Elden Ring streamer collapses in joy after finally completing no-hit saxophone 'doot run' in apparent world first
The arms race to beat Elden Ring using the most mystifying input method possible continues. A dance pad ? Passé. A guitar ? Easy mode. Your actual, literal brain ? Well we all beat Elden Ring with our brains, didn't we? Most of us just had a gamepad or keyboard as an intermediary.
Okay, to be fair, maybe this one isn't as wild as the brainwaves thing, but I'm still impressed. Spotted by IGN , a streamer called DrDeComposing has beaten Elden Ring using an electric saxophone, completing a "hitless doot run" of our 2022 Game of the Year in which, true to the name, he didn't take a single blow from an enemy.
Last night, I beat Elden Ring (any%) without taking a single hit while using an electric saxophone as a game controller; the World's First No-Hit Run of Elden Ring using a non-traditional controller (e.g. dance pad, Guitar Hero controller, etc).THE HITLESS DOOT RUN IS COMPLETE! pic.twitter.com/6jhtC7luzU July 31, 2023
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DrDeComposing beat Elden Ring in a breezy three hours in a couple of livestreams on Twitch (the last of which is below), merrily dooting his way across The Lands Between and through bosses like Morgott and the Fire Giant without taking a scratch. It's actually quite soothing: An almost wordless playthrough of the Fromsoft classic soundtracked only by a gentle susurrus of whoops and squeaks. That is until the good doctor overcomes the Elden Beast without taking a hit and erupts in joyous, tearful screams of "Let's gooooooo!"
This is, as you might have guessed, DrDeComposing's first successful hitless run-through of sax-guided Elden Ring. His previous personal best saw him take an agonising single hit, but he can now rest easy, his world-historic task concluded. In a tweet announcing the run's success, the streamer called it the "World's First No-Hit Run of Elden Ring using a non-traditional controller," meaning stuff like guitars, dance pads and, yes, saxophones. I'm not an expert on the field, but I've had a look around and I can't find any evidence to disprove that claim. It's damned impressive either way.
If the Elden Ring stream has awakened a previously dormant hunger on your part to see people play games using a saxophone, you can see previous streams of DrDeComposing doing stuff like this in other Fromsoft games on his YouTube channel . For now, here's that hitless doot run of Elden Ring in full.
Correction: This piece originally said DrDeComposing beat Elden Ring in two hours. In fact, his run was split across two streams totalling three hours.
