{"id":1213972,"date":"2026-02-22T02:01:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T02:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/?p=602553"},"modified":"2026-02-22T02:01:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T02:01:53","slug":"elden-ring-nightreign-is-hard-for-completely-different-reasons-than-elden-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/elden-ring-nightreign-is-hard-for-completely-different-reasons-than-elden-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"Elden Ring Nightreign is hard for completely different reasons than Elden Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"
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OK, I know you just read that headline, but let me admit first off that I don\u2019t actually think Elden Ring<\/em> is that hard<\/a> \u2014 not if you take it slow and steady, which the game\u2019s design not only allows but encourages. At every step of the way in Elden Ring<\/em>, you can decide exactly how you want to play it. It\u2019s very customizable and it rewards patience. Elden Ring Nightreign<\/em> is the complete opposite, and that\u2019s why I don\u2019t think it\u2019s for me. And it might not be for most other FromSoftware game fans, either, which is pretty shocking.<\/p>\n

It wouldn\u2019t be a FromSoftware game launch without at least a few debates about difficulty<\/a> and certain players hurling \u201cgit gud\u201d at each other like it was ever even remotely cool to say that and not just performatively tryhard at best and antisocial at worst. I try to exist instead in the sector of the FromSoftware fandom that is prosocial rather than antisocial \u2014 think Let Me Solo Her<\/a>, for example, or even consider the real-life story that inspired longtime FromSoftware game director Hidetaka Miyazaki to design Demon\u2019s Souls<\/em>\u2019 multiplayer elements with prosocial thinking in mind (via an old 2010 Eurogamer interview<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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“The origin of that idea is actually due to a personal experience where a car suddenly stopped on a hillside after some heavy snow and started to slip,” says Miyazaki. “The car following me also got stuck, and then the one behind it spontaneously bumped into it and started pushing it up the hill… That’s it! That’s how everyone can get home! Then it was my turn and everyone started pushing my car up the hill, and I managed to get home safely.”<\/p>\n

“But I couldn’t stop the car to say thanks to the people who gave me a shove. I’d have just got stuck again if I’d stopped. On the way back home I wondered whether the last person in the line had made it home, and thought that I would probably never meet the people who had helped me. I thought that maybe if we’d met in another place we’d become friends, or maybe we’d just fight…”<\/p>\n

“You could probably call it a connection of mutual assistance between transient people. Oddly, that incident will probably linger in my heart for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The multiplayer experiences that I\u2019ve had in Dark Souls<\/em> and Elden Ring <\/em>definitely do linger in my heart. I\u2019ve also absolutely loved the moments in FromSoftware games in which I\u2019ve personally conquered a difficult section all by myself<\/a>. But I look back with equal appreciation on the times when I summoned a complete stranger to help me with something \u2014 \u201ca connection of mutual assistance between transient people,\u201d as Miyazaki put it. It is how these games are meant to be played, not as brutal solo journeys but as shared experiences.<\/p>\n

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This brings us back to Elden Ring Nightreign<\/em>, a game not directed by Miyazaki but by Junya Ishizaki. The difference in its multiplayer ethos is stark. This is a game designed with three-player squads in mind; it\u2019s currently very punishing for solo players (although an upcoming patch<\/a> aims to fix some of that), and the designers are still working on a duos mode<\/a>. Because it\u2019s three-player by default, I assumed that the game would be designed around teamwork and would actively reward prosocial behaviors, like base Elden Ring<\/em>. I would argue that it\u2019s not, and that\u2019s why it\u2019s very hard to have a good time in the game \u2014 especially if you\u2019re playing with complete strangers.<\/p>\n

Problem number one: There\u2019s no in-game communication system besides pinging certain locations on the map. Lack of chat options is a FromSoftware classic, and in most of these games, you don\u2019t really need communication to understand what to do. Usually, you\u2019re just summoned to help with a boss battle, and after it\u2019s over, you\u2019re done and you go back to your game. But in Nightreign<\/em>, it\u2019s three-player for the entire game, obviously, and it\u2019s a match-based game, not a hundreds-of-hours RPG. Matches last 45 minutes and every second counts, which means you and your teammates need to be extremely organized throughout. The lack of communication hurts. But that\u2019s not the only problem. Far from it.<\/p>\n

Problem number two: The ring of fire. This game is a combination of Elden Ring<\/em>\u2019s open world areas (which encourage slow, methodical exploration) and a Fortnite-esque ring of fire that closes in on you constantly (which means you absolutely shouldn\u2019t be doing any slow, methodical exploration). There\u2019s also a Diablo-esque loot system, but you better read those loot descriptions fast<\/em>, because the fire is coming for you. There are randomized boss fights all over the map, but oops, you might not be able to complete them in time to collect runes from them, because that fire is closing in. There are also special upgrades that you can only get if you defeat these mid-game bosses all over the map, but you might barely even have time to read those descriptions of the special abilities and select one in time for\u2026 you guessed it\u2026 the fire rushing towards you.<\/p>\n

This second problem becomes even more stressful when you have two other people on your team alongside you. This game has not one but two different sprint buttons in it \u2014 a regular sprint, and a super-fast sprint that uses up stamina faster. That\u2019s because, of course, you need to be running from that fire. But that means your teammates, and you, need to constantly be doing the equivalent of screaming \u201cmove, move, move\u201d like a drill sergeant in an army movie. You will be unwittingly getting annoyed at your teammate who is spending too damn long looking at loot on the ground or at an upgrade tree. The fire is coming! Hurry the fuck up! Again, this is not a game design choice that rewards prosocial behaviors and instead makes you feel dragged down by the two teammates that you also desperately need to survive the bosses in this game. Even the \u201crevive\u201d process involves you inflicting damage on your teammate to bring them back to life (rather than a revive button or item), which is darkly hilarious, because you might also grow to desire hitting them due to how annoyed you might feel that they died during a super difficult fight. Which brings us to the third and final problem.<\/p>\n

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Third problem: The randomization of the bosses and of the items. The thing about base Elden Ring<\/em> is that you can figure out a boss and how it works (is it weak to fire? Holy damage? And so on) and then patiently build up a character who can deal with that problem. You can memorize that boss\u2019 attack patterns. You can find a save point nearest to that boss and run it back over and over again until you get past it. These are all of the wonderful and rewarding parts of playing FromSoftware video games; these are also the moments when you might do all of those preparations and then think, \u201cActually, I want to also summon a complete stranger to help me with this boss because it\u2019s still too freaking hard.\u201d And then you can do that, too. None of that is the case in Nightreign<\/em>, because everything is completely fucking random.<\/p>\n

The bosses, except for the very last boss in each area, are random. The loot is random. Do you have the right loot to fight the boss you\u2019re facing right this second? You may very well not. Do your teammates have it? You might not even know; you don\u2019t have a way to communicate with them, after all. Is the boss in this area way overleveled for you and your team? It won\u2019t be obvious until you start hitting it, and once you do that, good luck escaping. And if your team does a complete wipe and everyone dies to that boss together, you don\u2019t get to run back together from the nearest save point, having seen its attack patterns, ready to try again with teamwork in mind. Nope, instead you get to start all over again, except now with new randomized bosses and new randomized loot.<\/p>\n

In other games with randomized loot, like Diablo<\/a>, or other roguelikes with random elements like Hades<\/a><\/em>, the game is designed with down time in mind. When you\u2019ve completed a fight in Diablo or Hades<\/em>, you have infinite time to stand around and make decisions. There is no encroaching circle of fire forcing you to read item descriptions and ability trees quickly. There\u2019s a reason for that; the decision-making is the most fun part of a game with randomized elements. Why would Nightreign<\/em> take that away?<\/p>\n

All of these aspects of the game do feel less bad if you\u2019re playing with two good friends on voice chat. But even in that scenario, the game is still really punishing, and again, not in a way that other FromSoftware games are punishing. It\u2019s punishing because you need to spend the entire game running, looking at randomized loot as fast as you possibly can before making a snap (possibly bad) decision, running more, desperately encouraging your teammates to keep on running to keep up, warning your teammates about the encroaching flames about to kill them, and did I mention running? Is this a fun way to spend your weekly gamer night<\/a> with two other adults who just worked a full-time job all day and maybe just wanted to have a nice time playing a video game together?<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve had a review code for Nightreign<\/em> for a while now, so I already was worried about these problems before the game launched, but now that it\u2019s launched and I\u2019m seeing early mixed reviews on Steam<\/a>, I\u2019m ready to commiserate and validate: Yes, this game really doesn\u2019t feel like Elden Ring<\/em>, and even after some of this stuff gets patched, it\u2019s still fundamentally super different. And that\u2019s not only because it\u2019s multiplayer, but because the multiplayer just doesn\u2019t feel like other multiplayer FromSoftware experiences. It feels like it\u2019s designed not only for people who have two best friends with whom they play competitive games on a regular basis, but also specifically for people who live for thrills and speed \u2014 not the methodical, calculated experiences of other FromSoftware games.<\/p>\n

For all of those reasons, I\u2019m really not sure how this is going to go for FromSoftware over time. Is this game going to eventually encourage some prosocial behaviors amongst players, against all odds? Will people slowly learn the best ways to get through different areas? Will there be a \u201cmeta\u201d for working together that emerges over time?<\/p>\n

It seems possible, and since it\u2019s only been one day, it\u2019s way too early to tell. Various social norms will emerge in the player community, and hopefully they won\u2019t be toxic ones. But I can tell from having already played the game that this is going to be an uphill climb for FromSoftware fans. It\u2019s a very different game \u2014 and its specific form of difficulty is going to be a whole new variety for those fans to get used to. And like me, they might just decide they don\u2019t really care for it.<\/p>\n

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OK, I know you just read that headline, but let me admit first off that I don\u2019t actually think Elden Ring is that hard \u2014 not if you take it slow and steady, which the game\u2019s design not only allows but encourages. At every step of the way in Elden Ring, you can decide exactly how you want to play it. It\u2019s very customizable and it rewards patience. Elden Ring Nightreign is the complete opposite, and that\u2019s why I don\u2019t think it\u2019s for me. And it might not be for most other FromSoftware game fans, either, which is pretty shocking. It wouldn\u2019t be a FromSoftware game launch without at least a few debates about difficulty and certain players hurling \u201cgit gud\u201d at each other like…<\/p>\n

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