Three years on from the launch of Elden Ring, you'd have thought players would have exhausted every challenge run they could possibly take on, but that's clearly not the case, with one noble Tarnished achieving a seriously impressive world first in a back-to-back hitless gauntlet.
Twitch streamer and Dark Souls extraordinaire itzCBD has taken on a lot of brutal challenges across FromSoftware's relentlessly difficult action RPGs, and the latest is so brutal that no one else has accomplished it before.
Not only has the streamer completed Elden Ring without getting hit, he's done it eight times in a row – completing the game over and over from regular New Game until the end of NG+7, where the difficulty is scaled as high as it can possibly go without the use of mods.
One hit wouldn't just set him back to the start of his current playthrough, but the whole challenge. For example, even if he'd powered all the way through to NG+5, even the smallest hit would catapult him back to the start of a regular ol' New Game, erasing hours of progress.
Now though, after setting out on his quest earlier this month, itzCBD has done it, with the winning attempt taking less than 12 hours.