![]() ![]() Elden Ring takes place in the lands of… well, the Lands Between after the destruction of something that is known as the ‘Elden Ring’ (roll credits!) and shards of it being scattered all over the lands known as the ‘Great Runes’. The story of the Elden Ring, in true souls game fashion, starts off with a sizable and digestible exposition dump that sets the plot, premise, and scene of the game. Because this story, as amazing as it is when you slowly unravel more and more pieces for yourself, is an incredibly deep, complex, detailed, and the biggest that I’ve ever seen in a souls game of this scale thanks to the man, myth, and legend himself: George R. I don’t usually give away my final thoughts at the very beginning of the article, but Elden Ring is by far, the best souls game with a great setting, story, enemy designs, combat, and sound track. Martin, and Hidetaka Miyazaki (no, not that Miyazaki!) of Dark Souls 3 fame being involved in building a deep, complex, and immersive world. It was nothing short of the greatest masterpiece ever made by FromSoftware in conjunction with Bandai Namco, and even having the writer of the Game of Thrones novels, George R. Leaving little breadcrumbs of content to dampen our hunger for the game.įast forward to the end of February and we all got our hands, mine included, on the game and installed it on our consoles and taking a day off work to play it. And even after two more years of waiting with no news of the game and two whole E3 conventions not showcasing anything from FromSoftware, we still remained in anticipation for the next souls title.Īnd when the story and gameplay trailers came out in the middle of 2021, souls fans around the world rejoiced for an update from the developers from FromSoftware and Bandai Namco giving us an update that the game is very close to completion and to be released in the following year afterwards. ![]() Like many a souls fan, I was a passenger of the hype train when the first trailers for Elden Ring was released in the olden days of… 2019. ![]() This notoriety in gaming also coined the term, ‘The Dark Souls of-’ in reference to the absurd difficulty level that new players will have to overcome to start enjoying the rest of the game properly. Throughout the years, souls games such as Dark Souls have made a name for themselves for being some of the most vague and unforgiving games to start playing. But despite the toxic relationship we have of putting me through an endless loop of pain, tears, and repetition, this subgenre of open-world RPGs still remains as one of my favorites till this very day. That is the average amount of time that I have spent playing between all three Dark Souls games, Bloodborne, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, and the Demon’s Souls remaster on the PS5. ![]()
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