I went into this thinking "is this really just gonna be open world dark souls but they changed all the terms around and theres a glowy tree?"

I was hoping I was going to be proven wrong, but honestly the farther I get the more I'm proven right. Its still the same souls formula so I can't say its bad per say, just this is easily the most stale souls game I've played so far.

Reviewed on May 24, 2024


3 Comments


27 days ago

what if we reskinned dark souls but without the map design!?

26 days ago

@badvibe I think the dungeons themselves are still well designed, its just instead of them all being easily connected to each other, theyre now separated by long stretches of nothing

26 days ago

@slimedotcom yes i agree,and it extends into the entire design philosophy. i dislike how in an elden ring playthrough i have to like, plan where I'm gonna go and what to get whereas in a DS playthrough for the most part I can basically do everything just a different way. but idk the BotW fans were happy and fromsoft got paid and the anti-elden ring discursive element is becoming more accepted so i guess I'll choose 2b happy for everyone