With all the myriad ways that fans can playElden Ring, a wide sense of exploration and experimentation is afforded. Some players have contended with the idea that the use ofElden Ring’s summons, buffs, or other such resources offer an unfair or cheesed advantage, despite them being available to playersnonetheless.
Further,Elden Ringclearly promotes the use of these tools as players see fit and provides countless opportunities for players to either retrieve or craft them. If players wish to raise their maximum health and the amount of HP or FP replenished, they need only find the necessary amount of Golden Seeds and Sacred Tears. Preparation is undoubtedly one of the most important parts of any boss battle, and one fan has shared a creative animation of how that comes into play withElden Ring’s Margit, the Fell Omen.
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Redditor u/hanpnguyen13’s 2D pixel-art animation shows a Tarnished player-character in the middle of last-minute preparations, while Margit waits patiently. The animator’s art stylizes the boss' arena andElden Ring’s HUD UI, which adapts and reacts to the buffs and consumables that the character uses. The character can be seen applying increased blood loss affliction to their sword withElden Ring’s Seppuku Ash of War, for example, as well as buffing themselves with the Golden Vow skill equipped to another sword.
The character drinks a Flask of Crimson Tears, a Flask of Cerulean Tears, a Perfume Bottle, and a Flask of Wondrous Physick, each with their own associable effects on the character’s HP, FP, and stat buffs. These actions are animated fluidly with their associable special effects represented on the character as the animation loops. Many fans wished this animation concluded with the character’s swift one-hit death to represent how folly and difficult many ofElden Ring’s boss battlesare, and while the animator considered it, they simply like the loop too much as it is.
Margit is uncharacteristically patient while the character buffs themselves when in actuality the boss would undeniably be hurling light knives to interrupt the character’s animations or quickly close the distance and ready an overhead attack to bait the player’s inputs. Instead,Elden Ringplayers typically buff themselves before they enter the golden fog walls that separate them from the boss so that when they enter the arena they only have to worry about the fight itself.
Elden Ringis out now for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
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