Elden Ring Nightreign will, actually, pit you and your pals in opposition to enemies from the Souls collection, sport director Junya Ishizaki has confirmed.
In a Famitsu interview (noticed by Eurogamer), Ishizaki says that some Darkish Souls enemies will seem to battle you in Elden Ring Nightreign, though it looks as if there will not be too many; the sport’s enemy roster will largely be made up of Elden Ring enemies, Ishizaki says.
He goes on to say that he received permission from Darkish Souls creator Hidetaka Miyazaki and Darkish Souls 2 director Yui Tanimura to incorporate enemies from their respective works in Nightreign, so it appears to be like like you’ll be able to count on Darkish Souls 2 enemies alongside iconic foes from the opposite two video games.
Eagle-eyed observers had already noticed Darkish Souls 3‘s Anonymous King boss within the Elden Ring Nightreign debut trailer, in addition to a boss that appeared suspiciously like Darkish Souls‘ Centipede Demon, and now it appears to be like like these will not be the one Darkish Souls callbacks within the sport.
Ishizaki would not point out whether or not any Demon’s Souls enemies can be showing in Nightreign, however provided that the Demon’s Souls IP is owned by Sony and never by FromSoftware or Bandai Namco, it is unlikely.
As for why Darkish Souls enemies flip up in Nightreign, Ishizaki’s reply is quite amusing; he places it right down to the affect of the sport’s villain, the Evening King, which quite smacks of “a wizard did it” to me.
If you happen to’re not conversant in Elden Ring Nightreign, it is an upcoming co-op survival motion sport created by FromSoftware and based mostly on the 2022 smash hit Elden Ring.
Introduced in the course of the Sport Awards ceremony final week, Nightreign eschews FromSoftware’s typical Soulslike components, opting as an alternative for a form of Monster Hunter-inspired roguelite strategy that sees gamers banding collectively to outlive three days and nights of more and more troublesome encounters.
The sport’s announcement got here lower than two weeks after FromSoftware head Hidetaka Miyazaki stated there have been no plans to broaden the Elden Ring IP sooner or later, however then his video games are well-known for that includes duplicitous or obscure NPCs, so maybe we should not be stunned.
Elden Ring Nightreign launches subsequent yr for PC, PlayStation, and Xbox.