Dark Souls 2 dataminer shows off massive prototype coliseum level from early development

At a glance

• The rough prototype looks to have been binned early in development, and it's largely avoided discussion before Doneda's work.
• Some portions appear to have been part of an interconnected area, others are likely different versions of the same concept.
• It may have been related to what became the Undead Crypt in the final game.
• Doneda uses Elden Ring Nightreign to load in and explore what remains of the levels.
• The files contain a coliseum zone, mines, a strange underground tower (potentially a sequence of arenas, like Nightreign's DLC?), and a crypt portion.

Doneda, the dataminer who showed off the unused levels, has been proving a genuine authority on Dark Souls 2 in particular. Previously, they made a Nightreign-compatible version of Dark Sou...