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[GrayChild]

Elden Ring’s Miyazaki the “daddy” of the genre, Soulslike dev says

Elden Ring isn't the only modern Soulslike, in fact, the director of The Lords of The Fallen says they were beaten to their own ideas by the FromSoftware game.

www.pcgamesn.com

The developer in question is HexWorks, who is working on sequel / reboot The Lords of The Fallen, a follow-up to 2014’s confusingly named Lords of The Fallen. HexWorks hasn’t done anything wrong here, it just appears to be a case of rather unfortunate parallel thought that had the team head-in-hands when Elden Ring was revealed.

“Our breakthrough weapon, the flail, was showcased in the Elden Ring trailer, and that killed us inside,” The Lords of The Fallen creative director Cezar Virtosu says. “And we saw that one of our bosses was nearly identical to Malenia,” he adds, which must have really been a kick in the teeth.

“Miyazaki is our daddy and our grandaddy. Without him, we wouldn’t have any jobs,” Virtosu explains. Virtosu even recently apologised for Marvel’s Avengers, as he was leading one of the live service game’s co-development studios.

 

[MiguelItUp]

Yeah, it is a slow news day, huh?

I bet he IS their daddy/grandaddy, without Souls games who knows what their game would look like, lol.

 

[Fools idol]

he isn't wrong is he? The game and the one before it shamelessly cloned (badly) the formula of Miyazaki games.

 

[Comandr]

Clickbait thread title. And no original thoughts outside of an article and cherry picked quotes. Unliked, unsubscribed, and unringed the bell.

 

[Fuz]

Newsworthy.

 

[TintoConCasera]

Well it's not like Miyazaki invented third person action games my buddies.

 

[Mister Wolf]

At least he kept it real.

 

[GeekyDad]

That's gold

 

[MrA]

Shouldn't Eiichi Hasegawa be the grand daddy, no kings field no demons souls

 

[Boneless]

Gg , reported.