A YouTuber has called the Elden Ring community to submit a speedrun challenge to him. One of these attempts shows a player losing repeatedly to the easiest boss in the game for 1 hour. Now he is even a hero in the community.
YouTuber Amazing Chest, known for his videos on FromSoftware’s Souls games, launched a speedrun challenge in early April. His viewers were to send him videos where they should kill as many bosses as possible in one hour.
A would-be speedrunner attempted this challenge and submitted a video that caused some head-scratching. He failed 60 times at the boss right at the end of the supposedly easy tutorial.
However, this performance still impressed YouTuber Amazing Chest. The would-be speedrunner received a prize of €200 for an hour full of game-over screens, and is now even a hero in the community.
How bosses in Elden Ring turn players into community legends can be seen here:
A possible troll attempt was “still very inspiring”
What was the challenge about? “How many bosses can you defeat from a brand new save in one hour?” That was the question behind Amazing Chest’s speedrun challenge.
Over 150 players took on this challenge and submitted their videos. Motivation for this was also the prize money: a total of nearly €5,000 was awarded, including about €2,500 for the winner, as well as consolation prizes totaling €1,000.
There were few restrictive rules. Bugs and glitches were allowed, but the powerful sword of night and flame was not. The video that explains and summarizes this challenge can be seen here:
The tight race for first place takes up most of the video but is not the highlight. Instead, almost all comments revolve around the attempt by YungBreezyGawd.
While the winner managed to defeat a total of 39 bosses in one hour, YungBreezyGawd could only manage one: The Soldier Godrick.
This boss is completely forgotten by most players, as he is the final challenge of the easy tutorial. In fact, Soldier Godrick is just a completely normal NPC soldier, just like the ones you will defeat hundreds of times in Elden Ring’s open world.
But YungBreezyGawd struggles with this boss for an hour. He tries almost everything: blocking, dodging, running away, glitch attempts, but nothing works. With the hardest class in the game, the naked beggar, he repeatedly gets brutally beaten.
Why is the player rewarded? And although Amazing Chest doesn’t know if this video is a troll attempt or not, he found the effort “still very inspiring.” Because after an hour full of frustration and deaths, Soldier Godrick falls. And that even without YungBreezyGawd being hit himself.
That’s why Amazing Chest says: “If you [during this challenge] realized that you could do more than you thought possible, then that is – even if it sounds cheesy – very impressive in its own way.”
That’s why Amazing Chest rewards the would-be speedrunner with a consolation prize of nearly €200. And indirectly grants him a hero status in the community.
You can watch YungBreezyGawd’s one-hour attempt here:
Would-be speedrunner becomes a hero for the fans
How does the community react? In response to Amazing Chest’s challenge and YungBreezyGawd’s submission, the Elden Ring community has started to venerate the would-be speedrunner in their own way.
As Kotaku reports, there are several examples on reddit and Twitter of players who are now pretending that Soldier Godrick is a real big deal. Self-deprecating comparisons to Malenia are being drawn, who is considered the hardest boss in Souls history even among experts.
So players are now boasting about beating the tutorial boss without buffs or OP builds. And that after well over 100 attempts. For this, they are being inundated with admiration and praise:
Whoever defeats Soldier Godrick, a basic enemy, is currently treated as a kind of gaming deity. And that just because a player shared a “bad” gameplay video.
“I think it’s great that people have rallied around YungBreezyGawd’s performance in the form of this meme,” Amazing Chest told Kotaku. “I love how the difficulty of this game brings us all together. That’s something I really appreciate about this community.”
This story shows how the difficulty of Elden Ring can bring the community together, regardless of skill level. Thus, even months after release, Elden Ring experts continually discover new things.
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