Elden Ring Player Rolls in Real Life Every Time They Roll in the Game

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A hardcore Elden Ring player has recently started to play the game in a curious way: by rolling in real life every time they dodge during boss fights. Many Elden Ring bosses are already notoriously hard, and with this handicap, the player made these fights even more difficult.

Ever since Dark Souls was released in 2011, From Software’s games have become synonymous with challenging gameplay. Elden Ring follows this tradition, presenting several bosses that challenge the player’s coordination between attacking and dodging. Despite the non-linearity provided by its sprawling open world, this high level of difficulty grants Elden Ring a place among FromSoftware’s hardest games.

Now, an experienced Elden Ring player called GoodGameEthan has decided to make From Software’s latest title even harder by rolling in real life each time their character does it against bosses. GoodGameEthan recently shared a short clip that showcases this curious handicap, in which the gamer defeats the Draconic Tree Sentinel. According to GoodGameEthan, they started this challenge some days ago and have been fighting every boss using this method since then. At the moment, the gamer is not doing the rolls during non-boss fights, but they said in the post’s comments that if there’s enough demand from the community, they could possibly stream the whole game while doing this.

Trying out weirdly specific self-imposed challenges in Elden Ring is actually somewhat common in the game’s community. For example, a player used their goldfish to beat the first phase of Elden Ring’s Malenia some months ago. At the time, the gamer came up with a pretty unique idea, as they used their goldfish Tortellini to “play” the title inside an aquarium. As the fish swam between different quadrants of the tank, specific commands would be input in Elden Ring, which made for a random, yet entertaining challenge.

Gamers have been playing Elden Ring for almost two years, and these unique challenges can be seen as ways to keep