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Unfortunately its not actually possible to beat the game with all bosses without interacting with graces (praise best souls 2) without glitches. During the run there are 5 mandatory grace lights and 5 mandatory grace rests:

1+2) The first and second rests are required to get torrent/accept the accord from Melina and to get to Roundtable. This can be combined into one grace (but not one rest) if you do this at gatefront or any other grace that Melina can show up to give the accord. The reason why this is required is because in order to open the seal at Leyndell, you must have gone to roundtable first for some reason. This is also true for the portal to Leyndell at the Fia's Champions boss fight so you can't bypass it. Since we're required to get Torrent on the run, it makes the most sense to do it right away to save time during the running sections.

3) The third rest we do is for the Ranni questline. You have to speak to her doll at one of the graces in the upper Ainsel River area. Its needed because without this quest you can't access the Moonlight Altar which has 2 bosses.

4) The fourth rest is to get the Rold medallion after killing Morgott.

5) The fifth rest is to burn the Erdtree to get to Farum Azula.

Obviously all of these graces have to be lit to rest at them but the final extra grace that we have to light is in the Radahn arena. We don't have to rest at it but lighting it removes the trapped status while also activating the return to entrance portal so we can leave.

During the run I wanted to use the fewest number of grace interactions possible (without glitches). So this included fast travels, grace lights, memory of graces, etc. There are some dead-ends in the game where you can't get back to main areas to progress. In most of these situations just using the memory of grace is enough. The dead-ends are:

* First visit to Roundtable
* After killing Malenia
* Rykard Arena
* Mohgwyn Palace
* Leonine boss arena
* The cursemark of death tower
* the second visit to Roundtable
* Lakeside crystal cave (bloodhound)
* Grafted Scion arena (This one is only a dead-end because we are doing no death as well. Without no death you'd just kill Scion at the start of the game)
* Placidusax arena

In one of these dead-ends, the pureblood knight's medal can be used to bypass needing to memory of grace which is why we had to grab it during the run. But it can only be done once to cut down the memory of grace uses because Mohgwyn is also a dead-end.

The Placidusax arena is a special case because while in Farum Azula, you can't get rid of the trapped status. Even after killing Maliketh and going to the Ashen Capital (trapped is then removed), upon return to Farum Azula you are still trapped. This means that a rest would be required to get out of that arena. Because of this reason, Placidusax needed to be last to not have to add an additional rest. Getting back to Farum Azula is also the only fast travel that is required on the run which makes the most sense to do while in on of the dead-ends. I did it after getting to Roundtable the second time after killing Elden Beast.

You might be wondering why I didn't just fast travel at every dead-end instead of memory of grace. The main reason for this is that I felt that memory of grace is more of a restriction and a less powerful grace interaction than fast travelling.

Gino can't touch grass. He can't leave his igloo until June.

Hats off for Hunter putting Elden Beast Soundtrack for Soldier of God, Rick. It's the respect he deserves.

Things not touched in this video:
1.) The grave
2.) Grace
3.) Grass

GRAB SOME POPCORN AND A BLANKET LETS GET STARTED

I actually love how Gino’s videos are edited. They are like streams for people with adhd who can’t handle silence for 2 seconds (AKA me)

Props to whoever edited this 5 hour masterpiece

my man did the double illusory ring challenge in elden ring respect

2:58:22 Margot, Margit, Morgott, Maggie, maybe, maybe

The best lullaby ever, a 5 hour vid of gino
Thanks Hunter <3

1-leaves
2-comes back with a 5 hour video
3-leaves without further elaboration

had this running in the back and when he suddenly said my name from when i subbed months ago i almost had an aneurism

3:26:52 "Mohgwyn is also a dead-end." Not for long my friend, not for long. We patiently await the Shadow of the Erdtree.
4:42:54 "You go down a waterfall, wouldn't make much sense to go up one." One of the 3 cutscenes for these coffins is literally going up a waterfall! It should be two-way.

Bro, go touch grace.

Small things like the music on soldier of godrick are just chefs kiss

gino is like the kurosawa of elden ring challenge runs

I listen to you at night to fall asleep thanks

This run reminded me of back when Elden Ring first came out and I was watching a PvP guy do his first play through and when he first gets into Limgrave he says "I'm not gonna do any fast travel because I feel like it lessens the experience of the world". He would soon find himself stuck in Caelid, no Torrent and no way to level up.. and stuck running through Caelid to get back to Limgrave. Was an unfortunate and funny series of events

I LITERALLY was just thinking "I haven't watched a Gino video in a while, let me check if I missed an upload" and when I opened Youtube this was on the main page. LET'S GOOOO

I often Fall asleep while watching Your videos because i watch them late in bed. This video i am watching like fourth day and currently am at 2 hours, 40 minutes. Its kind of really different and pleasant vibe, love this type of content and your canadian accent :D. Keep it up, Gino!