It almost feels like Anor Londo was intended to have several entrances and lower levels, just like undead burg.

@ArstotzkaEmpire

5 жыл бұрын

adradox well they did it later in dark souls 3 but they weren't thinking in doing it here cause those cities are full of people and there is a lack of new enemies. The game will get boring for fighting the same enemies for two and overall the lack of ideas for the location.

@simongarrels8929

3 жыл бұрын

@@FatfighterXD1 Anor Londo was one of the first Areas they made.

@dragar0th

3 жыл бұрын

@@FatfighterXD1 im pretty sure you could give Fromsoft 10 years and they still wouldn't have the "finished game"

@banann_ducc

2 жыл бұрын

@@dragar0th did you mean that as in they would just keep adding more and more to the game or that their games are unrefined?

@TheAlison1456

2 жыл бұрын

@Dragaroth bioshock infinite is an example of how constraints are good. It still is tear worthy that we'll never get to see what the ultimate vision of DkS was, in actualized form. I'm sure the devs felt the same way then.

the part with the river floating in the void with the sun is beautiful

@Jaden-Ring

4 жыл бұрын

Fishing hamlet vibes

@XSkyLightxX

4 жыл бұрын

And the music. Omg...

@PinkManDiamondz

3 жыл бұрын

8:30 is beautiful too

when you look over the walls of anor londo and see just how close the parish and sen's fortress were to it, it really takes your breath away. that this world which seems so giant can be so heavily interconnected is nothing short of incredible, and i don't think there's been any games before or since that had worlds so heavily connected like this one is. it's honestly fucking beautiful.

@namelesslad5803

6 жыл бұрын

Sonic the Hedgehog DS1 World is pretty small. Everything happens around firelink shrine

@banger107

5 жыл бұрын

"I don't think there's been any games before or since that had worlds so heavily connected like this one is". Well, pretty much any Metroid game, Resident Evil. Most games based around exploration.

@Sadeness99

4 жыл бұрын

Grand theft auto boy

@NinjaThatLongboards

3 жыл бұрын

@@Sadeness99 yes but GTA is modeled after real cities. DS takes an entire story and sprinkles it into a map thats entirely from imagination.

@Sadeness99

3 жыл бұрын

@@NinjaThatLongboards ye I understand I love dark souls beauty

4 seconds in and my mind is already blown. Seeing a dark souls character climb something like that feels...right

@CrestfallenChannel

7 жыл бұрын

Well you could do that in some places in Demon's Souls.

No wonder Anor Londo was scared of Oolacile´s Abyss, if it somehow came in contact with the river it would lead directly to the capital.

@tvturtle7086

7 жыл бұрын

Takezo Kimura oh dang

@DaRoachDoggJrr

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe, the river flows down from anor londo

@jeanpaulgartier3404

4 жыл бұрын

Daft

@astavas8341

4 жыл бұрын

Oh damn, the one with Kalameet?

In his Lordran's Layout video, Illusory Wall hypothesized that this river actually leads to the waterfall in the Catacombs. The location of the top of the waterfall roughly lines up with where the river under Sen's Fortress would lead.

These videos are great, man. It just makes me think about what else could have been in the game if they had another year of dev time

@jovananinkovic6251

7 жыл бұрын

Well, that certainly used to be the actual gate to Anor Londo (for those who were worthy enough to get past the fortress, at least), Gwyndolin must have sealed it away to keep the city safe, or something. Or - the wall itself is an illusion kept by him. Would be nice if the passage through it appeared once you killed Gwyndolin.

OMFG the Sen's Fortress map is actually loaded where it should be fkn love it when they do this and we discover it, it's makes the world much more solid and believable

@freddytheshadowninja

7 жыл бұрын

Even weirder when he hit the ground and it acted like he just entered the area.

@davids7646

7 жыл бұрын

that just how dark souls LOD work, its level based which means the certain amount of detail showed up when you are in the same level of the object details. for example at the shortcut in the hellkite bridge to the undead burg first bonfire try jumping to get down instead of ladder you'll see that objects like barrels only showed up when you 're down there. LOD works quite weird but is pretty great

@freddytheshadowninja

7 жыл бұрын

If only Skyrim had that, fricking game runs like garbage probably loading in Solitude while you're in Riften.

@Listener11111

2 жыл бұрын

@@freddytheshadowninja umm Skyrim uses LODs heavily, it's incredibly noticeable when a dragon flies into my face while still having a low-poly model. and I've never had FPS drops in vanilla skyrim even on old PCs, though the loading times were real sad

so there's the sun Solaire was looking for, poor guy went into the center of the earth for nothing...

4:15 there is Solaire's sun! Not wonder he couldn't find it when its out of boundaries.

"How interconnected is the map?" "Yes"

The fact that the developers made the river continue outside the invisible wall where we can't see it without hacks. Is this the reason for so much lag in Blighttown?

@MasterSorez

7 жыл бұрын

Blighttown lags because it loads up the entirety of Demon Ruins while you're in it apperantly.

@pudas9381

7 жыл бұрын

nope, blighttown lags because is a large, open area but ultradense of buildings and details

@ChuckPalomo

7 жыл бұрын

I thought it lagged because of the great amount of particle effects in play, which older systems couldn't handle very well.

@StreamWhenGuy

7 жыл бұрын

I've heard that It lags because of enemies can't find a proper path to the player because of elevation variety, so their AI is kinda bugged. Also those mosquitoes ignore everything and go straight to you, can be one of the reasons as well.

@aco9880

7 жыл бұрын

i like how you have a cut rule 34 image as your profile picture

I feel like you're gonna fight the Sorrow or something.

@anythingatall7670

6 жыл бұрын

HW Schimmel lol

@pragadoyoutube2338

4 жыл бұрын

4 years late but that comment was solid gold

@thebeeghoont7888

3 жыл бұрын

Praga do KZread solid snake

The world of dark souls has a fu***ng amazing atmosphere

The only question that remains.... Did the moonlight butterfly ever make it to the moon....? The world may never know...

@alexradice8163

4 жыл бұрын

That's a stupid joke

@madadardeb5580

4 жыл бұрын

@@alexradice8163 you're a stupid joke

@officialromanhours

4 жыл бұрын

But...but...Moonlight Butter doesn't fly!

dark souls 1s' geography is fucking phenomenal. they also bothered to render stuff we were never meant to see.

after the iron golem boss fight should've been a zone with this river leading to anor londo instead of the flying demons

@markrogers783

3 жыл бұрын

Ikr wasted potential

"He had the ability to change whatever he wanted, to change the Matrix as he saw fit."

Such a well-detailed animation for a background river.

@TheAlison1456

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it looks great. It's probably made using procedurally generated textures that slide over the mesh, like in other games. If you look up Suoer Mario Sunshine water texture you might find a minimalistic B&W article explaining it.

4:14 this is the sun, solaire want to find

@p9ul133

4 жыл бұрын

@user name umm what

@alabboop5342

4 жыл бұрын

Point Pin it’s a theory a gaming theory

I believe this river is visible to the player bellow the bridge between sen's fortress and Andre of Astora.

You know, I really appreciate the fact that you use the medium run speed. The 25% run speed would probably make the video feel less comfy. Just found this channel and damn, your videos are amazing.

@STANKYCHEEZEMAYNE

5 жыл бұрын

it's frustrating as fuck for me especially since it's not being used to cam anything but the ground and big ass uniform walls but hey if you're comfy you're comfy lol

cool! I saw that river for the first time while crossing the bridge between sen's fortress and the undead church. it flows right under it, but I couldn't see from where it was coming. thanks bud!

Nice river dude

damn, the moment you dropped down in sens fortress my jaw dropped

@mrmensje1

7 жыл бұрын

everything in dark souls 1 is just so precise and good

I think they missed a huge opportunity here, they could have had this same river run under the valley of the drakes. Then, have it connect to the giant pool of water in the Darkroot Garden. I think it would have been a cool detail, to make it seem like the natural parts of the world also connect to other areas. Also, it seems a tiny bit weird, how the river, gets turned into what is just a creek. I wonder if they wanted any other bodies of water to link to the river, to make it seem more natural. Since most of it is out of bounds, I wonder if they had an another use for it, and just put it down there, as a small detail. Also, that ending shot with the Butterfly flying to up in direction of the Moon was beautiful!

Esse riozinho embaixo da ponte pra Sens Frotress SEMPRE me intrigou. Já consegui jogar um corpo de um daqueles homens-cobra lá.

That epic view at the start. I want more of that. MOAR!!!

It looks like it was intended as something to be used off in the background, the tapering off at the end is a common illusion used to give something the appearance it's stretching into the distance.

It's more like a creek.

I can see Irithyll.

@GyroFighting

7 жыл бұрын

TheLastOnion in the future?

What this game could've been man...

@aarongarcia4381

4 жыл бұрын

What this game is

@thesaviorofsouls5210

4 жыл бұрын

What the fuck do you mean "couldve been"

@karas2718

4 жыл бұрын

@@thesaviorofsouls5210 He mean that is an awesome game, but a lot of lost content like ds2 but less xD

@cryptox1469

4 жыл бұрын

@@thesaviorofsouls5210 second half was rushed and a lot of lost content

@thesaviorofsouls5210

4 жыл бұрын

@@cryptox1469 they were thinking way too fucking big for what they could handle, yet they made a game that...yeah it has mistakes i admit it. And yet its one of the best games ive ever played, could it have been even better....well yeah probally. But if they had the manpower snd money for that...then thr whole game might have changed .

I've been addicted to your videos >o Keep up the good work!!

I was expecting you to follow the river all the way to Darkroot Basin. I was disappointed.

@shinmon9486

7 жыл бұрын

Kevin Meisenbacher yeah, but does it?

@lettuceprime4922

4 жыл бұрын

It fed the Catacombs waterfall I've always thought.

@kevgmei

4 жыл бұрын

You're right; saw a video that shows how it connects to the Catacombs.

@lettuceprime4922

4 жыл бұрын

@@kevgmei - Video by Illusory Wall?

@kevgmei

4 жыл бұрын

@@lettuceprime4922 By someone. I completely forget whom. There's a bunch of awesome nerds that like to show us cool stuff.

A HOLLOW HAS FALLEN INTO THE RIVER AT ANOR LONDO CITY

@mikedanielespeja6128

4 жыл бұрын

Is this a Lego reference?!

This game is Masterpiece... Hum ... A masterpiece indeed!

I love your videos. They make me a bit sad because I often think about of what it could have been! So much potential and beauty in this game.

@gamernation1400

3 жыл бұрын

Elaborate?

@Undriel

3 жыл бұрын

@@gamernation1400 There's a lot of cut content in Dark Souls. I often used to imagine what the game would have been given more time and more budget.

@gamernation1400

3 жыл бұрын

Undriel Wow, I didn’t expect a response from a 3 year old comment. Thanks for replying, let’s hope Elden Ring incorporates some of the cut ideas.

@illestdakillest5420

2 жыл бұрын

@@gamernation1400 It doesn’t look like it, and I’ve been prowling Reddit for weeks. Still a great game though!

This river is the source for the waterfall in the catacombs. It Spans Anor Londo/Sens Fortress/ a part of dark root and ends in the catacombs which are rougly beneath sens fortress

I've always wondered why the outer city walls are curved like that. Doesn't look very realistic, even from Firelink.

I often wondered where the river from Sens' entryway went. Very nice.

This game world truly is connected...

You can see same river in catacombs from below as waterfall btw, catacombs are near sens fortress

Now we know that is Irithil of the boreal valley

Dude I love this game so much its ridiculous

This makes me think this is the river just outside of Sen's Fortress. Cool and weird that it would be loaded in

Oh god not Sif's theme again! Nooooo! I'm tearing up, shit!

Now I know where the river came from when looking under the bridge. I never get to see it when I go down to the woods. Unless it's it but not rendered.

"What da fuck it's a optimization?!" -From Software Developer

Funny, since I once wanted to be a game designer, I feel like I know what the purpose of the river is: early in the process of the game, a lot of mapping was done in world to see if they like to take things in this direction. This area might have been an in game level if the developers decided to go with it. And they left it in during the development as an afterthought, seeing as if they might return to the idea. At the ends of development, obviously, they didn't, but they left it in the finished product, presumably, because it is one of many, and they got too lazy to take it out. That, or they feared taking it out might cause some complex bug in the game they'd have a hard time undoing; like trying to undo a single line in a intricate spider's web, and it was best to just leave it as it is. Hehe. That's my best guess.

The music of this game is too good.

imagine fighting sif in blight town with full fur/hair physics using the older(2012-ish) systems. along with stuffs that we cant see that is still loaded. Imagine the horrible lag lol

3 Years later I discover the deepest dark souls lore

You can almost see the dna of zora’s river from oot in this.

"Like a moth to a flame..."

That is the river beneath Irithyll in DS3.

saw all of your DS1 videos in a single night good stuff new content when?

Undead Burg Woman Anor Lando Man We came together to try again The Anor Londo river cant keep us apart. theres Too much love in this undead heart Too much love in this Capital heart.

This river is mentioned in Silver knight shield's description

Should have played the Ducktales Moon theme as the Butterfly ascended.

In what other games could you possibly even make this video? Like him walking and falling through all the different locations without loading screens or things being cut out etc etc...i mean i can name a few but still its amazing.

@favkisnexerade

3 жыл бұрын

Any game with open world? 🤔

@thesaviorofsouls5210

3 жыл бұрын

@@favkisnexerade i guess kinda, but then youd probally either just keep going west, or north etc. it lacks the vertical depth and build up that dark souls has. But maybe thats just me.

@favkisnexerade

3 жыл бұрын

@@thesaviorofsouls5210 not only you, it's just that dark souls has more vertical space than usual open world games and it just locks some paths from start

Great!! nice video :D

I love fans like you.

Could’ve been cool if you traversed the lower part of anor londo and worked your way up from that path from the river it would kinda be like the bed of styx

la zona del minuto 3:15 se puede acceder saltando desde la escalera en diagonal (salto muy difícil intencionadamente, me salio de pura suerte al intentar ahorrar tiempo, lo cual salio peor ya que no llevaba huesos de regreso y perdi 15000 almas con 10 humanidades), puedes llegar al gigante que abre la puerta desde ahí, ademas de ir por los techos del camino común para llegar a la cima de la fortaleza pero no puedes salir de ellos, solo queda caer al vació hasta que salga la pantalla de morir

what's the theme that plays at the beginning?

@CrestfallenChannel

7 жыл бұрын

battle of stoicism

Thought it would be the same river that can be seen in catacombs

Watching you climb up a wall like its a ladder is so cursed

you can actually get to the river without hacks, there are some videos on youtube

@CrestfallenChannel

7 жыл бұрын

Not in the Anor Londo version of the river.

@BlueVince

7 жыл бұрын

***** true, great video though

@Torantes

6 жыл бұрын

Link maybe?

what a mysterious jogo

183 to comment, the map connection its amazing bro

although just a debugging but it was a liittle bit scary and bizarre.

What's the song name?

Very eerie. Also gives room for a lot of thinking. What was the purpose of all those things

Is it me or Anor Londo's music reminds me of Demon's Souls?

A casul has fallen into the river in Gank City! start the new Rolf copter! HEY! Build the rolflecoper! And off to the casul!!

Very curious, I wonder what the original intent was for the river? Also dude, I know you're playing the devbuild version of the game, but are you running with any enhanced textures or anything? As your version of the game seems beautiful in comparison to mine.

@ChuckPalomo

7 жыл бұрын

In all likeness it's the source of the Darkroot Basin, or at least a tributary, since it passes right under the Undead Parish in that direction. It's nice that From tried to be geographically consistent.

@CrestfallenChannel

7 жыл бұрын

No I don't have any mods other than high res UI, I just raised the internal resolution with DSFIX to 2500x1500. Without DSFIX, Dark Souls is locked at 720p.

@WeWillAlwaysHaveVALIS

7 жыл бұрын

***** Ah so it's been upscaled somewhat, that would explain it. I'll have to give it a whirl on my next install. Thanks a lot dude, keep up the good work!

this is the river on zen's fortress right ?

so the entire world is just one instance, huh?

Dat ladder

What mods did you use to make the game look so pretty? Your armor is shining and so on.

@CrestfallenChannel

7 жыл бұрын

I didn't used any mods, I just raised the internal resolution.

this is the river on the bridge con zen's fortress right ?

It's the Ithyrill lake.

the river actually does continue onto the undead burg and under firelink! theres another KZread video somewhere where someone ends up finding out that THAT river flows literally thru the entire game. its end is the small waterfall in the catacombs

4:30 Theory of big blow in a nutshell

can i get the list of soundtracks used?

@alexradice8163

4 жыл бұрын

Play the game

holy shit

アノール ロンドの川

May I know what the first soundtrack is?

@CrestfallenChannel

2 жыл бұрын

Battle of Stoicism from the DLC

@chairultoriq6753

2 жыл бұрын

@@CrestfallenChannel thank you so much

Did he just climb???

Where the heck is that climbing animation used in the game ?

@Michael-im1tr

3 жыл бұрын

Late response but it was cut

That’s a long river

please apply roll-landing lol

Hero have only 1 HP?

I want that mod

What if that river led to Kalameet?

Is this the same river that you see on the bridge to sen's fortress?

@Max-lm6pj

7 жыл бұрын

yes

Dark Souls: Breath of the Wild edition

You mean the send fortress river

4:21 三途の川 river of life or dead

Omg