Player uses harp as a controller in Elden Ring – Defeats bosses with it better than most of us
Musician Anna Ellsworth shows on her YouTube channel how to defeat bosses in Elden Ring at level 1 using her harp as a controller. She explains how this crazy control works.
After many years, it has now become a tradition for fans of Fromsoftware games to master the SoulsBorne games with the most absurd controllers. On the long list of crazy ideas are dance mats, donkey kong bongos and even bananas.
Musician Anna Ellsworth has now added her harp to this list, with which she calmly bashes bosses in Elden Ring and Dark Souls 1.
On their YouTube channel you will not only find harp covers of anime and gaming songs, but also videos of their fights against Margit or the much hated Tree Sentinel.
Anna plays a level 1 character who doesn’t wear armor. While she is already using a katana on Margit, she beats up the Tree Sentinel with the good old club.
But other Souls bosses are not safe from Anna’s harp either. In an older video, she shows how she defeats the famous duo Ornstein and Smough from Dark Souls 1, again using her harp as a controller.
The two bosses have already driven many a player insane:
“It’s not as reliable as pressing a button”
How does the control work? In her video on YouTube, Anna reveals some details about how her harp controller works. Your harp is connected to the PC via a Dusty Strings pickup. Pickups are typically used to amplify the volume of stringed instruments such as guitars or harps.
The sounds of the harp were then converted into controller commands using the music software MiGiC and Bome MIDI Translator. With one string, Anna can send her character to auto-run, for example. That is, he will walk straight all the time until the same string stops the character or other commands follow.
Additional strings have been mapped to the various directional keys, as well as normal attack, healing, and dodge. In a comment on YouTube, Anna says she’s thinking about additional keybindings for the future, such as allowing for item switching and special attacks.
There are these problems: While Anna is definitely having fun with her fancy controller, she does explain that the strings on a harp aren’t that reliable when it comes to input. Sometimes the software doesn’t recognize the correct sound and the character attacks instead of healing.
There is also the problem that the strings of a harp will continue to sound until you physically stop them. This can also be interpreted by the program as a command.
Still, she fares better through the SoulsBorne games than most of us would in her place.
Many SoulsBorne players like to take on challenges and master the games in an unusual way. For example, YouTuber Bushy used a mod to turn Elden Ring into a hell of women with swords:
You really want to suffer in Elden Ring? – A mod turns every opponent into one of the worst bosses in the game
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