A streamer managed to bring Malenia to her knees using only voice commands.
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With sheer willpower and the power of his voice The streamer, who was born in Poland, DeadlyPG achieved the impossible – he defeated Malenia, the tough final boss in Elden Ring. DeadlyPG's real name is Szymon, he is 20 years old and lives with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA for short).
As a result, he can only move to a limited extent, although he says he is not completely paralyzed. But only one finger on his hands moves, which makes traditional gaming difficult. He gets around this limitation with the help of a voice program called VoiceAttack, which converts his spoken commands into inputs. The streamer had to make 700 attempts just to defeat Malenia in this way. The fight lasted two weeks.
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What is spinal muscular atrophy?
Spinal muscular atrophy is a genetic disease that leads to progressive muscle wasting and movement disorders, especially in the spine. Those affected suffer from muscle weakness, coordination problems and functional disorders.
Elden Ring played through with his voice
In an interview with Gamesradar Szymon talks in more detail about his achievement and makes it clear once again, what a huge challenge he managed to do here. Especially since he didn't take any shortcuts, such as using incredibly powerful builds or inglorious tactics.
I think I was lucky. Malenia was really hard. I came so close so many times and then I died and I was really sad. I still can't believe I did it. I tried my best not to make it too easy for myself, which in hindsight was maybe stupid. I decided not to use summons, not to cast spells, not to overlevel. I decided to give myself these challenges because I wanted to show that it was possible. If I can do it with the voice, anyone can do it.
Accessibility for physically impaired people is always an issue when it comes to the difficulty level of Souls games. Often, these games become an impossible challenge for people like Szymon due to their fixed difficulty level. Szymon was able to show with sheer willpower that it is still possibleHowever, he had to invest a huge amount of time and be able to withstand frustration.
At the same time, Szymon also emphasizes that Elden Ring in particular makes controlling it via voice command easier than you might initially think:
I feel like I have more control in this game. I'm just learning the timing and the enemies' animations that lead to certain attacks. I feel like I can predict them better.
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An even bigger task awaits
What happens next? Has Szymon had enough after this monstrous task? Quite the opposite. According to Szymon, after 15 minutes of joy, he would have loved to fight Malenia again straight away. I love this game,
he emphasizes again.
Of course, the next challenge for him is on the road. For a few weeks now, Szymon has been trying out the new DLC Shadow of the Erdtree – knowing that there are even tougher opponents waiting here than Malenia.
The DLC is on a whole other level. Everything just one-shots me. I'm getting to the point where I really have to learn the timing. But it's a lot of fun.