This is the Dark Souls of Darkslides
A long time ago, Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance featured a minigame where we could use the Big Shell as a skate park. Yes, you weren’t dreaming that up. It was glorious, but we would rarely see similar fever dreams like that again — up until very recently.
A gameplay clip titled Dark Souls Pro Skater has emerged online, and it’s exactly what you’d expect. Naturally, people are raving over how rad it looks.
Mfs playing Dark Souls Pro Skater?? pic.twitter.com/W9fxXrCan2
— Plathanos 🐝 🇩🇴 (@SavinTheBees) July 4, 2023
Skate or Prepare to Die
The clip shows fan-favorite Solaire of Astora showing off his high skating stats as he performs all sorts of sick tricks in a skate park-ified version of Firelink Shrine. You don’t need me to tell you which 1997 ska-punk track accompanies the footage.
The good news is that Dark Souls Pro Skater isn’t some pre-alpha mod someone just began in their garage. It’s a combination of Tony Hawk’s Underground 2 mods that anyone can get for free. If you want to try this out, acquire a copy of THUG 2 and install the THUGPro mod. Then you can get the Firelink Skate park here, and Solaire’s skin here. THUGPro is a whole world, so dive into its content and find other cool stuff that you’ll like.
Maybe the positive response to this clip will inspire some clever map designers out there to turn areas such as Anor Londo into skate parks as well. Like, who knows if even the widely despised Lost Izalith area could find new life and even some love as a skating ground?
If you love Souls games but skateboarding isn’t your thing, then perhaps consider waiting for Bloodborne Kart to come out to give it a go. Yes, that’s also real and won’t even require you to own the original Bloodborne.
