Elden Ring is a brutal game that can push players to their limits. However, a YouTuber just flew through the game and finished it in less than an hour of playtime.
Elden Ring can be quite a challenging game, typical of Souls, that can consume a lot of time. Even individual bosses can easily take many, many minutes of gameplay.Sometimes even hours.
But while some players struggle against the first boss, Margit, and abandon side quests to later tear him apart with two hits, YouTuber LilAggy aimed primarily to speed run through Elden Ring. And he succeeded.
Just under an hour for Elden Ring – Here’s how the speedrun went
Here’s how fast it was: LilAggy is a speedrunner who primarily wanted to reach the end of the game quickly. Recently, player “niko bellic” managed to get from start to final boss in about 2.5 hours. LilAggy has now beaten that again and took only 59 minutes and 38 seconds of pure playtime (without loading screens) to get through.
You can see how it went here. But, of course: The video is full of spoilers. So it’s better to return to this article later if you want to explore and experience Elden Ring on your own.
How does that work? Normally, you wouldn’t finish Elden Ring in such a time. LilAggy explains this clearly as well: He forced the game to spawn him in places where he shouldn’t be yet.
He also used a trick that ensured the boss “Godskin Noble” didn’t even start attacking him, but quietly let himself be sliced apart. This fight is also the reason LilAggy chose the “Samurai” class: with the starting katana, he could inflict bleed damage, which made the fight even shorter.
Later, he uses a skill of the axe “Icerind Hatchet” to flatten his enemies. This scales not with his stats but with the upgrade level of his weapon. Therefore, he can put all his points into health instead of worrying about other aspects of the game.
LilAggy is hardly interested in battles, incoming dragons and lava snails are mostly ignored.
However, he encounters some difficulties. He falls against one boss multiple times, after which he sadly sings “the run is dead”. Ultimately, he manages to reach the end of the game just under an hour.
He also says: “Under 50 minutes is definitely possible. I just must not die five times.”
In the comments, he also mentions the 2.5-hour run by Niko Bellic: “His run is much more impressive than this one, considering he went through without dying and fought many more bosses […]. This run is only much faster because the speedrun community has taken the effort to find glitches and put together an incredibly fast route for the run,” says LilAggy: “I wish I had suffered fewer deaths in this run; I can definitely do better, but under an hour is under an hour.”
Are you still having trouble with some bosses? Then you should grab the “Ash of the Mimic Tear”.
