Elden Ring fan masters game as slowly as possible

While speedrunners strive to shorten every second in the Elden Ring, YouTuber Iron Pineapple embarks on a completely opposite challenge. Because he wants to find out in his video whether the tough action game can be mastered even if his overloaded equipment makes him the slowest player in the world.

Elden Ring: The toughest challenge in the game?

The Dark Souls series and now too Elden Ring are the mecca of challenges. Whether speedrun, exotic controls or fighting blindfolded, everything has already happened.

The newest challenge YouTuber’s Iron Pineapple is particularly striking. He has asked himself whether you can play the entire game with an overloaded character can master.

Like Iron Pineapple in his 35 minute YouTube video skillfully explained, there are three traditional ways to choose your gear. Either you play your character in light, medium or heavy armor. But many forget that there is another category: the overloaded.

Almost everyone avoids them because it would be almost insane to play with them. Because your character cannot dodge, run, or jump in this state. All essential skills in Elden Ring’s unforgiving boss battles.

That doesn’t stop Iron Pineapple from taking on this challenge. On top of that, he has resolved to be Don’t touch horse in action RPG. Unless he doesn’t get any further at one point. This also makes for what is probably the slowest run the world has ever seen at Elden Ring.

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But Iron Pineapple would like to take on the extra portion of agony. As he reports in his video, this extremely slow movement through the open world later becomes absolute soothing zen experience.

With the overloaded status, simple enemy encounters quickly turn into real boss moments. A giant with archers standing in front of him becomes a tough adversary. Exactly these transformation of events is what makes this challenge so attractive for Iron Pineapple, as he emphasizes several times.

What are the difficulties of the challenge?

As quickly becomes apparent in the boss fights, Iron Pineapple uses one Block and thrust tactics, whenever he feels safe. Because of his high defense and damage absorption, he can take a lot. In the later course it will also be shown that this approach with better equipment no longer offers as many disadvantages as one would initially assume.

Just when moving around, the YouTuber often has to be creative will. Especially with platform elements, where small hurdles can only be overcome with jumps, he uses all the tricks that the game allows him. Instead of the normal jump, he uses the Claymore Sword’s Lion’s Claw ability, which allows him to jump gracefully despite his overweight.

At one point, however, all the tricks and ideas do not help. Iron Pineapple grabs his horse at the mountain top of the giants and use its jump function once in the game. Later, however, he finds a creative solution and shows that another ability would have been the key to success.

At the Elden Beast arrived, Iron Pineapple really only wanted to kill it with his shield, but the movement of the boss opponent was too much of a good thing. So he used the quick step for this final fight in order not to let the encounterer get out of hand unnecessarily. With this, the YouTuber proves that Elden Ring can be played through with ÜberCharge.

In order to crown this triumph, however, there is still one challenge to be faced: The fight against probably the hardest boss – Malenia.

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With his usual tactics, even this merciless adversary was no problem. As in many situations before, Iron Pineapple had to creatively counter certain attacks or enemy idiosyncrasiessuch as throwing a frozen pot when she briefly takes to the skies.

For Iron Pineapple, this passage, originally planned as a challenge, demonstrates how effective large shields, thrusting swords and heavy armor are.

The countless hurdles he encountered and was able to master despite the challenge ultimately show him how well thought-out and flexible the great game design from FromSoftware in Elden Ring is.