Ahead of the launch of the Shadow of the Erdtree expansion, Elden Ring's publisher, Bandai Namco, has posted a short video to give players a refresher on the events of the base game, and while it's a solid recap of the Tarnished's journey across the Lands Between, it might not be the official, in-depth lore explanation many of us probably wanted.
Elden Ring's story isn't exactly… easily digestible, and chances are that if you approached the action-RPG casually and just focused on having a good time getting your ass kicked (and kicking ass in return), there are probably parts that you missed. As we've seen with the Dark Souls games in the past, director Hidetaka Miyazaki loves making us work for the lore – you tend to find snippets hidden away in character dialogue and item descriptions, but obviously if you miss any of those then you might not get the full narrative experience. That's why you see so many lore videos going over everything there is to say about the plots, because even if you've played the games, it's not always completely obvious.
