Demon's Souls Any% Melee Route

Start
Warp to 1-1

1-1
- Pick up Firebombs
- During Rolling balls trap, equip bow in left hand, switch Augites of Guidances for Nexial Binding
- Pick up Turpentine
- Kill Phalanx (Hope to get hardstone drop)
- Warp to Nexus

Nexus
- Buy Dagger & Equip
- Talk to Monumental and load character / use binding (Depends on Hardstone Drop)
- Warp to 2-1

2-1
- Buy one hardstone shard from Filthy Man if no drop at phalanx
- Sticky white stuff
- Armored Spider Skip
- Tumblebuff dagger and kill Lizard guy for shards
- Moss
- Kill Flamelurker
- Grab Masters Ring after second arrow trap and Equip on right slot
- Kill Dragon God
- Switch Dagger for Bow & take off armour when waiting for archstone to spawn
- Warp to Nexus

Nexus
- Pop Dragon Soul
- Dupe Hardstone, Large Hardstone, Chunk
- Upgrade Axe and Bow to +9
- Level 14 End, 35 Str
- Warp to Latria

Latria

- Grab key and use Nexial Binding
- Warp to 3-1 again
- Load character when opening gate to reset enemies near skip
- Latria Skip
- Grab Clever Rat's Ring
- Kill Bad Guy with bow
- Kill Fools Idol
- Kill Maneaters
- Kill Old Monk

Valley of Defilement
- Kill dudes on bridge with Arrows
- Kill Leechmonger /w Turpentine

- 5-2 Runthrough
- Cat Ring
- Black Turpentine
- Thief's Ring
- Royal Lotus
- Switch to Thief's Ring for running past mobs, switch it for masters ring at Colossus foggate
- Kill Collosus & Astrea
- Warp to 4-1

4-1
- 4-1 Skip
- Set up CRR with arrow trap
- Switch Master ring for cat ring after boss
- Old Hero Skip
- Switch cat ring to thief's ring after killing 6 stingrays
- Kill Storm King
- Warp to 1-2


1-2
- Before First Bridge - Unequip Thief's Ring
- At first foggate - requip thief's ring
- Kill Tower Knight
- Before Penetrator equip masters ring
- Kill Penetrator
- After Penetrator swap masters for theifs ring

- Kill False King with CRR and Masters Ring / Black Turpentine
- Kill Allant
- Kill Maiden with dagger and use binding immediately