From soft stories only work as videogames. Someone gifted me a Dark Souls comic book which was just little vignettes and it frankly sucked. A big part of the experience of the games is just soaking the environment and you can't really do that well in other mediums. Also, that second manga sounds outright retarded "oh, I also felt a sense of longing when Rykard told me we cold DEVOUR THE GODS TOGETHAAA!".
Oh boy oh boy, if this game has it's own version of the DWGR I'm going to have to make a build specifically to take advantage of all the bullshit that flipping around like an acrobatic spaz allows you to do.
I agree with you completely. I think it was just Bandai trying to cash in and the projects were already in the works before the ownership of Elden Ring fully transferred. The gag manga was a weird enough concept to stand on its own legs, but the new ones seem terribly boring and also have worse art IMO.
I thought this was just a roll to the side and the dueling shield made it look weird.
I think a manga / comic thing could work if it was not about the main story but a side character who we never meet in the game.
I think there were a couple of Dark Souls 3 comics. One was a shitty one about Aldrich and the other one I think was about a silver knight, Ledo if I'm remembering correctly.
Nice catch. I slowed down the video to check but I don't think he's doing the dwgr flip. That's not a normal back roll though so unless it's being embellished for the sake of the trailer, that might be a type of mobility ring or AoW, specifically one that cuts down on recovery frames. It looks like using reverse roll tech on a backroll. Even at 0.25x it still happens really fast.
Don't think it can be an AoW he's using the same weapons when he goes into that flying AoW at the end of the trailer.
Considering:
Ranni is simply trying not to be a servant of the Greater Will/ Two Fingers. She doesn't care about how death works in the Lands Between.
Considering she's suppose to be connected to the Gloam-Eyed Queen that makes sense. The current batch of Gods and Demi-Gods are just that, the current batch. There were apparently ones before them.
Not really on the same side. She just had to go through them to get to her ultimate goal. They aren't aligned in any way.
Framerate-wise? Absolutely. The difference is night and day in that regard. PS5 also has the raytracing function but it lowers the game's framerate to nauseating numbers.
I've been trying to find videos or comments on this animation for a while now, but it's so rare I guess, that barely anyone has see it. But the backflip you have pictured occurs when you hold up a greatshield, I believe, and have your guard broken? Or a certain type of attack hits you maybe, sending you flying backwards and skidding across the ground.
That happens when you block a big attack without losing all of your stamina.
It doesn't make sense because the timeline is wrong. It is implied Messmer was around when Marika was still conquering the lands. Rykard and Tanith are a much later thing.