Elden Ring Player Beats the Game in Under Five Minutes

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Releasing in February, FromSoftware's Elden Ring is proving to be a game that was absolutely worth the hype. Its glorious open world and intensely challenging combat has made it one of the best selling games of the year so far, according to NPD Group. Yet despite how typically difficult this latest Soulsborne title is, there are some out there who make things even harder for themselves by speedrunning it as quickly as they can, and someone has just set the bar even higher for other players.

As spotted by PCGamesN, speedrunner SeekerTV has set a new world record in Elden Ring by defeating it in less than five minutes. According to the splits on the video, the actual time is 4:59, which is an absolutely incredible time. It should be pointed out that this amazing feat was achieved thanks to the game's infamous «zip glitch.» The video shows multiple instances of the player using the bug to skip past huge swathes of the map. Some may consider this breaking the spirit of a speedrun, but it's completely within the rules of this particular category. As of writing, SeekerTV's new record has yet to be added to Speedrun.com, but their previous time of 5:58 is currently at the number two spot.

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Regardless of whether some feel this isn't a «true» speedrun, it cannot be denied that finishing the game in less than five minutes is impressive. There are other categories that fans can run as well, such as when another Elden Ring player finished in 2.5 hours without levelling up or even taking a single hit. A no-hit run of any game is indeed a challenging attempt, but to do so in this title feels like it would be near impossible. Yet user