There have been further details revealed of Elden Ring’s upcoming DLC – Shadow of the Erdtree, including its romance mechanic, which has been criticised for being ‘disappointingly basic.’
It has long been known that with the DLC, director Hidetaka Miyazaki was looking to move away from the extreme violence of the main game and so, instead of just killing all the new in-game enemies, the opportunity will be available to make friends with them or romance them. However, it is this new aspect that has seen criticism.
Kelly Grace is a blogger who was lucky enough to have played some of the game at a recent FROMSoftware showcase.
“Being a girl, I was particularly looking forward to the new romance mechanic,” she said.
“But, it’s disappointingly basic. If you see a corrupted orc, or an armoured skeleton, you simply walk up to it, hold down R1 and press ‘X’ to enter a mini-game.
“After that, the face of the creature fills the screen and starts emitting little pink hearts. The idea is to make those little hearts grow in size until they fill the screen until the corrupted orc becomes your boyfriend.
“The problem is that the only way to do that is to press ‘X’ to give him flowers, or press ‘O’ to hold his hand. That’s it. The whole process lasts about a minute and whether you not you win seems entirely random.
“Once you’ve made him your boyfriend, he goes and sits out of the way and looks lovingly at a picture of you.
“I expected a bit better.”
However, despite the disappointment around the romance mechanic, early reports show that the DLC’s new mini-golf mechanic is surprisingly robust and the karaoke mini-game is one of the best yet seen in any dark fantasy game.
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