7 Easiest Ways to Screw Yourself Over in Dark Souls

No room-filling boss can screw you over in Dark Souls as hard as you, the player, can screw yourself. These hard-to-foresee mishaps can easily send an entire playthrough sideways.

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[iamdavehall]

In my first run through I managed to get stuck in Ash Lake AFTER getting cursed by the toads there. Making the run all the way back up to Firelink to buy a purging stone remains my single greatest achievement in this game.

[gingerd]

Never forget my roommate absolutely hating Dark Souls 1. He didn’t realize lighting bonfires was a thing and kept starting over from scratch 🤣

[zakuguriin]

Pro tip for anyone who gets stuck in Ash Lake and is cursed. Kill the clam enemies, they can drop the item that cures curse.

[BeardedNerdSE]

8th way to screw yourself over: Hey, I've heard getting cursed is really bad, so I'll put all my levels into Resistance!

[JinsoNation]

“Mistaking an npc for an enemy”
>shows Petrus
No, that’s definitely an enemy

[lightweave]

Going left first. 😄 In every RPG, since ancient times we were trained that skeletons (and rats) are the starter enemies. Easy to beat down, not much damage and slow. Yeah! They did that intentionally! 😁

[Spencer-wcew]

A tip for new players about npcs:
If you can't lock onto the person, they aren't hostile. So that's a good, quick way to tell if you should kill something

[TheValiantBob]

Taking the master key as a starting gift on your first playthrough. For experienced players with a run or two under their belts this item is amazing as it lets you break the intended progression to speed your way to certain goodies you normally wouldn't get until much later. But for a new player, the master key will more than likely get you horribly, horribly lost and stuck in an area way beyond your current level and equipment grade.

[BuppersMedia]

I love how when the Crestfallen Warrior, who is very much supposed to be the embodiment of the actual players emotional state after dying repeatedly, is pushed into a fight by the player he shouts "I may be crestfallen, but I am not defenseless!"

I think every DS player has felt that at some point, right before picking themselves back up for another go.

[synthraofficial]

"Accidently pressing the shoulder buttons in when you put the controller down."
I literally accidently killed the church dweller on my first Bloodborne playthrough by doing that. Now I refuse to stand near him. Poor thing.

[aownbey]

The sneaky Hobbits at From Software don't tell you that being cursed has a side effect, while cursed you can finally stab the ghosts that normally requires a special item, a weapon dropped from said ghosts, or a boss weapon

[WickedRibbon]

4:13 - During my first playthrough I managed to bust out the Pro Gamer move of getting stranded in both Ash Lake AND The Tomb of the Giants before even knowing what a "Lordvessel" was 😅

Let me tell you, painfully struggling to reach the end of the Tomb, only to be greeted by a giant locked door and then realising if I wanted to escape I had to do it all again but in REVERSE, made me understand why that poor man in Firelink might be crestfallen.

[bastederbeste]

"Going left first" actually made me quit dark souls right at the beginning... Imagine my face when I started another play through with my roommate who was a dark souls veteran. "YOU CAN JUST GO TH OTHER WAY????!"

[gigachad]

"Don't go left"

Speedrunners: I'm about to do what's called a pro-gamer move.

[SubjectDelta]

One of the biggest tips i could give someone for this game is to make sure you send the elevators back up/down. It saves time for when you die, which you will.

[jackprice]

Luke cry-laughing at the end is going to be one of those things that always makes me chuckle when I think about it. 🤣

[markrobinson]

Ellen: "Why can't I hit it?"
Ghost: "I'm still waiting till marriage..."

[jamvis]

Dude. I totally thought “yeah, skeleton seems like a basic starter enemy let’s go!” Then 5 deaths later I decided that if the starter enemies were this bad I don’t stand a chance of getting through this game and never touched it again or thought of touching anything else in the series. Now I see this video telling me I screwed myself and I’m just…. I don’t have words to describe this feeling.

[kimballbelliston]

"sharpen your zweihänders and _prepare to cry"_
Vaati Vidya: "... Hey!"

[starscreamsniper]

From watching Ellen's playthrough of Dark Souls I can honestly say another way you can easily get yourself screwed over is picking a fight with Crossbreed Priscilla. This optional boss will just ask you to leave when you finish the painted world instead of fighter but if you do fight her you're in trouble. Meaning you cannot leave now if you pick a fight with her until you kill her.