Elden Ring player is on a quest to beat every boss on a dance pad, has already beaten Malenia

gamesradar.com:

A streamer playing through Elden Ring using a dance pad for a controller has already beaten the game's hardest boss.

Elden Ring (opens in new tab) streamer MissMikkaa (opens in new tab) – yes, the same MissMikkaa who completed the game with just one hand and without levelling up past rune level one (opens in new tab) – is this time on a mission to beat the game with no hands, and her achievements are genuinely jaw-dropping. 

Amazingly, she's already managed to take down Malenia and it was during their 84th attempt that MissMikkaa finally triumphed:

I DID IT! I killed Malenia with Dance Pad only! It took me 84 tries and about 6 hours to get her down but managed to do it in one session. Pretty awesome! Next up: Gideon. pic.twitter.com/l173hmLircSeptember 9, 2022

"I DID IT!" she tweeted once the battle was done. "I killed Malenia with Dance Pad only! It took me 84 tries and about six hours to get her down but managed to do it in one session. Pretty awesome! Next up: Gideon."

MissMikkaa's tenaciousness can be watched in real-time over on her Twitch channel (opens in new tab), which I heartily recommend. And yes, just liked her one-handed adventure, the streamer is making things extra tough by not levelling up through this playthrough, too…

Hard to believe, I know, but did you know that dataminers discovered that Elden Ring's most notorious boss, Malenia, used to be even more difficult (opens in new tab) to beat than she already is?

By analyzing and playing through the 1.0 version of Elden Ring - that is, a version that's been untouched by patches or changes since the original game was pressed to disc and played offline to avoid just such updates - the dataminer discovered several key differences with her attack pattern and