I'm convinced this small area in Shadow of the Erdtree is a reference to the Miyazaki-directed FromSoft game that started it all: Demon's Souls
Look me in the eyes and say t🌳his is a coincidence

Before 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Elden Ring and Bloodborne and Dark Souls, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:FromSoftware had a weird, struggling project that ended up getting passed to Hidetaka Miyazaki, a then-designer who was free to do almost whatever he wanted with it. The result of that little experiment was Demon's Souls, the off-beat dark fantasy action RPG still quietly acting as royal advisor to the newly crowned king that is Elden Ring. In its new 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Shadow of the Erdtree DLC, FromSo♈ft seems to pay trib💎ute to the game that started it all in an easily missed Easter egg – or at the very least, I'm convinced it's a clear reference.
For those who've forgotten Demon's Souls or never played it, there is (or at least was) a group of central figures called the Monumentals, prophets who aid the player in their quest to silence the Old One. The last remaining Monumental looks like a capped, ro꧟bed, squatting young boy, sat in a semicircle line of others who look just like him in a candle-lit corridor. Here's a shot of the Monumental from the original Demon's Souls, not its PS5 remake:
Now keepౠ that description and this image in mind when you look over these screenshots, which I took in Belurat, Tower Settlement in the Elden Ring DLC's Land of Shadow, just past the entrance in the ha꧋ll filled with scorpions:
I realize that Demon's Souls did not invent the idea or imagery of a monk-like figure sitting down, but I can't shake the similarities here. From the caps to the candles, right down to the semicircle lineup, all my brain can see is a subtle nod to Demon's Souls. These figures appear to be statues rather than actual people, but the composition fits so well. Am I reading too much into this, or are too few p꧟eople talking about this?
Not content with beating Elden Ring with nothing but her brain, the mind-controlling streamer is back and battering Shadow of the Erdtree's tough bosses.
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