Someone enlighten me
Elden Ringis an action-RPG filled with untold horrors.
They are mysterious, to a degree, but they’re also quite easy to read.
What’s up with them, huh?
Can anyone tell me what’s up with the goats inElden Ring?
In myElden Ring review, I bang on about itsopen worlda lot.
That’s because it’s a magnificent patchwork of cool things lurking in corners or atop mountains.
And it’s a world that turns too.
Enemy factions tussle and turtles graze.
There are loads of turtles, actually.
Must be a temperate climate for them given the abundance of berries and grass.
Goats live alongside the turtles in harmony in this world.
At first glance, the goats appear totally normal.
I brought up an image of a goat on Google Images and cross-referenced it to the goats in-game.
There’s no denying that they are goats.
Why am I getting so worked up, then?
That’s because they roll!
Scare them and they’ll curl themselves up into a wheel and roll away from you.
Look at them go:
Seriously, what’s up with that?
That is not a thing real goats do.
Here is one possible explanation.
Only it’s not glistening half-moon of cheese that’s revealed, but laser pistols for fingers.
The goats also have a hint of wheel skeleton to them.
A hop onto a pile of bones and a crunch in the distance that only gets closer.
Then BLAM, IT’S WHEEL SKELETON HERE TO RUN YOU OVER.
From what I can gather, the goats in Elden Ring are infused with references.
Or maybe it was an honest mistake during development that made people chuckle.
That’s why I’m fond of the rolling goats, at least.
They are, somehow, an amusing anomaly in a world filled with towering beasts and fantastical bastards.
But then, I suppose they reinforce the fantasy of the Lands Between too.
I won’t be getting in their way.
