VIDEO: Watch Dark Souls beaten with voice commands alone

Dark Souls is a notoriously difficult game, but Twitch streamer bearzly who is not only exceptional at the game but a sucker for punishment too has been it using his voice.

The run took him about 30 hours in total and he describes it as by far the toughest run he has completed. He died a total of 485 times on the run, which may sound like a normal day to some Dark Souls players.

He used a voice recognition software called VoiceAttack, which you can see in operation in the video. It recognizes commands and then inputs them, but there is a delay of about 1.5 seconds between a word being said and the action actually happening. And commands can’t be chained together quickly either.

To give you an idea of how difficult the run got, bearzly uploaded the Dragon Slayer Ornstein & Executioner Smough fight to YouTube. This battle alone was responsible for 111 of his 485 deaths.

This isn’t the first time bearzly has jumped through ridiculous hoops while beating Dark Souls. He has also completed the game using a Rock Band controller, a drumset and the bongo that came with Donkey Konga on GameCube.

You can see the full run on bearzly’s Twitch channel, and some other highlights are available on YouTube.