Dark Souls sleuth Lance McDonald has released a new entry in his fascinating video series unlocking the secrets of From Software's games, this time offering a glimpse at Dark Souls 3's sadly axed "Ceremonies" system.
We first heard about Ceremonies back in April, when McDonald started to poke around the alpha version of Dark Souls 3's mysterious Untended Graves area. Not only did he uncover evidence suggesting that Dark Souls 3 was originally set to feature a very different sequence of events as it neared its conclusion, it also appeared that players would partake in 'ceremonies', changing the world state and time of day within certain areas.
While the optional Untended Graves area and its brighter Cemetery of Ash variant are the most obvious remnants of this cut Ceremonies system (with evidence also pointing to a third, axed iteration of the same location), MacDonald's latest video also notes that Ceremony effects can still be seen at other points in the final game.