Trivia / Dark Souls III

• Breakout Hit: Selling over ten million copies, III is when the series went from popular yet niche to a massively mainstream success.
• Dummied Out:
  • Several boss weapons and armors:
    • The Ancient Dragon Halberd and Great Shield, supposedly made of scales of an ancient dragon.
    • Lothric's Scythe, which was replaced by the two swords.
    • The Prince's Shield, which belonged to Lorian before his sacrifice.
    • The Hammer of the Great Tree, which would have been created using the Curse-rotted Greatwood's soul.
    • The Giant's Set, which was worn by Yhorm the Giant.
    • The Frigid Valley Mask, worn by Vordt.
  • Enemy and NPC armor sets, including some from the first two games:
    • The Footman set, worn by the jug-holding, cage-wearing undead with boards across their backs.
    • Ledo (the Silver Knight summoned by the Judicators) was going to have his own armor set. All that remains are its sprites.
    • The Saint's set, worn by Yorshka.
    • The Man Serpent set, worn by the Serpent-Man Summoners of Archdragon Peak.
    • The Dingy Hood, which is actually the mask worn by the Firekeeper.
    • The Varangian Set from Dark Souls II.
    • The Hexer's Set, also from Dark Souls II.
    • The Golden Dual Swords - aka Gold Tracer and Dark Silver Tracer from Dark Souls: Artorias of the Abyss - even had a mostly-complete moveset.
  • A pendant similar to the Silver Pendant, which would have probably granted access to Farron Keep.
  • A rare magenta-shaded variant of the Ring of Sacrifice.
  • Yorgh's Ring from the second game. Would've been much more overpowered in this one, as Rings no longer have durability.
  • Gwyndolin's Finger, which would probably have been obtained by defeating Aldrich and would have prompted a now-cut line of dialogue from Yorshka.
  • Two boss souls - the Soul of a Wicked Spirit, the description of which invokes Ichorous Earth from Dark Souls II; and Soul of the Great Bat, the description of which indicates it would have been fought underground.
  • The Holy Remains, the skull-goblet oozing black smoke that is used to trigger Wolnir's boss fight.
  • The Spirit Amethyst, an online-play item.
  • Dragon Scales are in the files. They would've served a similar function like in prior games.
  • Brightbugs, consumables from the second game that increased damage and defense by 20% for 2 minutes.
  • There are audio files still in the data for the Oceiros fight that are...disturbing to say the least, implying that he killed Ocelotte himself.
    • Earlier versions of the game leaked online show Ocelotte was originally carried by Oceiros, and he crushes him on the boss room's floor when he goes berserk.
  • The Prima Guide features the Pendant from the original Dark Souls as an item. The pendant was going to be in the game and files for it still exist, but it was ultimately cut.
• Fandom Nod: A common trend among endgame builds is dual wielding Ultra Greatswords. That being said, the Weapon Arts for a couple of the Greatswords involve dual wielding Greatswords.
• Flip-Flop of God: Initially, Miyazaki said Dark Souls III would not be the last game, but mark a turning point in the Souls franchise. Later, he changed his mind and stated that it would be the grand finale of the series.
• God Never Said That: No, it wasn't Miyazaki who said poise was "Working As Intended", that was an unnamed Bandai Namco spokesperson.
• What Could Have Been: In very early versions of the game, Pontiff Sulyvahn was meant to be the final boss of the game and had an entirely different, though unknown, backstory, with the in-game files simply referring to this non-canonical Sulyvahn as "BlackOldKing".