
Learn what you can from Laurentius to start with This is a great new challenge for those who want to rediscover the game. You have to formulate a plan, crunch some numbers, and then execute that plan. Not only does beating the game as a level 1 require great technical play, each boss fight becomes its own theorycrafting challenge. That won’t help you much in a Soulsborne. We’ve come across many who treat Dark Souls like a Final Fantasy game, thinking the answer to a tough fight is to go away and grind for a while. There’s no better challenge run to prove that Dark Souls Remastered is about skill. The only rule here is you start as Pyromancer (the only level 1 class), and you can’t level up. This is definitely one of our favourite challenge runs in Dark Souls, and we’ll probably be running it again in Dark Souls Remastered.

Switch off your targeting computer and use your roll. Going melee only without summons just makes sure you’re not going to cheese anything. Havel becomes trivial, as do Silver Knights and Black Knights. Certain enemies become vastly easier once you’ve overcome this hurdle. But I'd feel naked without my shield!Īnd while it doesn’t explicitly force you to, it’s also a great time to learn how to parry. Since you can go through the main game with a heavy armour build, focused on blocking and poise, the lack of a shield here will force you to use Dark Souls Remastered‘s greatest gift: those invincibility frames on your roll. This run is great for learning how to properly roll. This is a challenge run that will teach you valuable skills for future challenge runs. That’s kind of a shame, but here are some great and interesting ways to make Dark Souls Remastered more challenging and fun for yourself. We even received an awesome mod just recently which gives you interesting debuffs for every boss you defeat. Some of the best challenge runs are no longer available if you haven’t already got the Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition on PC, because they come from mods. No more Drake Sword making the early game easy In Dark Souls, challenge runs are a great way to feel like you’re rediscovering the game all over again. With some choice limitations, you can create some very interesting theorycrafting problems to solve. Much like the original, Dark Souls Remastered is entirely breakable - in all the right ways. The usual media narrative of “ha ha it’s so brutally hard” doesn’t ring true to those who’ve learned its systems. This won’t come as a shock to any Souls veteran, but Dark Souls Remastered gets easy after you put enough hours into it.
