While the rest of us wait Elden Ring Night Reign to come out, YouTuber chicken sandwich420 has vowed to fight one of the toughest bosses every day until then without taking a single hit.
A few days after FromSoftware announced the multiplayer spin-off at The Game Awards in December, Chickensandwich420 set their sights on Messmer, a ruthless snake man introduced in the game. Shadow of the Erdtree expansion. It’s already one of the tougher fights in a particularly tough expansion, but Chickensandwich420 has committed to taking it down flawlessly. Not only do they do it in new game plus seven (read: nightmare difficulty), they do it with a different weapon every day.
The catch is that FromSoft didn’t give Night Reign a release date more specific than 2025, meaning Chickensandwich420 might be doing this for a while. But we are also talking about the same person who spent money 117 days dueling a boss in the original game until the expansion was released. They know what they signed up for.
They are currently on day 25 and suggestions for which weapon to use in the comments. On day 10 last month someone had them fight with a sword that is supposed to suck until you solve a puzzle with it. That video is a solid minute longer than the rest, as Chickensandwich420 wipes out Messmer’s health with what is essentially a rock. It could be worse: eventually someone will propose to fight him a bouquet.
Chickensandwich420 said in their day 1 video that if Night Reign isn’t out in June yet, they’ll be moving over to other FromSoft games. Messmer is tough, but there are certainly worse bosses, and I don’t expect Chickensandwich420 to make the challenge any easier. History has shown us that FromSoft challenge runners don’t give up and certainly don’t lower the stakes.