Elden Ring Switch 2 Port Nicknamed the 'Tarnished Edition' by Japanese Fans

Japanese fan reactions (excerpted from 150)

• No way someone who's cleared all of Nightreign is gonna lose to the Tree Sentinel or Margit. Like, for real.

  ナイトレイン一通りクリアした奴がツリーガードやマルギットにやられるとは思えない いやマジで

  — @ireze365829 likes

• @ireze3658 It took me a full 30 minutes to take down the Tree Sentinel near the starting area (crying).

  @ireze3658スタート地点付近のツリーガードは30分かけてしばいた（泣）

  — @Sato-frisk12 likes

• @ireze3658 Just not having the sprint dash changes how you move way more than you'd think…

  @ireze3658ダッシュがないだけで動きがかなり変わるもんで…

  — @ボンドルド卿に背負われたい34 likes

• Dragging everyone who got sucked into the swamp via Nightreign even deeper into it. The main game is incredible, you'll see.

  ナイトレインで一気に沼に浸かった人達をより沼に。 本編は凄いぞ

  — @ユーザー-b2y14 likes

• Nightreign newbie 🔰: "I'll carry you!!" Tarnished newbie 🔰: "Guess it's about time I start hunting…"

  ナイトレイン　🔰キャリーするで！！ ターニッシュ　🔰そろそろ狩るか…

  — @MATRIX_0251 likes

• Tar-nish-nish-nish!! How UNSIGHTLY, for a sublime demigod to lose to a mere Tarnished~!!

  ターニッニッニッ!!崇高なデミゴッドが褪せ人ごときに無様ッシュねぇ〜!!

  — @オシベ-v5y133 likes

• Quit it with the weird speech tic, Merry.

  変な語尾は止めるメリ

  — @drivemad460242 likes

• @drivemad4602 You're doing it too, Ranni.

  @drivemad4602お前もラニ

  — @ケイちゃんの分身8 likes

• A mere Tarnished Edition daring to be so insolent…

  褪せ人エディション如きが不遜であろう…

  — @ニット帽-k3u108 likes

• Then behold this blessing-laden Grafted Edition, I say!!

  それではこの祝福に満ち溢れた接ぎ木エディションをご照覧あれぃ！！

  — @gelgel1298 likes

• @gelgel129 Sounds like an edition that'll end up stitched together out of patch notes…

  @gelgel129 修正パッチでつぎはぎだらけになってそうなエディションだな・・・

  — @Principality212 likes

• Feels like it'd ship with a little store sticker that reads "For You, Without a Maiden."

  「巫女無しの貴方に」ってポップ付いてそう

  — @ノックノック-o9p140 likes

• Got stabbed right in the heart out of nowhere, crying…

  急に自分自身が刺されて泣いた・・・

  — @hy-ml629612 likes

• That low-key stings. Pumpkiiin!

  地味に凹むな かぼたーん！

  — @ただのコメント-k7x7 likes

• It's the Maidenless Edition, Die-in-a-Ditch Pack.

  巫女無しエディション野垂れ死にパックだ

  — @私は一向に構わんッ1 likes

• I love that when haters were dunking on Elon, the insult they reached for was "Maidenless."

  イーロンがアンチから煽られる時にMaidenlessって言われてたの好き

  — @kiwaimawano287412 likes

• Getting trash-talked and cheerfully playing it anyway — that's just who we are.

  ディスられてるのに嬉々としてプレイするのが我らよ

  — @apollo.173424 likes

• Honestly with a title like that you'd expect a Must Die Edition, or a New Game where only the enemies got buffed lol.

  確かにこのタイトルだとマストダイエディションとか敵だけ強くてニューゲームとかそういう感じだよなwww

  — @user-cz6px4qs9j26 likes

• The Hunter-From-Yharnam Edition (an unforgivable, blasphemous slur).

  ヤーナム野郎エディション(許されざる冒涜的罵倒)

  — @Hg_102519 likes

• Fled here from Depth 3 thinking Elden Ring would be a chill warm-up, and it's not chill at ALL, lol.

  深度３から逃げてきてエルデンリングでぬるく始めたけど全然ぬるくなくて草

  — @オズオズ-エルデンリング29 likes

• With Spirit Ashes it's pretty soft up until the DLC. Without them it's some of the hardest FromSoft has ever made. And those random mobs with poise rivaling DLC bosses can perish.

  霊ありならDLCまではかなりぬるい 霊なしならフロムでもトップクラスに難しい DLCのボス並以上に高強靭のモブは滅びろ

  — @ろこた-o2o1 likes

• Felt that. I figured I'd do a strength run to brush up, but I keep crouching when I mean to sprint, and I've startled myself off cliffs to my death — I need rehab.

  わかるわ 予習も兼ねて脳筋で一周走ろうと思ったけど疾走しようとしてしゃがんだり崖から飛び降りて落下死してびっくりしたりとリハビリが必要だわ

  — @TF-jx5cj14 likes

• The accidental crouch is genuinely dangerous — even when your brain knows better, the muscle memory keeps firing for a while 😢

  しゃがみ暴発は頭で理解してても暫く無意識に入力してしまうのでほんとに危険😢

  — @立沢真白0 likes

• The Tarnished Edition: now with more Tarnished doing the Nightfarer high jump and dying on impact.

  夜渡りのように高所ジャンプして落下死する褪せ人が増える褪せ人エディション

  — @Yamto-Kirisima6 likes

• Wonder how many Nightfarers are gonna fling themselves off a sorcerer's tower (speaking from n losses).

  いったい何人の夜渡り達が魔術師塔から投身自殺するんだろうな(n敗)

  — @アルテ-q5p5 likes

• I don't even remember what was lying around where anymore, so it's basically a blind playthrough.

  どこに何落ちてたかとかもう覚えてないから実質初見プレイや

  — @krn91328 likes

• …even the Greatsword?

  …グレートソードも？

  — @マキムラアカシ1 likes

• @マキムラアカシ Alright then — make for Caelid!!

  @マキムラアカシ よーしケイリッドへ向かえ！！

  — @もりそば3 likes

• Alright, time to go newbie-hunting with the Greatsword~

  よーしグレソで初心者狩りしちゃうぞ〜

  — @mohgwyn_customer_service1 likes

• I'm honestly looking forward to rigging up a bedside arm for it and playing Elden Ring lying down.

  タブレットとかスマホとかを固定できるアームをベッドサイドにつけて寝っ転がってエルデンリングをプレイするのが楽しみ

  — @February-31st9 likes

• I thought the Tarnished Edition just added some Torrent tack, but if it adds new starting classes, that means whole new builds we never had before… okay, this might actually be a different conversation.

  褪せ人エディションってトレントの馬具が増えるくらいの認識しかなかったけど、素性が増えるってことは今までは無かったビルドも増えるってことか⋯ これは話が違ってきたかもしれない

  — @浜-u4r2 likes

• And eventually they can give us the Tarnished-Hubby Edition too.

  ゆくゆくは褪夫エディションも出してもらおうか

  — @じゅじゅん-i9v5 likes

• And then there's Saint Kenneth, who doesn't even discriminate against the Tarnished…

  そんな褪せ人も差別しない聖人ケネス…

  — @墓穴ホール14 likes

• The second he learns you're Tarnished he's visibly disappointed, and if you turn hostile he snaps "a lowly Tarnished, how dare you."

  褪せ人だと知った途端明らかにがっかりしてたし敵対すると「褪せ人風情が」ってキレてくるよ

  — @dasao27872 likes

• He does discriminate, but his whole move is "but that kind of thing is wrong, you know? I'd never do that! Even you lowborn folk can be reasoned with, right!" Yeah… for that world, that's pretty kind lol.

  差別はしてるけどその上で、でもそういうのはよくないよね、おれはそんなことしないよ！君達下賎の者でも話せば分かるよね！ってムーブなのよね。うん、あの世界ではだいぶ優しいなw

  — @デンキブラン-m5q11 likes

• No company engages as sincerely with discrimination (the dishing-it-out side) as FromSoftware does… (is that a compliment?)

  フロムほど差別（する方）と真摯に向き合ってる企業はないゾ…（褒め言葉？）

  — @user-qkthuht2 likes

• I've heard ten years' worth of slurs in one sitting — I'm full.

  向こう10年分の差別用語を聞いたハラァいっぱいだ

  — @かんぱんカンパニー1 likes

• If the Switch 2 one is the Tarnished Edition, then what edition was the Elden Ring I've been playing this whole time?

  Switch2が褪せ人エディションなら、俺がやってたエルデンリングは何エディションだったんだよ

  — @jelty113975 likes

• The Albinauric Edition.

  しろがねエディション

  — @まつりぴ32 likes

• The DLC might've been the Horned One Edition.

  DLCは角人エディションだったかもしれない

  — @セレクター_selector14 likes

• The Flat-Broke Edition.

  素寒貧エディション

  — @ミノブシ030650 likes

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