Unsettling Elden Ring Clip Shows How It Can Function As a Horror Game
The soulslike genre is well known for its grueling combat and high overall difficulty, but it's also a genre known for horrific monster design and unsettling stories. FromSoftware's dark fantasy titles helped establish the conventions of the genre, but the studio's latest title, Elden Ring, appears to adhere more closely to the aesthetics of medical European fantasy. However, one Elden Ring player shares an unsettling clip that shows how it can still function as a horror game.
Previous FromSoftware Soulsborne titles like Bloodborne drew on stories like Dracula and the works of Lovecraft to create a mix of cosmic horror and gothic horror. Elden Ring appears to be going for more of a wartime tragedy feel, but it can still leave unwary players feeling chilled to the bone.
Elden Ring Player Saved from Falling to Their Death at Last Second
A Redditor shared a short, 11-second-long clip that chronicles their encounter with some truly unsettling imagery in Elden Ring. Interestingly, the scares come from the interaction of another player with one of the game's key mechanics — the ability to see the phantoms of other players who have died. In the video, the player is shown walking up a flight of stairs when the phantom of another player appears at the top.
Things rapidly take a turn for the worse when the phantom approaches the stairs before suddenly turning toward an unseen enemy. The specter is then yanked into the air, shaken around like a rag doll, and flung over the side of the staircase into the abyss. The player character is shown staring for several seconds, then immediately turns around and begins going down the staircase, away from whatever caused that ugly death. Elden Ring characters have died in a lot of embarrassing
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