The mum or dad firm of Elden Ring developer FromSoftware is releasing a novel primarily based on the beloved fantasy role-playing sport, however its topic is not essentially what you’d count on.
As reported by Siliconera, Kadokawa Company is releasing See You At That Grace After Work in Japan, a novel telling the story of two co-workers who get to know one another by taking part in Elden Ring. The title references the Websites of Grace places all through Elden Ring’s world of The Lands Between.
The novel follows a Japanese workplace employee and gamer who enjoys Elden Ring however has solely performed solo. After spending his workbreaks information web sites, a senior colleague notices and, as a fan of Elden Ring themselves, speaks to the employee about it. The 2 work together an increasing number of each at work and on-line as they play Elden Ring collectively.
The novel arrives on March 29, 2024 in Japanese solely, with no phrase on a world launch. Keiichi Hikami, the writer of a number of Monster Hunter novels, is penning this one too.
It is not the primary time a considerably weird ebook on Elden Ring has been launched, as Kadokawa beforehand launched a manga. As a substitute of being a darkish and dramatic fantastical story, nonetheless, as is advised within the sport, it adopted a unadorned Tarnished known as Asea as a comedy.
Whereas it has been greater than two years since Elden Ring launched and a wave of untamed and wacky content material and creations across the sport emerged, the same scenario might unfold quickly as FromSoftware has introduced a June 21 launch date for its growth, Shadow of the Erdtree.
Elden Ring proved considerably of a cultural phenomenon upon its launch, with gamers discovering a ton of various methods to work together with the sport. Followers performed it utilizing a Fisher Value toy, the Nintendo Change Ring Match controller, and somebody even made a working VR model of the sport.
In our 10/10 assessment, IGN mentioned: “Elden Ring is an enormous iteration on what FromSoftware started with the Souls collection, bringing its relentlessly difficult fight to an unbelievable open world that offers us the liberty to decide on our personal path.”
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll speak about The Witcher all day.
