A New Zealand-based YouTuber and Twitch streamer called Rudeism is known for creating weird gaming controllers. He's beaten Hades and made a a and built a microwave controller and a tea cup controller, among other quirky contraptions.
Now he has beaten one of the most widely recognised games that is known for its challenging gameplay. Rudeism has🦩 beaten Dark Souls 3 with nothi♈ng more than a wooden box and a big red button that recognises Morse code as gaming input.
Ever since Demon's Souls begat Dark Souls begat Bloodborne and so on, the games produced by FromSoftware have built a reputation for their difficulty - a firm but fair approach that educates players, but which, nevertheless, has thrown up thousands of "YOU DIED" screens for Souls players. But one individual has taken up this difficulty with particular elan, playing 2016's Dark Souls 3 using only a single button.
Rudeism's Morse code playthrough was two weeks in the making and some bosses posed a particular challenge. Bosses such as Aldrich, Curse-Rotted Greatwood, The Twin Princes, and the Nameless King proved extra hard as these require greater camera movement and having only a single button to control the game meant Rudeism had to dash and dot the singular control that much more. And with special attention paid to the timing. The New Zealander explained the Morse code controller has a 250-millisecond delay, needing him to think a quarter of a second ahead of what needed to be done.
But the playthrough was not all fun and videogames. The Twitch streamer has a serious message, raising awareness that "difficulty options are accessibility options". Some gamers insist that having difficulty options would spoil FromSoftware's games, but there are Dark Souls players who create bespoke difficulty options for themselves by inventing challenges, such as beating the game without being hit or dying at all. And for those who might have whatever disadvantage playing videogames, greater accessibility settings, including having more difficulty options, would make these games available to more people.
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