Recent reviews by Mey

Why is Lou so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ annoying STOP DMING ME I only wish to speak to Weaver thank you

Awesome, one of their best.
I hope they keep making games like this instead of remaking Dark Souls over and over

343 Industries insists on molesting and attempting to ruin 22 year old games by adding skins and collectibles but I can play Halo 2 on a handheld now so whatever I guess

Very cute and very fun co-op game. I hope this game becomes more popular, it honestly deserves it. Also there is a dedicated chirp button.

Fantastic, thought provoking, and horrifying. I hope Frictional continues to make story based games like this.

What a fantastic game, I really really loved it.

Its clearly inspired by Undertale, but in my opinion it surpasses it. The story is interesting and an intense ride, the gameplay is incredibly fun and challenging, the visuals are actually really nice, and the music is really fantastic.

It has absolutely become one of my favorites. I guess as a nice bonus it doesnt have the furbait that Undertale does, or the hard to tolerate fanbase. Its hard not to recommend.

I have at last finished this behemoth of a game and I am so excited to finally describe why I dont like it.

For some context I have played every FromSoftware game past Demon's Souls, which includes Dark Souls, Dark Souls 2, Bloodborne, Dark Souls 3, and Sekiro. With that being said I struggle to put into words how derivative the gameplay is. If you have played Dark Souls 3 you have basically experienced the entire gameplay experience of this game. Same dodging mechanics, weapon mechanics, weapons, animations, gear, rings (now talismans), basically everything. The only major gameplay differences is now you have a horse in the open world, can jump, and can swap weapon arts on normal weapons. Thats it. In fact, a MASSIVE amount of animations are reused. For the player, the enemies, everything. If you have played any of those other games you have seen half of the animations in this game already

People hype up how hard this game is. It really really isnt that hard. Its maybe on par with Dark Souls 3 at its very hardest. If you have experience with these games you will defeat most bosses in 1-2 tries. A few stand out as quite difficult (Malenia and The Owl Godfrey for example) but the vast majority are quite easy.

Speaking of the open world, lets talk about that. Its a FANTASTIC idea in theory. The problem is that is not fun. In these Dark Soulsy games I feel as though part of the experience is exploring the world and picking up all the items and everything. Elden Ring takes that and turns it into such a massive, laborious chore that it makes to dread every time you need to go into a new area. Everything is so spread out, so distant, that finding most of the items and exploring areas takes AGES. It turns the areas in between the many, MANY castles into massive commutes that serve nothing.

On the topic of running around, lets talk about the enemies of Elden Ring. When I started this game my intent was to play it as ive played every game before it. Enter new area, go through the process of killing every enemy and then go around and loot everything. This is how I started Elden Ring before I eventually gave up. There is no reason to fight all the enemies. The enemies draw very, VERY little runes (souls from the previous games) and few items, and the game places so many all over the place that its just such a massive chore. By the end of the game the enemies get so unreasonably tanky that you are just sprinting though every area grabbing things and leaving. The minibosses that you find (think black knights from DS1 or outrider knights from DS3) drop literally nothing except a tiny amount of runes. in DS1 every time you killed one you got something like a titanite chunk, some kind of good reward. But nah, nothing in this game. Entirely a waste of time to even bother with them.

On the topic of enemies, what about bosses? Most of them are quite easy as ive said before. Some are still fun, others end up being very boring because of this. However, I hope you are ready to fight the same bosses over, and over, and OVER again. You will fight the same Erdtree guardian about 8 times, you will end up fighting about 10 Godskin dudes, etc. You will walk into an arena, see a boss you have killed 5 times already and just sigh. Near the end of the game it gets RIDICULOUS, because the game seems to say "alright you have fought this guy before BUT HAVE YOU FOUGHT 2 AT THE SAME TIME??". Im serious, there was a moment in the game where the last 5 bosses were double bosses. Its not fun, its just frustrating and annoying. It was fun when you did it with O&S Fromsoft, its not fun when you spam them. I know why they did this, this game is MASSIVE. You will have to reuse things here and there but my god, id rather have nothing than the same ♥♥♥♥ over and over.

What about good things I can say about this game? Well, its very pretty for one. I love the visuals and its very enjoyable to just look around at the scenery. The worldbuilding and story are quite good, I enjoyed them greatly. As I attempt to write good things about this game I have come to realize the vast majority of good things I can say are just positive from previous games. Its so derivative in terms of gameplay I feel as though I have played this game several times under different names. I played this game when it was called Dark Souls, I played this game when it was called Dark Souls 3, I played this game when it was Bloodborne, Dark Souls 2, etc.

Every time boot this game up I was excited to play, and within 30 minutes every time I was absolutely miserable. I only trudged through this game because of how badly I wanted to write this review and get these thoughts out. It has its moments (as described before) but holy crap is it annoying.

tl;dr Story and world are nice, the majority of positives are things reused from previous games, and far, FAR too much was reused. It wasnt very difficult and late game is a boring slog as you sprint through every area because fighting every enemy because so tedious and pointless because you get no rewards you just wanna get through it. Just play Sekiro instead its the best game Fromsoft has made and it offers a meaty challenge.

Very pretty
Very jammin
Very short
Very gay
Very touches my heart

Fantastic, extremely orange

Almost flawless