Elden Ring Tarnished Edition's Heavy Knight Is a Wake-Up Call for Dark Souls Purists

On August 28, Elden Ring is making the leap to Nintendo Switch 2 via the Tarnished Edition, a packaged version of the base game, Shadow of the Erdtree, and a lean suite of new content — but fans on other platforms need not worry: the paid Tarnished Pack will make all new content available on all other platforms that same day. And though the content update is actually adding two new starting classes, one of them in particular seems like it's got a lot to say about the state of the Soulsbornecommunity. Indeed, the new Heavy Knight, officially described as "a knight in bulky steel armor capable of mowing through foes" with an enormous new scimitar, looks like the most pointed new addition to Elden Ring by far.