As my feedback I’d say 10/10, very impressive thinking and cooperation, and not like the “can you beat dark souls using “x” weapon” because 98% of the time if it does at least 1 damage it means it’s beatable, but this is really good because it needs actual thinking and effort to beat the challenge, even as a game veteran in both the game and it’s questionable exploits I still managed to learn something new 🙏
@@ghostraptor1741 You can’t just ask him to do it, he has to research the stuff a ton first to see if it’s even possible to beat one boss in alphabetical order.
I can't even imagine an online session reliably staying active that long. Even if people's real-life time schedules, patience or physical exhaustion causing mistakes weren't a problem, it feels pretty much guaranteed that one person gets disconnected at some point, thus ruining the process.
@@KeDe1606 Considering that no-one has to actually play the game actively to have that happen, it's closer to the "Waiting ~70 hours for the moving platforms to rise just high enough to skip 1 A Press on Wii VC SM64". xP
Damn, I love the immense amount of creativity and knowledge about how the game's code functions, in order to make these types of runs possible. Masterfully done NGPlus!
Miyazaki: This game is about depression, isolation and killing those that remain to take their power and recreate the dying world in your image. Community: Staircase goes brrr
Wow. I've never seen this game torn apart this hard before. Impressive stuff. Taking over 5 hours to reach Midir just to die must have been soul crushing, curious if you stack enough health/defense/fire resistance if he could have landed his grab on you to pull you through the wall into the arena to fight him normally? Better for controlling the fight and not being clipped by his AOE's like that? Assuming his grab is even survive-able in the first place, it's very brutal.
Unfortunately grabs just don't connect through walls, or even if you're backed up against the wall on the same side as the boss. This is also why the Iudex Gundyr skip only works on old patch, because this wall check for grabs didn't exist back then.
@@tor_aop4478 I guess that makes sense. Though enemies in these games have always had an unfair amount of privilege swinging through walls and not bouncing off. I imagine there's a rare scenario where Midir's head clips just right to snatch you, but the sheer amount of luck and perfect positioning that would take would be just plain inefficient compared to the WoG strategy.
This is a really hardcore challenge run for someone who hasn't played through the dlc regularly yet. Really in depth and crazy use of glitches too. Well done.
In my opinion, the challenge is "Can you beat them all in alphabetical order?". It doesn't say anything about not repeating any fights. I think it's quite alright to defeat King of the Storm and then leave the arena after Nameless King appears. You beat King of the Storm and will simply beat it again when you need to. Technically, you already did this following your feedback from the DS2 video (which I plan to watch as soon as I am finished here) with Champion's Gravetender/Gravetender's Greatwolf. If one wanted to be super pedantic, since a Player version of Spear of the Church is a different boss from Halflight, it could be argued it should have been part of the list. I disagree with that train of thought, but it's not entirely unjustified. All in all, what a grand undertaking, and props to you for this absolute campaign!
I'm cool with all sorts of glitches and exploits, and using older versions of the game, and even having friends join in to help you out, but IMO using additional save files, unless that save file Also follows the rules of a challenge run, invalidates the challenge. You can't say you beat all the bosses in alphabetical order if one of the required steps is "then beat any bosses you want in whatever order you want, IDC." Even if it's on a different save, it's still beating those bosses out of order. Come to think of it, the Friend who is assisting's save should Probably also follow the challenge run rules. If you Can't do it without the assistance of someone who isn't following the rules, then you can't do it while following those rules. Like, imagine a challenge run of "Don't press A" and you just pass the controller to your buddy to press it for you. Still, good job, an insane amount of research and effort clearly went into this, even if it isn't quite as strict as I'd like it to be.
Logistically its no different from Lego Star Wars where 2 Jedi lift each other with the Force. Speaking of which I would love a Lego game with Soulsborne gameplay. The Anor Londo bridge lever is already straight out a Lego game anyway.
Dying to Midir and needing to run the setup again is about where I would've dunked my head in freezing water before taking at least 3 weeks off from the challenge. The dedication from you, Tor and the glitch hunters is phenomenal. You absolute champs.
@@Silverstar114 Im assuming @NGPlusVideos tped/flew there You can see their character, which shouldn't be possible with the glitched used to get there "legit" I see no reason why they need to go through a 5+ hour process again after showing they can do it lmao.
@@Harmoniou-s That exactly right. Teardrop glitch despawns your character model. I thought the same thing though, "You did it once, proving it's possible & you can do it. I'm good from that point just to kill Midir however."
Invader friend Tor here! Was a pleasure planning this run out with you, insane to think the most linear game could be fully cleared alphabetically. Big thanks to the rest of the Souls glitch hunting community for their help in discovering the glitches in the video! See you all again for Elden Ring! (Hopefully) (Edit: the community has not given up on current patch Iudex Gundyr skip, there is still a bounty for whoever finds it. I'll be sure to link it if a skip is found!)
It's really cool seeing the creativity about breaking and routing games like this! I love the Souls game, but I would never run it this way because I get more entertainment from the marvel of it all.
I mean, if you wanna be super technical, the "Nameless King" by definition has no name so he doesn't appear anywhere on the alphabet! Beat him whenever you'd like!
The nameless king is the firstborn of Gwyn, the firstborn of Gwyn was lord of war and the people of Forossa venerate the God of War, and call him Faraam, so the Nameless King is almost certainely named Faraam (weird it's not Gwynsomething, but hey, Filianore is there so there is a precedent)
For those wondering why we work to discover online-only glitches, it's for masterpiece videos like this to be possible. What an absolute pleasure to watch this was, no doubt the craziest challenge run in Dark Souls 3's history, also presented and edited masterfully
@@tor_aop4478Tor!! I won't be the first to say it, but you were the absolute MVP. You coordinated the whole thing and the execution was flawless!! Although I did see you miss the Teardrop setup one time >:) I'm jk of course, but your dedication with some of these glitches did surpass what I thought was even feasible lol
Speed runner : OMG i skipped the entire game and went straight to soul of cinder Normal player : how long did it take you ? cuz it took me 20 hours to beat the game ! Speed runner : only 60 hours of straight back stabbing :D
i mean there have been similarly crazy skips in some categorys of actual speedrunning... iirc zelda twighlight princess low% had a glich that required you to stare at a rupy unmovingly for like 24+ hours. I think they banned that one to keep the category playable. ^^'
@@yehoshuas.6917 As of recently, it's even worse; they found a way to skip wings, so poor Skurry had to farm bees for two days straight (I mean, he did it in segments, but it was still ~48 hours of bees).
@@vyran7044 Low% runs are always wild because they don't actually care about speed as much as they care about getting a lower completion percentage. If one guy takes an hour to beat a game with 10% completion and another guy takes 50 hours to beat it with 9% completion, the 50-hour run is the new world record for Low%.
Now we must ask how those 6 players did to create this trick without knowing that it would work. Huge respect for those 6 fellas spending more than 60 hours to create that trick
I love how this guy went through all that pain of making and playing half of the game with an alt character instead of having multiple friends, very relatable.
During the king of the Storm fight the nameless king will still swing at you with his weapon while mounted so that makes it a 2 phase fight of one boss and should go by the name of the 2nd phase.
Damn, I understand now why there was such a gap between DS2 and this one, the work you had to do to get this was insane. Fantastically made and executed as always mate, looking forward to seeing what you come up with in future
Only the EldenSoulsBornKiro players would have the mental fortitude to preform a 60+ hour long human staircase to basically bypass the entire base game. I'm so proud of this community.
Personally, I would argue that since Nameless King is inaccessible without kiling King of the Storm, they are different phases of the same fight rather than two seperate bosses. Great video though! Love the dedication
I have been watching YT for about 16 years (ofc I never watched it for the first 2 years of my birth) and this is by far one of the craziest videos I have ever seen in my entire life,I was literally wowed and in awe for almost the entire time and if this doesn’t prove you the souls community is determined and how this video deserves a like,idk what will.
I'd say if Sister Friede, Father Ariendel, and Blackflame Friede all count under B, King of the Storm and Nameless King would both count under N. Gotta be consistent with those rulings.
I think this is my favorite of the Dark Souls Alphabet Runs because it addresses the potential problems the last two had. Bosses grouped together to, but don't follow each other in the list, Bosses that change their names after each phase, and Bosses that technically two (see Nameless King). Seeing how you tackled and change the rules to make the run as legitimate as possible was a point of interest for me. That and the batshit insane ways the community came up with to bypass or get to certain bosses. The staircase is insane. In this series beating the boss was the easy part, GETTING to them was the hard part. And the fact that the game with the least open world is the only game in the trilogy where it is possible to beat all bosses in alphabetical order is just so funny to me. (Also Dark Souls 3 was my first Dark Souls game, so this was a treat I was waiting for.) Keep up the good work!
I cant believe a 1 hour long video was this much fun to watch. This is one of the best videos I've ever seen. The commentary was spot on. Massive congrats on such a well crafted video. Truly I have no other words to say except Hats off.
ive seen some crazy playthroughs involving glitches, so i went through the bosses in my head alphabetically as i watched the video and i was like "... okay so, gundyr is an instant problem, but you can probably do some really dumb tear skips later on, but what about those bosses with ports?" and wow, the sheer insanity and the amount of glitches requires is just crazy, not to mention the SIXTY HOUR staircase it would take in theory. The most creative uses of glitches used in playthrough ive seen of DS3 yet, maybe ever, i guess we'll let yamfah be the final judge of that
If it's multiple phases boss fight it shouldn't make a difference whether it's a different enemy or not. Like if you die at ANY point of any of the health bars and then you have to start the entire thing over then I think it should be considered one boss, regardless if you're fighting a different enemy or not. Same with the demons and nameless, I think they should be just like Fride, for all intents and purposes they ARE the same boss, like you could argue lore wise they aren't but ffs we're breaking every conceivable law of physics during this run using evil enemy invaders to help us run through the world in a half dead state, I don't think arguing lore is even remotely valid XD
The concept of forming a human ladder in order to reach a high point is reminiscent of the Sword Art Online: Fairy Dance arc, in which five players attempted to climb the ALfheim world tree by standing on each other's shoulders
When I saw the Midir bit take 5 hours I thought that was insane enough, but to get to Soul of Cinder is genuinely insane. The dedication is ridiculous. This was an awesome conclusion to the Dark Souls All Bosses in Alphabetical Order!
Lore wise when you fight king of the storm its just the dragon you kill and then the nameless king absorbs the power from his drake. So if you wanted to do alphabetically you kill king of the storm and then warp out and continue.
wait aldrich oh this is gonna be rough hang on how do you get around coiled sword? I can get skipping a boss, but firelink isnt active until you put the sword in. Unless the sword is actually pointless, and isn't required to do it. Which would be weird, given stuff like the basin at dancer exists LMAO THEY DON'T CHECK
Very simply put, the coiled sword is already in your inventory when you initiate the Gundyr boss, but doesn't register that you have it until you beat the boss.
honestly, i would fully accept someone using hacks to reach the kiln for a copy of this run. it's proven possible to reach the kiln ordinarily, but it takes so ridiculously long to do so that it's whatever
i didnt actually know that firelink shrine and the untended grave actually were the same place just with different load triggers, i always thought firelink was just really far away without anything attached to it
This is one ymfah sounding video and I'm all for it. I've never actually seen your channel before but I'm happy to know you made DS1 and 2 videos for the same challenge. Binge time!
18:50 fun fact: the damage from the laa is directional, so you can actually use a shield to defend from the daamge of the lava and then come back. ...well, try to, as you ight have to chug estus at one point, hopefully you got enough to survive the trip back.
27:19 You can actually activate the lift on Pontiff's arena by going through the other entrance by the deacons. That allows you to come back if you die with teardropping by just using the lift to go to Aldritch. And there is also a Bonfire behind an illusory wall on the first tower after Pontiff. But I understand that it would require you to kill both Pontiff Beasts, and that would be suboptimal.
What an absolutely incredible video. I thought I was pretty familiar with Dark Souls glitches, but you showed some things in here I've never seen before. As other people have said, my jaw dropped when you were going over some of the glitches, particularly the Midir and early Kiln parts. I know you said the skip to Midir footage was 5 hours, but do you have an idea of the total amount of footage you had to go through to put this together? Or how many hours your character had by the end of it? It would be very interesting I think!
this is crazy. after seeing your other two videos i thought to myself if this is possible and tried to find ways myself but didnt manage to. well done!
The effort put into this, let alone the insanity of even *finding* the methods to do *any* of this, is mind blowing! EDIT: Concerning the Nameless King shenanigans....IMO it is viable to defeat "King of the Storm" again to reach "Nameless King", given that KotS was already cleared off the list. You are truly insane!
This series was the first time I watched the entire thing streamed live, and it’s so cool to watch it back here in edited form! I usually don’t watch streams because they’re either incredibly boring or the host is too hyper, but Nathan is a perfect host imo. Always nice, relaxed and friendly, with very consistent chat interaction. I already watch everything that uploads to this channel, but now I watch every NGPlus stream series live as well! Legitimately one of my favorite channels on here.
This is the most disgustingly complicated set of skips I have ever seen in a game. I thought the initial teardrop glitching was complex, but the Midir and Soul of Cinder accesses were on a whole other level.
It feels like I've just watched a quantum physics course for 3 years of learning lmao I've gotten into souls games through Elden Ring and thought its glitches were crazy, but no. This one. Yeah. I'm mindblown how nonsensical and plentiful glitches are in DS3 This is absolute masterpiece of game knowledge, i give you my applause
You and me both bro. I watched this video over the course of 3 days because HOLY FUCK I did not have the capacity to even remotely follow this all in one sitting💀
Is the lady before the dancer innocent? She always struck me as up to something. Certainly less innocent than the poor blind girl you doomed with the dark miracles.
This is insane. The amount of patience is incredible. Well done. I do wonder if Midir's grab could help bypass the solid walls outside his arena. He does throw you pretty far after he grabs you, maybe it could be used to clip into the arena if you survive the grab.
38:52 boosted by 34.4%, not 32%, I believe. Unless it's different in DS3 (but I'm pretty sure it's not), damage buffs are multiplicative, so it's 1.2*1.12 = 1.344 = 34.4%, not 20% + 12% = 32%
For a while ive seen this video recommended to me, not reading the title and just thinking "why is this constantly being recommended to me?" Only ro finally read the title and go "oh, now i know why. Well played, youtube."
IMO, if you've already beaten a boss in a multi-boss fight (ie, Champion's Gravetender) then killing the earlier boss again (to fight Gravetender Greatwolf) is perfectly acceptable, since you've already killed it in the greater alphabetical order. Similarly, i think killing King of the Storm for the purpose of killing Nameless King is acceptable
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As my feedback I’d say 10/10, very impressive thinking and cooperation, and not like the “can you beat dark souls using “x” weapon” because 98% of the time if it does at least 1 damage it means it’s beatable, but this is really good because it needs actual thinking and effort to beat the challenge, even as a game veteran in both the game and it’s questionable exploits I still managed to learn something new 🙏
Awesome video. Now do bloodborne in alphabetical order
@@ghostraptor1741 You can’t just ask him to do it, he has to research the stuff a ton first to see if it’s even possible to beat one boss in alphabetical order.
Could you do a challenge run where you have to kill all the bosses from all 3 dark souls in alphabetical order
The 60 hour human stair case might be the funniest thing I’ve ever seen in a video game
Nah, shit had me dying 😂
I can't even imagine an online session reliably staying active that long.
Even if people's real-life time schedules, patience or physical exhaustion causing mistakes weren't a problem, it feels pretty much guaranteed that one person gets disconnected at some point, thus ruining the process.
It might actually get close to the "Building up negative speed for 12 hours to traverse parallel universes in Super Mario 64". xD
@@Minecraftgnom what about Link staring at a rupee for 17 hours so he can start walking through walls?
@@KeDe1606 Considering that no-one has to actually play the game actively to have that happen, it's closer to the "Waiting ~70 hours for the moving platforms to rise just high enough to skip 1 A Press on Wii VC SM64". xP
Damn, I love the immense amount of creativity and knowledge about how the game's code functions, in order to make these types of runs possible. Masterfully done NGPlus!
Thank you 😊
It is impressive but we still love your dumb runs as well PC
Geecee!
Miyazaki: This game is about depression, isolation and killing those that remain to take their power and recreate the dying world in your image.
Community: Staircase goes brrr
JOLLY COOPERATION
WE WILL USE THE POWER IF FRIENDSHIP *proceeds to create a backstab staircase for 60 hours*
Wow. I've never seen this game torn apart this hard before.
Impressive stuff.
Taking over 5 hours to reach Midir just to die must have been soul crushing, curious if you stack enough health/defense/fire resistance if he could have landed his grab on you to pull you through the wall into the arena to fight him normally? Better for controlling the fight and not being clipped by his AOE's like that? Assuming his grab is even survive-able in the first place, it's very brutal.
Unfortunately grabs just don't connect through walls, or even if you're backed up against the wall on the same side as the boss. This is also why the Iudex Gundyr skip only works on old patch, because this wall check for grabs didn't exist back then.
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I guess that makes sense. Though enemies in these games have always had an unfair amount of privilege swinging through walls and not bouncing off. I imagine there's a rare scenario where Midir's head clips just right to snatch you, but the sheer amount of luck and perfect positioning that would take would be just plain inefficient compared to the WoG strategy.
This is a really hardcore challenge run for someone who hasn't played through the dlc regularly yet. Really in depth and crazy use of glitches too. Well done.
By the Gods he returns, Papa Plus graces us with his art yet again.
The glitches required in this video make me want to cry.... And I didn't even have to do them....
In my opinion, the challenge is "Can you beat them all in alphabetical order?". It doesn't say anything about not repeating any fights. I think it's quite alright to defeat King of the Storm and then leave the arena after Nameless King appears. You beat King of the Storm and will simply beat it again when you need to. Technically, you already did this following your feedback from the DS2 video (which I plan to watch as soon as I am finished here) with Champion's Gravetender/Gravetender's Greatwolf. If one wanted to be super pedantic, since a Player version of Spear of the Church is a different boss from Halflight, it could be argued it should have been part of the list. I disagree with that train of thought, but it's not entirely unjustified.
All in all, what a grand undertaking, and props to you for this absolute campaign!
This challenge boggeled my mind. Ggs my friend!
I keep trying to watch this but I keep falling asleep so 3rd times the charm here we go
I'm cool with all sorts of glitches and exploits, and using older versions of the game, and even having friends join in to help you out, but IMO using additional save files, unless that save file Also follows the rules of a challenge run, invalidates the challenge. You can't say you beat all the bosses in alphabetical order if one of the required steps is "then beat any bosses you want in whatever order you want, IDC." Even if it's on a different save, it's still beating those bosses out of order. Come to think of it, the Friend who is assisting's save should Probably also follow the challenge run rules. If you Can't do it without the assistance of someone who isn't following the rules, then you can't do it while following those rules. Like, imagine a challenge run of "Don't press A" and you just pass the controller to your buddy to press it for you. Still, good job, an insane amount of research and effort clearly went into this, even if it isn't quite as strict as I'd like it to be.
Really impressive
Massive respect
This is as convoluted as the dark souls lore. Well done. I'm beyond impressed.
The most insane ds3 video i've ever seen
The stairs thing is crazy, but I wouldn't expect less from the dark souls community
It was crazy to see the plan come together bit by bit in real time.
Logistically its no different from Lego Star Wars where 2 Jedi lift each other with the Force. Speaking of which I would love a Lego game with Soulsborne gameplay. The Anor Londo bridge lever is already straight out a Lego game anyway.
Dying to Midir and needing to run the setup again is about where I would've dunked my head in freezing water before taking at least 3 weeks off from the challenge. The dedication from you, Tor and the glitch hunters is phenomenal. You absolute champs.
That level of disappointment will never be matched again, but giving up is also against my rules, it's just unwritten.
@@NGPlusVideos please tell me you used a save state or something. This kind of punishment can't be legal.
@@Silverstar114 Im assuming @NGPlusVideos tped/flew there
You can see their character, which shouldn't be possible with the glitched used to get there "legit"
I see no reason why they need to go through a 5+ hour process again after showing they can do it lmao.
@@Harmoniou-s That exactly right. Teardrop glitch despawns your character model. I thought the same thing though, "You did it once, proving it's possible & you can do it. I'm good from that point just to kill Midir however."
@Harmoniou-s how would you tp on Playstation tho?
You know it's a good Dark Souls challenge run when you've only beaten 2 bosses by the 30 minute mark.
And it's not even Iudex lmao
Invader friend Tor here! Was a pleasure planning this run out with you, insane to think the most linear game could be fully cleared alphabetically. Big thanks to the rest of the Souls glitch hunting community for their help in discovering the glitches in the video!
See you all again for Elden Ring! (Hopefully)
(Edit: the community has not given up on current patch Iudex Gundyr skip, there is still a bounty for whoever finds it. I'll be sure to link it if a skip is found!)
Thank you once again for everything, I'd have been lost without you. Hard to believe this took nearly 3 months!
It's really cool seeing the creativity about breaking and routing games like this! I love the Souls game, but I would never run it this way because I get more entertainment from the marvel of it all.
Muuuuch respect for getting to Midir. I would have gone nuts going at that route for 5 hours!
Elden Ring, eh? Gonna be fun to kill every duplicate boss in alphabetical order of their location.
DLC go brrr
Damn the routes to Midir and Soul of Cinder literally caused my head to explode just hearing them 🤯 amazing work dude!
Dang, I was looking forward to your next video. At least you went out with a bang!
@@kazj4908 That joke gave me a headache.
The stair is even crazier than Ymfah run without walking in DS3 where he had to skip the Dancers ladder
I mean, if you wanna be super technical, the "Nameless King" by definition has no name so he doesn't appear anywhere on the alphabet! Beat him whenever you'd like!
That's the best excuse possible
Back in my day, you beat Nameless King at letter S.
Yep, his name ought to be _________
The nameless king is the firstborn of Gwyn, the firstborn of Gwyn was lord of war and the people of Forossa venerate the God of War, and call him Faraam, so the Nameless King is almost certainely named Faraam (weird it's not Gwynsomething, but hey, Filianore is there so there is a precedent)
@@RutilantBossee I don't think this is confirmed and is just a theory.
60 hours of building a human staircase is genuine gaming insanity yet also an incredible achievement
True masochism, achieved through the power of friendship!
For those wondering why we work to discover online-only glitches, it's for masterpiece videos like this to be possible. What an absolute pleasure to watch this was, no doubt the craziest challenge run in Dark Souls 3's history, also presented and edited masterfully
Thank you for all your help too. You're the unsung hero, I should add you to the description!
Hell yeah! Thanks for all your help Dan, my research wouldn't have gone anywhere without your input haha
@@NGPlusVideos Yooo I appreciate it king
Looking forward to any new videos you make, already got me hooked lol
@@tor_aop4478Tor!! I won't be the first to say it, but you were the absolute MVP.
You coordinated the whole thing and the execution was flawless!!
Although I did see you miss the Teardrop setup one time >:)
I'm jk of course, but your dedication with some of these glitches did surpass what I thought was even feasible lol
Don't think anyone was wondering that.
Speed runner : OMG i skipped the entire game and went straight to soul of cinder
Normal player : how long did it take you ? cuz it took me 20 hours to beat the game !
Speed runner : only 60 hours of straight back stabbing :D
i mean there have been similarly crazy skips in some categorys of actual speedrunning...
iirc zelda twighlight princess low% had a glich that required you to stare at a rupy unmovingly for like 24+ hours.
I think they banned that one to keep the category playable. ^^'
@@vyran7044 It's not a glitch, but Hollow Knight True Ending Low% also has a 40 hour farming section for dream essence by killing birds.
@@yehoshuas.6917 they changed the essence grinding spot to the hive because apparently the husks there spawn infinite bees at a crazy rate
@@yehoshuas.6917 As of recently, it's even worse; they found a way to skip wings, so poor Skurry had to farm bees for two days straight (I mean, he did it in segments, but it was still ~48 hours of bees).
@@vyran7044 Low% runs are always wild because they don't actually care about speed as much as they care about getting a lower completion percentage. If one guy takes an hour to beat a game with 10% completion and another guy takes 50 hours to beat it with 9% completion, the 50-hour run is the new world record for Low%.
Wow, that stairs thing is total insanity. 60 hours. People's creativity and determination always fascinates me. I love these challenge videos!
Now we must ask how those 6 players did to create this trick without knowing that it would work. Huge respect for those 6 fellas spending more than 60 hours to create that trick
I love how this guy went through all that pain of making and playing half of the game with an alt character instead of having multiple friends, very relatable.
During the king of the Storm fight the nameless king will still swing at you with his weapon while mounted so that makes it a 2 phase fight of one boss and should go by the name of the 2nd phase.
My head hurt after the human staircase setup
Holy shit. Thats insane... the fricking stair to reach kiln. Congrats to all peoples involved in this
1:01:14 Bold of you to assume that soul players have 5 friends to begin with /j.
Amazing video like always
Making 5 alts is easier.
Damn, I understand now why there was such a gap between DS2 and this one, the work you had to do to get this was insane. Fantastically made and executed as always mate, looking forward to seeing what you come up with in future
I want someone to pay Vaati and his team to make a video about this run as if it were a canon event. Bravo!
this was the most insane glitch compilation i have ever seen in a while. amazing work and insane patience.
Only the EldenSoulsBornKiro players would have the mental fortitude to preform a 60+ hour long human staircase to basically bypass the entire base game.
I'm so proud of this community.
“I’m sorry please don’t click off” after Siegward was so real 😭
60 hour human stair case might be the most smartest waste of time i've ever seen
Personally, I would argue that since Nameless King is inaccessible without kiling King of the Storm, they are different phases of the same fight rather than two seperate bosses.
Great video though! Love the dedication
I have been watching YT for about 16 years (ofc I never watched it for the first 2 years of my birth) and this is by far one of the craziest videos I have ever seen in my entire life,I was literally wowed and in awe for almost the entire time and if this doesn’t prove you the souls community is determined and how this video deserves a like,idk what will.
Bro your birth lasted 2+ years? How long were you watching during your birth? :o
After long last, the king, he has returned, to CONQUER Michael zaki
I'd say if Sister Friede, Father Ariendel, and Blackflame Friede all count under B, King of the Storm and Nameless King would both count under N. Gotta be consistent with those rulings.
I think this is my favorite of the Dark Souls Alphabet Runs because it addresses the potential problems the last two had.
Bosses grouped together to, but don't follow each other in the list, Bosses that change their names after each phase, and Bosses that technically two (see Nameless King).
Seeing how you tackled and change the rules to make the run as legitimate as possible was a point of interest for me. That and the batshit insane ways the community came up with to bypass or get to certain bosses. The staircase is insane.
In this series beating the boss was the easy part, GETTING to them was the hard part. And the fact that the game with the least open world is the only game in the trilogy where it is possible to beat all bosses in alphabetical order is just so funny to me.
(Also Dark Souls 3 was my first Dark Souls game, so this was a treat I was waiting for.)
Keep up the good work!
Invader friend is the mvp 😊
Doubtless, that human staircase thing is one of the craziest things ever pulled off in the history of gaming.
The amount of cooperative gamebreaking had to be done just to finish this game as a dictionary is perfect lmao
I cant believe a 1 hour long video was this much fun to watch. This is one of the best videos I've ever seen. The commentary was spot on. Massive congrats on such a well crafted video. Truly I have no other words to say except Hats off.
ive seen some crazy playthroughs involving glitches, so i went through the bosses in my head alphabetically as i watched the video and i was like "... okay so, gundyr is an instant problem, but you can probably do some really dumb tear skips later on, but what about those bosses with ports?" and wow, the sheer insanity and the amount of glitches requires is just crazy, not to mention the SIXTY HOUR staircase it would take in theory.
The most creative uses of glitches used in playthrough ive seen of DS3 yet, maybe ever, i guess we'll let yamfah be the final judge of that
"breaks the game on half effortlessly"
"cant beat Sister friede whitout Summons" this dude is built different
A part of my soul physically hurt when you died to Midir and had to repeat it allllll again
If it's multiple phases boss fight it shouldn't make a difference whether it's a different enemy or not. Like if you die at ANY point of any of the health bars and then you have to start the entire thing over then I think it should be considered one boss, regardless if you're fighting a different enemy or not.
Same with the demons and nameless, I think they should be just like Fride, for all intents and purposes they ARE the same boss, like you could argue lore wise they aren't but ffs we're breaking every conceivable law of physics during this run using evil enemy invaders to help us run through the world in a half dead state, I don't think arguing lore is even remotely valid XD
The concept of forming a human ladder in order to reach a high point is reminiscent of the Sword Art Online: Fairy Dance arc, in which five players attempted to climb the ALfheim world tree by standing on each other's shoulders
I can not imagine the sheer scale of this if done in Elden Ring. But hey, great job in all three Dark Souls
I absolutely love how guide-like these videos are. It's actually so nice that everything is explained. Love that.
Someone needs to cut this trilogy so every boss in the series is in alphabetical order.
This challenge in english: 😊
This challenge in spanish: 💀
For anyone confused Soul of Cinder is Alma de ceniza.
When I saw the Midir bit take 5 hours I thought that was insane enough, but to get to Soul of Cinder is genuinely insane. The dedication is ridiculous.
This was an awesome conclusion to the Dark Souls All Bosses in Alphabetical Order!
31:26 "It's just the opening is too high up to reach from down here... Or is it?"
*Vsauce music plays*
I knew you could glitch to some places but I had no clue you could do this much. Amazing run NGPlus and amazing video!
You are absolutely insane. Just like the dude that helped with planning.
Lore wise when you fight king of the storm its just the dragon you kill and then the nameless king absorbs the power from his drake. So if you wanted to do alphabetically you kill king of the storm and then warp out and continue.
I'd pay money to see Mayazakis reaction to this
Miyazaki: "Why?"
wait aldrich
oh this is gonna be rough
hang on how do you get around coiled sword? I can get skipping a boss, but firelink isnt active until you put the sword in. Unless the sword is actually pointless, and isn't required to do it. Which would be weird, given stuff like the basin at dancer exists
LMAO THEY DON'T CHECK
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Very simply put, the coiled sword is already in your inventory when you initiate the Gundyr boss, but doesn't register that you have it until you beat the boss.
Pros to Tor ZH . That man is a legend
Thanks man!
honestly, i would fully accept someone using hacks to reach the kiln for a copy of this run. it's proven possible to reach the kiln ordinarily, but it takes so ridiculously long to do so that it's whatever
miyazaki would cry if he watched this
i didnt actually know that firelink shrine and the untended grave actually were the same place just with different load triggers, i always thought firelink was just really far away without anything attached to it
This is one ymfah sounding video and I'm all for it. I've never actually seen your channel before but I'm happy to know you made DS1 and 2 videos for the same challenge. Binge time!
Okay, I wasn't around for the Midir days, and while I've seen some absolute nonsense on this channel that might just take the 10-hour cake.
the amount of effort and time that went into this is insane
18:50 fun fact: the damage from the laa is directional, so you can actually use a shield to defend from the daamge of the lava and then come back.
...well, try to, as you ight have to chug estus at one point, hopefully you got enough to survive the trip back.
OMG this is truly deranged teardrop glitching, I LOVE IT :)
This video is so cool, thanks for making this.
"this is the first time I'd played the DLC" lmao what a legendary run.
27:19 You can actually activate the lift on Pontiff's arena by going through the other entrance by the deacons. That allows you to come back if you die with teardropping by just using the lift to go to Aldritch. And there is also a Bonfire behind an illusory wall on the first tower after Pontiff. But I understand that it would require you to kill both Pontiff Beasts, and that would be suboptimal.
What an absolutely incredible video. I thought I was pretty familiar with Dark Souls glitches, but you showed some things in here I've never seen before. As other people have said, my jaw dropped when you were going over some of the glitches, particularly the Midir and early Kiln parts. I know you said the skip to Midir footage was 5 hours, but do you have an idea of the total amount of footage you had to go through to put this together? Or how many hours your character had by the end of it? It would be very interesting I think!
Get this man the elden ring dlc he's going crazy
If you’re doing this run on Playstation… is it possible to beat Bloodborne alphabetically too?
this is crazy. after seeing your other two videos i thought to myself if this is possible and tried to find ways myself but didnt manage to.
well done!
I’m 17 minutes in and I have no earthly idea how half this shit was figured out.
This is an absolutely insane run. Well done.
The effort put into this, let alone the insanity of even *finding* the methods to do *any* of this, is mind blowing!
EDIT: Concerning the Nameless King shenanigans....IMO it is viable to defeat "King of the Storm" again to reach "Nameless King", given that KotS was already cleared off the list.
You are truly insane!
This is like if ymfah actually talked in his videos... but even crazier glitches
This is how i will make my son learn how to alphabet works
The megamind levels of glitches and set up for this run is insane. Dude has the game pretty much dissected long before he fights the first boss
After such a run, NGPlus and Tor are the Demon in Pain and Demon from Below.
This series was the first time I watched the entire thing streamed live, and it’s so cool to watch it back here in edited form! I usually don’t watch streams because they’re either incredibly boring or the host is too hyper, but Nathan is a perfect host imo. Always nice, relaxed and friendly, with very consistent chat interaction.
I already watch everything that uploads to this channel, but now I watch every NGPlus stream series live as well! Legitimately one of my favorite channels on here.
Thanks a lot, you made my day 😀
@NGPlusVideos do you guys stream on RUclips also? :)
Yeah, all the challenge runs are streamed on this channel, the VODs are in playlists.
This is the most disgustingly complicated set of skips I have ever seen in a game. I thought the initial teardrop glitching was complex, but the Midir and Soul of Cinder accesses were on a whole other level.
It feels like I've just watched a quantum physics course for 3 years of learning lmao
I've gotten into souls games through Elden Ring and thought its glitches were crazy, but no. This one. Yeah. I'm mindblown how nonsensical and plentiful glitches are in DS3
This is absolute masterpiece of game knowledge, i give you my applause
You and me both bro. I watched this video over the course of 3 days because HOLY FUCK I did not have the capacity to even remotely follow this all in one sitting💀
This is truly one of the best challenge run videos I have ever seen! Legendary!
Hope we get DeS or bloodborne next 😁
Is the lady before the dancer innocent? She always struck me as up to something. Certainly less innocent than the poor blind girl you doomed with the dark miracles.
This must have taken lot of time to record😅 Thanks for the content!
This is insane. The amount of patience is incredible. Well done. I do wonder if Midir's grab could help bypass the solid walls outside his arena. He does throw you pretty far after he grabs you, maybe it could be used to clip into the arena if you survive the grab.
38:52 boosted by 34.4%, not 32%, I believe. Unless it's different in DS3 (but I'm pretty sure it's not), damage buffs are multiplicative, so it's 1.2*1.12 = 1.344 = 34.4%, not 20% + 12% = 32%
I used to think people were crazy just for playing darksouls...
Your invader friend needs a credit for all that shit he went through
"Can you beat all Dark Souls 3 bosses in alphabetical order?" "Well no, but technically yes."
Im subscribing just because of that insane Midir stuff
For a while ive seen this video recommended to me, not reading the title and just thinking "why is this constantly being recommended to me?" Only ro finally read the title and go "oh, now i know why. Well played, youtube."
IMO, if you've already beaten a boss in a multi-boss fight (ie, Champion's Gravetender) then killing the earlier boss again (to fight Gravetender Greatwolf) is perfectly acceptable, since you've already killed it in the greater alphabetical order. Similarly, i think killing King of the Storm for the purpose of killing Nameless King is acceptable