Elden Ring: 17 Tips & Tricks The Game NEVER Told You
You know what those golden flakes in the sky are, right?
You're playing Elden Ring, I'm playing Elden Ring, more than 12 million of us are playing Elden Ring, and that means there's a ton of stuff to break down and celebrate, when it comes to FromSoftware's latest masterpiece.
Easily on the form of their lives, the studio headed up by former-coder-turned-president Hidetaka Miyazaki haven't pulled a punch yet. From 2009's Demon's Souls fostering a diehard community fuelled by near-masochistic determination, through the Dark Souls trilogy, Bloodborne, Sekiro and now Elden Ring, we've only seem this team go from strength to strength.
With 2022's release, Miyazaki and co. apply every last lesson learned from over a decade of pure game design.
How to blend the more intricately designed dungeon crawls of Dark Souls with Bloodborne's monstrously effective atmosphere. Where Sekiro's more acrobatic animations intersect with a hardcore RPG mentality of building the most efficient warrior possible. In short, Elden Ring is the sum of its parts and so much more; a gargantuan, ever-expanding open world where story, combat, lore etc old fold into one another.
This is the original Dark Souls feel writ larger than ever, and it's no surprise that almost every day, new mechanics and secrets continue to be discovered.