Rise, Tarnished. Elden Ring is our favourite game of the year.
Has a whip ever awoken something in you? Take that question however you want—for me, whips were the catalyst for fully appreciating how much FromSoftware has improved the flexibility of its combat over the last decade. Compared to the Souls games that have pretty clear picks for the best weapons, Elden Ring lets you stick practically any ability and affinity on any weapon and dual wield for new moves.
The scale of Elden Ring's open world exhausted me, but the depth of that arsenal is going to keep me coming back for years. I mean, have you seen that twinblade with a scythe on it? I'll never go back to the monogamous sword life.Weird builds are definitely one of the best things to come out of Elden Ring.
This is not to say that Elden Ring, on its own, is not an exceptional game. It wouldn't have so dominated the early part of the year otherwise. FromSoftware's stuff always does it for me, but I'm also impatient and easily frustrated by even the tiniest bit of adversity, so I'm often on the edge of packing it all in. Elden Ring's freewheeling open world and concessions to accessibility solves that problem nicely.
have worked. It was common speculation leading up up to launch day that the classic Souls formula of tight corners and sneak attacks just wouldn't translate to an open world. Not only were there plenty of legacy dungeons and interior areas to keep FromSoftware's signature tight level design, but even open world encounters genuinely kept me on my toes with my Tarnished's head on a swivel.
As a long time Dark Souls evangelist, I am mostly happy to see FromSoftware impress so many more people with its weird and tremendous imagination. Elden Ring is packed with so much creativity. It’s rare to be so taken by a game like that, especially when many of them are sequels to existing franchises. Elden Ring synthesizes the open world framework with western fantasy in a way that is immediately familiar and inviting and then spends most of its length twisting your expectations.
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