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[Draugoth]

New files have been unearthed in Elden Ring which allude to the game once having a bestiary.

The files in questions were found by Twitter user JesterPatches, who wrote:

Looking through [Elden Ring's] files I came across a few icons making me believe that a bestiary was planned at some point.

The user continues:

There are 128 icons showing different NPCs. Each NPC shown has two icons, one greyed out and another one filled in, so it could be not found and found.

 

[Sleepwalker]

Pokemon crossover confirmed

 

[CosmicComet]

I hope they patch it in like Square did for FF15.

I love bestiaries.

 

[Hugare]

The brazilian-pt translation already received major cutbacks from item description. I imagine what they would do by having to translate a full bestiary.

Things like "The flaming sword of Aesir was given by the king by his brother..." were translated to "The flaming sword is a sword in flames" kind of thing. Really lazy stuff.

And item description in a FROM game is like 90% of the story

 

[TintoConCasera]

A few times through the game I thought of how cool it would be to have a bestiary. I did never use any kind of summon, but I still was happy when finding one since that mean I got to read some lore about the monstie, so having all that expanded and more accesible would have been great.

Dunno why they decided to remove it.

 

[Catphish]

First glance: Elden Ring initially had bestiality.

 

[Calling 911 Melts Beams]

i know this is a controversial opinion in some circles of the internet but i dont think games should have bestiality

 

[Mr Hyde]

Would love a bestiary in Elden Ring.

 

[ClosBSAS]

First glance: Elden Ring initially had bestiality.

yup...thats what i read too and got esxcited, boy o boy i love me some beastiality

 

[TintoConCasera]

i know this is a controversial opinion in some circles of the internet but i dont think games should have bestiality

uh excuse me but... fucking why?

 

[ÆMNE22A!C]

A few times through the game I thought of how cool it would be to have a bestiary. I did never use any kind of summon, but I still was happy when finding one since that mean I got to read some lore about the monstie, so having all that expanded and more accesible would have been great.

Dunno why they decided to remove it.

Funny enough I thought the same a day or two ago =)

Would be cool if they could patch it in

 

[Raven117]

That would have been super cool.

 

[daveonezero]

A few times through the game I thought of how cool it would be to have a bestiary. I did never use any kind of summon, but I still was happy when finding one since that mean I got to read some lore about the monstie, so having all that expanded and more accesible would have been great.

Dunno why they decided to remove it.

Its be cool if it worked within the game. Maybe like Castlevania where the more you kill a monster the more information you get.

 

[ParaSeoul]

Wonder whatever was left got used for the enemy tips you can buy from the merchants

 

[RoadHazard]

On the one hand that would have been cool, on the other stuff like that always gives me OCD to complete them, and I have enough work with this game anyway.

 

[Plies]

They can still add it in via DLC, at a later date.

 

[Knightime_X]

Would be nice to have a detail bestiary.
Drops, drop rate, HP, attack dmg the works.

But this info is locked until you defeat that creature.

 

[Calling 911 Melts Beams]

uh excuse me but... fucking why?

im not a white girl

 

[MiguelItUp]

uh excuse me but... fucking why?

Yeah, I don't understand why anyone would be against that personally. The cooler and more unique the creatures, the more I want one.

 

[The_hunter]

Having a bestiary might impose a sense of objectives on the player, like a quest log. Elden ring's strength is the free-form nature of the game.

 

[CosmicComet]

Having a bestiary might impose a sense of objectives on the player, like a quest log. Elden ring's strength is the free-form nature of the game.

I kinda just want some lore on the beasties. Not necessarily drop info.

 

[KungFucius]

i know this is a controversial opinion in some circles of the internet but i dont think games should have bestiality

Agreed. I got assfucked by one of those big bear things and did not appreciate it at all.

 

[Keihart]

This definetly reads like out of money and out of time.
It would be super cool if they manage to patch the game with all the content left on the cutting board, maybe they can do it now after selling that much, it's not just From's call tho, but Namco's.

 

[daveonezero]

This definetly reads like out of money and out of time.
It would be super cool if they manage to patch the game with all the content left on the cutting board, maybe they can do it now after selling that much, it's not just From's call tho, but Namco's.

I could see that or they didn't like the transparency

It could be done to fit the game though.

 

[Aesius]

Model viewers in particular would be awesome in FromSoft games. So many amazing creature/enemy designs that you don't really get to appreciate because they move so fast and you're focused on not dying.

 

[Sgt.Asher]

Shame, i really enjoy bestiaries. Plus there isn't much lore to some enemies in from games. I want to know about the sleep paralysis demons in caelid.

 

[Warablo]

Wish From Software games had these. Was just thinking of it the other day.

 

[Spukc]

eww

 

[Outlier]

I think it would've been pointless, since all enemies can be beaten by beating them with sticks, the only info they could give his the lore of each creature, but that would also be lacking, as there is no concrete explanation for the existence of many enemies monstrous form other than the shattering of the ring messed everything up, which had just recently happened.

So not much to go on for a bestiary.

 

[FritzJ92]

I'm pretty sure they are still working on implementing it. They are still looking for all the beasts in the game.