Elden Ring Nightreign, as a condensed RPG spinoff reusing many assets, was built much more quickly than Elden Ring itself. But the ideas behind it, simmering away in the mind of director Junya Ishizaki, are years and years old. He's been thinking about this game since he was working on Dark Souls 3
"It was a long time ago," Ishizaki explains via interpreter in an interview with GamesRadar+. "I had this very vague image from this kind of game I wanted to make while in the company, and I think maybe even around the time of Dark Souls 3 development, I had these very fragmented ideas and concepts going."
