Beyond and hello and welcome once again to a very special live post-show edition of IGN's weekly PlayStation podcast. I'm your host, Max Scoville, and here to help me break down everything that was just revealed on Sony's latest Japan-focused state-of-play presentation, the one-and-only Nick Lomone. What's up, Nick Beyond? Hey, Max, Beyond. Thanks for having me, dude. Yeah, thanks for joining me. So we brought you over here because this was a this was

we're talking with this.

This Sony usually does like states of play. Sometimes they're like, this is a line with TGS. We couldn't particularly recall a time that they've done a state of play, Japan. That was very like, like Japanese and Asian games focused specifically. and yeah going in where where you were, I think you were like, are you ready for like a new, a new trails in the sky game or like, East 17 or whatever? And sure enough, we didn't get a lot of kind of deeper cut, a lot of, a lot of JRP stuff, some kind of deeper cut games franchises. We're not as familiar with. But one of the, let's start with the big last one, which was DLC is coming to Eldon Ring Night Rain, which is coming on December 4th. It is, what is it, the Forsaken Hollows. Forcaken Hollows. I completely forgot about this. Was that, that came out this year, didn't it? That came out much earlier this year.

And honestly, it's probably in my top five for the year so far.

I didn't think I'd really gravitate towards a multiplayer-focused Eldon Ring game or just Fromsoft.

When I play FromSoft, I like to treat it as a solo experience.

But honestly, the way they designed the multiplayer element around this

felt very almost extraction shooter-esque.

And I just loved how fast-paced and just you're going 100% right from the get-go.

And I was a little bit bummed that I kind of burned through the entire experience pretty

quickly.

And I know FromSoft has done a great job of updating the game to include

souped up challenging bosses throughout the games like Lifespan.

But seeing all of the stuff that they are injecting with this brand new DLC has so exciting.

One thing that stood out to me as my favorite Dark Souls is Dark Souls 1. So the thing that stood out to me was seeing Artorius of the Abyss there, who was, you know, the big bad guy or one of the bad guys slash good guy turned bad in the Dark Souls DLC, where you kind of went back into the past. So just seeing Arturius such an iconic character come back to life

and you're going to have to fight him yet again

is super duper exciting, along with a lot of really cool stuff

that we got glimpses of.

So I can't wait.

It looks like we also got a new character class,

someone who is wielding like a rapier.

So I'm very curious to see what that's all about. What would you say as you the most excited? And like, do you have kind of a barometer on what the community around this game has really been asking for the most? Because I know that it had kind of a rough launch, I feel like. It would not as bad as some of these games you see. But I know that there were some issues with the beta, people just kind of bouncing off of it.

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