Elden Ring‘s large Shadow of the Erdtree expansion dropped on Friday and it did not take lengthy for gamers to poke beneath the hood and uncover some fascinating issues. The primary large unhealthy of the DLC is the Divine Beast Dancing Lion, a fearsome creature that makes use of wind, lightning, ice and its personal hulking physique to decimate foul Tarnished. However the necessary boss all of a sudden appears a bit much less terrifying after YouTuber BonfireVN discovered that it is mainly simply two massive dudes in a go well with.
BonfireVN’s video reveals one particular person carrying the lion’s head and one other one hunched over within the rear — just a little like a pantomime horse. The video reveals the entrance finish of the near-nude boss firing off elemental assaults and twisting by way of the air to lunge on the participant, whereas the again half simply sorta tags alongside as if related by magnets.
Sport builders use every kind of tips simply to make issues work, however this one truly is smart on a conceptual degree. As 80 Level factors out, it retains in with the Chinese language custom of the lion dance, whereby two individuals put on a fancy dress and mimic the actions of the massive cat. One particular person controls the top and the opposite takes cost of the physique, albeit with much less flip flopping than the namesake Elden Ring boss.
In the meantime, the $40 Shadow of the Erdtree DLC is evidently a success already. Elden Ring (which incorporates the DLC) reached a simultaneous participant depend of 780,000 on Steam alone over the weekend. It hadn’t seen these sorts of numbers because it neared one million concurrent Steam gamers when it debuted in early 2022. Elden Ring has now bought more than 25 million copies, making it one of many best-selling games of all time.
Shadow of the Erdtree has earned near-unanimous praise from critics, however many gamers felt it was too tough and overview bombed it on Steam in consequence. Elden Ring‘s creators have a transparent message to naysayers, although: get good, scrubs.
“If we actually needed the entire world to play the sport, we may simply crank the issue down increasingly more. However that wasn’t the correct strategy,” From president and Elden Ring director Hidetaka Miyazaki informed The Guardian. “Had we taken that strategy, I don’t assume the sport would have achieved what it did, as a result of the sense of feat that gamers acquire from overcoming these hurdles is such a elementary a part of the expertise. Turning down problem would strip the sport of that pleasure — which, in my eyes, would break the sport itself.”