While remakes or remasters of an older game can breathe new life into it, a demake brings up a more nostalgic feeling for gamers, as it shows what current titles would look like were they made on older machines. With YouTubers and independent programmers sharing demake videos and even playable games, such as a recent N64 Portal recreation, it seems that there's still a demand for making new titles look like they belong on classic machines. With Elden Ring being one of the most popular titles of 2022, it is no surprise that it has received a few demakes.
The latest Elden Ring demake comes from YouTuber 64 Bits, who has previously made other nostalgic gaming videos such as showing what a crossover between Mass Effect and Advance Wars would look like. Now, they've created a short video showing what the Lands Between would look like on an SNES. Even with only around 90 seconds of footage, this demake is highly impressive, as it completely reimagines Elden Ring for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
A 16-bit graphical style replaces Elden Ring's more modern look, beginning first from a top-down perspective before switching to a sidescrolling point of view when the player is depicted fighting through some of the game's areas. The map is traversed not as an open world, but instead the player runs over the actual map that can be opened in Elden Ring. Of course there are clips of boss fights as well, something that no Elden Ring fan creation would be complete without.
Radahn features for a short moment, and the space the player fights him in is covered with an atmospheric red cloud. Malenia also features, and her fight looks just as difficult as it is in the real Elden Ring. Even with all this impressive content, 64 Bits has stated that the video is just that, and there is no intention of making a full demake of Elden Ring. No doubt fans will be disappointed by this news, but there are other Elden Ring demakes that are planned to be playable, such as one featuring the style of the original Game Boy.
There have been a number of Elden Ring demakes shared with fans since the game's release, with one fan departing from the SNES look and showing what the game would look like in a PS1 style. Other FromSoftware games have received the demake treatment as well in recent times. Bloodborne even got a fully playable PSX recreation, and some speedrunners have beaten all the bosses in under 15 minutes.
Elden Ring is out now for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X.
