Elden Ring First Boss Almost Took Inspiration from Dark Souls 1
FromSoftware's Elden Ring may be an original IP, but it could have easily passed as a sequel to Dark Souls. Elden Ring is essentially an open world take on the Dark Souls formula after all, and so it's no surprise that there are many similarities between the games. It seems that those similarities almost ran even deeper, as there is evidence to suggest FromSoftware toyed with the idea of having a first boss similar to the one players fought in the original Dark Souls game.
Elden Ring dataminer and YouTuber Zullie the Witch has uploaded a video explaining how FromSoftware likely experimented with different bosses before ultimately landing on the Grafted Scion as the first boss encounter for the game. Elden Ring files indicate that FromSoftware likely considered the Banished Knight, the Crucible Knight, and the Erdtree Avatar to be featured at the Chapel of Anticipation at the start of the game instead of the Grafted Scion.
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Zullie the Witch's video points out that the Erdree Avatar would have been a particularly interesting choice for Elden Ring's first boss due to its connection to the original Dark Souls game. According to Zullie the Witch, the Erdree Avatar has the same animation skeleton as the Asylum Demon, the first boss that players fight in Dark Souls, itself inspired by the Vanguard monster in Demon's Souls.
The video offers a good reason why FromSoftware likely passed on featuring the Erdtree Avatar as the first boss in the game. Since the Erdtree Avatar has the same animations as the Asylum Demon, hardcore FromSoftware fans may have been able to defeat it in their first encounter. However, the idea is that players will die in this first boss fight and
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