Elden Ring streamer completes the game without getting hit or leveling up

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A new speedrun attempt has seen someone complete the entire game without leveling up or getting hit… and without skipping the optional Grafted Scion boss fight.

In just two and a half hours, streamer Ainrun - who says they have been "doing no-hit runs and speed runs of From Software games ever since 2020" - livestreamed the entire Elden Ring runthrough… complete with an earlier failed attempt that saw them get hit right at the end of the very final boss fight.

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This was how the earlier attempt ended btw pic.twitter.com/RHJtbXw5MhJuly 10, 2022

"I’ve been doing no-hit runs and speed runs of From Software games ever since 2020, starting with Dark Souls 1," Ainrun told Kotaku. "I personally feel like [skipping the Grafted Scion boss battle] breaks a sequence that the developers intended you to go through to progress with the game, so I opt to do the fight.

"I spent a lot of time practicing it, looking for openings to take advantage of," they added. "I was also motivated by the fact that a majority of other players choose to skip this boss. In my opinion, a 'challenge' run like what I’ve done is supposed to be challenging, [so] using shortcuts doesn’t really make sense."

Someone also recently completed a full three-hour run without getting hit, whilst another world-record speedrun has completed the entire game in less than seven minutes. Six minutes and 46 seconds, to be precise.

A survey of Elden Ring players recently revealed what we love most about FromSoftware's open-world RPG, from our favorite weapons and spirit ashes, to our favorite NPCs, areas of the map, and boss battles, of course. And yes, it's still the best-selling game of 2022 in the US, having placed first in dollar sales in four of its first five months since it was released.