Originally announced at E3 2019, Elden Ring has been super quiet ever since, and there has been a rather noticeable lack of major reveals to the lament of Dark Souls fans around the world. As it is easily one of the more anticipated titles in recent years, the security around Elden Ring‘s development appears to be airtight, resulting in a lack of truly verifiable leaks towards an unrelenting fanbase.
On one hand, there is a rabid fanbase that is used to excruciating punishment of the Dark Souls franchise, which regularly heralds its brutal gameplay and unrelenting difficulty as keystones of play. On the other hand, Elden Ring has the likes George R. R. Martin (whose part is probably done) and Hidetaka Miyazaki working on it, and all parties are eager to not murmur a word until they’re good and ready to make a grandiose reveal.
All seemed to be at a standstill of determination, until Elden Ring fans threw the playbook out of the window and began crafting dozens of fake leaks for the upcoming title, pushing them as authentic in a bid to force FromSoftware to show its hand, however meagerly. On the Elden Ring subreddit (which has just surpassed 100,000 subs), fans have taken to bringing out humorous attempts at making their own leaks for the Japanese studio.
Fans of the seemingly invisible game note within the first leak that Hidetaka Miyazaki has “clearly” pulled out all of the stops to ensure immaculate skeleton choreography, while others noted that the painstaking level of graphics seem to pose Elden Ring as a “PlayStation 6 release platform.” This first fake leak (pictured above) is actually from King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard, which is a promotion for an upcoming record from King Gizzard. While there may be a classic skeleton within Elden Ring, FromSoftware had nothing to do with this.
Then there’s the massive “spoiler” of Hodir’s father shattering the Elden Ring being leaked, but in all actuality, of course, this is footage taken from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring where Gimli attempts to deal with the ring in a rather dwarven manner. This may beg the question of who, precisely, Hodir is. Before leaks, Elden Ring fans began creating fake lore and even built a community wiki page for it. According to it, unofficially of course, Hodir, also known as Glaive Master Hodir, is “the final boss of Beira’s Pantheon” and one of his in-game quotes is “You have made a glaive mistake.”
Yesterday, a new post rose that fake leaked the concept art for the final boss of Elden Ring from, jokingly, Miyazaki himself. This reveals the final boss of the long-awaited Elden Ring as Sauron, once again using The Lord of the Rings to make up content for Elden Ring.
This fake leak proposes horse combat, where the horse of a player can “turn into a Beyblade” and somersault towards an opponent with little more than the enormous strength of the player’s adductors. Also of note is the “Naruto-styled” riding that the characters are partaking in at the beginning of the shot.
This clip is actually from the anime of Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings, which is a multi-medium franchise that encompasses video games, anime, live-action shows, trading card games, stage plays, and more. Brought about by Capcom as a Warriors-like franchise that experienced its first release in 2005, it seems unlikely that players will be using horse legs to beat back foes.
Roughly a month ago, there was an allegedly active leaker within the Elden Ring subreddit. The leaker was supposedly silenced by a vague ‘publisher’ (believed to be Bandai Namco, partnered with FromSoftware for Elden Ring), which led to accusations being tossed about that there were figurative rats within the subreddit reporting actual leakers. In reality, it’s likely that there are multiple fingers on the pulse of the Elden Ring subreddit to contain any spoilers or news that neither Bandai Namco nor FromSoftware are ready to release.
It’s all in good fun, as the subreddit has been goofing around together while making their own news to fill the awkward, relative silence since 2019. On September 22, 2019, Glaive Master Hodir was created and it has been an absolutely wild ride since then. The subreddit briefly became a Bugsnax subreddit, rioting against the lack of Elden Ring news by suddenly adopting the polar opposite. Failing that, Redditors then attempted to join together in summoning rites which didn’t work out as intended. In other words, the subreddit has gone through quite a few hilarious phases.
Elden Ring is currently in development, with PC, PS4, and Xbox One as confirmed platforms.
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