Despite how recently Elden Ring released, the game seems to have made quite the impact over the industry. Elden Ring's developer FromSoftware is renowned for making difficult games in fantasy settings such as Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice and the Dark Souls trilogy. Now, the company has teamed up with fantasy author George R.R. Martin to create a new world that still feels familiar to Dark Souls players.
Elden Ring earned rave reviews, with multiple critics giving the game the highest score available. While some of those reviews may be tainted by users reviewing the game poorly on Steam due to poor PC performance, it's clear from immediate critic and player response that the game is quite the experience. Elden Ring promises the usual difficult combat, though this time it allows for full open-world exploration of its expansive map, and has given the character creation tool seen in Dark Souls and Bloodborne an update.
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Character creation is something that plenty of gamers enjoy, especially when a character creation tool can be used to create some hilarious and strange protagonists to traverse through the world of Elden Ring. One Elden Ring player, u/PercyWolfAndrew, decided that their character would be based on the «handsome» version of Shrekseen in Shrek 2, posting their creation to Reddit. Considering Elden Ring's character creation has the option for players to make their characters green, some wondered why the player didn't go all out and make a Shrek character instead.
With some good attention to detail, the Elden Ring player managed to make a decent version of handsome Shrek in the game. The comments of the Reddit post were pointing out the similarities not
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