Elden Ring wants you to stop hitting yourself

Elden Ring is the funniest game to come out in years, thanks to FromSoftware’s keen understanding of absurd comedy and player behavior. Souls’ gothic world features piles upon piles, destroyed camps, and mourning warriors for the loss of their loved ones. These people also wear huge hats.

When a logic world is disturbed, absurd comedy occurs. It’s the sudden movement from coherence to incoherence; you think you know the world you’re in, and then something bursts in and fusses all that up. It doesn’t really matter what kind of world it is, just that it’s consistent and clear — and then gets fucked up by something that contradicts it as much as possible. It will be more funnier the stronger its coherence and the more chaotic the incoherence.

Each grafted giant, pre-eviscerated monster and skeletal bird makes outrageous stunts and displays stark You-Died humor. Elden RingThis makes it all the more important. But that’s only the most obvious edge of FromSoftware’s creative chops. They’ve mastered a kind of comedy that’s available to any game developer, but which is rarely used: environmental jokes.

Check out the video below to find out more about FromSoftware’s jokes. Elden Ring And beyond.