Two years after release Miyazaki says Elden Ring's world still has 'a small element that I feel has not yet been discovered'

Hidetaka Miyazaki, president of Fromsoftware.

This week brought our first serious look at Shadow of the Erdtree, the major Elden Ring expansion set for release in June, and it certainly looks like FromSoftware is pushing the boat out. FromSoftware CEO and game director Hidetaka Miyazaki has gone on the interview circuit to accompany the trailer and, as well as being maddeningly vague about Bloodborne and re-claiming Dark Souls 2, has been musing on the secrets of Elden Ring's appeal. 

It turns out first of all that Miyazaki prefers the term "Souls-ish" to Soulslike, though that seems unlikely to stick, and in an interview with IGN went into some detail about FromSoft's principles for building an open world without all the hand-holding typical of the genre.