weird secret area in dark souls

never seen this before, cant find anything online.
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[jUppers]

"oh hey a bonfire"
"nope it's just me, sentient nightmare"

[bimmer]

Dude found himself a train subway in dark souls.

[jesuswhy]

This man's found the rest of lost Izalith

[mlggodzilla]

If this was back in 2012, it would have been a game creepypasta

[namelessstranger]

You just infiltrated Hidetaki Mizyaki's master bedroom.

[Metaknightkirby]

Every copy of Dark Souls is personalized.

[ahtk]

I think I read somewhere in an article about mimics, that the developers didn't include fake bonfires, because it would have destroyed the magic of seeing bonfires as the saving grace and as a point of pure security in a harsh world.

In retrospect I often saw a bonfire from afar and tried to reach it ASAP, so they activate a strong desire in players to rush towards them. If I would always have to guess, whether it is a fake bonfire, the feeling would be way different.

Mimics are a different situation, because chests don't give you security and are often at dangerous places with lots of enemies :)

[combatrobot]

Ah yes, the Lost Izalith Backrooms, also known as the Belowrooms.

[avaiboot]

According to the wiki this is cut content enemy "Claw-Hollow", apparently a hollow in a transitional stage of becoming a Cragspider, from Blighttown.

[ManoredRed]

This looks like it was made by spinning room models around in odd ways, turning walls into floors.

[hrmmmmmm]

Am I the only one that was bracing myself for a train jumpscare?

[Krystalmyth]

That enemy is genius the way it actually appears like a bonfire from the distance only to ambush you --- wow ...
I'm really surprised they didn't add this enemy into the game. it's ingenious. Insidious. I suppose it could have been seen as maybe a bit cruel but no crueler than a mimic and it isn't really a fake bonfire because it reveals itself as you get closer it's not like they tricked you. You just wanted it to be a bonfire so badly that you may have not have noticed. It's... it's really smart.

[AdmiralStormy]

Excellent use of those enemies. I always wondered what their attacks were.

[-_-JJ]

Man, the concept of a bonfire in a really poorly lit area, only for it to be a fire wielding enemy is something that boggles my mind, definetively should have been in the main game.

[Plaz]

sooo, you basically entered the backrooms of dark souls

[GoldenMarionette]

This would actually be a very cool area to explore, imagine just falling down to find a platform and theres more areas to drop down from, next thing you know you're going through a vertical maze/dungeon to find what lies at the very bottom

[fivefive]

Thought it was just going to be indentical chambers one after another like the Dark Souls backrooms

[x_overkll_x]

The crag hollows :0 those look so cool, wish those made it into the final game

[realkingofantarctica]

Dark Souls is scarier than most horror games, because you simply don't know what to expect and what's real.

[hitlord]

Classy modding, right here. Very high quality.

Also, real shame they didn't leave those enemies in the game. The "bait" you fall into seems like quintessential Dark Souls to me.