An angry bear and emotes in Elden Ring
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There’s just over a month to go until From Software’s open world release, and the studio continues to reveal snippets of the game to keep us guessing. It’s nothing crazy, but if you’re looking for any info on the game, it’s here.
The online testing phase of Elden Ring revealed an important segment of the game, but there are indications that it was only a very small portion of the world map, it was also truncated by a part of its content. The official Elden Ring Twitter account gives us brief glimpses of the rest of the world, like the Snowy Zone, the Autumnal Zone, or in this case, a Spring Woods where a friendly cousin of Winnie the Pooh awaits. This new image is accompanied by a small sentence that could be translated into “The ferocious beasts of the misty woods have only one gesture of hospitality.“Animals seem plentiful in the Underworld, and not all of them are hostile. Besides the eagles (with and without spinning blades), the return of giant crabs, owls and rolling goats, there are also has packs of wolves, oversized bats, and a truly fearsome lion.That makes for quite the world for a corner of the map.
The second tweet is a bit dated, since it dates from the end of December, but it remains interesting for those who did not have their eyes glued to Tweeter or the news of the game during the holiday season. We discover that the engraved sculptures present in some of the studio’s previous games are back. They allow you to activate a particular phrase in order to communicate with other players, which complements the gestures used by default. One can wonder about the choice of studio, in the majority of games, the characters naturally have recorded sentences. It’s just a theory, but maybe they prefer to have a completely silent protagonist so as not to break the heavy silence that hangs over many areas, and especially in PvP. It’s far more terrifying to have a silent specter looking to stab you in the back, than someone spamming a loopy phrase. Of course, that doesn’t stop many gamers from finding other ways to clown around and break up the immersion a bit in original ways, but it’s also what makes these games so appealing.