Elden Ring's Coliseums Could Rectify a Big Missed Opportunity

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Elden Ring has proven to be a massive sales success for FromSoftware and Bandai Namco, with the game smashing records for the studio and earning near-universal acclaim in the process. It's already being hailed as one of the best video games ever made, but there's always room for improvement. FromSoftware itself knows this, as it's released various updates since Elden Ring's initial launch to add new quest phases, address balancing issues, and fix lingering bugs.

There are rumors that FromSoftware has even more ambitious plans for Elden Ring's post-launch support beyond the updates it's released so far. Elden Ring dataminers and leakers have managed to work their way inside the typically-inaccessible coliseums that dot the Lands Between, restoring functionality to reveal Sites of Grace, a sandy arena, and two enemies let loose to fight each other to the death.

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One theory is that these coliseums are the groundwork for a future Elden Ring DLC expansion, but the other possibility is that these coliseums were planned to be featured in the game, only to be cut ahead of launch. Whatever the case may be, they represent a great opportunity for FromSoftware to rectify one of the bigger missed opportunities in Elden Ring, and that is the inability for players to relive boss fights without starting the game over.

The Elden Ring boss fights are a highlight of the experience, giving players a serious challenge while simultaneously showing off FromSoftware's impeccable sense of monster design. Unfortunately, in any given Elden Ring playthrough, players are only able to fight the bosses once with their own character. It's possible to fight the bosses again when