Last week, I got Elden Ring and made a post about my first impressions of the game. Since that post, I have put in around 15 more hours into playing it and trying to figure out how things work.
So far, this game has been a ton of fun. Extremely hard, but a lot of fun. The boss fights in this game are crazy. The first boss that really gave me a hard time was Godrick The Grafted at the end of Stormveil Castle. But man, this fight was amazing.
This is one of the coolest designs for a boss I think I have ever seen. He was massive and had a ton of arms coming out of his body and all sorts of weapons in his hands. About halfway through the fight, he takes a huge axe and chops off one of his hands, and then shoves it into a dead dragon's head and the dragon head becomes part of his arm and he shoots fire all over the place. It was insane.
But in the end, Godrick was no match for my glintstone pebble spell and my rock hurling spell. So many people talk shit on the magic in this game and say that if you play a caster, you won't enjoy the game, but I would beg to differ. Getting wrecked over and over trying to play a melee class in this game does not sound like a good time and it is the main reason I never got into the Souls games in the first place. I would much rather spend my time exploring and enjoying my time in the game and not getting smashed every few minutes.
This game is HUGE and there are plenty of things to die from in it, regardless of the class you play. Exploration is a huge part of the game and it is a ton of fun to just go around exploring and looking for secret dungeons.
The dragons in this game are some of the coolest looking dragons I have ever seen in a video game.
This game also has some of the coolest looking enemies that you can encounter. Like this huge head that rolls around spewing fire at you. Getting screenshots during a fight is pretty tough and I have died so many times just trying to take pictures in this game since there is no pause button or anything.
You also run into some of the weirdest NPCs ever. Like this old lady with a bunch of arms that just wants to play with your fingers. The whole finger obsession with this game is kind of confusing. You need fingers to do so many things
Then there are these two huge fingers that seem to be treated as gods or something. There is so much to this game and the lore in it is stuff I have never even thought I would ever experience. I think that is one of the major draws to this game is just how different it is from any of the other games I have ever played.
This game does not hold your hand at all. Even with questing. It reminds me a lot of early World of Warcraft where you had to actually read the quests and search out the places on the maps, instead of just following way points. This game takes it to another level than that though and doesn't even have a quest log for you. You need to try and remember what NPCs have asked you to do and where to go.
My brother told me that he uses a notepad to track what he is supposed to do and who to talk to. I haven't gotten to that level yet, but I have completed a couple different quests. It is so different than just following way points. It helps immerse you into the game in such a cool way, but it can get a bit overwhelming trying to remember that stuff.
Overall, this game is really cool and I am glad that I got it and put in the time to try and figure out how it works. I am just scratching the surface and have so much more to do in it. I have no idea if I will ever finish the game, but I have been having a blast exploring and getting killed by everything.
