9 Pointless Details In Elden Ring That'll Blow Your Mind

8. Merchant's Play Instruments With Accurate Finger Motions

elden ring merchant
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One of the few characters in Elden Ring who is not actively trying to kill you are the merchants. and while his haunting song played upon his string instrument is stunning in and of itself, there’s a little more going on here. Attentive players discovered that the NPC’s hand movements line up perfectly with the melody being played. A violin player weighed in to confirm that the shifting and vibrato animations are impressively replicated.

Why FromSoftware would implement such detail when they could have got away with not doing so could class this as a pointless detail, but we both know we love that they put the effort in anyway.

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