Well, it's been a while, but we've finally got a new trailer for Elden Ring, the newest game from Hidetaka Miyazaki, the mastermind behind Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, Bloodborne, and Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. Elden Ring is also a collaboration with George R. R. Martin, author of the A Song of Ice and Fire series (which you likely know better as Game of Thrones).
In the trailer, we see some elements familiar to those of us who have played previous games from... er, From in this vein: it appears that our player character will be "The Tarnished," and there is talk of Champions and Lords, with what appears to be one of the bosses (with a typically creepy-as-hell Souls-boss design) raging at our audacity for challenging him, a Lord.
The main thing that strikes me about this is that it looks to be somewhat Souls-like in combat gameplay, but also appears to exist with in a much larger, more open world. Most of Dark Souls and Bloodborne take place in urban environments, which create claustrophobic corridors that require you to be very careful in how you proceed through them. Might we be seeing something more like "open world gameplay," Souls-style? It does appear that the protagonist summons up a rideable mount (which seems like some kind of horned horse,) which seems to point to a world large enough that such mobility is necessary, and where mounted combat can be a thing.
We don't have a ton of details on the story, but then again, given that this is a Miyazaki game, I'm sure that we'll need to piece that together on our own. In fact, Martin makes sense as a collaborator, given the density of stories-within-the-story of his Song of Ice and Fire books.
I never played Sekiro, and I'm waiting for PS5s to be A: available and B: cheaper before I get one and pick up the remake of Demon's Souls.
Elden Ring releases on January 21st of 2022 on a number of platforms.
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