When you hear the name FromSoftware, a lot of people tremble, which is not surprising considering that the development team has been juggling the “masocore” gaming market for the past few years. Although the Japanese studio was founded as early as 1986, world fame lasted until 2009, when the PlayStation 3, which has since been refurbished for modern consoles, was released. Demon’s Souls. A quasi – continuation of this, a Dark Souls-trilogy has clearly embedded FromSoftware among the legends of the gaming world, not to mention the Bloodborne and Sekiro side branches.
A Dark Souls it has become such a genre creator that other studios are happy to make superheavy games like these. For example, there is a Mortal Shell, a Niohbut even the Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order it was something like that, relieved soulslike.
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Released on February 25th Elden Ring in some respects Dark Souls continues on the path trodden by. We just have to imagine Hidetaka Miyazaki’s new video game as if the path we could walk was widened to a thousand instead of a meter.
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Our very first step is to create a character, and we can finally say that we can escalate to a normal-looking protagonist and not wake up sweating in the middle of the night when his figure comes to mind. In fact, it is Elden RingWhatever caste we choose, we will maneuver in a helmet or headgear among the deadly opponents, but the Dark Souls-this part of the games has always been a bit crappy and rough.
The Elden Ringben We can choose from ten different characters, including the samurai to our great surprise. If someone were to be a scumbag here too, we can recommend it to him and of course the “vagabond” who is a kind of knight and has such great stats that beginners and players who are just getting to know the genre will have a lot of success right from the start. Wizard castes this time are not worth ignoring, if someone can be taken to ranged combat, an “astrologer” can also be a good choice. You can change the caste later and create a kind of hybrid character, that is Elden Ringnothing is carved in stone.
This is so true that right after the optional tutorial section, the game throws us into the deep water. We get some handrails on what direction to go and what the optimal order would be. The Elden Ring however, it has an open world, and we admit we were a little embarrassed at first because the map of this dark fantasy is so stubborn that we have barely won to discover more and more caves, enemies, and secrets.
Most of the bosses are quite friendly compared to that Elden Ring actually offering a freer environment Dark Souls 4. Until we run into Margaret, the fallen omen that forms an seemingly impassable wall between us and the rest of the game. There is no need to despair, you can go back, get stronger, grind, search, and if we put enough energy into the role-playing part and roughly pull up our character, we can make our own thing easier with this watershed main enemy.
Not to be misunderstood, there will be brutal bosses besides Margit, but she’s the first, one of the most memorable ones to really break into our knife.
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It’s not worth breaking the controller because of it, especially since the later character designs are just as impressive: our opponents are horribly blunt and nightmarish. Although there are dragons and some repetitions, we can click with satisfaction at the sight of the raising. The Elden Ring it can always surprise you, the makers don’t spare players, and we can be very happy about that. Even though the game was struggling with technical issues on the PlayStation 5 for the first few days, it was sometimes intermittent, but luckily a new patch has fixed that. The downside is that since the developers wanted to make it available on most platforms, it doesn’t really give a next-gen experience to Elden Ringbut here the gameplay and the exciting world are the point, and FromSoftware brought the expected in this regard.
The Elden Ringben there is a kind of duality at the same time, his graphics are sometimes ugly, other times he is so picturesque and stunning that one stops to admire it for a minute or two. In the construction of the world, the help of creative director Hidetaka Miyazaki was none other than A song of fire and ice by George RR Martin. The goal, with the involvement of the writer, was to make the narrative more comprehensible on average Dark Soulscompared to the game. This is more or less realized, but in the beginning it is still difficult to put the picture together and the plot is quite foggy.
Presumably, it is thanks to Martin that a lot of characters with Hungarian names have entered the game. Fighting Thrones fans may have gotten used to this, where the first names Sandor and Janos also appeared, even for more important characters.
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The music should definitely be highlighted in connection with the novelty of FromSoftware: sometimes melancholy melodies sound as they blame the countryside on the back of our magical horse called Torrent, other times it is nervous and angry. You can guess, the latter is when we look wolfish-eyed at a seemingly irresistible revenge. The main enemies are, as before, fair. Their movements can be recognized, so they can be overcome with proper practice. If not, you can choose from a few million other minibosses and you can grow smoothly anyway. And going back is never a shame to nurture ourselves a little more.
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The game is a bit like Westeros we would go through a hopeless and insanely cruel version. We say we have no reason to complain because the castles, caves, mountains, wastelands, battlefields discovered are amazingly varied and well developed. FromSoftware once again didn’t give in to its critics, and they created something that a fraction of the customers are expected to be able to finish, god forbid, to push it 100%. We do not undertake the latter, but we have set ourselves the goal, because if it is Elden Ring once you sniff, you won’t let go anymore.
The gaming experience from FromSoftware is leading the way in this year’s news, we are looking forward to God of War Ragnarwill they be able to squeeze them in any way. Or whatever else of the news coming in 2022, the bar was set very high by the Miyazaki.
The Elden Ring It is also available for PC, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X / S. We tested the new game from FromSoftware on PS5.
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