Elden Ring player about to max out their real-life frenzy meter after spending 35 hours bravely explaining "the entire lore"
Jan. 27, 2024Fromsoftware’s vague lore tidbits invite such epic videos
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YouTuberSmoughTownhas a knack for researching and explaining the lore behind several Soulslike hits, from Lords of the Fallen to the grand Dark Souls. Their latest series aims to explain “the entire lore” behind the studio’s magnum opus Elden Ring and its fractured demigod-housing setting The Lands Between.
How long can such an endeavor take? Well, the creator has been releasing smaller lore explanation videos since the open-worlder’s initial launch, but they more recently put out three compilation videos that exceed 35 hours in runtime altogether. The epic trilogy runs through everything, from explaining the backstories behind characters such as Malenia to theorizing about cosmic mysteries and the ideas that were merely scratched at in-game.
Comments were obviously filled with words of encouragement and even appreciation since - let’s face it - producing a document of that scale on Elden Ring is a serious academic achievement. Especially with the research and close reading involved in such a task.
But this is the internet and commenters had jokes aplenty to pull out. “Love these bite-sized uploads, hoping you’ll start uploading long-form content soon,” one comment joked. “Saving this video to watch 30 minutes every day while I do dishes,” another reads. That’s not exactly a joke, but more of a podcast-efficiency tip for you.
For more unbelievable Elden Ring shenanigans, one player beat the game’s hardest boss at level 1, every day for over a year.
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Kaan freelances for various websites including Rock Paper Shotgun, Eurogamer, and this one, Gamesradar. He particularly enjoys writing about spooky indies, throwback RPGs, and anything that’s vaguely silly. Also has an English Literature and Film Studies degree that he’ll soon forget.
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