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Elden Ring Shadow Of The Erdtree trailer confirms that Miquella is the starNew areas, enemies, abilities, weapons and bosses shown
New areas, enemies, abilities, weapons and bosses shown
Image credit:Bandai Namco
Image credit:Bandai Namco
Rise, Tarnished! Actually stay sitting down, because it’s time to watch and think about the first trailer forShadow Of The Erdtree, which confirms that theElden RingDLC expansion will focus on Miquella, a rather tragic demigod character from the main game. Find the full video again below, together with my thoughts on just what the heck it all means.
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“It was to this land that Miquella departed,” the blurb goes on. “Divesting himself of his flesh, his strength, his lineage. Of all things Golden.” Well then. Let’s play all that back and form some speculations.
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Mesmer, meanwhile, appears to be Mesmer the Impaler - the Elden Ring subreddit has already flushed out an image of a new Elden Ring special edition with his full name on it. You can see him in the trailer - he’s the lanky, trident-wielding dude in the flappy red gown with respectable “final boss” energy. I don’t know much about him beyond that. He certainly lives up to his epithet in the trailer, though.
The video is a juicy montage of glimpses of different Shadow Of The Erdtree features - certainly, more revealing than Ed Thorn’s grim prediction earlier today of some environment art with a cranky voiceover. In a poetic flourish, we see a dual-wielding woman in red fighting in a field of blue flowers - she reminds me of the Desert Pyromancer fromDark Souls 3with a pinch of the Dancer of the Boreal Valley.
Less elegantly, there’s a massive, burning wickerman-type creature, a weirdly prehensile, lighting-throwing lion boss of some kind, and a sort of really pissed-off anteater. In amongst the titanic monsters, we catch glimpses of relatively humanoid, but no-less-lethal characters brandishing enchanted swords, rapid-fire crossbows, exploding pots and super-fancy shields. We see some flashy new moves, too - a double-flying kick, and an aerial incantation of some kind.
Again via Eurogamer, From have revealed that the Erdtree DLC includes 10 new boss fights, eight new weapon categories and a mysterious new progression system unique to the expansion. Yeah, there’s a lot going on here.
The trailer shows us a few of the new areas: gloomy throne rooms, a giant cannon jutting out of a lava pool, a chasm with dangling chains, high castle walls, and the ailing golden silhouette of the Erdtree itself. The Elden Ring world and art direction have lost none of their majesty since the main game’s release.
It all ends with an actual, properElden Ring Shadow Of The Erdtree release date- 21st June 2024, which means I have just enough time to dust off my old Elden Ring save and have a crack at finishing. I think when I last played I was somewhere in… the Swamp of Aeonia?
