This Week In Elden Ring: First No Damage Run, Bandai Namco And Brandon Sanderson To Collaborate, And The Map Is A Giant Furled Finger

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With every passing week, Elden Ring players have been showing that no matter what FromSoftware throws at them, they will either persevere, or find a way to break the game and progress anyway. Perhaps things would have been different if another acclaimed author gave his input for the game rather than George R. R. Martin.

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Beating Elden Ring is one thing, but beating it without taking any damage is just ridiculous – that too in under three hours. Twitch streamer Seki managed to beat Elden Ring in two hours, 51 minutes, and 10 seconds. But it's not all pure skill, the streamer mentioned that 130 hours were put into the game as practice for this run.

Seki may be the first person in the world to have completed this feat, or at least among the first few. GinoMachino managed the same feat on March 13, but theirs was a 'no hit' run, not a 'no damage' run. "No-Hit/No Damage is harder than a regular no-hit run as the player cannot take [any] environmental damage such as fall damage/poison etc," explained Seki.

Fantasy writer and Mistborn author, Brandon Sanderson is a big fan of FromSoftware and Soulsborne games. It looks like he's about to work on his dream project, as Bandai Namco is interested in collaborating with him.

“They are interested in perhaps doing something together, is what that says,” he said during an episode of his podcast. “I am as well, actually. This is how I roll: I actually have a pitch for them in the back of my head… so I may have to send them my pitch and see what they think.” Sanderson was also a bit salty – although playfully so – that FromSoftware approached Martin, and not him for Elden Ring despite him having played many of the