
BertoPlease showed off a couple of techniques that are exclusive to the PS5 remake, including one that uses PlayStation 5 Activity Cards to warp across the game’s land of Boleteria faster than using the normal teleportation method, archstones. Speedrunner BertoPlease employed those techniques during a speedrun of Demon’s Souls at Summer Games Done Quick this weekend, exhibiting incredible stamina-management skills and underscoring just how overpowered magic is in the game. There’s also plenty of intentional loading and reloading of saves to reset the game world.īut speedruns of last year’s Demon’s Souls remake for PlayStation 5 tap into some unexpected exploits, including one that uses the console’s UI features and another that capitalizes on the remake’s graphics settings to break the game.


If you’ve ever watched a speedrun of a FromSoftware-developed game, like Bloodborne or Dark Souls, you know how those displays of expert-level gaming tend to go: Speedrunners literally run through most of the game, avoiding combat when they can, and exploit seams in the environment to access areas that are supposed to be out of bounds.
