A Twitch streamer namedSekirecently managed to beat the game in just under three hours without taking any damage whatsoever.
We cant all be Seki.
Fall damage is notoriously unpredictable in Elden Ring, but avoiding it completely means that certain shortcuts are inaccessible.
The games swamp area would have been tricky to navigate safely too.
Souls games and poisonous swamps: a tried and true recipe for player misery.
Some players are trying to eliminate all of Elden Rings bosses in the shortest amount of time.
Give it a week, and Seki will probably have set another world record.
These first few months since release day are definitely going to be interesting for Elden Rings speedrunning community.
Records will be set all the time, as players continue to finetune shortcuts and strategies.