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Elden Ring Looks Fantastic As A PS1 Game

Imagining a version of the game that came out in 1995 instead of 2022
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Image: Hoolopee
By
Luke Plunkett
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We’ve featured London-based 3D artist and VFX supervisor Hoolopee a number of times on Kotaku, from his terrifying Zelda work to a Nintendo 64 rendition of Halo Infinite to a DragonBall fight made with...sheep. Tonight, we’re taking a look at his latest work, a PS1-looking take on Elden Ring’s trailer.

It took him a month to put together, and the whole thing is running in real-time, having been made in Blender. It looks, in terms of what it’s setting out to achieve, absolutely perfect.

The reason you’re seeing this post on our Fine Art feature and not as a regular story is that Hoolopee was kind enough to send us some higher-resolution behind-the-scenes images from the clip, and you can see those here, alongside some comparisons between the PS5 and “PS1" versions of Elden Ring:

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If you haven’t seen them, he also made similar trailers for both Resident Evil Village and Death Stranding:

If you want to check out more of Hoolopee’s work, you can find his YouTube page here and his Patreon page here.

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Last month Microsoft showed off a ton of footage from the upcoming Halo Infinite, featuring a crash landing and a very upset pilot. They looked OK in high definition, but there’s something about them that looks even better imagined as an N64 game. This video by Hoolopee does exactly what it suggests, recreating 1:42 of that Xbox clip in the style of a Nintendo 64 title.