Elden Ring Player Compares Tree Sentinel to Dark Souls Enemies

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FromSoftware’s 2022 RPGElden Ring shares quite a bit of DNA with the Dark Souls series. While there are no overt references to the preceding franchise present in Elden Ring, the emphasis on high skill-cap melee combat, sprawling dark fantasy world, and intricate yet obfuscated lore borrow quite a bit from the trilogy for which the developer is primarily known. With that in mind, one Reddit user posits that even some of Elden Ring’s enemies bear direct similarities to those seen in the Dark Souls games.

In a post on the Elden Ring subreddit, Cheri474 likened the game’s notoriously tough-to-take-down Tree Sentinels to the giant guards patrolling Anor Londo in Dark Souls. Coincidentally, those enemies were referred to as Sentinels, and they seem to boast a connatural armor set and brandish large halberds not at all dissimilar to those wielded by the Tree Sentinels. The only major difference seems to be that one enemy type is fairly immobile while the other makes use of a mount.

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Response to the post seems to be fairly mixed, with some pointing out similarities between the movesets and attack patterns of both enemies and others arguing that they only appear to be similar because they’re both humanoids. More interesting still are the comparisons linking the Tree Sentinels to Havel the Rock, a notorious hostel NPC found in Dark Souls, and to Gyoubu Oniwa, a notable equestrian boss fromSekiro: Shadows Die Twice. In fact, Gyoubu seems like a boss who could seamlessly fit into Elden Ring.

There’s also proof that the Tree Sentinels aren’t the only Elden Ring enemies that share a deep connection to the Dark Souls series. In a video uploaded by soulsborne YouTuber Zulie