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Elden Ring is a game steeped with lore. Story details are everywhere, from traditional cutscenes, environmental details, conversations with NPCs, and yes the FromSoft classic: even buried within item descriptions. But Elden Ring Nightreign is a very different type of FromSoft game: It’s an online-driven co-op PVE game with roguelite elements. That makes it a bit difficult to deliver the usual kind of FromSoft narrative. So how is the story in Nightreign conveyed? Well, let’s talk a little bit about Remembrances. Read on and/or watch the video below.
So to start, let’s break down what the story of Nightreign even is. And who better to break that down than game director Junya Ishizaki:
“Nightreign shares essentially the base setting and the world of Elden Ring, but it’s played out on a different stage so to speak. So there’s this concept called the Night Lord, which is a sort of abstract phenomenon or calamity that has befallen The Lands Between in this alternate timeline, and much like a real-life calamity, it’s something that it’s not done by design or intention – it’s just something that has occurred naturally and it’s befallen the lands between and it needed some sort of opposition. It
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