Recent reviews by Eraksis

Back to monke never felt better

Really fun if you like exploring in fantasy world with a side of realism, looks incredible. Combat is a bit slower than the first one tho, but the hit have a good OOMPF about them when it lands right. Really good game, the MTX are disapointing but you get everyone of them for a pretty much nothing in game so i don't really see the purpose of them, at least you can do the game without caring about them.

I'm doing my part.

Really good if you like Sekiro combat you'll like it, A bit short tho but quality over quantity i'd say.

Good game to sink hours into, the new player experience is not good tho

Before i start, i want to say that every experience is subjective. So for you to have a little bit of context about my experience of the game :

- I've already played and finished dark souls (I,II,III) and sekiro and i really liked those games.

- I play video games regulary but i'm not that good, i can struggle and i'm not a "sweat" type player

- I did not experienced any performance issues while playing elden ring for some reason, even with my laptop (gtx1070, 16 gb of ram)

- Even if give the game 10/10, i don't think EVERYONE, should play it, every games are differents and offers differents type of experience and therefore, every game is not meant for everybody.

BUT



Elden ring is for me a : masterpiece. As an artist who works in the videogame industry, i find the art direction unmatched, the graphical quality of the game is not meant to reproduce the reality with gorgeous texture but i look FANTASTIC nevertheless. As you progress to the world you are in constant ah of what the game as to offer in his character design, places, music everything come together to immerse the player in the dangerous world of the land between.

The game in itself is extremely dense there are cave, ruin, fort, castle in every corner, and it feels really rewarding to be curious, because of the variety of enemies and unique loot to find in those caves. Even with an open world dense like that, the main level that you have to go through for the story have the same quality of the game before them, but with a lot more verticality you Can go 3 time in the same castle and find 3 differents way to explore it.

In term of gameplay, for a "souls veterant" like me, i feel like this game offers the most ways to build your character in any ways you want, you can customize weapons by swapping theyre special attacks, and use whatever tool you want to tackle the game difficulty : you want to be a tanky mage ? A fast bowman ? A heavy knight with dragons power ? You can do it and mix everything while still maintining it viable and enjoyable.

Now let's talk about the elephant in the room : The difficulty. If you're new to the serie i think this is the best place to start, elden ring is still challenging in the classical souls way, but there is a loot of tools to give the player a little rest in combat (like summoning npc to fight with you on command) and a lot of ranged weapons and ways to fight.
Additionaly, elden ring being an open world you can explore the world to seamlessly lvl up before trying to tackle a boss. This give the player room to breath in between bosses.

I will add that from software games are suffering from their reputation of being difficult. It's not an easy game, and it requires a little bit of getting used to. But after some time if you're willing to learn how the games works, you can finish the game without that much of problems. And i really encourage people to do it because it's really rewarding.

For me who was tired of most recent video games, Elden ring give the fresh experiencz i needed to "fall in love in a game" once again. The last time i felt like this playing was in zelda breath of the wild, it feels like i'm entering a new world, with everything to learn and it's a lot lot lot of fun.

And uf you're worry about the lenght of the game, be not. It's really really big and it has a lot of quests outside of the main one, it take probalbly 80 to 100 hours to finish the first playthrough, without taking all the npc quests.

So yeah 10/10 because Elden ring is exactly what itns aspiring to be, it's different from everything i've played, it's beautyfull it sounds good, the voice acting is perfect, i'm never bored while exploring the open world, it's not frustrating to fight boss, and it has a lot of replayability with all the builds and differents branch of quests(And yes it's different from dark souls, it's not just BIG DARK SOULS 4) Don't hesitate give it a go.

good game with a lot of great mods

TOUT CE QUE LES JOUEURS DE MONSTER HUNTER ATTENDAIENT ! un vrai pas en avant pour la série ! super jeu !

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