Elden Ring looks to adopt the wide range of swords, axes, spears, bows, plate mails, chain mails, robes, leather jerkins, bracers, and boots, magic wands and staves, shields, helmets, and hoods that have given rise to an exceptional number of character builds in Dark Souls. Bloodborne utilizes a similar method of character building, but Dark Souls has far more variety in weaponry and armor. The architecture has the same monstrous, medieval look, with the towering walls of Stormveil Castle looming like those of Lothric Castle is Dark Souls 3.Īside from its aesthetic influences, Elden Ring also looks to inherit the equip-able item variety of Dark Souls. The playable area in Elden Ring already appears to be much larger than that in any of the Dark Souls games, but clips of the Tarnished overlooking vistas in the Lands Between brings to mind the first Dark Souls - of looking up from the groves of Darkroot Garden and being able to see where the Taurus Demon was fought in the Undead Burg. It could be said that Elden Ring is just the latest product to use FromSoftware's brand of dark fantasy that began with Demon's Souls, but the wide reaching and influential success of the Dark Souls series gave the developers three games to hone that visual style. The most immediately obvious influence that Dark Souls has on Elden Ring is still the game's general aesthetic. The mystique around Elden Ring during its protracted radio silence following announcement certainly contributed to the excitement, but there's a feeling that Dark Souls, Bloodborne, and Sekiro have built up to this, with Elden Ring as something of a showcase for what FromSoftware has learned in development over the last decade.
Now a few months out from the expected release in February, the new Elden Ring gameplay preview has solidified the Dark Souls comparisons, though FromSoftware's other notable works - Bloodborne and Sekiro - have clearly had an influence on development. Related: What Elden Ring's Release Date Is After Delay Aesthetically, Elden Ring's reveal trailer matched the description, but developer FromSoftware has a history experimenting with its own signature action-RPG combat, so more in depth comparisons would have to wait.
An extended period of promotional silence followed for over a year, with only tidbits of information pointing to Elden Ring essentially being Dark Souls in an open world setting.
Dark Souls, Bloodborne, and Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice have all seemingly had a fair amount of influence on Elden Ring's design.Įlden Ring was first announced over two years ago with a reveal trailer at E3 2019. Elden Ring has been promoted as essentially a more expansive version of Dark Souls, and while that remains true, the gameplay preview shows that the game is a culmination of all its predecessors. The highly anticipated release of Elden Ring draws steadily closer, and the wait has been eased by an extended sampling of its gameplay.
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