"We wanted to have a game that felt like a complete package out of the box on the day of purchase, so everything is unlockable... it's not what we'd consider a 'live service' game," says director Junya Ishizaki, who served as the battle director on Elden Ring and has been with FromSoftware since the original Dark Souls. Nightreign will get some post-release balance updates, as Elden Ring itself did, but beyond that? "We're still in the process of thinking about the possibilities," he says.
It's a lean and unusually straightforward game for FromSoftware—no PvP elements at all, no invasions, no esoteric multiplayer covenants a la Dark Souls. "We wanted to have a sense of accomplishment from each defeat and each success, and we wanted this to be different from Elden Ring and past titles," Ishizaki says.
When I first drop onto Nightreign's map, I don't know how to decide where to go, so I dash towards the nearest fort and immediately get in over my head. At level 1 you're extremely squishy, but there's always a low-level camp not far away that serves as an easy source of runes to farm for 1-2 levels and a couple weapon pickups. Sites of grace dot the map to refill your flasks and let you level up all your stats in one go
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