Elden Ring [Any% (Unrestricted, Blindfolded)] by Pennek -  

Hey, thank you for having me! It was a pleasure to showcase the run I've been pouring my all into for the last year or so. For full transparency though, I want to talk about the audio setup. The headphones used during the marathon were noise cancelling, but didn't block all audio. We did tests beforehand where they seemed fine to me. I'm not sure what changed during the actual marathon but I could faintly hear the commentators during quiet sections of the game. This isn't ideal of course, and invalidates the run from going on the leaderboards. I don't think it gave me a significant advantage though. On the contrary it messed me up. This run is fully memorized to the point where I have to count each footstep/audio cue. So having people talk in my head while I'm trying to count is honestly frustrating. There was more than one occurrence in the run where I miss-counted due to this. Anyways, I hope this doesn't tarnish the run too much and that you can still enjoy the showcase for what it is. Hopefully I'll get a chance to redeem myself some other time

Imagine his face, after taking off the blindfold and still being at the starting area, after 2 hours of button pressing 😂

i don't think i could make it off the character creation screen blindfolded that is madness

man i dont usually watch stuff like this, but these commentators mixed with the skill of the guy playing.. just wow what an experience. That was awesome

I remember the times when we thought beating Guitar Hero blindfolded was impressive. How sweet and innocent we were...

He can definitely shave this down to an hour. Fantastic work

at least he saves money on graphics cards

Still i can't believe it is real. Outstanding 10/10

Absolutely crazy, mad man, I love it!

The sweet summer child I am thought I've seen it all but then there is that guy playing blindfolded. JFC

This is absoloutely insane, like seriously, what am i even seeing.

Absolutely great!💙

Remembering an absurd amount of inputs most people wouldn’t be able to remember, for an Alzheimer’s charity. Poetic.

Can anyone tell me why in every "Blindfolded" I've ever seen, the player still has a monitor in front of them. It would be a lot more convincing if only the audience could see the monitor.

Absolute amazing!

Seriously, wtf! Amazing

Halfway through it's revealed HE ISN'T EVEN USING A MOUSE. TWO HANDS ON THE KEYBOARD

I liked this video, but i had a bit of a blind run while watching it. we fell asleep. lol been up since 4am/

how can these headphones block out all sound so well? shouldn't he still be able to hear them talking and people clapping? I would imagine that any kind of outside sounds would distract too much from the ingame sounds and disrupt the run? EDIT: Oh he even mentions at the end that he could hear them.

Bro really pulled an AR on godskin noble

Gino enters the room...

What I dont understand about "legit blindfolds" is why they wouldnt just turn around and stare at the wall with it on. Why keep staring at the screen with the blindfold on? Just turn around and stare at the wall

Can someone please explain to me how this is possible? How did he turn his sword into a machine gun?

i cant complete it while looking, this is crazy

I absolutely refuse to believe he cannot hear and use the commentators voices for cues

This makes me wonder about the potential for blind people to enjoy gaming if there were games designed for them using sound

What in the actual fuck did I just watch

This is crazy. Can he hear stuff in the game though?

he still killed godskin in less tries than I did

This was impressive. Nice

How is this even possible

What did I just watched? 😲

This is fucking insane wtf

how its possible

Why does he not turn the opposite direction?

How can clearing a fucking massive 130 hours open world souls like game with a blindfold be something?????????????????????????????????????? COMPLETELY FUCKING NUTS.

this is epic

what is this glitch ? how can i do that?

No fucking way ... this is in sannneee

cool, but can you play with USB steering wheel tho?🐎

He dont need a blindfold… he can just sit behind the screen..

Crazy!!!!

I dont even understand what I just watched

how tf do you have an ak as weapon

WAIT, HOW?

what the hell how

Pennek: Finishes this game in 2h while blindfolded Me: Arrives at limbrave

I still cannot believe this is possible, mankind does crazy things consistently beyond my wildest imagination

This is the most impressive run I've ever watched, of any game. Well done!

Of course Hyetta cosplayer played Elden Ring better than me

The amount of fucking practice and effort this must have taken is absolutely phenomenal. Blood, sweat, and tears went into being able to pull this off. Unreal.

Pennek: Finishes the game blindfolded in 2 hours Me: Finishes creating character

This is insane, well done Pennek! And thanks to the commentary team for explaining everything along the way, great to follow along as someone who’s only just finished Elden Ring for the first time hahaha

I got my mom to play Elden Ring, told her about different kinds of challenge runs and said pretty much everything has been done except for playing blindfolded. Gonna send this to her

Thanks for giving me material to flame friends that haven't completed elden ring yet

This is honestly the most incredible thing I've ever seen. It's mind blowing.

This is one of the most incredible gaming achievements ever dude. Your memory skills are actually insane.

Big fan of the korean starcraft tech of removing the caps of any keys that could cause issues.

This guy can literally beat it with his eyes closed.... I'm over here rage quiting because I can't beat the fire giant

You did an amazing job Pennek! Really proud that I could help out a bit with the commentary!

Now I have seen everything...When I first saw Aggys blindfolded sekiro run I was blown away, but in an open world game?? That is absolutely insane!!! What a legend!

Extraordinary. Amazing run and commentary. One of the best.

This was the hardest game I’ve played and it turned out to be my favorite game of all time. Excellent work on this, it’s amazing. I’ve played this game a long time and I wouldn’t be able to go into the areas you did with the low health you had even being able to see the screen. Outstanding.

Love that first fight against the bloody finger, was so impressive

Absolutely crazy run, I can't even imagine how much hours of practice this took to get it right. Impressive!

My gf playin Souls game same but with eyes wide open..

This run is amazing. But we needed a keyboard cam of some sort

This is so mindblowing. There should be olympics for things like that.

I like that at the end he admits he could hear them a little, but regardless what an incredible run.

It’s actually more impressive when you see him die and take the exact same path again the second time

Did I really just see a guy beating Elden ring blindfolded........?

Wait, hold on. No, no, no. You can't do that. People are not yet ready to know that they live in the Matrix.

bs, just turn the other way around if you wanna prove something, not gonna buy this shit. either make this dude face a wall or put something in front of the screen since it is the same as getting Blindfolded but better.

Why doesn‘t the player just face away from the screen to prevent cheating…

This is insane! I didn't even thought that would be possible, specially with a huge game like Elden Ring. He plays better than me even blindfolded 😂 i would never try a run like this. Not being able to see for this much time would cause me a lot of ansiety haha And i thought i was good by beating Malenia solo and melee only in like my 200th attempt lol

While I think this is a pretty bad way of using your time, it is still impressive nonetheless.

This is such an insanely complex thing to be this practiced in, i cant imagine how many hours of memorizing and routing and ultimately failing over and over at this seemingly ridiculous idea. Unbelievable.

Why do you need a blindfold? Just turn the monitor off or face the other way.

I guess it’s normal that the others are talking so much cause he’s doing the run on display for this event but I bet it’s super distracting, especially when the background guys are calling out timings for what he’s doing.

absolutely insane! really cool run, can't imagine all the work that goes into it

Unbelievable somebody is capable of doing this. I’d never have thought it possible. Good work !

I don't think he's cheating, but why face the screen at all? Couldn't he face the audience?

Absolute insanity. Not as good as Queen what's her name, though! HAHAHA In all seriousness, Pennek is a god for this run.

Quite honestly, the fact his camera is off center 90% of the time is more than enough proof he isn’t cheating lol

Are the commentators not telling him all the time what he needs to do? No way he cannot hear them even with the overears

What kind of sorcery is this!? I am in awe

without the backseat gamers it wouldn't be possible 🤫

when i saw zelda botw blindfolded i thought it was almost impossible, now that seems child-play

I simply cannot believe it. This is insane

Insane Run, good job Pennek truly an elden lord!

Absolutely incredible, holy moly. Now do elden ring & SOTE ng +1000 hitless glitchless 100% RL 1 no grace no teleport no equipment no buffs fist only

incredible work, my only question is, if checking the blindfold is required. why did he need to face the screen? is that purely for this video?

Do you think you ever will try to run the game blindfolded without the screen in front of you, and without people talking about what you do? That would really be the ultimate run right?

How tf, I bought this game two days ago and I can barely know what I am doing not blindfolded.

I don’t really get how this is a legit worlds first when he’s obviously cheating. I’m not saying the blind fold isn’t working but he’s facing the monitor and asking the commentators to give him clues while also removing his blindfold a couple times through the run. 1:01:30

either this guy is really skilled and impressive or he’s cheating and the commentators are really good at gaslighting

The fact that you can even kill an npc like Nerius is insane enough.

This is wild. My initial thought is that it's just faked. But the kid in me wants to believe. How... Just... HOW?!

Unbelievable! I’ve always seen these blindfolded Elden ring runs or sekiro runs and never believed it but this is legit and absolutely incredible 😮

Humans are fucking epic this is wild man 😂