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MYSTERIOUS: Junya ishizaki - What They Never Told You

FromSoftware boss Hidetaka Miyazaki teases unannounced games, says the studio should do what it wants as the investor that told Nintendo to charge "99 cents just to get Mario to jump a little higher" fights its parent company

Oasis is at it again

FromSoftware owns up to its swamp addiction as Elden Ring Nightreign adds yet another, director insists it just kind of happens: "It's just sort of taken a life of its own"

FromSoftware owns up to its swamp addiction as Elden Ring Nightreign adds yet another, director insists it just kind of happens: "It's just sort of taken a life of its own"

Junya Ishizaki, Nightreign's director, says, "It's not like there's a rule"

Yes, Elden Ring Nightreign - The Forsaken Hollows DLC will be harder than the base game, but it will still be fair to players

Yes, Elden Ring Nightreign - The Forsaken Hollows DLC will be harder than the base game, but it will still be fair to players

According to Elden Ring Nightreign director Junya Ishizaki, the game's The Forsaken Hollows expansion will be harder than the base game, but not by much.

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Elden Ring Nightreign is finally adding its missing duos mode on July 30

Time for friendship.

'I want you to have the confidence to give it a try': Elden Ring Nightreign's combat director politely tells you to git gud, says he's beat all the game's bosses, solo, without relics

I dunno if "confidence" is the word I'd use to describe how I feel.

Elden Ring Nightreign director has soloed every boss "without relics," and he wants fans "to know that this is very possible" despite concerns over difficulty

"I want you to have the confidence to give it a try yourself"

"We didn't start off by saying, 'let's aim to build a roguelike'": Elden Ring Nightreign director says FromSoftware wasn't really aiming for a roguelike feel, it just kind of happened

"A lot of our team members and developers are familiar" with the genre, though

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Elden Ring Nightreign director had concerns "about not necessarily being able to play slow like previous titles," but FromSoftware "wanted to create something new"

Elden Ring Nightreign director had concerns "about not necessarily being able to play slow like previous titles," but FromSoftware "wanted to create something new"

Nightreign's three-day matches won't give you much room to relax

Elden Ring Nightreign director says asset reuse is contentious, but FromSoft doesn't consider it a "one-to-one copy-paste" - it's just "an efficient way to build these games"

Elden Ring Nightreign director says asset reuse is contentious, but FromSoft doesn't consider it a "one-to-one copy-paste" - it's just "an efficient way to build these games"

FromSoftware wanted to "reform the gameplay loop" of Elden Ring

Elden Ring Nightreign is an extension of FromSoftware's philosophy, director says, not a revision: "We're always looking to make something valuable in our games, something that feels worthwhile"

Elden Ring Nightreign is an extension of FromSoftware's philosophy, director says, not a revision: "We're always looking to make something valuable in our games, something that feels worthwhile"

The immediate future of FromSoftware just has a little more multiplayer in it

Elden Ring: Nightreign release live coverage - everything we've discovered in the run-up to launch

Elden Ring: Nightreign release live coverage - everything we've discovered in the run-up to launch

Elden Ring: Nightreign release live coverage - everything we've discovered in the run-up to launch

Dark Souls bosses are about to terrorize Elden Ring Nightreign players because the director wanted to "really embrace" the "chaos" of The Lands Between

Dark Souls bosses are about to terrorize Elden Ring Nightreign players because the director wanted to "really embrace" the "chaos" of The Lands Between

"Why don't we extend that a little bit to the Dark Souls series as well?"

After Elden Ring's hugeness, Nightreign director says the spinoff let FromSoftware try something "sporty" with "almost a bit of a rough and loosened and fast tempo feel"

After Elden Ring's hugeness, Nightreign director says the spinoff let FromSoftware try something "sporty" with "almost a bit of a rough and loosened and fast tempo feel"

"I think the results of Nightreign are going to tell us how players feel about this kind of game"

FromSoftware nerfed bleed and frost in Elden Ring Nightreign after players proved they were "way too strong," and it's also worked on "menus and UI and onboarding"

FromSoftware nerfed bleed and frost in Elden Ring Nightreign after players proved they were "way too strong," and it's also worked on "menus and UI and onboarding"

"We have to figure out these many different methods of attack and many variations of players"

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Elden Ring Nightreign director says FromSoft will be fine-tuning game balance right up until launch: 'We really try to tweak things until the last minute'

Finding the right level of brutality is a tricky business.

The director of Elden Ring Nightreign has been thinking about this game since Dark Souls 3, and "seeing the scope of Elden Ring" finally made it click in his mind

"In the future, I'd love to try maybe a different approach going forward," says Junya Ishizaki

Elden Ring Nightreign leads say FromSoftware is bracing servers for launch and working to "improve our multiplayer game" – "In the worst case, we want players to be able to keep playing"

"We have a lot of good points of reference to gauge relatively accurately where we'll be at launch," says director Junya Ishizaki

With just days to go, Elden Ring Nightreign director says it's "equal parts nerves and excitement" as FromSoftware polishes game balance "until the last minute"

Nightreign's first-time director is feeling good about the Soulslike spinoff

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Elden Ring Nightreign director says the game was built for squads of three and 'doesn't collapse if it's a solo player,' but admits that duos have gone 'kind of overlooked'

It might take two to tango, but ideally you're open to a third if someone brings up Elden Ring.

In its 3-player push, Elden Ring Nightreign boss admits FromSoftware "kind of overlooked and neglected the duos aspect," but is considering it for "post-launch support"

Solo and three-player setups were the focus, but duos aren't off the table

Elden Ring Nightreign's story is told in part through playable memories, so FromSoftware really is delivering lore through whacking things

Relive that time your character hit a monster really hard!

FromSoftware warns "the same strategy won’t always work" in Elden Ring Nightreign, which is bad news for me because I used the same strategy in all the Souls games

What do you mean I can't use the same magic sword?

Elden Ring Nightreign director didn't want to 'encroach too much' on the lore fans hold sacred by including Dark Souls bosses, but admits 'I thought it'd be kind of fun'

Nightreign's roguelike structure demanded variety.

Elden Ring Nightreign director says it wasn't always a PvE battle royale game: "That's something that we tried and we thought it worked well, so it stuck"

Where we droppin'?

Playing Elden Ring Nightreign solo sounds like a bad idea to me, but the director says "you don't have to babysit one another" and "you can all go your different ways"

Y'all will play it solo anyway, won't you?

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