Dominating in its opening week both in sales and reviews, Elden Ring lived up to the hype it generated pre-launch. After bug fixes and balancing patches following its release, Elden Ring has continued to show high player numbers in the month and a half it has been on the market.
The game's dominance is in no small part due to its departure from traditional FromSoftware game design, specifically in its open-world gameplay. While the game is similar to others in that it has some open-world quirks like Elden Ring gargoyles jumping on players to kill them, what the open world did bring was an influx of players who had steered clear of FromSoftware titles in the past.
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The butterfly effect of an entirely new group of players surging into the game directly caused another trend: the creation of artwork by fans. Between FromSoftware veterans and fresh newcomers, fantastic creations like an animated version of Elden Ring's box art have gone viral on social media sites, showing fan appreciation as well as further boosting the popularity of the game. Recently, another masterpiece was shared online, depicting Leyndell, The Royal Capital as an acrylic artwork.
Reddit user MapleFoxArt1 posted the stunning piece to Reddit in a slideshow that showcases the process required to create the piece as well as highlights the art from different angles. The result is a post that not only shows off the incredible artwork but also instills further appreciation from users through the pictures showing the piece in different stages of the creation process. Much like the multiple steps it took an artist to create 3-D printed living pots from Elden Ring, MapleFoxArt1's slideshow helps envision not
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