Elden Ring legend completes ludicrous 'all Malenia' challenge run that replaced every enemy with the game's hardest boss

pcgamer.com:

All hail the conquering hero. Iconic Elden Ring boss-fight artist and our gamer of the year for 2022(opens in new tab) Let Me Solo Her has completed what must, surely, be his greatest challenge of all time. He's finished the modded run of the game he began last month(opens in new tab) in which every single enemy—from the lowliest rat to the Elden Beast—was replaced with Malenia, the game's toughest boss.

Fighting Malenia is nothing new to LMSH. The legendary player made his name in the Elden Ring community by helping other players overcome her, manifesting like some kind of jar-clad angel of death to lay waste to the boss thousands of times(opens in new tab). But that was just one Malenia. The Malenia. You'd imagine even he would struggle with a roiling sea of angry Maleniae.

Took about 10 hours and probably more deaths than I'd like to admit but I finally finished the Everything is Malenia Run! It was as fun as it was painful… No leveling vigor was a mistake ;-; #ELDENRING pic.twitter.com/VKUI5wb4auApril 26, 2023

Apparently not! Over the course of ten (10!) hours and «probably more deaths» than he'd care to admit, LMSH made mincemeat of Malenia mode, defeating Elden Malenia—the mod's version of Elden Ring's last boss—on his first attempt during his fifth and final stream last Tuesday.

LMSH made things even harder for himself by imposing a rule that forbade him from levelling up Vigor, Elden Ring's HP-governing stat, and by only wearing his now-famous costume of a jar on his head and no other armour at all. That meant he had to play pretty much flawlessly to stand any chance of progressing, evading every attack from every Malenia across the entire game. While other players have gotten through an «all Malenia» run(opens