However, in what's the biggest revelation of Elden Ring , Marika and Radagon are technically the same people. It's alluded in Miriel's dialogue in the Church of Vows that Radagon was hiding a dark secret, and it's that Queen Marika created him as her male h

Not many players of Elden Ring ever get the chance to summon the NPC called The Dung Eater for a boss fight, mainly because unlocking his summon signs require completing one of the darkest and most evil quests in the game. Personality-wise, the Dung Eater is a piece of work, obsessed with murdering people and defiling their corpses in order to infect them with a curse that will follow their souls from reincarnation to reincarnation. The Dung Eater's quest-line only moves forward if the player brings Seedbed Curses to his physical form, located within a prison in the Subterranean Shunning-Grounds beneath Leyndell, Royal Capi

Elden Ring 's world of the Lands Between is a chaotic place full or perils and hazards, but also strangely tranquil in certain ways. The titular Elden Ring , a magical rune forged to impose a certain metaphysical order on reality, is shattered but stable, while the shard-bearing Demigods and their armies have fought each other to exhaustion and/or death. Unlike in Dark Souls and Demon's Souls , there is no approaching apocalypse or calamity in Elden Ring characters are desperately trying to avert or bring about; as a result, many of the Tarnished Non-Player Characters in the Lands Between have the time and space to pursue long-term ambitions, embark on long journeys to different locations, and leave summon signs for the player's lowly Tarnished character to find in Elden Ri

Queen Marika had several demigod children, but only a select number of them were classified as Empyreans. These special entities are tasked with being vassals of an Outer God known, in this case, as the Greater Will that created the Elden Ring and the Golden Order that governs the l

Given their popularly turn-based gameplay, the JRPG subgenre also lends itself well to the handheld and pick-up-and-play incentive behind the Steam Deck. That makes 2020's PC re-release of Persona 4 Golden a solid pick, with its extensive runtime particularly friendlier thanks to the Deck's form fac

In the decaying wilderness of Elden Ring 's Caelid region, players can encounter an ailing red-haired woman named Millicent , suffering and afflicted by a divine contagion called the Scarlet Rot. By giving her an Unalloyed Gold Needle (located in the swamps of Caelid) she implants in her own body, Millicent can drive Elden Ring 's Caelid-centric Scarlet Rot infection into remission, regaining strength and lucidity. Invigorated and newly motivated, Millicent embarks on a quest to discover her origin - a quest that if completed will generate several useful summon signs in the mid-to-late game areas of Elden Ri

Like in Dark Souls, Demon's Souls , and Bloodborne , phantoms of iconic NPCs can be summoned just outside the chambers of certain boss areas in Elden Ring , a free form of cooperative aid players can access without needing to expend Focus Points or toggle the game's online mode. Most of the major cooperative NPC summon signs can automatically found in places relevant to their personal quest-lines. One example of this is Blaidd, the half-wolf warrior and servant of Lunar Princess Ranni, who can be summoned to execute his former comrade Bloodhound Knight Darriwil and summoned in the arena for the Starscourge Radahn boss fight , whose gravity magic holds Back Ranni's grand destiny. Other NPC summon signs are only triggered when a player advances their personal quest-line by triggering certain dialogues or fetching certain items; the more obscure (or sinister) these quest-lines are, the more likely players are to miss these summon si

Players will easily lose track of Patches after summoning him, though. Once he catches sight of the enormous Starscourge Radahn, he immediately cancels his own summoning and returns home. It's an on-brand move for Patches, and one - given the threat Radahn poses - he can't really be blamed

It rejected the likes of the Albinaurics, Omens, and the Misbegottens as impure, but Miquella's Haligtree aims to serve as a counter to the Erdtree by accepting anyone who looks for refuge. Granted, Miquella's powers as an Empyrean are fearsome in their own right, namely for making anyone love him. He's admirably fought for his sister's health, but it's unclear how pure his benevolence truly

Players take on the role of an amnesiac detective trying to solve the case and his past, with the game being lauded for its incredible flexibility in what kind of detective they want to be and the clever and witty humor that pokes at various philosophical and political ideologies. Few games do immersion as good or better than Disco Elysium , and the voice acting added in The Final Cut makes it even more essent

The boss fight against Starscourge Radahn , the culmination of a festival of war organized by the Witcher Hunter Jerren NPC, takes the NPC summoning mechanic of Soulslike games up to 11 in Elden Ring . The SLG game heroes lets players repeatedly summon unfamiliar and familiar allies like Blaidd to battle the red-maned, gravity-controlling Demigod. Besides player-friendly NPCs such as Iron Fist Alexander or mute NPCs such as Great Horned Tragoth, players can also summon Patches (NPC) , the cowardly, fast-talking, and hairless FromSoftware NPC that has been backstabbing players and kicking them off ledges since Demon's Sou