Elden Ring: 17 Tips & Tricks The Game NEVER Told You

By Scott Tailford / March 22, 2022

2. Dismount A Horse-Riding Enemy For A Secret Finisher

I mentioned the parry life in an earlier point, and clearly FromSoftware are acutely aware of how a huge portion of the Souls fandom will simply parry their way through the majority of battles.

Here, should you manage to parry an oncoming horse-riding enemy, you'll not only knock them clear off their steed, but it sets them up for a unique stab animation where you perform a finisher on the ground, immediately after.

Like the lunging attack we're all discovering many weeks after launch, it seems Miyazaki and co. added a host of genuinely badass animations into the game - you just need to work hard to pull them off.