Someone Has Already Beaten Elden Ring Without Dying
Elden Ring launched a week and a half ago and everyone on the planet has been playing it tirelessly ever since, or at least that's how it feels. In the brief moments Elden Ring players have been taking away from the game, they've been using the time to talk about it on social media and inevitably end up in an argument with someone else about how approachable it is, or engaging in one of the dozens of other arguments raging on about the Souls game right now.
Everyone apart from niko bellic, it seems. While the rest of us have been busy collecting runes, getting smashed by bosses, or yelling into the void on Twitter, the YouTuber has been seeking out the quickest route possible through The Lands Between and managed to get from the beginning to Elden Ring's credits in just two and half hours.
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That's right, in the time it has taken most of us to create our character, or at best decide we don't like our build and start over, niko bellic has completed Elden Ring. Not only have they managed to complete it in an incredibly short amount of time, but they've managed to do so without dying. No battling the same boss over and over, no losing runes after being attacked by dogs that fell from the sky. Just a single run from start to finish.
As for how exactly niko beellic managed to pull off such an incredible feat, you can check it out for yourselves above. The speedrunner's tricks include killing the NPC who tells you to avoid entering Stormveil Castle to get a ball bearing, and skipping the Great Rune holders who aren't actually integral to finishing Elden Ring's story.
As is the case with any Souls game, now that it has been on the market for a couple of weeks,
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