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Despite Elden Ring’s success in winning the Game of the Year award on its release, Miyazaki has admitted that there are elements of the game that “didn’t go so well,” alongside revealing his tenacity to incorporate these elements into future titles.
With a game as polished and carefully crafted as FromSoftware’s latest, it’s hard to know which features exactly he is referencing, and there’s a good chance that they were cut entirely. In speaking with PCGamer, Hidetaka Miyazaki opened up on the difficulties of making a game like Elden Ring:
“Making a game as large and ambitious as Elden Ring was obviously not without its troubles. It was a challenging and long process. But it was also extremely fun, as a creator. I’d love to recreate that experience for myself, more than anything. Every time with these games there’s things that go well and there’s things that don’t go so well. With Elden Ring it’s the same. That two-way process, the communication with the players, has been really good this time, I feel—it’s something we’ve managed to lock into a little better. So taking those bits that didn’t go so well this time with Elden Ring and incorporating those and improving those in a future title—that’s something I’m really excited for.”
There’s something sombre about reading Miyazaki’s words in this extract. Shadow of the Erdtree is the first and last expansion for the game, meaning the IP will likely be put to rest for a while after this. It’s hard to see how an Elden Ring 2 could even be approached, especially considering this current game feels like the epitome of the FromSoft Fantasy RPG.
What’s encouraging, though, is that Miyazaki doesn’t seem to be considering slowing down at all, and his thoughts are already focused on how he can improve his next titles.
Whether that’s Bloodborne 2, a new Sekiro, a return to the King’s Field franchise, a new Souls game, or a new IP all together, features that didn’t go so well in Elden Ring are going to see plenty of attention in what’s next – with community driven feedback spurring this all on.
Source: PCGamer
