Elden Ring Shadow Of The Erdtree bosses and how they'd accept a Game Award

Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree is eligible for 2024’s Game Of The Year award, and while it’s been considered a controversial nomination, I think it deserves the win.

I also think it’s really funny to imagine what the bosses from Shadow Of The Erdtree would make of The Game Awards, and how they’d cope being handed one of those prestigious trophies.

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So without further ado, here are all the main bosses of Shadow Of The Erdtree and how I think they’d fare going up on stage with the final boss of gaming, Geoff Keighley.

Let’s start with Golden Hippopotamus and get this monstrosity out of the way first because I think we can all agree that it shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near the event venue. The Golden Hippopotamus comes out of nowhere on your quest to find Miquella, and was picked apart by fans for having janky hitboxes. I hated this boss and you should too, so let’s keep it away from The Game Awards before it eats Geoff.

Rellana, Twin Moon Knight, is someone I imagine would rock up to The Game Awards in her finest armour, dazzling other guests and elegantly strutting onto the stage to claim her prize. There’d be an air of sadness around her though. Why? Because she desperately wanted Messmer to accompany her to the awards ceremony. He turned her down, but she’d already accepted the invite. She’d still turn up, but it’s clear she wanted to come with her date.

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Bayle The Dread … Once you've gotten over the hurdle of squeezing an enormous dragon onto the stage, I think Bayle would, for the most part, be gracious when accepting a Game Award. However, as Geoff hands the trophy over to the beast, a scream will be heard from the audience, as a man rises from his seat shouting, “BAAAAAYLE, VIIIIILE BAAAAAYLE.” It’s Igon, he turned up for the sole purpose of heckling.

Divine Beast Dancing Lion is the boss you’d usually encounter first in the DLC. I can’t imagine the Dancing Lion would be very good at accepting a Game Award though. For starters, I don’t think it has hands, so it’d have to carry the award around in its teeth. Secondly, it dances and prances around the place which I’d imagine would cause some property damage as it moved onto the main stage. I hear Snoop Dogg is performing live at The Game Awards this year though so if he’s in need of a spare back-up dancer…

Commander Gaius would be a good attendee, but there’s one problem: the boar he rides around. I don’t know what the pet policy is like at The Game Awards but I don’t imagine he’d get his trusty steed in without raising the alarm. I suppose he could argue it’s his emotional support boar though…?

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Scadutree Avatar definitely doesn’t strike me as the type of boss that would cooperate with a big event like this. Guests would be pulling thorns out of their clothes for weeks if this thing attended. Also I don’t know why, but I get the feeling the Scadutree Avatar is the type to jump on-stage and steal someone else’s award.

Putrescent Knight is another one I’d keep off the guest list, personally - mainly because it’s a rotting mass of bone and skin and it’d smell terrible. Besides, if this thing hangs around too long, Hideo Kojima might recruit it for Death Stranding 2.

Romina, Saint of The Bud, is a funny one because I’d imagine she’d arrive in a frankly fabulous dress, and heels for her many insect feet. She would effortlessly glide on stage, accept her award and give Geoff a peck on the cheek only for disaster to strike… Scarlet Rot absolutely everywhere. It’d probably melt the award, and Geoff.

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Messmer The Impaler is my favourite boss in the DLC and I know I’m not alone in that. How would Messmer accept a Game Award? Simple, he wouldn’t. Messmer, as we all know, is a miserable bugger. He’s not leaving his chamber for something his beloved mother Marika isn’t going to be present for. Again, he got the invite from Rellana but it’s like trying to get a stroppy teenager to go outside and touch grass, it’s just not going to happen.

Metyr, Mother of Fingers, is made up of a lot of fingers but very few thumbs, so I can’t imagine it would accept a Game Award too well. It can shoot some cool lasers though so it’d do for a lightshow at the end of the ceremony.

Midra, Lord of Frenzied Flame … hm. If Midra is in the fragile, broken state you find him in, I’d imagine he’d be a very rude and disruptive guest. He’d waddle on stage, snatch his award and waddle off again. In his Lord Of Frenzied Flame form though, he’d burn the venue down and turn the audience mad, so hopefully he loses his invite.

Needle Knight Leda is a very simple one. She’d gracefully accept the award from Geoff and dedicate it to Miquella before returning to her seat, enough said.

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Last but not least, Promised Consort Radahn. The important thing to note here is Radahn wouldn’t say or do anything, he’d just be there to carry Miquella around. Miquella, on the other hand, would accept the award and give the most glorious speech your ears have ever heard, stealing the hearts of the entire audience and everyone watching. No idea what he’d have planned for the after party though.

And there you have it, how I’d imagine the Shadow Of The Erdtree bosses would accept a Game Award. Now I don’t know if it has what it takes to win but it’s certainly a contender, and as a huge fan of FromSoftware and its games, it has my backing all the way.