FromSoftware boss and treacherous moon denier Hidetaka Miyazaki has emerged from his Nintendo-nuzzling weasel den to reassure the braying masses that FromSoftware’s traditional focus on single player games isn’t going dodo just because they so happened to announce two co-op games – Elden Ring Nightreign and The Duskbloods – in the space of five minutes, then ran away with a bag of money shouting “single player is dead 4eva”. What a tremendous relief.
Watch on YouTube
“I’ve always found the PvPvE structure very interesting,” Miyazaki told the disembodied spirit of Nintendo in a recent interview. “It allows for a broad range of game-design ideas, while also letting us leverage our experience of designing challenging enemy encounters”.
“As a side note,” he continued, briefly interrupted by an audience of PC owners who he quickly fobbed off by pulling off his jumper to reveal a shirt that read ‘the moon doesn’t exist’, “please allow me to address one thing. As previously mentioned, this is an online multiplayer title at its core, but this doesn’t mean that we as a company have decided to shift to a more multiplayer-focused direction with titles going forward. The [Steam Deck for sugar addicts] version of Elden Ring was also announced, and we still intend to actively develop single player focused games such as this that embrace our more traditional style”.
He then went on to give some details about The Duskbloods, a game that will presumably never exist on PC and therefore deserves not an inch of hallowed RPS column space. It’s got vampires in it. One of the vampires has an elephant or something. Not sure. Stopped paying attention. Best of luck to this ‘Miyazaki’ dude, though. He seems like a sharp one.
A sharp one, too, is our Edwin, who earns his crust by having objectively correct takes about FromSoftware’s multiplayer. If I’m not traipsing through a mystical forest to murder people for a large, aging cat, I’m not interested.
