When Elden Ring officially unveiled its long-awaited expansion earlier this year, we asked: Is Shadow of the Erdtree the Elden Ring Miquella DLC we've wanted all along? From the very little we had to go on at that point, the assertion seemed fair. With their long, blonde and braided hair, the lone figure featured in that single image does look like Miquella – and the fact that intrepid dataminers uncovered unused Miquella dialogue shortly after Elden Ring's launch in February 2022 underlines this theory's potential.
We've had next to nothing from FromSoftware in the interim, with Elden Ring skipping every single live showcase since – from PlayStation to Xbox and Geoff Keighley's Summer Game Fest in June – and so, really, we've no more sense of what it entails now than we did a few months ago. Like everyone else, there are loads of things I'd love to see from the Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdree DLC. We even wrote an Elden Ring DLC wishlist around this time last year. But while the much-anticipated expansion remains an enigma, I've realized there is one thing I'd love to see return: offensively long boss runs.
