Elden Ring developer FromSoftware has unveiled a brand new Bloodborne-like enemy that’s set to look in subsequent month’s Shadow of the Erdtree enlargement, and followers are already speaking about the way it will terrorize fellow Tarnished.
The studio pulled back the curtain on its latest nightmare on X/Twitter in the present day. A picture of the at present unnamed creature reveals a cloaked, cane-wielding being with a glowing head. The Bloodborne comparisons come from its tentacle-like face, giving the enemy an virtually Lovecraftian aptitude.
The deserted and tragic who forage beneath the umbra pray for the embrace of a brand new grasp.
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“The deserted and tragic who forage beneath the umbra pray for the embrace of a brand new grasp,” FromSoftware’s submit says.
Fans had been fast to match the creature to Bloodborne enemies like Winter Lanterns and Backyard of Eyes, which each function massive, eye-covered heads and cloaked torsos. Even the picture’s grim setting calls again to FromSoftware’s PlayStation 4 unique sport, signaling to Elden Ring gamers that Shadow of the Erdtree will, after all, present yet one more difficult and grotesque expertise.
Flashbacks… pic.twitter.com/ij9sJwMxQK
— Ziostorm (@Ziostorm1) May 13, 2024
I’d say they appear extra just like the backyard of eyes. pic.twitter.com/ozSQ9OraPd
— TBartels (@TBartels1) May 13, 2024
Whereas it’s good to see an enemy that calls again to Bloodborne, most followers are hoping this new anonymous being isn’t fairly as powerful to take care of as one thing just like the Winter Lanterns. These enemies notoriously constructed up an annoying standing impact generally known as Frenzy simply by being close to the participant. There’s additionally the placement that the brand new enemy resides in, which seems suspiciously swamp-like and will or will not be toxic.
That factor will spam standing impact, i simply comprehend it.
— MarzTheBanished (@martkillswitch2) May 13, 2024
Please don’t be a winter lantern Please don’t be a winter lantern Please don’t be a winter lantern
Please don’t be a winter lantern Please don’t be a winter lantern Please don’t be a winter lantern— Karna (@karna2666) May 13, 2024
Hears buzzing* pic.twitter.com/dXapnkMg52
— TheColeBrew (@TheColeBrewTv) May 13, 2024
Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree was introduced in February and has a PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Sequence X | S launch date of June 21, 2024. In typical FromSoftware style, we don’t know a lot about how the DLC will construct upon Elden Rings already nice basis. Nonetheless, you’ll be able to learn a few of what we do know right here.
For extra on Elden Ring, you’ll be able to learn our 10/10 overview. We known as the open-world motion RPG a “masterpiece” upon its launch in 2022, saying, “Elden Ring is a large iteration on what FromSoftware started with the Souls collection, bringing its relentlessly difficult fight to an unbelievable open world that offers us the liberty to decide on our personal path.”
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