Souls YouTuber Ymfah has beaten FromSoft's tough action RPG having a couple of glitches and…walking

There’s an abundance of ways to conquer FromSoftware’s Elden Ring Items. You could listen to it straight and face all of the mandatory bosses waiting to kick your teeth in. Maybe you’re interested in playing having a banana controller or running two separate instances simultaneously. Or, as with the case of Souls YouTuber yeah, you can skip just about everything and finish the sport by merely hiking around The Lands Between, utilizing a handful of helpful glitches to reach the sport’s end and prove that, even just in Elden Ring, violence isn’t necessary.

Ymfah is a YouTuber who focuses on putting together entertaining guides on bonkers ways of beating Souls games. One time in December 2021, he finished Bloodborne with only consumables like Molotov cocktails and oil urns. Or in July 2018 he beat Dark Souls: Remastered by killing just four bosses. Ymfah has even completed Dark Souls 3 without taking just one step, but his latest feat may be his most mind-boggling up to now.

Zips allow you to skip most of The Lands Between

In a relevant video published on April 1 (April Fools Day, I know), Micah demonstrated that you don’t have to fight anyone face-to-face to transmit them to the grave. In fact, by counting on several glitches—zip / mega zip and wrong warp chief among them—yeah bypassed just about all 13 of Elden Ring’s mandatory boss encounters.

A quick glitch explainer is needed before wearing down ymfah’s video. “Zipping” is an in-game exploit utilized by Elden Ring speedrunners to instantaneously traverse distances great or small at high velocity. By ensuring an even 60 frames per second and timing certain button presses correctly (blocking and walking at precise intervals—he recommends utilizing a metronome), they can effectively teleport from one area from the map towards the other immediately. Think of instant transmission from Dragon Ball Z and you’ll obtain the idea. (A mega zip, because the name suggests, is simply a supercharged zip that makes you travel even more.) Meanwhile, the “wrong warp” glitch is a staple Souls exploit that allows you to warp to some safer location (often a Bonfire or Site of Grace) by force-quitting the sport during a loading screen.

These two glitches are from the bedrock of ymfah’s video, which essentially sees him beating Elden Ring by doing nothing but walking. He couldn’t attack foes directly, use consumables like flasks or throwables like stones, summon friends or NPCS, roll or parry or level up, or anything. Jogging around was all yeah could do, which was all he did to hit the sport’s final location and find out the ending credits.

Ymfah started a brand new playthrough like a vagabond without any gift. After leaving the start dungeon and entering the Chapel of Anticipation, in which you fight the Grafted Scion, he zipped to skip all of Stormveil Castle. From the Liurnia from the Lakes Site of Grace (remember, no touchy), then he zipped towards the Moonlight Altar, an area only available after progressing Ranni’s quest. After some minor platforming and placing a ring on Ranni’s finger (which essentially completes her quest), yeah then did this once again.

He used the Memory of Grace tool to return towards the Chapel of Anticipation, zipped to Stormveil Castle, reached the Liurnia from the Lakes Site of Grace, then zipped towards the Raya Lucaria Academy. At this point, yeah skipped some 4 or 5 mandatory bosses, including Margit the Fell Omen and Red Wolf of Radagon. From the Academy, he zipped to The Four Belfries to ride a portal towards the legacy dungeon and something of the sport’s final locations, Crumbling Farum Azula. It’s here where yeah force-quit to wrong warp to some safer location inside the ruined, labyrinthine city.

Ymfah performed a few more zip glitches to skip the Godskin Duo and Maliketh the Black Blade but remarked that to actually kill Maliketh and get to the next boss fight, he'd have to mega zip. Unfortunately, at this time he realized that a wonderful glitch that makes bosses fall for their deaths by unloading their arenas from under them have been patched, so he'd to fall to an archived copy of patch 1.04 to carry on. So, after loading in the previous iteration of Elden Ring and carrying this out all once more, yeah then mega-zipped in Crumbling Farum Azula and swung his sword to increase the fall, giving him sufficient falling time for you to glitch-kill the hapless Maliketh. With another zip glitch, yeah bypassed Sir Gideon Ofnir The All-Knowing to achieve the ErdTree Sanctuary building, then mega zipped to glitch-kill Godfrey, First Elden Lord. He died throughout the second phase of the fight against Hoarah Loux but nonetheless reached the ultimate location, Stone Platform, and rolled the credits.

Kotaku reached out to Micah for comment.

From the vid, it’s unclear precisely how yeah defeated elden ring items' final two bosses, Radagon from the Golden Order and also the Elden Beast, but I assume he didn’t summon LetMeSoloThem for assistance. Regardless, I’m just stunned that he managed to glitch his way toward the end of the sport, doing this without directly fighting anyone. As ever, it’s wild how thoroughly speedrunners can bend these games for their wills.