MMOEXP: The tendency to draw comparisons to Berserk is evident in Elden Ring
FromSoftware the president of FromSoftware Hidetaka Miyazaki's love for Kentaro Miura's Manga and the anime Berserk is perhaps the most secluded secret within the gaming industry. While he avoids explicitly discussing the relationship between his Elden Ring Runes games as well as Berserk and Miura's work, it's apparent that every Miyazaki-led project from the 2009 release of Demon's Souls has been influenced in a way or other by the epic of dark fantasy Miura wrote for more than 30 years, until his death in 2021.
The tendency to draw comparisons to Berserk is evident in Elden Ring, the Souls successor to the game that came out in the last month. Even before the game launched the game, players scoured each piece of marketing material to show how this armor resembled something from Berserk or how the design of the enemy was reminiscent of Miura's work. And having spent nearly 100 hours playing the game over the last couple of weeks I couldn't help but take note of these similarities as well.
Let's get the obvious Berserk homage off the table first.buy Elden Ring Runes massive world includes many areas I've nicknamed "sword field." I'll admitthat this isn't particularly innovative: They're simply small fields covered in swords. All have been stabbed blade-first into the ground, allowing them to stand upright. In the middle of each is a bigger sword with an inscription that usually provides a snippet of information about the history of the game.