The just lately launched Soulslike recreation Bleak Religion: Forsaken has allegedly copied animations from Elden Ring, with gamers importing side-by-side comparisons of the 2 video games that reveal extremely comparable fight patterns.
The movies displaying the comparisons had been uploaded to Imgur (by way of ResetEra), displaying various eyebrow-raising similarities. Whereas a few of Bleak Religion’s animations had their pace elevated or decreased in comparison with Elden Ring’s, they’re nonetheless recognizable and extremely just like these utilized in FromSoftware’s open-world recreation.
What Bleak Religion: Forsaken “copied” from Elden Ring
Among the many animations stated to have been “copied” from Elden Ring is an enemy assault that sees the opponent twirling an extended employees weapon, Malenia’s backstep animation, together with varied poses (by way of Imgur).
As identified by ResetEra customers, Bleak Religion wouldn’t be the primary recreation to repeat movesets from one other launch, with a notable instance being Genshin Affect utilizing comparable animations to Nier Automata. Nevertheless, with each Bleak Religion and Elden Ring current in the identical sub-genre that FromSoftware popularized, comparisons between the 2 had been already inevitable, so this has inevitably led to criticisms of Archangel Studio’s new motion RPG.
FromSoftware just lately revealed that it was engaged on a brand new DLC growth for Elden Ring, titled ‘Shadow of the Erdtree,’ however a report has claimed that it’ll launch after the developer’s upcoming Armored Core 6.