After an epic 24-hour battle with Malenia and 1,700 deaths, Kai Cenat has finally beaten Elden Ring

It took more than 165 hours of struggling and 1,700 brutal, sometimes funny, deaths, but Kai Cenat—one of the biggest streamers on Twitch—has finally beaten Elden Ring.

I became aware of Cenat's Herculean effort last night, when a cryptic, single-line message appeared in my Twitter feed: «Kai Cenat has been fighting Melania for 10 hours straight.»

What?

It was true. Not only that, he had been playing Elden Ring for nearly 130 hours by that point, and had died more than 1,400 times. 

At one point during the epic battle, he thought he had her, only to find out that no, it wasn't going to be quite that easy.

Kai Cenat defeated Malenia nearly 120 hours into the stream without realizing there was a Phase 2 of the boss in Elden Ring