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This year's AGDQ included someone speedrunning Elden Ring bosses with a saxophone

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Another runner played a Mario game on switch using motion controls strapped to his head and feel and then played the in game music on a keyboard at the same time. GDQ was wild this year.
Just once, I would love to see a game being played via musical instrument, and when you're actually in the shit against a boss, it ends up creating a banger of a song.
- CZR beat a Mario 64 record using a midi drum set and released it as a song
- I mean, Hi-Fi Rush is RIGHT THERE.
- Sekiro has a very heavy emphasis on every boss having a "rhythm" to their attacks. Would probably need some post processing (playing the same string on a guitar endlessly will never work but swapping out the "instrument" every so often would) but I could see that actually making a nice melody.
- That would be an interesting challenge: to play a game suboptimally, intentionally rhythmic.
- Honestly, an entire rhythm game could be made out of that idea.
  I wouldn't expect it to happen naturally, though. The game would have to be built around it.
And Crazy Taxi with a live band!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4AomNJHzHk

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