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Demon's Souls (2009)

Duration: 15:59

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Welcome to Demon's Souls, now with 100% less git gud.

No skills were used in the making of this series. =)

0:39 I begin the dash through 3-2. Not much to say here, all of these tricks should seem pretty standard by this point.

2:26 I enter the Maneater Boss fight, and things get... interesting.

If you equip the Thief Ring, Maneater's AI is what one might generously classify as a "dumpster fire". The trickiest part of the fight is probably surviving whatever his first move is after luring him to the fog gate. From there, you run to the little alcove at 2:43. It's important to slow to a walk at this point. Maneater will virtually never have followed you fast enough to be right on top of you, so you have plenty of time to edge your way out onto the ledge.

From here, Maneater really struggles to know what to do. He will, once in a blue moon, fly over near you and have the snake fire a Soul Ray at you, killing you. If you're really worried about this you can offset it with Second Chance. But generally he just slowly forgets about you and settles to one of a few different designated positions on the battlefield.

3:48 I cast several failed Poison Cloud attempts, not even noticing that the last one still doesn't actually land. There's no reason why you can't use this as your sole strategy to beat him. Once the second Maneater shows up he will usually try to take the same position as the first, getting stuck because he can't get there. From there, you can poison both of them in sync. That takes this battle from maybe 10 minutes to maybe 18 minutes, but it's a virtually guaranteed victory.

5:42 I finally land a Poison Cloud on the first Maneater.

Since I'm using Poison Cloud in other fights in the game already, i wanted to try to be a little more interesting here, so I show several other ways you can abuse Maneater's AI with this trick. I won't get into too much detail overall and let the video speak for itself, but I will point out how I prioritizing killing the tail, to rob him of his soul ray and make me even safer over on the ledge.

6:47 This has happened to me a few times. A random "boss death" audio sound effect happens. It seems to signify nothing and has no impact on the battle, as far as I can tell. I don't know what triggers it.

7:35 First Maneater goes down.

12:04 Second Maneater defeated.

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