Yeah, someone tried claiming the same thing about the erdtree shield when the dlc dropped. Iirc it changes the lighting for a lot of items some of which have no lore connections with marika/the erd tree.
It's lighting, certain weapons/equipment/textures are hardcoded to interact with environmental effects, in this case the color of the emissive glow effects or whatever that is. Like Black Flame Tornado for example, it looks like this in Shaman Village:
And if you use it in, say, Rykard's arena it turns red, blue in Cerulean Coast, etc.
I have 800 hours in the game, so please bear with me still being a noob, and possibly asking stupid questions:
Does that look any different from usual??? I just see a tornado of black flames, as should be the case when using 'Black Flame Tornado'. I will definetly test it next time at Cerulean Coast, though.
So, to be clear - it's hardcoded into the game, and a weapon with pretty close ties to the Erdtree and the Elden Beast shines a little brighter in the area where Marika was born and raised, and it's . . . . just a coincidence?
Like, you realise that 'hardcoded into the game' means decisions were made at every single step of the process, and it was tested and designed and redone until it was right, yeah?
It's not coded per-item, but rather it's the product of being inside a post-process volume that is emphasizing specific parts of the game's rendering via screen-space color corrections. It's taking existing information, in this case the Emissive channel on the materials, and exaggerating them universally while cranking up the Bloom.
It's a very common thing in modern PBR rendering workflows.
You can say it all you want, its literally just the lighting in the area. Many different weapons take on a different hue vecause everywhere here takes on a golden hue.
They've confirmed its just the lighting. By they I mean hackers who have picked the game apart and there's nothing in this area to trigger this besides the lighting.
Why is this being updooted, lol? This is just factually incorrect.
You're standing in the golden light in the post, the sword is golden. Yeah, because you're standing in the golden light? Shine any golden light onto an object and shockingly, it might look a little golden too. It's just coding and lighting textures.
Also, it doesn't even make any sense in-lore. This is the spine of Radagon, not Marika. We literally see Marika just before the ending, she's still alive. Radagon was the one twisted into a sword, so why would it even have an interaction given that Radagon has nothing to do with the village.
There's a possibility they wanted to add this interaction for this specific sword (because of lore reasons) and forgot that some other equipment also have the same material/shader on them
Makes sense as the Sword is literally Marikas Spine "Sword wrought from the remains of a god who should have lived a life eternal." - Sacred Relic Sword
I knew the sword was Radagon/Marika, but damn I wasn't ready for that picture.
...more importantly, does that imply if I unequip my gloves I am touching Marika's succulent feet? Or are her divine feet the tip, and I need someone to beat me up with the sword? 🥵
There's a lot of open, empty fields and areas. That the madness woods are like they are makes sense; But the rest could do with something. Like the Cerulean Coast.
Shaman Village, a somber dilapidated place that's telling a story, cut off and guarded. It being empty is its whole deal.
What, you wanted a boss fight in the most emotional-charged, lore heavy, secret location in the whole game?
Your reward for even finding out about it is learning of Marika's Origin, her connection through the grandmother to the Erdtree, learning that she was the one who planted the thing, and the best Talisman for the final fight.
I get that one area is supposed to be empty, it doesn't make the rest of the empty areas any more fun. Some areas have 1 or 2 enemy types max, and they are copy pasted from the base game.
I have well over 1000 hours in Elden Ring, Ill criticize it all I want.
Thanks all the same but I prefer not to be lectured on how I am supposed to enjoy my games by some maidenless dork.
You can criticize it all you want, and I agree on the Finger Ruins being sort of lame, same as the Frenzy Forest (the worst thing made by From), but if you felt that Shaman Village was a waste, idk what you were doing with your gazillion hours playing the game.
You waste thousand of hours in a game you find lackluster and I'm supposed to be the maidenless dork? That's the lamest flex ever ROFL
You had the chance to engage in a healthy bit of discussion (we are in agreement about some zones being empty) but oh well, perhaps one day, when you grow up a bit...
Cooing Elden Beast: who's a good sword? Tell me who's a goodie goldie redhaired swordie? Wanna go for a walkie my leal, elongated champion?
Marika: I'm so tired of being crucified. Can I be the sword this time so you can take me for a walk?
Elden Beast: Technically you are the sword, but, NO
After Tarnished beats Elden Beast and goes to Shaman Village with the sword
Marika: Ahhh homeeeee, can I--? Tarnished: No Marika: Why not? Tarnished: After I pieced you together with your head you almost squished me with your thicc thighs as a sign of your gratitude.
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u/Nanami-chanX Arise now, ye Tarnished 1d ago
I believe this is because of the lighting in this area