Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago

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Here, I'll be doing an all bosses run of Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin. This video was recorded with the latest releases of the Lighting Engine, Deadzone Fix, and Flawless Widescreen mods for the game, enabling superior lighting and rendering options, analog controls, and proper HUD and cinematic support for ultrawide resolutions. Some HUD elements within the game itself are not designed for ultrawide, such as the texture that appears when you rest at a bonfire, but they are all at least properly positioned. For those who want to use these mods but have concerns over legality, I have been using these mods for several tens of hours and have even been invaded while playing with them and I have not been VAC banned. I cannot promise that you will not, but my personal experience tells me that it is highly unlikely.

In this run, I will be using a similar build to the Dark Souls Remastered video. I use a curved sword and a weapon buff with an overall fairly lightweight build. My path through the game is optimized around acquiring and upgrading the Warped Sword as quickly as possible. I visit the first DLC early on to acquire Flynn's Ring and important upgrade materials that are in short supply in the base game. For those interested in trying out this build but don't want to go to DLC1 for upgrade materials, you can easily get the Scimitar early on from a shop and the swordsman class starts with one already upgraded to +1. It is also fairly easy to farm a Manikin Sabre, probably the best curved sword aside from the Warped Sword, with the Covenant of Champions in Earthen Peak. The additional poise damage that the other curved swords lack in comparison to the Warped Sword can be compensated for by acquiring the Stone Ring from killing the Ogre next to the Fire Keeper's Hut, guarding the Gold Pine Resin I pick up at the start of the video.

As with the Dark Souls Remastered video, I will be leaving footage of my initial traversal through an area mostly unedited, but will be cutting out backtracking or other parts I deem unimportant or uninteresting. The raw files for this video are almost 90 minutes longer than the final render from backtracking, loading screens, etc.

This playthrough was recorded with OBS and edited with Davinci Resolve.

PC SPECS:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600
CPU Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4
GPU: Sapphire PULSE AMD Radeon RX 5700XT
MOT: Gigabyte UD X570 AM4 ATX
RAM: 16GB Patriot Viper 4 Blackout DDR4 3200 (2 x 8GB)
Monitor: MSI 34" MP341CQ
OS SSD: Crucial P2 500GB 3D NAND NVMe PCIe M.2 SSD
Games Library SSD: Inland 1TB SATA SSD
Recording/Storage HDD: Seagate BarraCuda 2TB 7200 RPM
GAMEPAD: 8BitDo Ultimate 2

[BOSS TIMESTAMPS]

00:00:00 - Start
00:06:30 - Dragonrider
00:20:43 - Flexile Sentry
00:31:05 - The Last Giant
00:33:21 - The Pursuer
01:06:36 - The Rotten
01:28:40 - Scorpioness Najka
01:37:29 - Prowling Magus and Congregation
01:41:40 - The Duke's Dear Freja
01:58:57 - Covetous Demon
02:03:33 - Mytha, the Baneful Queen
02:14:03 - Royal Rat Authority
02:16:00 - Old Iron King
02:19:36 - Ruin Sentinels
02:23:17 - Belfry Gargoyles
02:29:41 - Royal Rat Vanguard
02:33:00 - Executioner's Chariot
02:37:49 - Smelter Demon
02:43:09 - The Lost Sinner
02:51:48 - Old Dragonslayer
03:04:27 - Two Dragonriders
03:11:42 - Looking Glass Knight
03:23:21 - Demon of Song
03:29:30 - Velstadt, the Royal Aegis
03:38:18 - Darklurker
03:43:11 - Guardian Dragon
03:51:03 - Ancient Dragon
03:57:15 - Giant Lord
03:58:42 - Vendrick
04:01:48 - Elana, the Squalid Queen
04:02:52 - Sinh, the Slumbering Dragon
04:08:17 - Varg, Cerah, and Graverobber
04:42:07 - Fume Knight
04:47:59 - Sir Alonne
04:53:56 - Blue Smelter Demon
04:57:36 - Aava, the King's Pet
05:11:09 - Lud and Zallen, the King's Pets
05:15:04 - Burnt Ivory King
05:23:02 - Throne Watcher and Defender
05:24:31 - Nashandra
05:25:28 - Aldia, Scholar of the First Sin