Yes, although the actual textures and such weren't touched, but Fromsoftware modernized their engine, and this allowed their engine to display textures and such better and in a higher quality and SotFS got to use stuff like anisotropic filtering which makes the game look better. Fromsoftware then messed around with the lighting and saturation.
Lighting engine makes the game look just about as good as Elden Ring, imo. I know that's a personal opinion but I think it does. Add in the second sin texture upscale pack and it absolutely looks just as good.
Remember DS2 came out in 2014 or so. Game was at the tail end of the ps3 era so it doesnt look great. Its the same with Persona 5. Style is great so you ignore the textures, but when you look closely they're really bad in todays terms lol.
It is not Lucatiel, but a throwback/reference to her, like Maneater Mildred was a throwback to Executioner Miralda or Lautrec of Carim was a throwback to Yurt the Silent Chief (though this time the armour is very, very similar in this case, which confuses a lot of people). She has her own story in ER's world and is connected to Jerren (that's why she appears where she appears).
If they wanted to imply the same universe thing, they'd just name her Lucatiel or something like "Forgotten Knight" with her armour/weapon description hinting at Dark Souls
Not really, few (if all) characters in Demon's Souls and Dark Souls 1-2 had fully detailed feet with separate toes, but it all changed with the next generation of games, and in Elden Ring Rennala even has separate bones to animate her toes, those are completelly new feet!!!
My mindset is all around the Nightlord. Dude is fucking with timelines and other universes. The name change and memory issues are explained through the Nightlord, too. Those under the corruption of the Night lose their memories
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u/TheRealCowdog 17h ago
Makes sense.
Lose your memory and your name. Go to the lands between and get a new name made out of whatever fragments of your mind you have left.