10 Secret Video Game Shortcuts You DEFINITELY Missed

Ever wanted to skip to the worst boss in a Dark Souls game? Well, in the first installment of the series, you can. While this shortcut does allow you early access to the area where you will find The Bed Of Chaos, a notoriously frustrating confrontation, it does have a silver lining. That upside is the only opportunity you have to save fan-favorite NPC Solaire. Praise the Sun.

Solaire's tragic story has him driven mad by parasitic "sunlight maggots" that latch onto him. You find Solaire in this sorry state at the end of a long, winding passageway of twisted, wooded stone in what seems to be a dead end.

To stop this, and skip to an end game earlier, you need to meet The Fair Lady.

She can be found by rolling through an invisible wall after beating the uncomfortably undressed spider-lady Quelaag. You can only talk to her if you chose the Witch's Ring as your starting item, and she reveals part of her tragic tale and allows you to join the Chaos Servant Covenant. Donating 30 of your "humanity" resources to her means she will open a pathway from Quelaag's lair.

This is the dead-end discussed earlier, complete with waiting maggots. Not only can you get to Lost Izalith early, you can also save Knight Solaire. This lets you bring him into the game's final boss, making it a bit easier and completing what creator Miyazaki sees as the game's only "happy" ending.