![]() ![]() While I like the mythology, mainly reading item descriptions and looking up YouTube lore videos is not what I’d call an ideal practice of video game storytelling.īut again, in the grand scheme of things, these are minor instances, and in fact, reasons to give the game another playthrough with a new build and not missing all the stuff you know not to miss the second time. You will have to do a lot of the heavy lifting yourself to read up on the lore of this world and what’s going on here in this space that George RR Martin himself helped created. Yes, it has some memorable characters and wild cutscenes, but not many, and not often. This is also not a game you’re going to play for its story. There are too many instances like this, which is why I found myself looking up guides more and more as the game went on, as I felt like I would be ruining the game in spite of myself simply trying to figure it all out for my own. There’s “tricky” and there’s “accidentally completing one quest too early 70 hours ago completely breaks the chain of this entire zone,” requiring another full playthrough to get it right. While I enjoy figuring things out for myself, there are many points in the game where it would be literally impossible not to break quests or miss endings or loot without looking up guides, and the longer the game goes, the more there is to miss. If I have any criticisms of Elden Ring it’s that perhaps sometimes it can be a little too obtuse. I cannot get over how truly dense this map is, where it lacks any real sort of indicators about where you should go and what you should do, but simply going anywhere, doing anything, will lead you to interesting locations, scenarios and treasures, and if you don’t explore enough, you can miss entire, massive chunks of a game, like an entire sprawling zone you can only reach if you get two halves of a single medallion from one NPC and one chest out of thousands. The game’s hardest boss, Malenia, will haunt my nightmares for years to come, and she’s already a video game legend (as is a real-life player you can summon to solo her).Ĭombat is fun with any type of build, but where the game really shines is exploration. ![]() You can overlevel for most of the content in the game if you do enough sidequests or rune farming, but eventually you will hit a point where it doesn’t matter, as the last third of the game kicks the difficulty into its final form, and no amount of power will save you. My build had me spamming spells while my summons, first skeletons, then a copy of myself, then a DPS maniac assassin, helped me out and got me through the toughest fights. ![]()
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