We're used to bonkers Elden Ring challenge runs at this point, but even I wasn't prepared for one brave genius to turn a three-year-old elliptical workout machine found on "the side of the road" into a working controller. What follows is, as you can imagine, a leg-shaking playthrough. The 25-minute-long video down below goes more into the specifics of how it was done, as well as the brutal journey through the Lands Between once everything reached a semi-functional state. The original video might've been posted three months ago, but we thought it was way too cool not to share here. "Thinks he's playing Assassin's Creed": Elden Ring Nightreign's absurd parkour tech sees one player scale a fort in seconds, so I guess it's time to update my routing cheat sheet Elden Ring saxophone slayer is "almost done" playing Silksong with his improbable controller, skillfully doot-ing his way through one of the most painful platforming sections Elden Ring streamer says to hell with challenge runs, plays the open-world game alongside Street Fighter 6 while DJing at a club instead WoolyBeetle1's attempts at killing anything and trying not to get stuck on random bits of geometry makes for hilarious viewing, especially when the elliptical decides not to play ball. And she even decides to take on Magma Wyrm Makar with the unruly setup and, urm, things didn't go very smoothly, even if she got impressively close one time with the help of two summons. "I don’t know if we're cheesing it, but I'm on an elliptical, who f**king cares?" While the content creator/professional gaming athlete eventually had to bow out, she still seemed pretty adamant that Makar was beatable with her build. Here's hoping her calves don't give out next time. Elden Ring's Switch 2 port delayed into 2026 by FromSoftware for "performance adjustments," and people are surprisingly OK about it: "I'd rather it releases in a better state"