If Alex Garland isn’t better than you at Elden Ring, he’s at least more persistent. In a recent interview, the director behind the upcoming Elden Ring movie has revealed that he’s in the middle of his seventh full playthrough of the hard-as-nails game. If that wasn’t impressive enough, he has claimed that one of the toughest bosses in the game is ‘quite easy’.
At least the man leading the live adaptation of one of the biggest video games in years knows his stuff.
‘It’s Malenia Who’s The Tough One’
In the recent interview with IGN, Alex Garland, a writer and director with three decades in the business, gave a masterclass on how to master Elden Ring. He’s in a great position to do so, considering he’s on his seventh playthrough of FromSoft’s award-winning epic.
The clip that surfaced in an IGN interview had Garland explaining that Starscourge Radahn, one of the most awesomely challenging bosses in Elden Ring’s universe, is ‘really easy’:
Radahn’s really easy.
I thought Radahn was quite easy, because as long as you sort of activated the people who can assist you in that fight, they get on with fighting him, and they take off whatever it is, half his energy, and you finish him off. It’s all about activating those little summon signs dotted around.
He did admit to having repeated difficulty overcoming Malenia, Blade of Miquella. As one of the most iconic and threatening bosses in Elden Ring, Malenia has enjoyed her time in the spotlight. Her profile is so immense that we’ve seen some gamers build entire personalities around being able to defeat her.
Garland noted that persistence is key with a game like Elden Ring:
That was the technique I learned with Dark Souls. It’s not that you get better, it’s more like monkeys and typewriters. You just keep doing it, and eventually, one day they’re dead.
We don’t know much at all about the upcoming Elden Ring movie, but fans are confident, given that one of the most visionary writers and directors in recent years is at the helm. It now also helps that we know he’s probably cracked at Elden Ring from a gaming perspective.
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Grant has been gaming for 30+ years and in the industry for 10+. You'll probably find him playing a post-apocalyptic game or an extraction shooter somewhere.
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