Elden Ring has been out for over two years, yet there are still countless Elden Ring retrospectives debating the meaning of Elden Ring’s lore and trying to figure out Elden Ring’s story and Elden Ring’s ending.

As I see it Elden Ring is a huge metaphor, using taoist symbolism to ask whether we as society want to return to a goddriven dogmatic essentialist world or want to live with the existential dread that is the logical result of Nietzsche's death of god. The dialectic monism of Radagon and Marika is symbolic of humanity's will to change and the different endings of Elden Ring show different paths for humanity to resolve the tension between nihilism and dogmatism.

And if nothing I just said makes any sense to you, don’t worry, that is why this Elden Ring retrospective is as long as it is.

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====== Timestamps
00:00:00 Intro
00:03:05 The Elden Ring (Philosophical Background)
00:16:27 Pairs Of Parents (Lore)
00:24:46 The Lands Between (Game & Gameplay)
00:33:18 The Death Of Death (Thematic Motifs)
00:58:10 A Path For Humanity (Endings Discussion)

====== Credits for the Music
Elden Ring OST “The Final Battle”, “Elden Ring”
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time OST “Gerudo Valley”

Special Thanks to the British Council Film archive for providing remixable historic footage.
https://film.britishcouncil.org/resou...
Additionally the video uses licensed music from productioncrate.com and motionarray.com