[PREVIEW] Bonfireside Chat 172: Eternal Ring (Part 1)

Bonfireside Chat: A Dark Souls and Elden Ring Podcast

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🗓️ 3 January 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

FromSoft was weirdly prolific in the early days of the PlayStation 2. One of the few games available at launch was Eternal Ring, an attempted spinoff from King's Field whose combat was more focused on magic. That's what we're talking about now... and how it needed more time in the oven. Specifically, Eternal Ring is an object lesson in how important tight level design is for the King's Field/Souls experience.

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0:00.0	Some of our landings were desperate adventures.
0:06.0	We are now prepared to meet the inevitable counter-attacks with power and with confidence.
0:12.0	Thank you. I'm I'm I'm
0:21.6	I'm
0:23.6	I'm My name is Gary Butterfield.
0:47.1	My name is Cole Ross.
0:48.6	And listening to Bonfire Side chat.
0:51.0	It is a Mandarin favorite, and that'll make sense to some people.
0:55.7	Because of all the rings?
0:57.7	Yeah. Yeah. All the magic rings.
1:00.4	Yeah, because we're talking about eternal ring today.
1:03.5	A FromSoft game, this is kind of one of
1:06.0	the attempted follow-ups or
1:08.0	spinoffs from Kingsfield.
1:10.1	It was released as a launch window game for the PS2 in 2000.
1:15.4	If you're a fan of From Software Games with the Ring suffix, have we got one for you?
1:20.6	Yep.
1:22.4	It is one.
1:24.7	You know, so this is notable for a couple reasons.
1:29.2	One, it's very available.
1:31.2	Yeah.
1:31.9	You know, if you have a PS4 or PS5, you can buy this from the PSN.
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