Player Beats Dark Souls By Throwing Poop At Bosses

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A Dark Souls player has beaten the game in the grossest way possible. Though the title is set in an aesthetic fantasy world, players actually have the option of throwing poop at enemies. Such waste is a very real item in the game, officially referred to as a dung pie.

Dung pies cause significant damage in Dark Souls so, at some point, someone was going to try to figure out whether it was possible to beat the entire game by tossing feces at enemies. YouTuber LilAggy has asked the pertinent question, answering it in the process.

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Dung pies are in the game for the purpose of vaccination - for lack of a more popular word post-2020 - as enemies can infect players with deadly toxicity. Players can also counter such effects by using a dung pie to poison themselves, thereby becoming less susceptible to an enemy's more potent toxic effects.

While flinging Dark Souls crap raises one's toxicity status, it does very satisfactory damage to enemies and bosses. LilAggy was able to run through the game, a seven-hour endeavor, and beat it by simply throwing poop at enemies, though some required glitches and workarounds to defeat.

Gwyn, for one, is more difficult to kill. One attempt saw him appear like he was about to die but then stop dying before finishing the YouTuber with a two-hit combo. It's like he knew his creators couldn't have planned for this type of ending for him and couldn't understand the new assignment. He succumbed eventually though - even the toughest of bosses can't survive such a crapfest.

So yeah, you can actually solve most of your problems in Dark Souls by throwing excrement around. It's probably best that you don't translate these skills to your own