Featured Image Credit: dinossindgeil via Twitch, Bandai Namco
Topics: Dark Souls, Elden Ring, Fromsoftware, Bandai Namco, Twitch
Topics: Dark Souls, Elden Ring, Fromsoftware, Bandai Namco, Twitch
Just when you think the Soulsborne community can’t pull off anything more challenging than the various wild runs that have been and gone in the past, someone comes along to prove that, actually, the grind never stops.
I’m sure everyone here is familiar with the concept of a no-hit run. I mean, it’s all in the name - complete a game without taking even a single pixel of damage, and you’re golden. Let your guard down even for a second and get poked by a stray enemy attack, and it’s all over - you’ve got to restart. It’s a simple but profoundly difficult challenge which puts a player’s strategy, skill, reaction time and perseverance to the test.
Meanwhile, some players like to challenge themselves by using, uh, creative controllers. Check out this player beating Elden Ring with a dance mat of all things.
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As you can imagine, the trial and error for one no-hit run is time consuming enough, but how about seven? As spotted by @JakeSucky on Twitter, Twitch streamer dinossindgeil has done the impossible, and completed no-hit runs of seven FromSoftware games back to back - dodging every enemy attack in every single title.
This apparently took 120 days to pull off, and I’m honestly shocked that it didn’t take longer. The streamer finished Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls 1, 2 and 3, Bloodborne, Sekiro and Elden Ring as part of the challenge, and as you can imagine, had an incredible emotional reaction when he finally pulled it off. Take a look below.
Since these were Any% runs, the streamer thankfully didn’t need to defeat every single boss in the games to complete the challenge - he just had to get to the credits. It’s so hard to fathom the amount of effort that went into this, and it makes you wonder how it’ll ever be topped. It always seems to happen eventually though, so just watch this space.