Dark Souls Commentary

[00:00:00] - Introduction & Tutorial
[00:12:35] - Undead Burg 1
[00:27:03] - Undead Parish
[00:51:07] - Darkroot Garden 1
[01:02:36] - Undead Burg 2
[01:10:44] - New Londo 1
[01:19:29] - The Depths
[01:32:42] - The Catacombs
[01:47:51] - Blighttown
[02:10:46] - Firelink Shrine & NPCs
[02:18:06] - Northern Undead Asylum
[02:29:28] - Sen's Fortress
[02:51:29] - Anor Londo 1
[02:57:30] - Painted World
[03:11:54] - Anor Londo 2
[03:41:31] - The Duke's Archives
[03:53:51] - Crystal Cave
[03:59:05] - Demon Ruins
[04:10:25] - Lost Izalith
[04:20:22] - Sanctuary Garden
[04:27:07] - Royal Wood
[04:44:47] - Oolacile Township
[04:55:38] - Chasm of the Abyss
[05:08:47] - The Battle of Stoicism
[05:19:12] - The Great Hollow
[05:27:31] - Ash Lake
[05:36:38] - Tomb of the Giants
[05:53:39] - Darkroot Garden 2
[06:04:31] - New Londo 2
[06:15:29] - Kiln of the First Flame & Ending

Thanks once again to Matthewmitosis for the help.

[mgodchild]

You know your heart is pure gold when you make a 6+ hour video and didnt put a single ad in the whole video. Man you da real mvp

[dstarr]

This is great, but have you considered doing something more long-form? Something like 15-20 hours? This is just kind of brief.

[IronPineapple]

heck yeah, you're back
there's something very therapeutic about just chilling and listening to your thoughts on a game

[JKSmith-qsii]

Was able to share this video with my cousin who is deaf and a huge fan of Dark Souls 1, thank you ThatOtherAlex for the English captions.

[greenhowie]

This was made 7 years ago and is still better than most commentaries on this game.

[shmovenub]

When you try and go one minute back in the video but you end up going back 4 years, 9 days, and 6 minutes

[PlagueOfGripes]

"Darkroot" is probably a reference to the area being the root of the Dark of Manus, not how much the sun shines. Hence the name change and so on. Whether the sun is real or not is pretty up in the air, but you'd think if no one had seen a sun before coming to Anor Londo it would be way more of a topic of conversation - what it is, where did it come from, and so on. However, even when the sun 'goes out, ' the sun doesn't vanish, it's just replaced with something that looks more like a moon. Maybe because of Gwyndolin's association with the moon, or maybe it's merely a dimmed sun. It gets pretty confusing, and I wouldn't expect DaS3 to explain any of it, as it seems to clearly be an afterthought to the whole point that the gods have orchestrated a lie.

[IanZWhite]

Matthew’s characteristic foresight coming into play with YouTube’s new “chapters” feature.

To my understanding the process is automatic if the description has time stamps, but it can be janky. Leave it to Mr. Matosis to utilize it flawlessly by total accident 5 years in advance.

[jane-wing]

I'll never go into blighttown without thinking about color correction and matrices and backface culling and classical mechanics again.

[Punkandcannonballer]

Matthew, I want you to know that I play this for my puppy every morning to calm her down while I'm at work.

[Haedox]

Six hours?! Damn, this was worth the wait.

[shoocharu]

I have legitimately watched this entire video more than 10 times. I let a lot of time go by between each watch, but man, I love coming back to it.

[Rafterman]

It's really incredible just how good this video is and how he just intuitively understands games like Demon's/Dark Souls. Even his personal theories about events are well thought out. Cheers Matt.

[EoghanMcCarthy]

This guys videos are so well done it's crazy, compare this to all the other completely shallow reviews on youtube just shows how much effort and analysis this guy actually does.

[Fronzel]

I consider the Crestfallen Warrior's fate in this game to be a joke. While in Demons' Souls when the players succeeds enough he seems to lose his mind and kills himself, this version of the character contrarily seems to be inspired by the player’s success to get off his behind. However, the player finds him Hollowed in the entrance to New Londo, an area just a few minutes from where the warrior started out. He went the wrong direction and immediately gave up instead of trying somewhere else.

[jacklucy]

This video is truly my comfort watch. I’m sure you never look at comments these old Matt, but I hope you know how beloved you are by the gaming community.

[torchedheavily]

2:57:16 "I particularly like the last enemy on the right, here, because he distracts you from the amazing chest on the left."

I actually nodded in agreement until I realized what you really meant lol, you sly dog.

[paris-]

The reason I like Artorias being literally the second boss in the DLC, and him being at almost the start of it, is this idea that not even one of the strongest warriors to walk Lordran could stand against the Abyss, as if to warn you that if he couldn’t do it, how could you hope to do it? To repress the abyss?

It’s tragic, but I love it.

[PatrickProductions]

"Even though I wear heavy armor, I wouldn't really miss poise if it was gone."

ARE YOU HAPPY NOW?!?

[wetigaz]

1:01:07 You can actually fight any of these bosses as your first boss (including the Capra Demon!) *without* the master key.
You have to immediately kill Ingward in New Londo to get the key to the seal. Opening the floodgates of New Londo creates a route from Firelink to Blight Town, Darkroot and Undead Parish. If you clear Undead Parish, pick up the Basement Key, and cross the Hellkite Bridge backwards you can even get to the Capra Demon!