Elden Ring difficulty, gameplay details revealed at TGS 2021

While Ancient ring was not shown directly at the Tokyo Game Show 2021, the Famitsu x Dengeki TGS 2021 stream on October 3 featured FromSoftware’s Yasuhiro Kitao, who shared some development updates and new details on the dark fantasy action JRPG, we’ve translated everything below.

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ELDEN RING – Official Gameplay Revelation

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Yasuhiro Kitao is in charge of promotion, marketing and production at FromSoftware and appears regularly at events. You’ve certainly spotted her cool hairstyle before.

The chat started early in the stream, around 3:00 p.m., for about 10 minutes. The timestamp may be slightly off since the stream is currently still in progress.

Ancient ring and its seamless open world

Yasuhiro Kitao began by explaining Ancient ring is a typical FromSoftware game with elements of dark fantasy, but with several differences from Souls Games. One of the novelties is that the game is an open world and that it is perfectly connected to several dungeons.

You have small and medium sized dungeons spread across the open world like underground tunnels. And there is what he called the “legacy dungeons” which are huge castles and typical environments that also appear in Demonic souls and Dark souls. One of the ways to enjoy the game is to explore the map and seamlessly discover and enter areas like this.

You travel through the open world field using your horse, called Reima (Ghost Horse), which you can summon anywhere with the whistle except inside dungeons. The open world is huge and is designed to be another source of danger, different from the sense of danger you will experience in dungeons, which adds to the fun. Kitao also touched on how the horse affects battles. As we see in the gameplay trailer, for example, when fighting dragons or giant enemies, you prefer to be on horseback, but in narrower areas it is better to be on foot.

Next, Kitao explained that in Ancient ring There are no signs like ‘go to this dungeon next’, you are free to explore and go wherever you want. While sometimes you can be completely confused about what to do next, so there are some features that will help you out in those times, such as maps.

Yasuhiro Kitao explained, unlike the past Souls games you can find pieces of cards in the open world. You can then open the map and set goals so that they appear as pillars of light to guide you.

TGS Ancient ring details – Game difficulty, development update

Yasuhiro Kitao said he would “lie” if he said Elden Ring was easy, but it’s not like the game is hard just to be hard. It is designed so that you can feel a sense of accomplishment when you successfully do something or discover something, and high difficulty is one of those ways to achieve that.

However, there are several systems that make the game easier to help players, such as being able to summon allies. There is also a stealth system as in Chopped which allows you to stab and shoot enemies in the back to avoid harsher frontal assaults. And if the dungeon you tried to go into is too difficult, you can find dungeons that are easier to level up first, which will also help players a lot.

Yasuhiro Kitao ended the segment by thanking the fans who didn’t forget Elden Ring aven when they were silent on the game or two years and only revealed the gameplay for the first time at Game Fes in June 2021. He said the development is progressing and they will do their best to meet people’s expectations.

Ancient ring launches January 21 for PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X / S, and PC. You can always reach me @ A_iyane07 on Twitter asking me stuff like how Berserk influenced pop culture or how it was influenced by The rose of Versailles. Also be sure to check out the rest of our TGS coverage.

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