A complete beginners guide to Dark Souls 1

Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome

I'm Josh 'Strife' Hayes, and this is a complete beginners guide to the action adventure game 'Dark Souls 1'.

This guide is designed for complete beginners, or players who attempted and gave up, believing the game was too hard.

this is an extremely detailed guide so please jump to the section you need using the time codes below:

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00:00 - Introduction
01:08 - Dark Souls version history
02:14 - Movement and character controls
04:24 - Inventory and equipment management
05:31 - Inventory tab
06:22 - Equipped items tab
18:29 - Character status tab
21:50 - Ingame display
24:13 - Humanity
25:30 - Combat
26:31 - step 1 - learning the moveset
30:04 - step 2 - assessing combat
30:57 - step 3 - blocking and counter attacking
33:12 - step 4 - parry and riposte
37:07 - step 5 - backstab
37:44 - step 6 - kicking and jumping attacks
38:57 - step 7 - rolling
41:02 - step 8 - magic
41:48 - step 9 - ranger combat (no)
42:10 - Death and bonfires
45:00 - Upgrading items
46:49 - spoiler free story recap
48:25 - Player vs Player (pvp)
51:38 - Additional notes
51:46 - note 1 - the graveyard is too hard
51:58 - note 2 - how do i cure poison
52:22 - note 3 - why is my hp halved? (curse)
53:09 - note 4 - i've killed an npc, can i get them back?
53:28 - Ending / Outro

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