I remember the first time I faced Elden Ring's Fire Giant. It sucked. Or more specifically, I sucked. I'm not sure why I struggled so much, but it was the first and only time I'd considered quitting the game, never to return. Run after run, the hulking beast sent me to an early grave. I even thought about using the cheese in which he ran off a cliff and killed himself, but I persevered, and I won.
My second playthrough was far, far more comfortable, and I beat the boss on my first attempt, looking back at past me, wondering what I was doing.
Despite finding it easier on subsequent playthroughs, I could never, ever imagine tackling the boss at Rune Level 1. I could also never imagine tackling it with bare fists. Combining the two: unfathomable. But that's not stopped one player, who has, for the first time ever (presumably, as nobody else would be stupid enough to attempt this), beaten the Fire Giant at RL1, using only bare fists.
YouTuber Fracture42 is on a mission. A mission to beat as many, if not all, Elden Ring bosses at RL1 using just bare fists for offense....
