In the weeks since its launch Elden Ring has quickly taken over the gaming community. February 2022 was quite the stacked month for gaming too, with other anticipated titles like Horizon Forbidden West and Sifu launching all within the space of a few weeks. Elden Ring has managed to create an overwhelming amount of success, both where sales and reviews are concerned, becoming one of the highest rated games of all time.
With the traditional gameplay that can be expected from FromSoftware games, alongside a brand-new setting partly built by fantasy author George R.R. Martin, Elden Ring appeared exciting for new fans looking to get into a Soulsborne RPG as well as adding enough new elements to give something to older fans who'd loyally played through the Dark Souls, Bloodborne, and Sekiro titles. With new bosses, new mechanics and an updated character creator as just a few things that Elden Ring added to keep players interested, there's another returning element to the game that may prove harder than some of the game's bosses.
Invading, where an Elden Ring player will enter another's world in order to kill them. Invading is the main PvP element in most of the Dark Souls games, allowing players to fight something beyond the huge beasts and hulking giants in plate armor that make up Elden Ring's bosses. Sometimes, these invasions can prove annoying for the player getting invaded, as they risk losing some progression and their collected runes in the process. However, some invasions can prove to be quite the event, when two equally matched players duel to the death.
A Reddit clip posted by u/No_Zucchini6588 falls into the latter of those two categories, as the user shows off the poetic end to what was a five-minute duel against an invader. The two Elden Ring players fight in silence, wielding their swords with some serious skill before the duel ends with both characters landing a fatal blow at the same time. Not only does this result in both players dying at the same time, but their animations remain in perfect synchronization also.
This results in the duel ending with a dramatic, poetic moment of both players acknowledging their victory and defeat. Not all of Elden Ring's multiplayer moments are filled with as much drama as a Game of Thrones episode though. If anything, often players use the limited multiplayer aspects of the game to leave hilarious messages lying around for other Elden Ring players to discover, sometimes even leading them into traps.
Elden Ring is available now on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
