Elden Ring has been available now for nearly four months, with millions of players having completed their playthroughs. While some are content to wait for FromSoftware to, hopefully, announce DLC for Elden Ring, others are finding new ways to play the game to keep it fresh and exciting. PC mods are one way Elden Ring players can radically change the experience. One great, and entirely absurd, recent example is an Elden Ring mod perfect for fans of Malenia, Blade of Miquella.
One popular Elden Ring mod is named Elden Ring Item and Enemy Randomizer, perfect for creating an entirely fresh and surprising experience every time a player starts a new game. But this mod's utility goes far beyond just creating a randomizer. YouTuber Bushy showed just what can be done with the randomizer mod. Specifically, he took out the randomization and used the mod's tech to replace Elden Ring's entire enemy population with a single enemy type of boss.
Fans of Elden Ring likely already know where this is going. Bushy used the randomizer mod to replace every single Elden Ring enemy with Malenia, the RPG's most notorious boss. Elden Ring's basic enemies were all replaced by Malenia. Elden Ring's bosses were all replaced by Malenia. Even Elden Ring's animals were all replaced by Malenia. Only NPCs and certain unusual enemy encounters were left unchanged. Bushy then played through the game, completing it by fighting the traditional Malenia boss fight under the Haligtree. It took over 8 hours.
As evil as the experience may sound, and it is very evil, there were some small aspects of the run that made it less impossible. The biggest limitation being that, while every enemy was replaced by Malenia, they weren't replaced by the Malenia. Each replacement Malenia actually scaled down in health and damage to be in line with the enemy they replaced. They still had two phases, of course, but they were significantly less threatening than they could be.
The result of the run was that Bushy ended up running away or escaping every encounter that he possibly could. He scavenged items, armor, and weapons from locations that didn't require him to fight and, for the most part, only fought required boss Malenias that were necessary for progression. It was still incredibly challenging, but Bushy made it as easy on himself as he could manage.
The All Malenia run of Elden Ring is just one example of how mods can make the game an exciting new experience. The Elden Ring Item and Enemy Randomizer has a variety of options that can create custom experiences for Elden Ring players to enjoy, extending the life of the game well past the duration of one or two playthroughs. And there are plenty more mods to come in time.
Elden Ring is available now on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.