Elden Ring and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Show How LOTR Would Thrive in the Soulslike Genre
Several concepts, themes, and examples of iconography are shared throughout the fantasy genre, such as iron-clad knights encountering dragons and other fantastical creatures in remarkable environments. Dark Souls is popular for its relished take on fantasy, and Elden Ring is an open-world culmination of the fantasy characteristics that came before it.
But when it comes to fantasy in general, fans would be hard-pressed to name an example of the genre that is more profoundly seminal than J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. However, it would be wise in the contemporary era of gaming for The Lord of the Rings to now take a page out of FromSoftware’s fantasy. If The Lord of the Rings had a Soulslike IP, it could follow the open-world blueprint established in Elden Ring and the Soulslike adaptation methods employed in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order.
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It would be fascinating for players to explore parts of Middle-earth that are established in Peter Jackson’s iconic film lore, as well as parts of Middle-earth that have not yet been explored as thoroughly in popular culture, but are still significant to other stories in Tolkien’s Legendarium. Depending on how large of an open world it is, players could explore Gondor, Rohan, the Shire, or Mordor, though Mordor is perhaps an oversaturated locale in modern The Lord of the Rings media already.
A Soulslike game tied to The Lord of the Rings could follow the FromSoftware formula closely and enable players to customize their protagonist in a character creator. This would open up much more freedom than other games from The Lord of the Rings, which typically cast players in a particular role as an iconic character
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