This game could have been a legit 12/10 if they went all in on the waifu pandering. Let the player marry any girl, not just Ranni. Go full dating sim and give the player dialogue options to flirt with them. Make them jealous of each other, make multiple routes. Make a super secret harem route that's locked behind a bunch of convoluted bullshit and some really bullshit bossfights, I don't care just MAKE IT.
This game could have been a legit 12/10 if they went all in on the waifu pandering. Let the player marry any girl...
Julian Peterson
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Juan Cook
elden ring is not a dating sim
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Christopher Gutierrez
You know Extreme Yandere Lordran Adventure would actually fit the game very well.
Hunter Mitchell
It should be.
Dylan Peterson
Why did they do the whole "maidens" thing anyway? Like it's a kind of consistent theme that your character is either metaphorically or actually lonely, was elden ring secretly about >tfw no gf or something?
Charles Phillips
wait you can actually marry someone in this game?
Jaxon Smith
I wish Fromsoftware made a romance dating romance simulator with fantasy waifus, too, OP.
Jace Butler
ranni
Nathaniel Ramirez
I want to marry the dorky lizard
Jacob Harris
>elden ring is not a dating sim
And that's the issue right there, no maidens!
Hudson Roberts
I get destroyed everytime in multiplayer. Stupid blood katanas.
Nathaniel Cox
>this game is about using spirits and getting a maiden
>next game is about fighting alongside your combat waifu
A man can dream.
Adrian Brown
But literally all of the girls are shit. Unironically.
Luis Nelson
>no asset flip game on Steam called "Elden Fling" yet
we live in dark times indeed
Matthew Peterson
Luke Long
Just play a fucking VN you moron
Michael Gray
Yes, you get to marry a cute blue tsundere witch doll with four arms and two faces.
David Price
Even if you.get with ranni, she has no body and is just a spirit possessing a doll. You're still maidenless, you're just coping.
Trust me, there's no ending where you're not maidenless.
Jason Phillips
>Make them jealous of each other, make multiple routes. Make a super secret harem route that's locked behind a bunch of convoluted bullshit and some really bullshit bossfights, I don't care just MAKE IT.
Cringe
Brayden Davis
William Anderson
Which is why it’ll only sell 25 million copies instead of 50 million copies. Also why it won’t spawn a gacha capable of generating literally billions in revenue every year.
Jace Anderson
>not turning into a spirit yourself and having celestial sex (literally mind-blowing, btw) with ranni among the stars for all eternity
Jackson Howard
Hey guys. I'm the one who posted this. I'm sorry. I secretly wish it was a dating simulator too.
Nicholas Nelson
I like to imagine that my character turns into one of the salamander dragons after eating all the dragon hearts and now ranni has to care for us like a pet.
Cooper Harris
I need more sexy black knives
Samuel Cooper
BASED
indeed, you're too based user, too damn based that fromsoft is sending Yakuza ninjas to kill you and stole your idea for elden ring 2
Alexander James
The elden ring mc, like all the other MC's from has created (except bearer of the curse he was a Chad and it's the only one tht canonically had sex) are virgins, literally elden ring was the perfect adventure to get a gf
Parker Rogers
I'm ok with ropussy, I'm not going to post the pic, because jannies are trannies, but you get the idea, you can have sex with ranni
Cameron Walker
Don't worry brother I know the pic you're talking about
Ryan Morris
>Make them jealous of each other, make multiple routes. Make a super secret harem route that's locked behind a bunch of convoluted bullshit and some really bullshit bossfights, I don't care just MAKE IT.
BASED
Grayson Evans
Just like real life
Alexander Morris
Bro...
You're really my bro...
Aiden Sanchez
Won't match best girl anyway
Julian Ramirez
>Knights protects Maidens lol
That's all
Parker Nelson
I just think it would have been neat if Melina was an ally more present and maybe that gave her own opinion on the world and characters
Evan Adams
The maidenless thing was definitely intentional, they really beat you over the head with it in varre's dialogue.
At first I thought it was just Fromsoft being cheeky and knowing their audience a bit too well.
It honestly struck me as kind of cynical, or even pandering, to the 'lonely gamers' audience.
After playing the rest of the game I think that's a part of it. But the darker / more complicated aspects of siring a family, having a spouse, etc seems to be a major theme this time around.
I think it's fair to assume that your character is literally, actually supposed to be lonely. maybe not a virgin, but someone without a partner - or 'consort', if you will, since that's so important for the endings. There's a fair amount of symbolism to support this notion.
With that in mind I'm a bit more willing to play along with the 'romantic loneliness' thing they're shooting for. In Japan, and in the west, but also worldwide, younger people are more and more isolated romantically from one another, something crazy like 40% of zoomers are chronically single. I think Fromsoft's run of RPGs are so resonant with people because they vaguely pastiche certain things about modern culture or society in a dark fantasy setting - the isolation, the decline of great empires, the excessive focus on currency - and I think with the 'maidenless' stuff they're sincerely trying to create an outlet for people without resorting to anime-esque dating sim escapism.
The execution isn't perfect and the game did make me cringe a few times but overall I think it's artistically worthwhile
Colton Flores
Melina should have been a spirit summon that acts as full companion
Cameron Hernandez
You become one with Hyetta and all the other girls in her ending.
Let's remove all that divides and distinguishes! Heaven and Earth will rejoice at their union as the One Great.
A true lord is selfless, and puts himself last. That's why the world puts him first as the lord of the yellow flames.
Adrian Brown
Her dialogue on boc was really nice and I think it's because boc also follows us around. Your lil posse of Melina and boc was cute.
Julian Reyes
I really like the concept of being a badass warrior guy trained in the art of combat and magic, absolutely demolishing huge threats that seek to destroy the world, but also being lonely as shit 90% of the time.
Isaiah Lee
Cute!
Parker Robinson
Melina making me a personal cum rag.
Austin Reed
>Vyke chose the Flame to save the maiden
>Tsundere waifu simulator dlc confirmed!
Gavin Thompson
This is 10/10 analysis thank you. Everything is complaining about how little they appear and that's why they're so good. You're desperately wishing to see them more but it's only so briefly.
I guess it's also funny that our character spoke to ranni's doll like it was natural. I suddenly have a much deeper connection to the protagonist
Dominic Nelson
>Actual Melina characterization is only given to the player if he's about to betray her and after when he chose the Frenzy ending
Criminal
Daniel Hernandez
>tfw you slay all of those enemies for her but you only see her for two minutes every few days
Ethan Russell
>If you intend to claim the Frenzied Flame, I ask that you cease. It is not to be meddled with. It is chaos, devouring life and thought unending. However ruined this world has become, however mired in torment and despair, life endures. Births continue. There is beauty in that, is there not?
>Can't marry her
Fuck
Jackson Bell
Melina should have been Io from Code Vein.
Brandon Rivera
>A mysterious girl tasked from her apparently deceased Queen and mother to guide and assist one of the selected holders of special relics, and that ends up carving her own path after acknowledging that a mere attempt at mantaining the status quo would just not be enough and she must do more
That really sounds about right
Matthew Lee
Someone post the pic of talkative Melina
Colton Murphy
melina lost, move on
Ian Johnson
Got you, senpai
Charles Cooper
That's super cute.
Justin Cox
Chase Flores
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Hunter Russell
There should've at the very least been a Malenia and/or Miquella ending, them being Empyreans didn't really mean much other than having a bunch of weirdos who follow them around and worship them.
Ayden Richardson
Connor Gomez
Luis Powell
Josiah Diaz
>tfw we will never, EVER get this in canon
Adam Allen
Boc is so underutilized and it fucking sucks. I wish alterations were more common/impactful.
Leo Ward
Pain
Wyatt Perry
>Men-lina
Ryan Young
Bros...
Leo Nelson
Oh no I love her
Charles Jackson
What a waste, imagine how impactful it would have felt
Wyatt Johnson
MELINAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Dylan Nelson
That's why Melina never clicked with me.
I mean, if we are truly alone, why bother with Melina? better make us seek the maidens (Hyetta, Ranni, Latenna, Caska, Miquella (?)) to not feel alone (in game and in real life).
The game makes you believe that Melina is just lingering around everywhere you go but the fucker chooses not to talk unless you are in a church or close to the frenzied flame.
It was better to commit to a more developed Melina or not to try at all, Melina in the base game feels half-assed and i doubt that's going to change with a DLC.
Owen Phillips
Even DLC cant fix this, but maybe something like SotFS
Cooper Jackson
I love my wife Ranni!
Michael Fisher
Now I can see why...
David Martinez
>The execution isn't perfect and the game did make me cringe a few times but overall I think it's artistically worthwhile
>Gold sex with masks on is the best ending
deep
Nathan James
Tbh that's a good idea to increase ratings
Easton Nguyen
I got the distinct impression npcs were some of the last things added to the game. It's the only real reason I can think of for characters like Melina and torrent being practically forgotten.
Carter Cook
Yeah, I think letting him add one of a selection of little stat bonuses to certain equipment, or even some extra purely cosmetic additions like changing color of cloth or adding fancy inlays to armor would have brought alteration up more.
As is I rarely ever made use of it. I liked Boc though.
Charles Wright
>my champion
my heart
Blake Sanchez
>varre could have been your maiden(male)
I have hope for the DLC...
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