Blindfolded Sekiro speedrunner has Elden Ring in his sights

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If you caught Awesome Games Done Quick 2022, you probably heard about one particular event –or at least saw people tweet about it afterward. AGDQ 2022, the first major speedrunning event of the year, was hosted by Games Done Quick. Each year, it organizes multiple events like AGDQ, entertaining viewers with a weeklong “speedrun-athon” while raising millions for charity in the process. But this year’s show had something that took many by surprise: A run of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice … performed by a blindfolded player.

The run was performed by Mitchriz (he goes by his Twitch name), who completed the game without using his eyes in just over two hours. But for Mitchriz, a two-hour-long run isn’t fast enough. The runner spoke with me after his AGDQ 2022 run about his love of Sekiro, how he prepared for the run, and the Elden Ring world record he’s already setting his sights on.

How did you first get into speedrunning?

I played through Sekiro, I loved the game. I said, “I want to play this some more,” so I did the other endings. Then I said, “OK, I want to play this some more, there’s not a whole lot else to do, so I’ll have to come up with something new to do, because I just want to keep playing this game.”

So that brought me to speedruns and challenge runs. But in the end, speedrunning was the one I went with mostly because of GDQ. I had watched it for several years at that point and said, “That looks so cool, why don’t I try it with this game?” And so I started to learn the tricks and learn the skips and put it all together, and it basically became a way to keep playing my favorite game for longer with new things to do.

So was Sekiro the first game you’ve ever speedrun?

Yes, the first game I’ve ever speedrun.

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