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EldenRing[b] is a 2022 action role-playing game developed by FromSoftware. It was directed by Hidetaka Miyazaki with worldbuilding provided by American fantasy writer George R. R. Martin. It was published for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S on February 25 in Japan by FromSoftware and internationally by Bandai Namco Entertainment. Set in the Lands Between, players control a customizable player character on a quest to repair the Elden Ring and become the new Elden Lord.

Elden Ring is presented through a third-person perspective with players freely roaming its open world. The six main areas can be traversed using the player character's steed Torrent. Linear, hidden dungeons can be explored to find useful items. Players can use several types of weapons and magic spells, including non-direct engagement enabled by stealth mechanics. Throughout the game's world, checkpoints enable fast travel and allow players to improve their attributes using an in-game currency called runes. Elden Ring features an online multiplayer mode in which players join through cooperative play to fight bosses or engage in player versus player combat.

FromSoftware wanted to create an open-world game based on Dark Souls. Miyazaki admired Martin's previous work and hoped that his contributions would produce a more accessible narrative than those of the company's earlier games. Martin was given unrestricted freedom to design the backstory, while Miyazaki was lead writer for the in-game narrative. However, the game's narrative is still presented through flavor text, dialogue, visual narrative, and players' interpretations. The developers concentrated on environmental scale, role-playing, and the story; the scale required the construction of several structures around its world.

Elden Ring won several Game of the Year awards and has been cited as one of the greatest games of all time, with praise directed towards its open world, gameplay systems, and setting despite criticism for its technical performance. It sold 25 million copies, also making it one of the best-selling games of all time. The downloadable content Shadow of the Erdtree follows the player character solving the mysteries of the Land of Shadow. It was released in June 2024 to similar acclaim and sold over five million copies.

The story of Elden Ring is fragmented and told non-linearly. Besides the introducing cinematic which speaks in riddles, the player must find the rest of the story through dialogue and interactions with NPCs, item descriptions, the details in the environment, and sometimes within the game's code itself. This would lead the player needing to look for clues and coming to their own assumptions of the full story. The world history is constantly theorized among players and the synopsis setting is subject to change due to varying interpretations.

At the game's start, the player chooses a character class, which determines their starting spells, equipment, and attributes.[5] Combat with enemies can be within melee, or from a distance using ranged weapons. Enemy attacks can be dodged or blocked using shields. Spells allow players to enhance their weapons, fight enemies from afar, and restore lost hit points. The player can memorize a limited amount of these spells, which can be cast using a staff or sacred seal item.[6][7] Weapons can be improved using ashes of war, which are obtainable enchantments that grant weapons new capabilities. Ashes of war can be applied to or removed from weapons, and each Ash adds a weapon art, a special ability that can be used during combat.[8] Aside from direct combat, stealth mechanics can be used to avoid enemies or allow the targeting of foes with critical hits while hidden.[9][10] Staggering enemies and parrying their attacks can also create opportunities for critical hits.[11][12]

Checkpoints called sites of grace are located throughout the game; in these places, characters can increase the power of their attributes, change memorized spells, swap ashes of war, or walk to using fast travel. Upon death, players respawn at the last site of grace they interacted with. Alternatively, they may choose to respawn at certain locations highlighted by "stakes of Marika" provided they died nearby.[8][13][14] To increase their attributes at sites of grace, the player must spend runes, an in-game currency that is acquired by defeating enemies.[15] Runes can be used to buy items, and improve weapons and armor. Dying in Elden Ring causes the player to lose all collected runes at the location of death; if the player dies again before retrieving the runes, they will be lost forever.[16]

Elden Ring contains crafting mechanics; the creation of items requires materials. Recipes, which are required for the crafting of items, can be found inside collectibles called cookbooks, which are scattered throughout the world. Materials can be collected by defeating enemies, exploring the game's world, or by trading with merchant NPCs. Crafted items include poison darts, exploding pots, and consumables that temporarily increase the player's combat strength.[17][18] Similar to the Dark Souls games, the player can summon friendly NPCs called spirits to fight enemies.[19] Summoning each type of spirit requires its equivalent Spirit Ash; different types of Spirit Ashes can be discovered as the player explores the game world. Spirits can only be summoned near structures called Rebirth Monuments, which are primarily found in large areas and inside boss fight arenas.[20]

Elden Ring has a multiplayer system that allows players to be summoned for both cooperative and player-versus-player (PvP) play over the Internet.[21] Cooperative play involves the placing of a summon sign on the ground, which causes the sign to become visible to online players who have used a corresponding item. If another player interacts with the sign, the player who placed the sign is summoned into their world. Cooperative players remain in the same world until the boss of the area is defeated or until a summoned player dies and is returned to their home world. In PvP combat, a summon sign is used to challenge another player to a duel, or the player can use additional items to invade the worlds of others. World hosts may use a "taunter's tongue" to increase the likelihood their world will be invaded by others and to decrease the time between invasions.[22][23][24]

After her firstborn, Godwyn, was assassinated using a stolen piece of the Rune of Death, Marika shattered the Elden Ring, throwing the realm into disarray and causing her to be sealed inside the Erdtree. Afterward, shards of the Ring called Great Runes were inherited by Marika's remaining offspring, corrupting them into warring against each other. Amongst these Rune Bearers are: Morgott, an Omen loyal to the Golden Order despite facing discrimination; Mohg, Morgott's twin who wishes to form his own dynasty; Radahn, a warrior general who went feral after being afflicted by the Scarlet Rot disease; Rykard, a former praetor who turned to blasphemy for power; Ranni, a witch who seeks to overthrow the Greater Will and orchestrated Godwyn's assassination; Miquella, a genius mystic cursed with eternal youth who disagrees with the Golden Order's prejudice; Malenia, Miquella's twin who is regarded as the realm's greatest swordswoman despite being afflicted with Scarlet Rot; and Godrick, a distant relative who seeks strength by grafting his subjects' bodyparts onto himself.

As if to address the situation, the exiled Tarnished were mysteriously gifted power, resurrecting and granting them immortality, before being instructed to return to the Lands Between to repair the Elden Ring and become the new Elden Lord. Those summoned include: Goldmask, a fundamentalist seeking to revitalize the Golden Order; Fia, a prostitute who is attempting to revive Godwyn; Dung Eater, a criminal who wants to strip everyone in the Lands Between of the Erdtree's power; Sir Gideon Ofnir, a spymaster researching the Shattering; and an unnamed Tarnished of no renown.

Shadow of the Erdtree introduces the Land of Shadow, where Marika grew up. Her people were persecuted by Hornsent, beings similar to Omens who ruled the Lands Between at the time, leaving her as the sole survivor. Spurred on by the Two Fingers, this prompted her to become the Elden Ring's host using a monument called the Gate of Divinity. Afterward, she magically concealed the Land of Shadow from the rest of the Lands Between before having another of her offspring, Messmer, massacre the Hornsent to avenge her people; later banishing him there, both to keep her origins hidden and because he was born fused with a powerful serpent that she feared would one day turn on her.

Early in their journey, the nameless Tarnished encounters a maiden named Melina, who grants them a steed named Torrent and offers to guide them through the Lands Between in exchange for taking her to the Erdtree. Melina later takes the Tarnished to the Roundtable Hold, a gathering place for Tarnished, where they are instructed by the Two Fingers that, to repair the Elden Ring, they must collect Great Runes and bring them to the Erdtree.

After recovering two Great Runes, the Two Fingers allow the Tarnished to duel Morgott for the right to enter the Erdtree. However, despite besting him, they find thorns blocking the way inside. The Two Fingers does not know how to respond, revealing that the Greater Will has abandoned the Lands Between. Melina advises the Tarnished to seek out the Fell God's power, the Flame of Ruin, and ignite the Erdtree. Alternatively, they can also form a pact with another outer god, the corruptive Frenzied Flame. If the Tarnished uses the Flame of Ruin, Melina sacrifices herself as the kindling to set the Erdtree alight. If the Frenzied Flame is used, the Tarnished burns the Erdtree themselves, but Melina abandons them.

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