1:09 patch 1.05
 
This is the new current world record, at least to my knowledge.
 
EDIT: Finally just decided to compile it and upload my own version.
  

Links to the original nicovideo entries
 
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm16627890
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm16631021
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm16632625
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm16636992
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm16637414
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm16638317
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm16642166

• Starting class Hunter
• Starting gift Master Key
• Starts with taking the shortcut through New Londo Ruins into Valley of Drakes using the Master Key
• Picks up a few Soul items and makes beeline for the Red Tearstone Rin
• Goes straight into Darkroot Basin to grab the Grass Crest Shield and Black Knight Halberd (I assume he reloaded until it dropped)
• Uses elevators and ladders as downtime to pop souls and switch out equipmet
• Picks up Twinkling Titanite from the Crystal Lizard to use on BKH later
• Loops through Darkroot to get to Undead Parish
• Buys Battle Axe from Andre of Astora for Gargoyle fight and levels
• Activates bonfire near Andre to use as his hub (incredibly smart, can Homeward Bone from Quelaag and immediately enter Darkroot and Sen's)
• Reverses Hollowing and runs through the chapel, reloads game to drop aggro and summons Solaire for Bell Gargoyles
• Homeward Bones to Andre, uses chapel shortcut to Firelink and murders eveyr NPC there for Souls, and Lautrec for the Ring of Favor and Protection
• Uses Rickert to upgrade Black Knight Halberd
• Takes New Londo Ruins shortcut to Valley of Drakes and into Blighttown 
• Kills Quelaag while posioned, naked, and without a fucking shield at like 50 HP
• Immediately runs into the Demon Ruins and fucks up Ceaseless Discharge
• Homeward Bones back to Undead Parish
• Level up to get enough Endurance to wield both Grass Crest Shield and BKH, and then kill Andre for Crest of Artorias
• Into Darkroot Garden to pick up Stone Knight Armor, Hornet's Ring, and to fuck da Sif
• Immediately into Sen's
  

This is about where I left off when I came to post here.
 
It's worth noting that he only refilled his Estus twice between arriving in Lordran and defeating Ceaseless Discharge and did not take a single hit during any any boss encounters. If he had taken a hit on Quelaag or Ceaseless Discharge he would have been dead instantly.
 
It's also worth noting that he strategically depletes his health at certain points to just low enough to activate Red Tearstone ring.
 
Too the uninitiated this run may seem insane, to the Dark Souls veteran this it is absolutely horrifying.
 
This man is a monster.
 
There are plenty of videos with people beating bosses stark nude, but to see someone do it in a straight shot in just over one hour is fucking ridiculous. 

Jesus Christ. I'm going to have to watch this when I get back from class tomorrow. That's completely fucking insane.

I didn't play Dark Souls, but this is positively insane from what I understand about the game, I'll have to watch this when I get home from work.

Welp, now I know what I am doing for the next hour.

Of course...he's Asian.

Nice. Too bad about the circa 1997 video resolution. Indeo encoding up in this hizzy.

this shit is bananas.

B - A - N - A - N - A - S

Oh, hey, this video sounds cool.

I'll just turn it on and see how he...

*head explodes*

It took me 12 hours(I'm pretty sure 14, but I know for a fact at least 12 hours) to get where he got in eight minutes.
 
That's amazing.

So if a guy is insane because he beat Dark Souls in an hour, what does 34:30 make this guy?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWTf0LdCtAo

It's not nearly as impressive when you realize he's able to skip over half of the game because of a glitch after you get the Lordvessel.

@sterbacblu said:

So if a guy is insane because he beat Dark Souls in an hour, what does 34:30 make this guy?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWTf0LdCtAo

It's not as impressive because the first dude beat all of the bosses, whereas the dude in the video you posted performed a glitch that took him straight to the last level.

@GioVANNI: True, they're just different styles of speed run that, at least to me, both have their merits. 100% runs obviously take more skill and are more "showy," but I also find the glitches people discover to be equally fascinating. Hard to believe that in the last few weeks new glitches from games like Ocarina of Time and Super Mario Land 2 have been found. SML2 is 20 years old and they're still finding glitches...crazy.

I thought this was just a re-post of the guy who did it it 1:30... and it looks like he didn't go NG+ like the other guy.

I have been playing Dark souls nearly 90 hours and have just made it past Anor Londo. He reached the same point I have at 40 minutes. And no deaths. FML. :[

Oh dear god how

Glad you like my speed run, guys.

I haven't even finished the game let alone speedily.

Kinda disappointed though - he does technically die once through this playthrough, when he's trying to get on that lift in the archives. He must've been so mad at himself.

Is this on his first run? The game is MUCH easier on the second playthrough, I think I beat it in about 4 hours on my second run... well I got to the final boss, and I fucking REFUSE to go through that shit again.

There's something about Dark Souls speedruns which makes them so entertaining. True mastery of the physics, rather than just glitch exploitation.

I haven't played the game so I won't watch, I don't think I could possibly appreciate it anywhere near tthe level you guys are, to me it will probably just look like any other speed run.

@SpawnMan said:

Kinda disappointed though - he does technically die once through this playthrough, when he's trying to get on that lift in the archives. He must've been so mad at himself.

That was a strategic, purposeful death.

:(

looks easy.

Behold. The greatest speedrun of our time.

Of course...he's Asian.

WOW

I thought I was boss for completing this game within 3 weeks of release without a guide, didn't need any help either, only tip I got was accidental, the Drake sword one, because of the Chobot IGN video, and everyone knows of that one, it's only useful early on anyway. Took me 80 hours. Oh well.... I'm still boss.

Are you sure that was a human playing? I don't know if one man (or girl?) could remember all the timing that it took to get through that. Well, I guess I wouldn't really know since I haven't played it.

Just watched the whole thing, really impressive.

@gerrid said:

There's something about Dark Souls speedruns which makes them so entertaining. True mastery of the physics, rather than just glitch exploitation.

Yea I like this guys and his opinions. The best/worst thing is that it gets you thinking 'yeah that didn't look too hard, I could do that' but no of course you couldn't.

@drag: It's just the way he takes huge chunks of health out of bosses. I mean he parries old Gwyn there at the end, and takes out about 80% of his health. Just look at that.

I was going to wade in and mention the guy who did it in 35 mins but that was the glitched pre-1.05 patch run. Since you mentioned it was from the currently patched version of the game I'm glad you got that out of thew way before the video in question. These speed runs make me feeble :(

This would be far more interesting if the video wasn't in the bare minimum quality. I can only tell what's going on because I've played a shit ton of Dark Souls.

Edit: Watching this, I'd say this would be an easily beatable time if there were more DaS speedrunners, this guy makes an embarrassing amount of mistakes on the bosses.

IThanatosI (WR holder for Demon's Souls on SDA and in Guiness World Records) beat it in 32 minutes yesterday, but he used the Lordvessel skip.

And he's going for the glitchless run WR now too.

Why keep playing the same game? He should play some new games. I finished Dark Souls the weekend it came out.. done!

IThanatosI (WR holder for Demon's Souls on SDA and in Guiness World Records) beat it in 32 minutes yesterday, but he used the Lordvessel skip.

And he's going for the glitchless run WR now too.

This is about as impressive as listening to a savant rattle off calender dates.

I mean sure the guy is good at the game, but really all this shows is how piss poorly the game was designed.

God I hate how good and yet grossly disappointing this game is so much that I can't even stand to play it anymore, and I never got to finish it :(

EDIT: Also that ending sucked fucking ass.

EDIT2: What did Michael Bay write that shit?

Looks like the uploader just took the video down. Probably uploading one without the assy resolution.

Video is down, god fucking damnit.

@AlexW00d: I know gah :(

Looks like the uploader just took the video down. Probably uploading one without the assy resolution.

@LordXavierBritish: O_o

Well that makes the ending not so bad, but um.

If that wasn't explaining it in detail, I have no idea what would be "In detail".

Video is down.

@LordXavierBritish: What are you implying? If it's a bad route, surely someone would have a better time using a better route?

@LordXavierBritish: What are you implying? If it's a bad route, surely someone would have a better time using a better route?

oh wow got me so excited to watch that. yeah if you manage to find it again it'd be really really quite cool

I beat dark Souls so fast that it looks like I never played it and Microsoft couldn't even update my achievements.