Elden Ring review
If there is a ranking of game projects in terms of ambition, FromSoftware’s Elden Ring is one of the leaders of that ranking. The Japanese developers seem to have set a goal to create the best game ever. And they succeeded, if not one hundred percents, then certainly to a great extent.
Elden Ring is a stage in the work of the studio, which has been going all the way through its existence. And the developers are letting the fans of their games know this by incorporating elements of their earlier brainchildren: Souls, Bloodborne and Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice into Elden Ring. However, the sheer number of homages in Elden Ring should not be misleading.
The game’s pros
The creators managed to combine the incompatible: saturate the game with a huge number of allusions and reminiscences, causing associations with the studio’s previous works, and at the same time create a completely independent game with an admirable scenario, game mechanics, graphics and music.
It is no exaggeration to say that every boss kill in this game is a sheer pleasure – so good is the gameplay, graphics and sound. Most likely, when creating Elden Ring, the developers took into account the comments made by users after the release of Sekiro and Souls. The new development has both the dynamism of the first game and the interesting plot twists inherent in the second.
The world and essence of the game Elden Ring
The game universe, created by George Martin – not just a place for the action of some quest, but a full world, living its own unique life. Exploring this world is simply a pleasure.
As the game progresses, the gamer gradually puts the puzzle together, understanding, for example, the meaning of the Ring or the Great Runes. And understand why the latter must be destroyed in order to save the gods of this game world.
Locations
In Elden Ring, both the terrestrial and underground game worlds are equally interesting. The exploration of tombs and treasure dungeons in the Middle-earth is a separate story branch worthy of the most flattering reviews. The player will have to solve a lot of difficult problems. True, to the developers’ credit it is worth noting that there are absolutely impossible tasks and absolutely unkillable monsters in the game.
When the development of Elden Ring was first announced, Hidetaka Miyazaki said in an interview that the game will be one of the most detailed and one of the most detailed games ever developed for PC and consoles. And he wasn’t lying.
Indeed, it’s hard to find another game with such a well-designed game world. There are absolutely no “just for show” locations in the game. The entire game space is available for exploration. And many gamers are sure to thank the developers for the opportunity to make such an interesting and fascinating journey.
Conclusion to the game Elden Ring
There are 31 different weapons to equip the main character, the Faded One, ranging from swords and clubs to a hand cannon. You can also create in-game assistants – phantoms. Some of them with good training can even fight the bosses themselves.
The disadvantage of the game can be attributed to optimization problems. Relatively tolerable game runs only on PlayStation 5. As for the PC and other console versions, the player has to accept that even on high-performance hardware, some of the most dynamic battles have to be seen as a slideshow.
