With just over two months to go before launch, Elden Ring’s most recent trailer at The Game Awards 2021 has provided fans all over the world with a more solid idea of what to expect from FromSoftware’s upcoming blockbuster.
Aside from the content of the trailer itself, Elden Ring’s presence at The Game Awards alone is enough to cause a stir in the Souls community. Before it was officially unveiled during Summer Game Fest earlier this year, many people thought an Elden Ring reveal was a shoo-in for The Game Awards in 2020, meaning tons of fans were left disappointed when it didn’t show up. This latest trailer seems like a conscious effort to remedy that, offering those same fans some much appreciated context for The Lands Between.
As you can see in the trailer above, there’s quite a lot going on here, to the point where the narrative looks a little bit more straightforward than those of previous Souls games. It’s definitely still convoluted, mind – just not as convoluted as usual. The rune of death gets stolen, there are a bunch of demigods with fancy names, and the titular Elden Ring breaks. Oh, and apparently you might be the Elden Lord. Nice!
Written by A Song of Ice and Fire author George R. R. Martin and directed by FromSoftware’s own Hidetaka Miyazaki, Elden Ring is the latest entry in the studio’s long spanning Souls series. While Elden Ring is confirmed to exist in the same universe as the three Dark Souls games, fans generally also consider Demon’s Souls, Bloodborne and Sekiro as part of the series on account of the shared DNA between all of From’s games.
Elden Ring is set to launch for PC, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PS5 and PS4 on February 25, 2022.
Written by Cian Maher on behalf of GLHF.
