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Along with the highly anticipated Switch 2, we will also be getting an Elden Ring Tarnished Edition port. Nintendo’s blurb reads, “With over 28 million copies sold worldwide, Elden Ring is an award-winning action RPG set in an authentic dark fantasy world. Explore treacherous dungeons and face epic boss battles. Including the base game, the Shadow Of The Erdtree expansion, and new weapons, armor, a new Torrent appearance customization, and more, Elden Ring Tarnished Edition arrives on Nintendo Switch 2 in 2025.”
The game originally dropped in 2022 with the DLC coming out just last year. This new Tarnished Edition combines the two, and includes some new armor, weapons, and other customization options for your goat, Torrent. Check out the Nintendo Direct below!
Is this a title you’re excited about? Let us know in the comments!
Source: Nintendo Direct: Nintendo Switch 2 Broadcast 04.02.25
It’s a big game and a big deal, not unlike seeing Skyrim running on Switch 1 before it launched.
I bought Elden Ring and have played it on my Steam Deck, but I have not been able to get into it. The lock-on and battle controls feel awful to me, and the teeny-tiny-text just adds an extra layer of needless difficulty. (I know the absence of a proper save function is “a feature, not a bug”, but that’s a steep anxiety hurdle too.)
It’s not the difficulty — I loved finding everything in Tropical Freeze, and I even loved getting through Dread Mode. But Donkey Kong and Samus are smooth to control, and it’s (usually, more or less) clear what’s actually happening in their games.
So, I hereby ask for advice from the good folks here on Nintendojo: Next time I try to get into Elden Ring, what can I do or learn so that I might actually enjoy it? (Is there a character class whose controls are better for Fromsoft newbies? Should I just ignore lock-on completely, since fighting more than one enemy makes it even more useless? Are there any early-game items or NPCs to find that make things more interesting or fun?)