Elden Ring might have one little secret left, Miyazaki says, and I hope we never discover it

rockpapershotgun.com:

While players have scoured and stained every inch of the Lands Between in the two years since Elden Ring launched, they might not have uncovered every secret just yet. With a June release now confirmed for Shadow Of The Erdtree, the long-awaited expansion, director Hidetaka Miyazaki has now hinted that we Tarnished may have missed something. One small secret may yet remain, assuming he's not pulling another prank, or maybe not. Honestly, Miyazaki should say it has hundreds of undiscovered things. Keep everyone guessing. Communal Internet knowledge has ruined the mystique of video games.

In a recent interview with the Ian Games Network, the Elden Ring and Dark Souls director said the devs "are always surprised and delighted by how much the players do discover, and how much these communities work to uncover these secrets". IGN say, in their own words, that Miyazaki said he "doesn't think there's anything that hasn't been discovered by now". And then, somewhat contradictorily, he suggested maybe there was something.

"For me personally, there is a small element that I feel has not yet been discovered. So, whether that's up to user interpretation or up to just further investigation and playing, that's something I'm looking forward to." He added, "I think it's a question of when and not if, but there may be something small still missing."

Who knows what it might be. Did people miss one detail of a character's backstory? Is there a curious interaction with a niche item somewhere unlikely? Does one weird guy have a special weird chuckle? And this is assuming he's not pulling another prank, as he said he did with the Pendant in Dark Souls. That optional starting item states plainly that it does nothing but a million conspiracy theories have spun up about what it might do, or possibly did do earlier in development. That wild speculation was spurred on by an interview where Miyazaki he'd take the Pendant or nothing as his starter. Unless it was a double prank.

I hope we never