Elden Ring‘s large Shadow of the Erdtree enlargement dropped on Friday and it did not take lengthy for gamers to poke underneath the hood and uncover some fascinating issues. The primary large dangerous of the DLC is the Divine Beast Dancing Lion, a fearsome creature that makes use of wind, lightning, ice and its personal hulking physique to decimate foul Tarnished. However the obligatory boss abruptly appears a bit much less terrifying after YouTuber BonfireVN discovered that it is mainly simply two massive dudes in a swimsuit.
BonfireVN’s video reveals one particular person carrying the lion’s head and one other one hunched over within the rear — slightly like a pantomime horse. The video reveals the entrance finish of the near-nude boss firing off elemental assaults and twisting by the air to lunge on the participant, whereas the again half simply sorta tags alongside as if linked by magnets.
Recreation builders use all types of methods simply to make issues work, however this one truly is sensible on a conceptual degree. As 80 Stage factors out, it retains in with the Chinese language custom of the lion dance, whereby two individuals put on a fancy dress and mimic the actions of the massive cat. One particular person controls the top and the opposite takes cost of the physique, albeit with much less flip flopping than the namesake Elden Ring boss.
In the meantime, the $40 Shadow of the Erdtree DLC is evidently successful already. Elden Ring (which incorporates the DLC) reached a simultaneous participant rely of 780,000 on Steam alone over the weekend. It hadn’t seen these sorts of numbers because it neared one million concurrent Steam gamers when it debuted in early 2022. Elden Ring has now offered greater than 25 million copies, making it one of many best-selling video games of all time.
Shadow of the Erdtree has earned near-unanimous reward from critics, however many gamers felt it was too troublesome and evaluate bombed it on Steam in consequence. Elden Ring‘s creators have a transparent message to naysayers, although: get good, scrubs.
“If we actually wished the entire world to play the sport, we might simply crank the issue down an increasing number of. However that wasn’t the correct method,” From president and Elden Ring director Hidetaka Miyazaki advised The Guardian. “Had we taken that method, I don’t assume the sport would have completed what it did, as a result of the sense of accomplishment that gamers achieve from overcoming these hurdles is such a basic a part of the expertise. Turning down problem would strip the sport of that pleasure — which, in my eyes, would break the sport itself.”