What FromSoftware’s Next Souls Game Should Learn From Elden Ring

For Japanese developer FromSoftware, Elden Ring represents the culmination of many year’s worth of hard work and perseverance. Beginning with 2009’s Demon’s Souls, Hidetaka Miyazaki and his team created the Soulslike blueprint, which gradually evolved and grew in popularity with each iteration. From the Dark Souls trilogy to Bloodborne and Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, FromSoftware has released a string of critically acclaimed games in the last decade. Despite all of this success though, the 2022 release of Elden Ring quickly proved to eclipse anything the developer had achieved before, winning Game of the Year and selling over 20 million copies to date, with many considering it among the greatest games of all time. With this in mind, FromSoftware will want to take some of the key learnings with it into its next project.