Shadow of the Erdtree is bigger than most full games: Hidetaka Miyazaki must've been pulling our legs when he said its map was 'comparable' to the size of Limgrave

Elden Ring character in crow cloak stroking chin and thinking in grave field.

It was one of those tidbits we all kind of seized on in the lead up to Shadow of the Erdtree's release: in response to a question about The Realm of Shadow's size in a February IGN interview, FromSoftware president and Souls series mastermind Hidetaka Miyazaki said "it's probably comparable, if not larger than the area of Limgrave from the base game."

That set the Souls series sicko community speculating: did he mean just Limgrave, or also including its little brother, The Weeping Peninsula, which is actually an island? What effect would FromSoft's focus on density and verticality have on The Realm of Shadow? And even then, just Limgrave? After a two-year wait, that sounded kind of dinky.