Released in October 2011, Dark Souls is the sequel to cult hit Demon's Souls. Players traverse an open, minimalistic world and gain the experience necessary to take on gigantic bosses. The game's subtitle was Prepare to Die, and the difficulty was hyped, but really, the game just punishes mistakes by giving enemies about the same amount of power players have. In late 2012, the game received a DLC expansion titled Artorias of the Abyss, which added new areas and bosses.
Note: This run was timed using real-time but any future runs of this game will be timed using the in-game timer. As such, any future run must show the in-game timer at the end of the run.
Best time with Resets: Single-segment 0:32:45 by Freddy 'Thanatos' Vasquez on 2012-05-01.
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Author's comments:
Took 2 weeks of planning and practice but it's finally done.
I want to thank every person that watched my stream, and also a select few that gave me new ideas on how to shave off some time, I'm really bad with names so I can't mention many but you know who you are.
The run can be improved by at least 25 seconds, assuming a perfect O&S fight, and assuming the same route is used.