When it comes to From Software’s latest, this is an anecdote to keep in mind, as the game is full of these moments. It’s an organic way of doing things and is designed to ensure that players are corralled down a pathway to success, without punishing the player for wanting to push the challenge or to explore further. However, if you have the mettle and the skills to get around it, the skeletons are merely a dangerous nuisance and a reminder that nowhere is off limits to a player that knows how to play by the game’s rules. Now, for those that have played and understood Dark Souls, they know that this is the game trying to tell you something. This is Dark Souls’ creator Hidetaka Miyazaki’s eldritch baby through-and-through all decaying kingdoms, unsettling NPCs, and towering, twisted bosses with names like Margit The Fell Omen and Beastman Of Farum Azula. If publisher Bandai Namco hadn’t mentioned Martin was a part of Elden Ring, I’m not sure I would ever have noticed.

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Martin’s involvement, I’d assumed the Game Of Thrones’ scribe had been enlisted to ground things, inasmuch as a fantasy story can be grounded. Given the amount of noise that was made around George R.R. Like the vast majority of FromSoftware games, Elden Ring’s story and lore will no doubt prove borderline impenetrable to all but the most dedicated of scholars.

It’s also, I am delighted to report, FromSoftware’s best game to date a modern masterpiece that will surely go down as one of the greats. The ambitious open-world successor to the Dark Souls series is maddeningly punishing, impossibly vast, and endlessly rewarding. This is Elden Ring, and I am utterly besotted. And when I return? I will wreck that f****ng tree. But I make a silent vow to myself: I will leave this cursed tomb and get stronger.

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