Elden Ringwill forever be a funny game because some players bash their heads against easier bosses like Margit or Azula for 90 hours and don’t make any progress, while others complete the whole game at level one, naked and without taking a single hit from an enemy.
The director of the upcoming Elden Ring movie adaptation, Alex Garland, is somewhere between these two types of players. In a recent interview withIGN, Garland was coaxed into speaking a little bit about Elden Ring, despite his insistence that he wasn’t “going to say anything about it.”
However, hearing the interviewer explain their struggles with the game’s Starscourge Radahn boss fight, Garland was compelled to set the record straight.
Radahn = Pushover
“Radahn’s really easy,” Garland begins. “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 then just… you know, they take off, whatever it is half, half his energy and you… finish him off. It’s all about activating those little summon signs dotted around.”
However, there is a boss that Garland does consider a challenge, and that’s, of course, the infamous Blade of Miquella herself, Malenia.
“No, it’s Malenia who’s the tough one,” Garland continues. “I’m now on the seventh playthrough of that game. I’ve levelled up, I’ve got lots of juice and a cool sword, and stuff like that. I just throw myself at them again and again, and again, and again. That was the technique I learned with Dark Souls. It’s not that you get better, it’s like monkeys and typewriters, you just keep doing it and eventually, one day, they’re dead.”
We already know that Garlandhas reached NG+6 in Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, as he recently admits he “[couldn’t] seem to stop playing.”
We don’t have a lot of information about A24’s Elden Ring adaptation, but at least with Garland at the helm, we know the movie won’t be created with bad faith towards the source material, something that’s become all too common with gaming adaptations.
