#PILOT TALK 3 TORRNT TORRENT#

Sure, it looks cool using air currents to make Torrent leap up cliffs, but the real special thing is he can jump at all. The spectral steed doesnвЂ™t have to stay grounded like real horses, and I mean that literally. Movement feels responsive because Torrent is just being controlled by the player вЂ“ you don't have to wrestle with the reins or anything more finicky or advanced. To that end, thereвЂ™s a lot of licence the game takes with what you can do. Not waiting around to find him stuck in the scenery, he just appears instantly and you can hop off just as quickly, no messing around. Mate, heвЂ™s a frigging ghost horse with horns who immediately materialises out of thin air with you on his saddle at the blow of a whistle. The reason why Torrent is such a good horse is that heвЂ™s not, at all, a simulation of a real horse. After all, movement in FromSoft games have a typically, and deliberately, clunky feeling вЂ“ so wouldnвЂ™t this also be the case for mounts triple-fold? You neednвЂ™t worry though, as it appears that the devs have studied riding in other open world games and just gone, вЂњnah, screw it, letвЂ™s have some actual fun with this.вЂќ Of course, thereвЂ™s reason to be wary about how horse-riding would work. This is the first time you can ride a mount in one of their games, which does make sense for getting around conveniently in Elden RingвЂ™s massive open world, moreso than it would in the tighter, more labyrinthine maps of Dark Souls. So what makes me so excited about horse riding in Elden Ring after sinking hours into the Closed Network Test last November? While that beta only allowed me to run wild in a small fraction of its open world in Limgrave, the playerвЂ™s steed вЂ“ known as Torrent вЂ“ wasnвЂ™t just a huge highlight, but itвЂ™s clearly going to be an important part of the core gameplay.ДЇromSoftware have, of course, included horses in their past games like in Bloodborne and Sekiro вЂ“ but only as part of enemy design. In the end, the most pleasant virtual riding experiences boils down to those bits in Uncharted 3 and The Last of Us (being Naughty Dog games, youвЂ™re just pushing up anyway) or the mounts you can unlock in Final Fantasy 14, which is more an extension of yourself and barely faster than sprinting.

ItвЂ™s probably going to be sacrilege to have a go at the horse in Shadow of the Colossus given that finale, but even with all the supposed realism put into its behaviour, thereвЂ™s probably a reason why Fumito Ueda named your steed Agro. Remember all of RockstarвЂ™s talk about realistic horse testicles in Red Dead Redemption 2? I didnвЂ™t really spend much of my time examining that detail myself, instead I remember trying to use its cinematic camera intended to make you feel like you were in a sweeping epic Western only for it to turn into a slapstick as your inability to control your mount had you crashing or pratfalling face-first into the dirt.

Unless you were willing to let the system auto-pilot you on an established вЂ“ but long and winding route вЂ“ you were better off just hoofing it or using fast travel, the latter usually a telltale sign that your open world has failed. It may have more to do with its environments, but my memories of traversing Velen and Novigrad mostly involved Roach getting caught in trees or coming at a standstill over a rocky incline. I have my fair share of issues with CD Projekt RedвЂ™s overrated RPG (donвЂ™t get me started on the combat) but riding around in that game was a pain.

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