Spoiler warning: This text comprises spoilers for the Elden Ring, Shadow of the Erdtree DLC’s ultimate boss.
Elden Ring Twitch streamer MissMikkaa has turn out to be the first particular person to finish Shadow of the Erdtree whereas utilizing a dance mat as a controller, overcoming the DLC’s brutal ultimate boss on the 52nd strive.
Shadow of the Erdtree is already gaining a repute for being a phenomenally difficult piece of DLC, even by FromSoftware’s characteristically tough requirements. Nevertheless, its fearsome nature hasn’t stopped a choose group of exceptionally proficient streamers from going above and past to make it even more durable for themselves by enjoying with their very personal jury-rigged controllers.
For instance, final week noticed legendary doot champion DrDeComposing full the entirety of the DLC whereas utilizing the notes performed by a modified electrical saxophone to information his Tarnished warrior by the shadowed lands. Streamer Perri Karyal in the meantime is making an attempt to beat Shadow of the Erdtree with the energy of thought, through the use of a particular headset to learn her mind’s electrical exercise, which is then fed into a digital controller to offer imputs with which to control her character.
I DID IT! ALL bosses of my dance pad Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree run have been deFEETed!
The final boss fell after 52 tries and seven hours of dance-padding (my ft damage). DLC took me 7 days in whole with 325 deaths; 69 of them to gravity, good.
I hope Miyazaki is proud of me. pic.twitter.com/DqbgLxTCXz
— MissMikkaa (@MissMikkaa) July 8, 2024
Now, Twitch streamer MissMikkaa has joined the pantheon of FromSoftware fanatics to beat Shadow of the Erdtree with unconventional means, after utilizing a dance mat to defeat Promised Consort Radahn, and cap off a problem run for the ages.
“I DID IT! ALL bosses of my dance pad Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree run have been deFEETed!” wrote MissMikkaa in an X post following her defeat of the ultimate boss. “The final boss fell after 52 tries and seven hours of dance-padding (my ft damage). DLC took me 7 days in whole with 325 deaths; 69 of them to gravity, good. I hope Miyazaki is proud of me.”
MissMikkaa was capable of direct her Tarnished to assault, dodge, heal, transfer, and swap gadgets by stepping on stress factors on the dance mat that have been certain to particular keys on a digital controller. The dearth of buttons relative to a conventional gamepad additionally meant that MissMikkaa was compelled to put off issues like nuanced digital camera management, which most players take as a right.
In fact, this is not the first time that MissMikkaa has made headlines for performing seemingly unimaginable feats of talent whereas gaming. For instance, the streamer made headlines again in 2023 when she sensationally defeated two Malenias concurrently utilizing a dance pad, and a DualSense to manage two separate video games of Elden Ring at the identical time.
Try IGN’s Shadow of the Erdtree information, and interactive maps to search out out the whole lot that you must learn about the Elden Ring DLC, together with find out how to discover the elusive Scadutree fragments wanted to energy up your Tarnished for the late recreation push.
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