The streamer who beat Malenia with her mind wants to try Nintendo games next. But that might be a problem.

Here at Tubefilter, we love weird stuff on the internet (so much so that we made it a category in our weekly Friday news roundup). And there are few things weirder–or more wonderful–than gamers finding new and inventive ways to test their skills (and patience) with FromSoft games like Dark Souls, Bloodborne, and Elden Ring.

One of those gamers is PerriKaryal, a YouTuber, Twitch streamer, and Master’s degree holder who made a “mind control” system using an electroencephalogram, which measures electrical activity in the brain. Using that cap and brain-computer interface software, she’s able to ‘think’ commands that coordinate to different inputs on a game controller. She does this by thinking about specific things to represent actions. As she’s previously described, for example, she thinks about a cricket jumping to move forward and attack, and thinks about pushing a block to dodge.

As PC Gamer writes, she already used this system to beat notoriously difficult FromSoft bosses like Malenia and the Divine Beast Dancing Lion from Elden Ring and its DLC. She’s currently streaming the latest Elden Ring installment, co-op DLC Nightreign, and this new dimension of play–where she has to combine skills and manage timing with other people–is stretching the limits of what she’s designed.

PerriKaryal’s system runs on a one-second delay, and if you know FromSoft games, you know that can be devastating. Bosses have extremely powerful attacks that are often telegraphed only a breath before they happen, so PerriKaryal has to build pre-reaction into her gameplay.

“Something I have to do in Soulslike games, that I don’t necessarily have to do in other games, is really know what’s coming next one whole second before [in-game enemies] do it. And sometimes I get it wrong, and sometimes it just doesn’t work,” she told PC Gamer.

Now that she’s stress-tested her EEG/BCI against some of the strongest bosses in all of gaming–with tens of thousands of people watching across Twitch and YouTube–she’s potentially turning her attention to someone else who’s seemingly impossible to beat: Nintendo.

PerriKaryal designed her system for PC usage, then expanded it to PlayStation for Nightreign, which means she can now use it on any console…including the Nintendo Switch.

But she expresses hesitation over whether Nintendo will be thrilled she’s developed that capability.

“I don’t know if Nintendo will let me, but maybe,” she said.

Nintendo is notoriously unfriendly to content creators, and especially unfriendly to anyone who tries to mod its games. We’re not sure if it’ll view PerriKaryal’s system as an attempt to mod, but either way, it seems unlikely to appreciate her technological feat.

We appreciate it, though, and appreciate that content creators are consistently at the forefront of making potentially revolutionary projects, then sharing them online. It’s only been a month since the first time Neuralink was used to successfully edit a YouTube video, and while PerriKaryal’s invention isn’t strictly content creation-related, she’s still using her digital presence as a place to show what could be the next big advancement in gaming.