Elden Ring players are making horrific masterpieces with the character creator

Elden Ring is nothing if not about perseverance. And also extremely good recreations of famous people using the in-game character creator. There’s a whole community over on Reddit – r/SoulsSliders – who’ve dedicated themselves to showing off their latest masterpieces, like, for example this horrifically photorealistic version of rick from Rick And Morty, because of course.

In other games, like Nioh 2, after you’ve made your character, you’re giving a little code that you can send to other people. But not here! This is Elden Ring baby! The SoulsSliders subreddit (which was created in 2016 but has, as you can imagine, Elden Ring gone crazy recently) exists to try find a solution to this problem. The rules are pretty simple: “if you post a character, you must post the sliders.” What most people opt for is posting a picture of their creation, with, like, 19 other screenshots in an album showing every customization feature they’ve used. Because that’s actually the easiest way.

Elden Ring allows for needlessly deep customization – see also Ed’s post about a terrifying Sonic player – so there are genuinely some incredible creations on display. The Reddit user bellyPower made Robert Pattinson’s Batmancomplete with the eye make-up, for realism.

There are a lot of game characters in play. SpookMcBones’ made a very impressive version of the world’s greatest dad, Kratosand pistolers Sekiro who has now ended up in the Lands Between. Hasn’t he suffered enough?

Remember a few years ago when it felt like geralt what getting put into every game that came out? Well, it’s not funny now, but think about how funny it would’ve been if you saw this back then. For Nier fans, you can make a pretty good one A2 in Elden Ring. Just pick up a katana and it’s the same thing, if you squint extremely hard. Turtle_man00’s made an updated version of the doom guycomplete with his ridiculously defined jaw.

And of course, there are more absurd ones. What about a terrifying Willem Dafoe? No, not the Green Goblin, or the dude from The Lighthouse, but literally, just Willem Dafoe. Or how do you feel about dr Manhattan? He’s even got the hydrogen atom on his forehead. Surely, you have to go for a magic build right?

Elden ring does lets you change your character’s appearance at any point… I might spend a few hours running about as Kratos now.