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Elden Ring director Hidetaka Miyazaki talked a lot about the upcoming open world action RPG, one of 2022's most anticipated games, in an interview published on EDGE #367.

To begin with, we learned of the main influences that played some part in the creation of Elden Ring. Whereas anyone could easily draw a comparison with Tolkien's magnum opus even from the titles alone, Miyazaki-san's mention of Moorcock's The Eternal Champion series of novels (which will get its own game adaptation focused on Elric of Melniboné) is far less obvious.