Amy Lee is having a big year. First, Evanescence’s “Bring Me To Life” became a running bit in HBO’s The Rehearsal after Nathan Fielder hypothesized that an airplane pilot may have listened to the iconic 2003 rock song while pulling off a tricky landing. Now the song is front and center in FromSoftware’s new trailer for Elden Ring Nightreign, the upcoming co-op action game with a Fortnite twist. The combo is as dramatic as it is perfect.
The defibrillating chorus kicks in right when Nightreign’s new class, the Revenant, shows off her summoning powers. As players of the original open-world game might notice, the Revenant looks a lot like the dolls in Elden Ring, which are used to bind spirits into the mortal world. Fittingly, the Revenant is powered with a move set consisting of necromancy and death-defying support spells. The Revenant can temporarily make her allies immortal as well as revive characters who are nearly dead. She’s also showing feet, because of course she is.
In our February preview of the game, we noted that Nightreign takes the bones of Elden Ring and fleshes them out in a more fast-paced arena. Like the original game, much of Nightreign revolves around fearsome bosses who are difficult to kill. This time, though, players team up with two other people and are dropped into a randomly generated map. Players must then scavenge their surroundings while avoiding a miasmic storm haze that slowly forces everyone into an area where a baddie will spawn. There’s a lot of sprinting and split-second decisions to be made, as players won’t have time to kill or collect everything.
Elden Ring Nightreign will be released on May 30. If the prospect of “Bring Me To Life” strikes you as too cringe, you can take refuge in the normie-approved launch trailer instead:
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