Elden Ring director says FromSoft doesn't "set out to make a lot of these games and characters funny," it just sort of happens

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澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Elden Ring, Sekiro, and the Dark Souls trilogy can be darkly comedic at times when grueling boss battles are cut short by unbe💯lievably bad luck or when enemies ragdoll after giving you a fine beating. But the games' creativ🌳e director doesn't aim to make these games "funny," which kinda makes them funnier.

When asked about the unexpected laughs in the studio's catalog, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:FromSoftware's Hidetaka Miyazaki told that only "some areas are designed to be funny and with humor in mind." Despite these intentions, the creative director feels that parts of the games that were made "seriously" or that come from a "dark place" are often misconstrued as humorous. Getting squashed by a giant monkey 15 times tends to elicit a broken, al𒀰most defeated smile, after all.

"But it's not a calculated thing," Miyazaki continues𒈔, "we don't set out to make a lot of these games and characters funny. I think it is just interpreted this way and is construed in that way due to the player and the environment they’re playing in." 

That phenomenon probably comes from the same place as happy-crying or nervous laughter - where our bodies try to regulate emotions by producing an opposite, also as intense feeling. Sometimes we're so tense fighting Malenia for the umpteenthꦦ time, you just have to laugh it off. "A😼 lot of it is not intentional," Miyazaki says.

Miyazaki also spilled details about Elden Ring's 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Shadow of the Erdtree DLC, calling it the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:studio's largest expansion so far. How does the team pump out great games so often? 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Empowering and retaining talent, according to the famed director.

Miyazaki doesn’t feel pressured by competing Soulslikes either.

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