


Like the insane speedrun path that let people beat Dark Souls 2 in less than 20 minutes, this is an Any% run-meaning the runner only has to make it to the end of the game as fast as possible, allowing them to skip bosses and other large portions of the game entirely. What's crazier is that this is still on the cutting edge of speedrunning Dark Souls 3: the time is only going to get faster from here, as evidenced by Jung Ho Min having posted a previous world record time of 1:56:10 only two days earlier. Most resources available are on the speedsouls wiki, otherwise your best bet is just watching runs and following along - feel free to join the speedsouls discord for more help as that's where the most people are active. That's an absurdly fast time for a game that is reportedly a very long experience. You can watch the full run above, though you can easily guess that it's riddled with spoilers. While our reviewer James has already put 50+ hours into it over the last couple of weeks (you can read his initial thoughts here, and his full review soon) speedrunner Jung Ho Min has managed to beat the game in a fraction of that time, clocking in at an in-game time of 1:42:10. That means speedrunners have already descended upon it, and they've gotten really good. Dark Souls 3 doesn't come out for another two weeks in most of the world, but it's been out since March 24 in Japan.
