Bandai Namco Wants To Work With Mistborn Author Brandon Sanderson, Who Has A "Soulsborne Pitch"
It's safe to say that Elden Ring has turned out to be a great game. Not only because of how the game plays and its various mechanics, but also due to its deep lore. As we know, George R.R. Martin built the initial lore and characters of the game, which were later twisted into the nightmarish versions we've seen thanks to director Hidetaka Miyazaki and team. It seems Bandai Namco likes this formula and may just apply it to another project.
Fantasy author Brandon Sanderson seems to be a big fan of FromSoftware games. In a recent live stream, Sanderson opened a parcel sent to him by the studio, containing all sorts of Elden Ring goodies. He then mentioned that he actually has a game idea that he's been wanting to pitch to Bandai Namco.
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“They are interested in perhaps doing something together, is what that says,” he said. “I am as well, actually. This is how I roll: I actually have a pitch for them in the back of my head… so I may have to send them my pitch and see what they think.”
Being a Soulsborne fan, Sanderson was understandably a bit salty when Martin was offered the Elden Ring job, he wished the devs would have approached him instead (thanks VGC).
“I always have a pitch for everything," he said during an episode of his podcast. "That’s the thing. Like, ‘if I were ever going to do a Soulsborne game, what would I do?’ You guys know what happened when I thought, ‘I wondered what I would do if I ever wrote a Magic: The Gathering story?’ I spent four years developing a Magic: The Gathering story so that when Magic contacted me and said, ‘hey, do you want to write a story?’ I could say, ‘yes, I already have one, and I will write it!” And I did."
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