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AnElden Ringplayer has shared a heart-racing clip from the base game with the Soulslike community, highlighting the Tarnished’s descent into Lightning Strike Canyon.Elden Ringis notorious for enemy sneak attacks, where creatures charge out of nowhere to knock players off their feet, and the game also presents several structures to scale that are nerve-racking for players who are scared of heights.
FromSoftware releasedElden Ringback in 2022, and the game later received the popularShadow of the Erdtreeexpansion in June 2024. Players follow the protagonist, called “Tarnished,” through the Lands Between on a quest to become the new Elden Lord, and the DLC continues the game’s rich lore with Messmer the Impaler’s uprising in the Land of Shadow. The developer has provided several dark fantasy titles within the last decade, includingBloodborne, additions to theDark Soulsseries, andSekiro: Shadows Die Twice, and someSoulslike fans wish FromSoftware games were all connectedZelda-style.
Posted on Reddit by u/Informal-Device-8511, a 12-second clip showed the Tarnished and Torrent tombstone-hopping down into Lightning Strike Canyon, located west ofElden Ring’s Ailing Village. After dropping onto a lower tombstone protruding from the cliff face, Torrent is seen bolting off the side before the player dashes back onto the slab in the nick of time. The player performs the same mistake twice more in a state of panic, and the clip is spliced with images of the Grim Reaper appearing with a bell toll for comical effect. “I have never experienced raw fear and sheer anxiety in any other game,” admitted the player, but the community was impressed by Torrent’s parkour skills.
Elden Ring Player Shares Harrowing Clip in Lightning Strike Canyon
…it’s well worth the ordeal if you want to obtain the Lightning Strike incantation from the Ancient Dragons.
Navigating the canyon’s tombstones is not for the indolent, requiring sharp focus and quick reflexes to descend without fatalities, and it’s well worth the ordeal if you want to obtain theLightning Strike incantation from the Ancient Dragons. Members of the game’s subreddit thanked the player for a good laugh, saying the edits were done perfectly, while several other fans advised players to dismount Torrent in order to conquer the tombstones on foot.
Seriously,descend tombstones on foot. Riding Torrent down tombstone steps makes for a great challenge (and comedy), but virtually all instances of tombstones can be descended on foot. Plus, it’s just simpler that way.
Torrent May Be Finicky, But Also Reliable
The harrowing trial on the tombstones joined another terrifying moment for the steed, whenElden Ring’s Torrent became rather nervous around Abyssal Woods. However, the beast’s courage in battle is resilient, as players can summon it during the game’s final boss battle thanks to a post-launch patch. The Tarnished’s loyal mount is a spectral steed similar to a horse, sporting a white mane and carrying two horns on its head. Jumping down from heights on Torrent usually negates fall damage, but the beast is not immune to dying from greater falls.
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ELDEN RING, developed by FromSoftware, Inc. and BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc., is a fantasy action-RPG adventure set within a world created by Hidetaka Miyazaki and George R.R. Martin. Danger and discovery lurk around every corner in FromSoftware’s largest game to date. Hidetaka Miyazaki - President and Game Director of FromSoftware Inc. Known for directing critically-acclaimed games in beloved franchises including Armored Core and Dark Souls.George R.R. Martin is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of many novels, including the acclaimed series A Song of Ice and Fire - A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast For Crows, and A Dance with Dragons. As a writer-producer, he has worked on The Twilight Zone, Beauty and the Beast, and various feature films and pilots that were never made. He lives with the lovely Parris in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
