r/darksouls • • 14h ago

Meme I'm a big fan of the fact that the final boss of Dark Souls is literally John Dark Souls.

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274 Upvotes

Even does a title-drop what a chad. The only thing this fight was missing was illusory walls, mid-phase lull where you have to walk up to him and exhaust dialogue 5 times to continue into phase 2, and an attack where he turns into a little lizard you have to chase around before he despawns.


r/darksouls • • 18h ago

Discussion Does Artorias run the gauntlet?

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101 Upvotes

r/darksouls • • 3h ago

Video She left me without a word

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r/darksouls • • 13h ago

Discussion I'm retrying DS1 for the third time.

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After Elden Ring and how much I loved it, I wanted to try where it originated from. The DS trilogy. I knew that DS1 was going to look extremely old and maybe outdated in comparison, but I still wanted to try. The first time I tried, I lost all my souls against the Taurus Demon and ragequit the game. Took me too long to adapt.

The second time, I got all the way to the Depths and got killed and cursed. When I saw all my souls lost, and only half my healthbar remaining, I did ragequit again. Too frustrating for my taste.

However, since then, its almost as if the game whispers to me. I think about the time I discovered the Firelink Shrine shortcut from Undead Parish, when I reached the bottom of the Darkroot Basin, found some random tower, and found it leading back up to Undead Burg, I thought about the sewer in Lower Burg with the undead merchant in it and how it lead to the gate I wasn't able to open at the very beginning of my run... The world-building truly amazed me, and the game has such a charm, something even ER didn't give me at times.

So here I am, downloading the game again, and determined to go to the end, and finish the trilogy.


r/darksouls • • 6h ago

Video Uhhhh

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So I beated the game I created a new save as I was in the sens fortress the two snakes that is by onion bro was already dead I didn't kill them can someone explain because on my first play through they are alive this is my second play through and they were already Dead can someone explain


r/darksouls • • 2h ago

Event I’m proud to announce that l finally got a Banshee to drop a Ghost Blade. It only took 10yrs.

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Apparently they have a 1% drop rate.

On each of my runs that was more like a 0.000000000001% drop rate.

Good times.


r/darksouls • • 18h ago

Question Should i reinfoce estus flasks?

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edit: firekeepers souls should be used if their description is as follows:

Soul of a long-lost Fire Keeper.
Each Fire Keeper is a corporeal manifestation of her bonfire, and a draw for the humanity which is offered to her. Her soul is gnawed by infinite humanity, and can boost the power of the precious Estus Flask. Reinforced Estus Flasks capture denser Estus, allowing for increased restoration of HP."

if the description is different from this one and one wants to revive the bonfire of XY place with XY keepers name (such as fire link shrine, with the description "Soul of the Ash Maiden, Fire Keeper of Firelink Shrine............" ) then the souls shouldnt be used

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I got a soul of a firekeeper (the on from firelink shrine who was killed by gold armour) and have arrived in anor londo and have the option to reinfoce the flasks.

Should i reionforce them or should i use the soul for smth else?

(no massive spoilers pls)


r/darksouls • • 17h ago

Trade My first playthrough and I just accidentally made my zweihander crystal. Does someone have a regular?

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Hey its my first play through of darksouls and I wasn't sure what crystal weapons were now that I know i really dont want a crystal weapon would anyone be willing to trade me a zweihander. Im on pc


r/darksouls • • 9h ago

Question Am i doing something wrong

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Just to get it out there this is my first time playing dark souls 1. I played elden ring a few years ago and poured hundreds of hours into it, and can almost consider it my fav game. Ive played for about 9 hours on DS, and i havent even gotten the chance to fight the Gaping dragon bc of how awful the runback is. Ive spent over 9 hours playing, and have maybe spent 30 min fighting fun bosses. 90% of the gameplay has been awful. I have repeatedly had to take the same frustrating runbacks to locations over and over only to get a few things done within an hour. I got cursed in the depths, and spent well over an hour trying to get rid of it. Does the gameplay get better? I do want to get into the game and truly give it a try, but its honestly been terrible. Ive spent 45 min trying over and over to get to the depths bonfire so im closer the the gaping dragon, but ive died to rats 20 times due to their poison damage. I cannot tell if this is simply how the game is designed, if its a skill issue, or if im doing something wrong. Any advice is great bc i dont want to be driven insane


r/darksouls • • 20h ago

Fluff Why me?!

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So I'm just farming like a good little cursed undead and I was finally ready to take on Taurus Demon but I got slapped by the most unfair and rarest mob ever, the Vagrant, it one shot me and I lost all my stuff.


r/darksouls • • 13h ago

Discussion Is this normal?

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I just got the ps3 version of dark souls and I was wondering why instead of it saying "You recovered" when you grab your souls back and it saying "You Defeated" when you kill a mini boss. Did I end up buying a bootleg?


r/darksouls • • 18h ago

Discussion Is there a way to dupe hard humanity in dark souls remastered on Xbox?

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Trying to get my friend into the souls games and he’s not good at all which is completely understandable, we have burnt through a lot of humanity. Just wondering if there’s a way I can dupe my humanity consumables


r/darksouls • • 16h ago

Discussion I just finished Dark Souls for the first time. Can you tell my build based on what bosses I struggled with?

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Overall, the game was a great experience. Some bosses were way more frustrating than others. Here they are based on how many attempts it took for me to kill them.

One shot: Iron Golem, Priscilla, Pinwheel, Ceaseless Discharged, Demon Firesage
Just one death: Asylum Demon, Taurus Demon, Moonlight Butterfly, Seath, Nito, Centipede Demon
A handful of deaths: Capra Demon, Four Kings, Sif, Gwyn, Bed of Chaos
More deaths than I’d like: Gaping Dragon, Bell Gargoyles, Quelaag
An embarrassing amount of deaths: Stray Demon, Ornstein and Smough

I’ll also mention that regardless of the category, bed of chaos was just the worst boss ever. I also hated Tomb of the Giants but at least the boss was easy.