She gives dance battle a whole new meaning
Unconventional controllers are one of my favorite gaming content niches. They’re something I’ve enjoyed out of the corner of my eye for years, with my personal favorite beingRudeism’s full-body goose costume/controllerto playUntitled Goose Game. The Twitch streamers are back at it again, but this time the spotlight is on anElden RingstreamerMissMakkaa, and her build that uses a dance pad peripheral as a controller.
Basically, she got one of those at-home dance pads you use for games likeDance Dance Revolutionand hooked it up toElden Ring, which is already a funny enough concept on its own. What’s even more impressive, then, is that she’s already beaten five of the game’s bosses to date (thanks,Eurogamer), and she isn’t stopping there.
Twitch streamer@MissMikkaawho recently completed a Level 1 run of Elden Ring with just one hand, is now doing a similar run… with a dance pad
She has defeated 5 bosses so far, and has 30-50 in total she needs to beatpic.twitter.com/CqvClFnw83
— Jake Lucky (@JakeSucky)August 10, 2025
Other than having to do a little jig when things get intense, another challenge MissMakkaa faces with this build is that there are fewer buttons on a dance pad than there are on a PlayStation controller, which means she sometimes has to perform tasks like controlling the camera directly on the PC. My brain can pretty much only handle one task at a time, so it’s insanely impressive that she’s made it this far with this setup.
Of course, MissMakkaa is used to a good challenge — recently she completedanotherElden Ringrunwhere she not only remained Level 1 the entire time, but also played with one hand. And to think I couldn’t even beat Godrick normally. Some people are just built differently. Leave it to Twitch streamers to make one of the hardest games available even harder.
Twitch can be a toxic place sometimes, but content like this reminds me that sometimes gamers can be awesome, actually. The whole point of playing games is to have fun, and partaking in goofy challenges like this only amplify that fun.
