@akechijubeimitsuhide like sekiro, it has a cheese for everything but the final boss
Tbh i played elden ring first, finished ds1 and am doing ds2 rn. Dark souls to me is overall easier (still challenging tho) but that could be because in er i never reallt cheesed and never summoned so i learned how to play against the bs adhd elden ring bosses which makes dark souls slower pace easier in comparison
@@akechijubeimitsuhidetree avatars are so easy without cheese though?
@@Nin_tony Probably, but they tend to have a convenient high ground nearby and rock sling go brrr (if it's a bit far away, I lure them with the bow). Even the Dragonbarrow Avatar is easy money this way.
the Vendrick true cheese is probably a harder challenge than beating the game normally and very time consuming... i wonder how people find this stuff, very interesting
23:41: "Sometimes the skeletons will become confused, and start dancing around" - Same, skeletons, same
Ah, the two illusory rings run material.
if you look up "how to cheese prowling magus and cong." in the subreddit, i can bet you the answers will be along the lines of "bring a sword, idk"
the najka cheese has me ROLLING
you don't need a great bow for Covetouse cheese just heavy arrows from lenigrast and you can use a short or long bow
I love DS2 content
14:15 you can setup spell swap on console, but it requires a death and lava bridge bonfire.
21:00 You actually don't need to fight these skeletons and necromancer. One way is gower ring + lingering flame, another way is glitch + safe zone. I upload a short vedio to show these methods.
Small correction on Gank Squad: There's a chance, a small one, that the havel NPC can jump attack and hit you
Source: Me farming the boss for Bonfire Aesthetics :P
This video's title should be "How many Dark Souls 2 bosses can you beat with Parry Walk?"
The Rat King of all bosses has no cheese. Very ironic.
25:00 you´re wrong, the only thing you need is a normal bow or crossbow with iron arrows or bolts
One cheese to rule them all
One cheese to fog them
One cheese to bring them all
And in Dark Souls bind them
Keeping a tally of failed bosses. Note, that I don't consider the summons cheese for a few reasons. One, it's not you cheesing, it's them. Two, they're intended mechanics. Three, it's the equivalent to using a second real player, something that to me invalidates the cheese because nothing is stopping you from just having someone really good at the game do everything for you and calling that cheese.
1. Mytha (summons)
2. Rat Authority (reasons given in video)
3. Freja (summons)
4. Rotton (summons, also it's mentioned it isn't even consistent)
5. Darklurker (reasons given in video)
6. Twins dragon riders (summons)
7. Velstadt (summons, also not consistent)
8. Aldia (summons, don't see why they were needed though)
9. Alana (given in video)
10. Sinh (given in video)
11. Fume Knight (given in video)
12. Ivory King (given in video
Total 29/41 bosses.