{"id":44210,"date":"2025-02-14T10:56:27","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T01:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=44210"},"modified":"2025-02-14T10:58:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T01:58:32","slug":"elden-ring-nightreign-will-not-have-a-poison-swamp-and-its-because-miyazaki-wasnt-there-to-add-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/elden-ring-nightreign-will-not-have-a-poison-swamp-and-its-because-miyazaki-wasnt-there-to-add-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Elden Ring Nightreign will not have a poison swamp, and it&#8217;s because Miyazaki wasn&#8217;t there to add one\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a shocking break from tradition,<strong> Elden Ring Nightreign <\/strong>will not feature the infamous poison swamps of past Souls titles. This is according to FromSoftware\u2019s advertising and production manager Yasuhiro Kitao, who spoke about the game during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/S734J72mN14?feature=shared\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Famitsu<\/a> livestream on February 13.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u3010\u5b9f\u6a5f\u30d7\u30ec\u30a4\u3011\u300e\u30a8\u30eb\u30c7\u30f3\u30ea\u30f3\u30b0 \u30ca\u30a4\u30c8\u30ec\u30a4\u30f3\u300f\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u30ef\u30fc\u30af\u30c6\u30b9\u30c8\u76f4\u524d \u7dca\u6025\u751f\u914d\u4fe1\u3010ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN\u3011\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S734J72mN14?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Towards the end of the broadcast, Kitao did a brief Q&amp;A, during which he confirmed that Elden Ring\u2019s new co-op survival spin-off will not include any poison swamps. Amusingly, he offers a very straightforward reason for their absence \u2013 it\u2019s because Hidetaka Miyazaki is not involved in the game\u2019s development.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While they may be the bane of players\u2019 existence, Miyazaki is famously obsessed with poison swamps, which he has spoken about in past interviews. Back when Elden Ring\u2019s Shadow of the Erdtree DLC was announced, he told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/rating-elden-ring-and-the-souls-games-by-their-poison-swamps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Eurogamer<\/a> that after \u201cintrospection and reflection,\u201d he realized how much he liked making them, and thus <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20240222-27583\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the DLC came to feature one too<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1054\" height=\"590\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1054px) 100vw, 1054px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20241213-41371-002-1.jpg\" alt=\"Elden Ring Nightreign\" class=\"wp-image-44212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20241213-41371-002-1.jpg 1054w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20241213-41371-002-1-380x213.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20241213-41371-002-1-768x430.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On the other hand, Miyazaki is taking a back seat for Elden Ring Nightreign, with Junya Ishizaki (who was a level designer for Dark Souls, Dark Souls 3, Bloodborne and Elden Ring) <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/elden-ring-nightrein-director-shares-details-about-high-freedom-co-op-play-day-night-game-cycle-and-dark-souls-cameos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">taking over as director<\/a>. While Ishizaki has received Miyazaki\u2019s blessing to include some Dark Souls bosses in Nightreign (like Dark Souls 3\u2019s Nameless King), it seems FromSoftware\u2019s head is not directly involved in development, which, as Kitao puts it, meant \u201cthere was no one to push for a poison swamp.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elden Ring NIGHTREIGN is scheduled to launch on May 30 for the PC (Steam) and PS4\/PS5\/Xbox One\/Xbox Series X|S.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FromSoftware\u2019s advertising and production manager Yasuhiro Kitao talks about why Elden Ring Nightreign doesn&#8217;t have any infamous poison swamps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":44211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[56,17],"class_list":["post-44210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-elden-ring","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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