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Thanks to the invitation of Bandai Namco and Sony, yesterday the machine core had the honor to participate in the advance trial meeting of "Eldon's Ring of Law". The demo will include a six-hour game trial and an interview with Mr. Yasudai Kitao, producer of the FromSoftware Eldon Ring of Law game.
If the plate support is a time stop technique, then playing Eldon's Ring of Law is a time jump technique. It feels like you've just embarked on the adventure of "Junctionland" and the trial time is over, which feels like sitting in front of a TV, and after a blinding white light, life is removed for a few hours. This article mainly shares the demo content with you, the content will be described more fragmented, wordy, can be seen as a text version of the play process record, the right is to get more information for faded people to solve the problem.
Note: Although this article will not cover spoilers, it will inevitably mention the names and character names of regions such as "Nym Gefu" and "Evil Omen Markett", as well as spoilers for the early stages of the game, and please read them as appropriate for faded people who are minding this. This trial is based on the PS5 Chinese Simplified version, version number 1.0.1, does not represent the content, performance and quality of the official version of the game.
Different from the previous online beta version, this trial activity opened up all the maps of "Eldon's Ring of Law", which means that the 6-hour trial time is released to play, and it is no problem to play through the level. That being said, how vast the map of this work is, friends who have participated in the test are clear. Ah Bin and I had an experience strategy before the trial: we would prioritize exploring the unknown areas on the map, dungeons, mazes, and caves, but when we met the boss who guarded the level, we only slightly observed the enemy's fighting style, did not spend time fighting, and explored the vast land as much as possible to see what wonderful and interesting events would be encountered. Even so, there were very limited areas that the two of us could explore during the playtime. If we take the areas that players of the network beta can explore as a reference, the areas we have carefully explored are probably only twice the size of the network beta.
Initial region
Choosing a new game, the selectable classes have a very big change compared to the online beta version. The demo version offers 10 categories, namely Wandering Knight, Swordsman, Brave, Thief, Stargazer, Prophet, Samurai, Prisoner, Secret Agent, and Destitute. The White Wolf Warrior in the online beta version is missing. This spell flow is a lot of fun, so Ah Bin and I directly chose samurai, and the initial armor and knife are cool! After all, the fun is only temporary, and the handsome is a lifelong thing (avoid misunderstandings, the samurai initial bonus point is biased towards the Limin warrior stream).
The game begins directly with the name "Prince's Chapel", and not far from the door, you will face a multi-handed enemy with teeth and claws. After the one-hit death, the picture was completely black, and judging from the sound, we were sent away by the small board truck. When I woke up, I found that this place was very familiar, and it was the study cave at the beginning of the online beta. After quickly passing, go all the way up, push open the gate and it is Nyingev.
I thought that Nym Gfford was already familiar with the chest, ignoring that the beta content was limited to testing purposes and may be different from the official version (of course, the content we tried to play may also be different from the official version of the game). After the two of us got the area map of Nyingev and the Ring of Spirit Horse, we went straight to the ruins of the Dragon's Breath, trying to get the short sword in our hands first. I didn't think that the treasure chest in the basement had turned into a "teleportation trap", directly teleporting us to the "Celia Crystal Tunnel". There are many mining enemies here, and weak strike weapons. The trickiest thing is the Overseer, who resembles the Pippi Shrimp, who unleashes a spell with extremely high damage, and a dozen thin gray needles appear around its body, flying towards the player like a guided missile, which is very fast, coupled with the narrow terrain and interference from other enemy soldiers, it is easy to be taken away by two sets.
Celia Crystal Tunnel
Magic Celia Town
Parkour picks up items and emerges from the tunnel and into a new area called the "Ionian Swamp". The scarlet sewage here has a corruption/decay effect, and if it accumulates full corruption value, it will continue to lose blood, but it is good to be immune to swamp sewage on horseback. Near the swamp there is a mysterious residential complex, which is shown on the map as "Magical Celia Town". The enemies here all appear in a pale blue spirit state, similar to the color of the Celia Crystal. The deepest gate of the northern road is blocked by a blue seal, which at first glance looks a bit like the one in the picture below, and it is not certain if it is the same seal. Further north, it is impossible to climb the mountains, and it seems that the only way to cross these mountains is to find a way from the building.
Not sure if it's the same blue seal
There is a small broken house at the other end of the town, in which an NPC named "Gwe" tells us that "Scarlet Rot" has spread in the town of Celia, and if we go to the Ionian swamp, find the "Pure Gold Needle", and cure the little girl "Miria", it will reveal the secrets of the town of Celia. Returning to the Ionian swamp, I found that there were spear patrols with armor shaped like Valkyrie costumes, and there were elite enemies who could summon spirits to attack together, maybe defeating him would get a pure gold needle?
Galid
Heading south from the town of Celia, we come to the "Gelid", an area that, like the town of Celia and its vicinity, is dominated by scarlet. Gehrid is dotted with decaying and dead animal and humanoid bodies, and continues to explore south, and can also see three or four teams of soldiers attacking several short-handed large-headed mutant monsters with their forms and Tyrannosaurus rex cameras. These monsters are about two tall and have a strong desire to attack, but it is actually difficult to fight back when surrounded by soldiers. If we don't take the initiative, neither soldiers nor monsters will attack the player character, and whether monsters or soldiers die, we will get Luan, so this is a good place to brush up on Lune in the early days. Stay here for about five minutes, a few monsters will be besieged and destroyed by soldiers, we can more than two thousand Lune, and then ride a horse to clean up the bloody soldiers, more than three thousand Luen easily. What's even happier is that there is a blessing point next to this area, next to the "Unbroken Bridge", and after refreshing with the blessing, you can continue to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and earn more than 3,000 lunes. The trial time is limited, we did not brush the experience brush level, but this design, must be Miyazaki Hideo's kindness!
Stepping onto the ruined bridge, the soldiers defending under the opposite wall will throw large stones of flame at us. The crackling is scary, but it's also easy to hide. The configuration here is similar to the Storm Pass in Stoneville City, with wooden fortifications and three or two soldiers, and the city gate also has a giant falling from the sky, except that the city gate here is closed and can only enter the city from the right side around the cliff. The map shows that this is the "Red Lion City", the city is not very large, the enemy configuration is not very dense, mainly soldiers in armor, poodles. The most characteristic enemy looks very strange, Ah Bin and I call her "Big Bell Execution Sister", that is, a big clock in the literal sense of the hand and head, wearing a white mask, expressionless, holding a huge wheel, iron whip and other strange weapons, the bottom of the big bell seems to have wheels, so she rushed over very fast.
The big bell punishes the sister
After exploring the city, you will walk to a small arena where elite enemies "Mixed Lion" and "Furnace Knight" will appear. The mixed-breed lion resembles a larger poodle that fights with it for about three minutes before the Furnace Knights enter the battle. The aura of these two is not like the final boss in the region, and perhaps there will be a greater challenge after beating them.
Furnace Knight Set
Round Table Hall with Moen City
The Gelid area is on the east side of Nyingford, after exploring the castle and the Great Plains, we decided to teleport back to Nyingford to see elsewhere, returning to the blessing point accidentally refreshed Melena, and the conversation with her teleported us to the "Round Table Hall". According to the game, the Round Table Hall does not exist on the map and is a separate location, but can be reached by blessing teleportation. The Round Table Hall is very dilapidated, and on the middle round table is a huge golden blessing, surrounded by several NPCs, and talking to them will get some information and side quests.
Round table hall, in the middle is a huge blessing
In one of the rooms outside the hall, there is a female NPC named "Fia", who will ask the player's hug to warm her body, and if we accept, she will receive a consumable item. The lower level of the Round Table Hall is a hall where we can jump straight down from the small balcony of the Round Table Hall. It is invaded by a Red Soul NPC armed with a scythe, and if you don't defeat him, you won't have anywhere to go.
Fia
Teleport back to Nymgorfo's Ere Church blessed, where there were merchants and weapon forges in the first place. We find the Snow Witch sitting on the broken wall, and talking to her can get the Soul Summoning Bell, which is a prop in the game to summon spirit helpers such as wolves and soldiers. From the Ery Church, head north through the Gate of the Storm Pass guarded by giants and soldiers, and encounter a blessing point, and further north is the Bridge of the "Bad Omen Malkett". In beta, the east side of the place was blocked by an air wall, so we decided to look east first.
The Snow Witch will summon a Soul Bell to the player
Heading east along the path from the Blessing Point, there is a small broken house not far away, and the NPC named "Bernal" is located. He introduced himself as a fader, and from him we could buy a lot of war ashes, but some of them could be picked up elsewhere. One of these ashes is more special, the impression is that the beta version does not have, it costs 600 lunes, and the combat skill is to make the equipment have no combat skills. It can be explained here that if the shield or weapon of our left hand has combat skills, we cannot use the combat skills of the right hand weapon when both hands are equipped, and we can only unload the equipment of the left hand, or double-hand weapon. If you attach this ashes to the shield or weapon of your left hand, you can directly use your right hand weapon to fight with both hands. Usually, you can also unload the combat skills of the left-handed equipment, but some of the inherent combat skills of the equipment cannot be removed, so you can inlay this "no combat technique" war ash, so that the left-handed equipment does not launch the combat technique.
Then head east and you'll find a small golden tree, which, if I remember correctly, should be a small platform on the cliff, a height I thought I could jump off safely, but I fell straight to my death, but fortunately there was a Malika wedge on the ground, which could be resurrected directly at the wedge. Next to this little golden tree is a strange enemy called the "Golden Tree Avatar", which seems to be protecting the golden tree from being approached. At the end of the platform is a cave dungeon called the "Catacombs of the Little Golden Tree", where the final boss is two "returning tree watchdogs", one with a sword and one with a staff, attacking from near and far. The two Tree Watch Dogs are different from the beta version, similar in size, but each has three heads and increased moves, so it's not certain whether the shape has been modified or the advanced version of the same kind of enemy. To the east of the little golden tree is the Ionian swamp in the Galid region, but there is no path down the hill, so we teleport back to the original blessing point. Intend to explore south.
The tree watchdog at the time of the test had only one head
The southern part of the initial blessing point, the lake where the flying dragon Yakir is located, is also blocked by an air wall in the beta version, and can now travel along the path to another continent. On the way, we will meet an NPC named "Irena", from whom we learn that there is a city of Moen on the sobbing peninsula in the south, and there is a riot in the city, and due to her eye problems, it is impossible to know what was going on around her at that time. Her father was the ruler of the city, and his father sent her out of the city to stay in the city herself, because this is what a person in power should do. The two of us continued to walk south, crossing the "Sacrifice Bridge", and found that the scene after that was the same as the previous video of the game released by the foreign media Game Informer, and there was also an archery giant guarding the city, so we did not continue forward.
Archery giants
brief summary
The trial is almost over at this point, and as far as the area we explored, if we don't fight the bosses or elite enemies of the city at the beginning, we should only be able to operate in Nyingford, Galid, and the Sobbing Peninsula. If you want to go further north, east, and south, you need to defeat high-level enemies to advance the plot. As far as our trial situation this afternoon is concerned, if you want to carefully and completely experience the week, the game time should be far longer than "Dark Souls" and "Bloodborne Curse", these six hours of play as if it has not yet started, but also based on the demo version has already figured out Ningm Gfu and saved a lot of exploration time.
Personally, I won't worry about the amount of content in Eldon's Circle of Law, nor will I worry about playing too quickly to complete the level, I will pay more attention to melee weapons, ranged spells, and the fun of playing with various combat skills. With half a month to go before the game is officially released, we're just as itchy as the faders. In the next time, we will also bring you more updates, and please pay more attention to our site information and the "Game Investigator" channel.
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