Helpful Elden Ring Video Explains the Game's Lore, Character Connections, and More
Elden Ring’s story can be very difficult to get a grasp on. The game follows the traditional FromSoftware approach to story design with very little about the game's world ever being fully explained to the player. Instead, the lore of the game is found and pieced together through item descriptions, character dialogue, and environmental design. An Elden Ring player could very easily finish the game without ever really having an idea of what the story was.
Like with other FromSoftware games such as Dark Souls, most of what could be considered the game’s main story happens before the game even begins, and the player is left to piece together the timeline of events. But as hard as Elden Ring’s story is to understand in the first place, it can be even harder to explain to someone else. The story is a complex web of similar sounding character names and intersecting relationships in Elden Ring.
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It can be difficult to put all the important information about the story into words. Many videos online that try to explain the story go on for 30 minutes or more. It is all the more impressive, then, that an Elden Ring fan on TikTok has managed to compress all the necessary information about the game's plot into an under three-minute video. Uploaded by kittyfdavies on TikTok, the video is not only an excellent explanation of the events only vaguely described in the game’s opening cutscene, but it is also the perfect size to send to a friend as an express explanation of the lore to get them interested in playing the game.
The video does contain what could be seen as spoilers for the game’s side quests along with information the player is only meant to piece together while playing
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