The cinematic bosses of Elden Ring and its Soulsborne predecessors will tear a Tarnished to bits if a player rushes in unprepared.
This makes death and defeat in a playthrough of Elden Ring feel real and meaningful to players, while also making growth and victory all the sweeter.īesides creating permanent consequences for player character death or defeat (and semi-permanently killing friendly NPCs the player attacks in haste or by accident), Elden Ring also creates immersion through its infamously challenging and punishing combat.
Additionally, when a player dies in Elden Ring and respawns at their last checkpoint, all non-boss enemies in the area they explored return, and the experience points they gathered must be retrieved from where they fell in battle (or literally fell off a cliff). This narrative justification for why their characters don't stay dead, coupled with the absence of manual save features, makes Elden Ring and other Soulsborne games stand out in an industry full of games with quick-save functions and archived game states players can load to undo hasty decisions.
The fighting game Sifu, where the revenge seeking martial artist main character is revived by a magical talisman, gives players a chance to upgrade skills after each death, but ages the protagonist by 1 year after every defeat. Games in the rogue-like genre take a similar approach to Soulslike RPGs by giving in-game explanations for why characters revive while introducing new mechanics for making death feel real and letting players "fail forward." In the hack-and-slash rogue-like Hades, for instance, death doesn't stick for the demigod Zagreus because they're already in the Greek Underworld death in Hades forces players to start their run all over again, but also gives them the chance to level up and talk with colorful NPCs.
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