Game news Equipped only with a saxophone, he manages to defeat the bosses of Elden Ring without being hit

Game news Equipped only with a saxophone, he manages to defeat the bosses of Elden Ring without being hit

If Elden Ring is not considered the most difficult of FromSoftware’s games, it still houses its share of complicated phases and really difficult bosses. Many players and speedrunners have tried their hand at the title, but few have attempted the perfect run, namely a complete game without receiving the slightest damage. This streamer did it and with a very original controller: a saxophone.

“Malenia, saxophone by Miquella”

It was this April 2 that Dr. Decomposing, a streamer used to play his games with his electronic saxophonemanaged to finishElden Ring under the same conditions. To achieve this feat, each musical note of the instrument was associated with the button of a game controller, quite simply ! While some are still struggling against Malenia, even with a controller or a keyboard, the streamer brought down the 7 major rune protector bosses using his saxophone, all without ever being the victim of a single hit and in less than 3 hours!

The player had already completed the classic speedrun without losing a single life point in August 2023, setting the first world record in the “non-traditional controller” category. No doubt he will now turn to the game’s DLC, Shadow of the Erdtree. If Dr. Decomposing’s performance impressed the entire Internet, he is not the only one to have brought down FromSoftware’s title with an original controller.

Psychomantis plays Palworld

If the speedrunners are legion and hundreds of run are carried out every day, some people like to set themselves quite crazy challenges. It has even become almost trivial to see some players finish a game with a Guitar Hero guitar or a Dance Dance Revolution mat. Going ever further, we even saw the feat of the streamer Perrikaryal (aka Perri) who also finished Elden Ring, but without a controller this time. In fact, this player completed the title and beat his bosses with sheer force of his mind, using an electroencephalogram which captures his brain waves. Galvanized by this feat on the FromSoftware game, she repeated this feat, but on a less demanding game: Palworld. She then explains having to imagine precise images in her head to control her character.

I imagine spinning a plate so that my character picks up an object, I then imagine pushing a rock so that the character destroys one, I think of a grasshopper to make the character jump and I visualize a fist clenched in rage to throw an object – Perrikaryal (Twitch)

Players continue to innovate today in their ways of finishing their games, and there is no doubt that they will quickly find new, even crazier ways to achieve their ends.