The world of speedruns celebrates its new hero: the content creator known as OpaqueGlassJar managed to beat the Dark Souls world record for completing the main campaign of FromSoftware's masterpiece in the shortest time possible.
Thanks to the experience gained in this type of challenge, and the example offered to him by other speedrunners, the YouTuber managed to reach the end credits of the main campaign of Dark Souls in just 19 minutes and 9 secondsbeating CapitaineToinon's previous record which had stood since 2021 by exactly ten seconds.
To succeed in this almost impossible undertaking, the enthusiast of Soulsborne and action role-playing experiences (but not only, considering his records in the titles of the Silent Hill series) took inspiration from the CapitaineToinon run to use the glitches discovered in recent years by other speedrunners and adopt more 'incisive' fighting techniques.
OpaqueGlassJar has in fact discovered that the change of weapon compared to the one usually used by speedrunners (from the mace to the sword of the Black Knights) would have allowed him to save those seconds necessary to guarantee him the new world record, obviously provided he completely change your approach to combat in function, precisely, of the new weapon. If you don't believe it, take a look at the video at the beginning of the article which reconstructs the actions carried out by the speedrunner and the strategies he has developed in the last three years to reach the new world record. For further information on FromSoftware's action RPG odyssey, here you will find our special with the ranking of Dark Souls games from worst to best.