If you have any further questions about the run, either post them here or ask me in my Twitch stream! www.twitch.tv/catalystz We are practicing a brand new run right now, so seeing the improvements should be a lot of fun! 😎✌

"But throughout the entire run, it ends up saving about two or three seconds." The lengths people go for speedruns amazes me. The sheer amount of optimization is crazy.

I like how pinwheel is so amazing he doesn't even need his own segment in the run

DAAAMN , what a run. Loved the commentary explaining the most frequent questions people have and glitch/pathing reasoning !!!

Gratz on the record dude.

This further proves that Cata really cares about informing his audience, I mean we already knew that but he's a cool guy.

This is why I love speedruns and speedrunners lmao 1:08:34 just after getting the world record "what a mediocre run" seriously though, congrats! also it was more informative than nearly any other run I've seen too!

The Goat. Cannot wait for you to smash DS1 All achievements then watch you lose your sanity while attempting to do Dark souls 2 all achievements until Elden Ring.

You are doing such precise skips and still keeping up with your chat real often, amazing streamer you are. Congrats

This is exactly what I'm always looking for when I look for speedrun videos - I looove hearing the explanations, and really fun to watch a world record run too!

I see what you did there 30:24 Also, love this commentary, it's very well planned and you clearly put a lot of work in it.

Nice and informative with the post commentary to explain things. I especially liked the mic popping icon up to let us know it was post commentary speaking. Really intuitive for me.

I love that you’ve been putting regular content out. Even on the short videos, it’s all interesting and engaging to watch. Thanks for also caring about/supporting the community!! Really cool to hear all the details as you did them. Good work.

This is a great video! I love the commentary that explains tricks and skips to help us get a scope of what's going on, as well as the skill required to do it. Gratz on the record!

Thank you so much for this. This should be considered the golden standard for speedrun videos. As someone who last kept up with Dark Souls All Bosses when it was around 1:40 there is a lot going on here that I am not completely familiar with. I imagine it is an even better experience for someone unfamiliar with the game

Amazing work! I also appreciate the commentary, despite having watched a bunch of DS speedruns and whatnot because I have a swiss cheese brain and forget things easily.

Loving all of your new uploads lately, Cata. Keep up the great work!

This guy at the 1 hour mark: I have killed almost all bosses, now there's only Gwyn left to own, and own him I will Me at the 1 hour mark: Ah, Firelink. We meet again

What a fantastic run to watch! It goes to show how determined you are as a speedrunner and I respect that. I remember the first time I saw you speedrunning this game at a gdq event and how you mentioned something about the lava hurting your eyes, so you wore a different type of glasses (which was a cool moment). It's fun to watch you play or just talk about stuff from other games, you are a chill dude Catalystz.

This is the first video I've seen from you and I'm quite happy that you appeared in my recommended, I look forward to seeing your next vid

Great run, love the very useful commentary. I'm familiar with the game but not the speedrunning of it, so all the explanations were perfect! Thank you!

Okay, I had no idea that you're actually a top speedrunner. Props and congrats on the record!

This is such a great run and I watched the whole thing b/c commentary. Keep it up!

Love this vid and grats on the WR! I remember watching you run the same category at AGDQ

I really enjoyed watching this. Thank you for putting this commentary over it.

Loved this run and format mate, I understand some of these big skips more on a technical level. Also I've been watching your runs for awhile and never did a magic run in the game, seeing the cool tactics you use finally got me to try it out when I felt like picking it up again recently and it lead me to putting the time into getting the platinum trophy for the game, even ended up doing a faith build to finish off the "obtain all miracles" one. When I go back to DS2 some day I think I'll do magic too. Bed of Chaos is still the one part that I can never get good at, he's such a dick.

Congratulations. The vídeo is very enjoyable and the tricks are well exploited.

It’s crazy how far speedrunning strats have come. Congrats on the record!

Catalystz I'm happy for you in 3 days you've gotten more views than some of your videos from a year a go that got me to start making speedrun routes and all kinds of other crazy thing I wouldn't have without your videos I think I really like your runs with commentary and hope you keep it up and are well

As someone who just recently started watching speedruns; this is the first I've seen with in-depth commentary and it is very informative. Great video :)

Amazing speedrun and commentary!

Sick man! Appreciate the work for the video, thanks for the great explanations

New to the Dark souls speedruns and really enjoyed the commentary! Cheers

This is great, cata. Re-watching this just because it’s so good.

I really enjoyed the format of combining stream footage with prerecorded narration. Makes it less chaotic than a typical VOD, but it still remains quite personal.Great video overall, cheers!

i really like this type of explanation video and I love watching you one shotting bosses XD please continue

I really liked this kinda commentary over raw runs, keep it up

I've watched like 10 speedruns of DS1 and yours are by far the most entertaining and informative runs greets from germany, keep going!

Great vid man! Would love to see more similiar but for other categories and other souls games!

I'm not familiar to DS1 speedruns at all, but god damn that Bed of Chaos kill in merely a couple of seconds and 2 firebombs made me feel avenged for all the time I spent running back to that boss after some BS knocked me out of the map, or the floor colapsed exactly under where I was running in the arena. It was incredible to watch, almost surrealistic, as was the rest of the run. All the respect to you sir, a true master of your craft.

Reading about this new ds2 skip at ~ 35.00 makes me really interested, do you plan on covering ds2 glitches on your channel as well someday? I really love your technical explanations of skips and it would be really interesting to see them for other soulsgames too

i really love these vids, they really help explain the optimizations for runs. always very informative, thanks cata.

I just started ds remaster a few weeks ago after finishing blood borne and I’m in love with the series and this speed run is very cool

"You need to have some sense of progression otherwise what is the point of leveling your character in the first place" Sadly, that sums up my thoughts on Nioh exactly. Sure, you can level up your stats and get new gear, but when every new challenge is still balanced towards your new level and gear values, nothing really has any meaning anymore. Get 2 shot at the beginning of the game, get 2 shot at the end of the game. Gear is meaningless, stats are meaningless.

This was such an amazing watch!

The commented run rocks!!! Congratz cata!!

This is incredible. I can’t imagine the time and dedication put into something like this. Well done!

You’re an amazing content creator man keep up the good work man!

this is incredible. Great job, great video

that door wall jump to get to lower undead berg and get the gate opened early is pretty sick, iv never seen that before. i think ill add it to my playthroughs. i'm not good enough to try to get speedruns but i like to use the different movements. like i use sens fortress skip and then get the hero soul level up my weapon get some levels, then go back and kill gargoyls

Im enjoying this a lot! Great video

Amazing, dude. Congrats!

Awesome work cata. I'd definitely watch more commentated runs. Now the AA grind begins.

Awesome commentary my dude

Awesome man. Congrats.

Yo cata good looking out 💯 …was looking for something like this

I absolutely love listening to you talk, such a pleasure hearing your very well articulated and argumented topics.

this is so sick congratulations chief

Amazing run!

This is the first video I watched from now and it’s fucking amazing great job

Sick run. Subbing for sure

You're wrong about the Switch though; it's not about kids or parents, it's about portability. Most of us have normal jobs, with long commutes on public transportation. Being able to play proper indie games on the subway, with a controller? Life changer dude. Same reason I pre ordered a Steam Deck. Not all of us can be so lucky to have a job sitting at their gaming PC playing games all day 🙄. And Steam Deck can't flop; it already got crazy preorders, even when it was limited to one-per-account and $5 down.

Something that i was waiting for and nobody made it. Until now that is.

AWESOME RUN CATA!! and I thought I had DS skills. PRAISE THE SUN!!! \[T]/

Congrats cata!

I starded to play Dark Souls recently. At first I was very frustrated with the game, but now I'm hooked haha

Gotta be one of the best speedrun videos.

I'm 2 minutes in and I know I'll be watching this to finish tonight. and congrats!

awesome job man! congrats! :3

Great video; highly entertaining :)

"I really hope you enjoy it"..."I mean I don't think that's going to be the case"...amazing how it seems to be related but is a completely separate subject...glad you put the clarification below

Great video. Subbed.

I can't wait for Cata to make a video about how All achievements has improved since the beginning.

This is great content. A game this old seems super intimidating to speed run but this commentary explains everything it helps so much

first of all congratulations, doing a speedrun like that requires an incredible level of concentration and a long study of the time it takes to complete each little step. But I wanted to ask, wasn't the multiplication of souls glitch possible with just 999 arrows? or is this of a different type?

Great run, cat!

It's amazing how much longer the video is than the IGT.

47:00 On the subject of bad PC's affecting gamplay in DS1R I tried playing with a bad laptop and it led to a bunch of glitches. Doors that were supposed to be locked wouldnt load and I actually never was carried to lordran by the bird after activating the cutscene, I died to torch hollows with my asylum souls. I doubt it would be usable in a speedrun due to the lag but this reminded me of it.

Always love to see a new DS wr! Congrats man! EDIT: Hadn't seen that gold foggate skip yet. Seems like you don't have a lot of time to get that at all, really cool to see!

Even though I’m a big of humility, you should be proud of the world records you set. Like you said, “speed runners generally don’t have that.” Be humble, but also be proud of the effort and dedication you put into your record. 33:17

It is very weird to see you not being angry after beating Gwyn 😃 I remember all those 'I suck at this game', 'This game is bullshit', etc It had been hilarious.

the dude in the chat saying he gets lost in ds3 and doesn't know where to go must be an ign game reviewer lmao

congrats man, well played. everything is great but I think if you can reduce the peaking from your microphone it could be that much more enjoyable. again, good stuff

I was hours in before I beat the gargoyles, have no idea how you did this so swiftly

I have a couple of questions In the first 10 minutes alone. How was the gate behind boar in the Undead Parish open already and how was Lautrec at Firelink without saving him

Doesn't one shoting Priscilla gets you stuck in a softlocke so how come that didn't happen when he killed Priscilla in one dark bead.

i like your videos friend,i've learnt many things but i still struggle at nullifying fall damage, i have ptde but i don't think there's a difference between it and remastered

So I get jumping over the unstable wall but how do you jump without running off of that cage in Sen's Fortress to get to Big Hat Logan. I've tried several times myself with no luck.

Hot damn that’s quick

Id love this for all achievments

Do you have a consistent method for doing the prompt swap glitch in terms of lining up the selections properly? The tutorial i've seen just says move the d-pad right-down but it's not as consistent as it seems in your runs.

I have done some of the glitches you show here on both original and remastered games. But for different reasons, to keep the areas alive for PvP and coop fight club fun. Controlling the character is real bit¢h( ps3/ps4) when the glitches are done, heat down how easy and perfect you're doing them and moving the character.👍

With most games speed runs I watch I feel I can emulate at least some of the skips but with this one I’d be proud if I could even do one skip never mind the insanity of chaining them all together like this.

Cata, know about you from Karmik's speedrun parsing. Man, you're tough as a fuck. Good luck to you and thanks for your runs and explains (:

Is there a similar souls glitch for ptde ps3? I know the one for boss and firekeeper souls only

Hi, was wondering about practising. I music we play the song all the way through even if you make a mistake, so you get good at the whole song. I speed running I see people reset the moment something doesn't go right. So the end game gets less practice. Is this an issue, and how do people get good at the end game?

When Insanity has a Name!

Nice video Cata

Hey do you have a run, or could you do one with English text, I want to try speedrunning this game and I just want to know which items to pick, like from shops and such

GG! I don't know what you mean at 33:16, I definitely think this is one you can be proud of :)