Elden Ring is Huge, quite frankly massive. and It could be said, and will be said, by me, that it was TOO big for its own good.
Elden Ring is a good game, a damn good game and I absolutely can see why people think it is one of the best games of all time, but to me it's not. If anything I was disappointed because I've heard all of that and it didn't quite hit for me and It's a shame. However I will summarise it quickly before I go more in depth.
Elden Ring is Dark Souls 2 done right.
Gameplay - Elden Ring is the Gameplay of Dark Souls 3 but more refined and with more QoL features which allow for more fun and varied gameplay... If you don't like challenge. Elden Ring is one of the easiest games in this genre, if not the easiest aside from a few boss fights which were unfairly difficult like Malenia... which I have pure hatred and PTSD of "I AM MALENIA BLADE OF MIQUELLA" taunting on me with every death. Nontheless, if you're looking for a soulsborne game to start with ER is a perfect start for it. Alongside that, if You are a veteran you will absolutely adore the massive variety of playstyles and builds I don't believe many other games can say is possible.
Story - beautiful worldbuilding created by GRRM and built upon by Miyazaki. But other than its lore I believe it is Other than Dark souls 2) the weakest overall story of the catalogue. It is a shame as it had some really good building up but it never really hit. I must absolutely say, I love how I played through the game and found I missed so many people, forgot about others, and only finished a few stories. This is very well done and opens up for more playthroughs, which I will eventually get around to another year.
World - Other than my thoughts on it being maybe too large for it's own good, the most major positives of the game come from the first 2/3s of the game, absolutely beautifully paced until the mountaintops, stunning design with brilliant level design. This is always FromSoft in their element and here is no different. Even the mountaintops is only meh at worst and not even bad. What's been said by most reviews here I will have to say for this. Unbelievable world design.
Bosses - worst part of this game, while being extremely awesome to see and fight initially. most bosses turn out to be redone over and over and over through the game, on top of this I believe a lot of bosses were made unfairly and unfun, like Malenia, like Hourax Loux etc. they could've balanced these bosses so much better.
To summarise, this game is flawed but still great, not on the same level asmost FromSoft Games but far from bad, an unbelievable world, mazing score, great lore and incredibly done gameplay make this games positives really high, but it's bad enemy layouts, reused bosses, bad storytelling make the game unable to reach 5 Stars and thus
I give this game an 8.75/10
definitely buy it
I'll be playing the DLC and will make a separate review for it, I'm very excited
Elden Ring is a good game, a damn good game and I absolutely can see why people think it is one of the best games of all time, but to me it's not. If anything I was disappointed because I've heard all of that and it didn't quite hit for me and It's a shame. However I will summarise it quickly before I go more in depth.
Elden Ring is Dark Souls 2 done right.
Gameplay - Elden Ring is the Gameplay of Dark Souls 3 but more refined and with more QoL features which allow for more fun and varied gameplay... If you don't like challenge. Elden Ring is one of the easiest games in this genre, if not the easiest aside from a few boss fights which were unfairly difficult like Malenia... which I have pure hatred and PTSD of "I AM MALENIA BLADE OF MIQUELLA" taunting on me with every death. Nontheless, if you're looking for a soulsborne game to start with ER is a perfect start for it. Alongside that, if You are a veteran you will absolutely adore the massive variety of playstyles and builds I don't believe many other games can say is possible.
Story - beautiful worldbuilding created by GRRM and built upon by Miyazaki. But other than its lore I believe it is Other than Dark souls 2) the weakest overall story of the catalogue. It is a shame as it had some really good building up but it never really hit. I must absolutely say, I love how I played through the game and found I missed so many people, forgot about others, and only finished a few stories. This is very well done and opens up for more playthroughs, which I will eventually get around to another year.
World - Other than my thoughts on it being maybe too large for it's own good, the most major positives of the game come from the first 2/3s of the game, absolutely beautifully paced until the mountaintops, stunning design with brilliant level design. This is always FromSoft in their element and here is no different. Even the mountaintops is only meh at worst and not even bad. What's been said by most reviews here I will have to say for this. Unbelievable world design.
Bosses - worst part of this game, while being extremely awesome to see and fight initially. most bosses turn out to be redone over and over and over through the game, on top of this I believe a lot of bosses were made unfairly and unfun, like Malenia, like Hourax Loux etc. they could've balanced these bosses so much better.
To summarise, this game is flawed but still great, not on the same level asmost FromSoft Games but far from bad, an unbelievable world, mazing score, great lore and incredibly done gameplay make this games positives really high, but it's bad enemy layouts, reused bosses, bad storytelling make the game unable to reach 5 Stars and thus
I give this game an 8.75/10
definitely buy it
I'll be playing the DLC and will make a separate review for it, I'm very excited