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Kaan Serin

Playing Elden Ring becomes a sweaty workout with this 7ft Greatsword peripheral that acts like "a very complicated Wiimote"

Elden Ring.

One Elden Ring player wondered "what kind of goofy controller would be packaged" with the RPG if it had been released in 2005, the heyday of weird and wonderful peripherals, and the ever-important question led them to create a 7ft Greatsword that cost $114 to make and turns real-life swings into in-game attacks.

"That means every heavy swing my character does in-game is activated by a heavy swing that I do in real life," YouTuber SuperLouis64 explains in his video. "And y'all, I'm not going to lie, my arms are hurting."

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