It began with a one-armed run, defeating every Elden Ring boss with just one hand. Then Twitch streamer MissMikkaa did the same but kept her character at level one throughout.
Next she completed FromSoftware’s epic with a dance pad. Then she did it across two games with a dance pad and controller simultaneously.
Now, she’s taking her musical Elden Ring pursuits to a whole new level by playing the game with a guitar. Is there no end to MissMikkaa’s talent?
MissMikkaa is not the first person to play the game with a musical instrument: back in June last year plucky Tarnished Anna Ellsworth used her harp to defeat Margit.
Yet with her pedigree for bizarre control methods, MissMikkaa’s guitar run is surely one to watch.
So how exactly does it work?
“I’m using a program called Abject Audio Inputs which can keybind mouse and keyboard inputs from audio frequencies,” MissMikkaa told Eurogamer. “I have my guitar plugged directly into my goXLR [mixer] so that the software captures the audio from the guitar only. Then in the software itself I can see what frequency is being output from the guitar when I play it.”
It took some experimenting to work out which notes, or chords, would work best.
Says MissMikkaa: “Originally my idea was to only use chords to play the game so it would be pleasant to listen to for the viewers, but I realised quickly that chords were complicated to play as it would detect multiple frequencies at once.