In the lead-up to Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, FromSoftware talked a big game about the expansion's weapons, with Hidetaka Miyazaki saying the arsenal was "a selling point" for the DLC. And you know what? He was absolutely right, but somehow I hitched my horse to the wrong wagon on my first playthrough.
For some background, on my main guy, the first character I made and then beat Elden Ring with, I was always going for a Sekiro kind of vibe: katanas, shinobi/assassin chic for my fashion souls, you get it. I had the most weird and nerdy of all possible anxieties going into Shadow of the Erdtree: "What if none of the new stuff matches the role-playing theme I'm going for?"
