Exploring the golden forests of the Altus Plateau in Elden Ring triggered a residual memory of running through a similarly hued forest in a vaguely realistic and vaguely open-world fantasy game when the PlayStation 2 first came out.
I did some digging, and I think this game was Evergrace, which was one of the PS2 launch titles from 2000. There's not much information about the game available online, but its Wikipedia entry is (here).
It turns out that this game was also made by From Software. Interesting!
It might be fun to dig into this more deeply, but maybe not. I get the feeling that Evergrace is one of the many action-adventure fantasy games from the PS1/PS2 era that should probably remain a comfortably hazy memory.
I did some digging, and I think this game was Evergrace, which was one of the PS2 launch titles from 2000. There's not much information about the game available online, but its Wikipedia entry is (here).
It turns out that this game was also made by From Software. Interesting!
It might be fun to dig into this more deeply, but maybe not. I get the feeling that Evergrace is one of the many action-adventure fantasy games from the PS1/PS2 era that should probably remain a comfortably hazy memory.