Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice speedrunner Mitchriz pulled off a powerful playthrough of the sport earlier this week, beating FromSoftware’s notoriously difficult recreation blindfolded. Mitchriz, already an achieved speedrunner with a number of information in Sekiro, managed to tug off his blindfolded run in simply 4 hours and 35 minutes. It was his second try.

If you’re questioning how the hell anybody might pull off the ultimate battle in opposition to Isshin the Sword Saint with out trying, let me remind you that Sekiro has 4 endings, and Mitchriz opted for the shortest (Shura) ending. Regardless of the trail, he noticed credit (properly, as soon as he pulled his blindfold off). It’s a powerful accomplishment, since Mitchriz relied on reminiscence, sound cues, and a deep familiarity with the sport to defeat robust bosses just like the Guardian Ape and Corrupted Monk with out the advantage of, you understand, seeing them.

You can watch Mitchriz’s blindfolded speedrun on his Twitch channel in two components (1, 2). But right here he’s sprucing off the Guardian Ape (for good) close to the tip of his run:

Mitchriz spent a couple of month (and what seems to be about 100 hours in complete) publicly training for his blindfolded speedrun of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. His most recent Twitch broadcast exhibits him reviewing his run in hopes of optimizing it.

Mitchriz has different spectacular speedrun information to his title, together with a Shura speedrun of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice that comes in just under 20 minutes, based on Speedrun.com. That run makes use of the “airswim” speedrunning approach, a glitch that lets the Wolf actually swim by way of air and break by way of the sport’s boundaries.

For some perception into what it’s wish to beat Sekiro the alternative manner — over two years and 300 hours of in-game time — please take pleasure in Vox Media Networks inventive director James Bareham’s inspiring story of getting “gud.”