In probably the best gaming prank since Street Fighter's Shen Long , Dark Souls director Hidetaka Miyazaki has revealed that the mysterious pendant starting item - that fans have been scratching their heads trying to figure out since the game's release - honestly has no function whatsoever. In an interview with IGN , Miyazaki revealed that "when it comes to the pendant, I actually had a little bit of an intention to play a prank."
The fan conspiracy theories probably began when Miyazaki said, as part of a Famitsu interview, that he'd choose the pendant or nothing as a starting gift - and that's despite the in-game description of it as a trinket with "no effect". In any other series that would be the end of it, but Demon's/Dark Souls is so chock-full of secrets that a secretly magical pendant was a very real possibility.
Of course, now we're thinking that perhaps this is a triple -bluff, and the pendant has some amazing use after all. That's the beauty of Dark Souls' deliberately vague, mystery-laden world - you could believe just about anything to be lurking inside it.
It's not the Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice 2 I'd hoped for, but Elden Ring: Nightreign might just sate my insatiable hunger for FromSoftware to pick up the pace
FromSoftware's Hidetaka Miyazaki says the studio doesn't 'have any particular plans to develop Elden Ring 2', but that doesn't mean the 'Elden Ring IP' is over
