Builders of the upcoming The Lords Of The Fallen have revealed they by accident used a number of concepts from Elden Ring, regardless of by no means enjoying the sport.

The Lords Of The Fallen is a reboot of 2014 motion role-playing sport Lords Of The Fallen and has been developed by CI Video games studio Hexworks, who labored on the unique.

Introduced final yr, The Lords Of The Fallen is a soulslike darkish fantasy sport with a core characteristic being the cut up between the realm of the dwelling and the lifeless. The RPG is due for launch sooner or later in 2023 and followers are already making comparisons to FromSoftware’s Elden Ring.

“There’s some stress, as you may think about,” Hexworks inventive director Cezar Virtosu stated in an interview with Edge Magazine [via GamesRadar]. “Folks have requested, ‘Do you guys have horse fight? Do you’ve an open world?’”

CI Video games has additionally realised some similarities between the 2 titles, despite the fact that growth on The Lords Of The Fallen began lengthy earlier than Elden Ring was launched. Virtosu admitted the studio “braced for influence” as FromSoftware began revealing particulars about its revolutionary soulslike.

“Our breakthrough weapon, the flail, was showcased within the Elden Ring trailer, and that killed us inside,” Virtosu continued. “And we noticed that one in every of our bosses was almost equivalent to Malenia.”

Talking about FromSoftware’s influence on the studio, Virtosu referred to as sport director Hidetaka Miyazaki “our daddy and granddaddy.”

“With out him, we wouldn’t have any jobs,” he added.

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The Lords of the Fallen govt producer Saul Gascon went on to say that Hexworks’ ambitions embrace wanting “the studio to grow to be a reference within the style.”

“We wish to be the second reference [after FromSoftware], as a result of proper now there is no such thing as a clear second reference [in the soulslike genre].”

The Lords Of The Fallen is due for launch later this yr. A Steam description of the sport reads: “The Lords of the Fallen introduces an all-new, epic RPG journey in an enormous, interconnected world greater than 5 instances bigger than the unique sport.

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