[2022-03-02] I WAS SO WRONG about Elden Ring [Prq3ihmT4zk]

A few days ago, I made a pretty critical

review of Elden Ring. And to be honest,

when I first played the game, I really

hated it. It was just such an annoying

game and I kept quitting out of

frustration. But there was just something

about the game that kept drawing me back

to it. I found myself going back to the

game and trying again and again and again.

And I think I cracked it. I'm actually

really hooked. I'm really addicted to the

game now. And I have nearly 50 hours of

playtime. And I'm just so glad that I

managed to get over the beginning

difficulty hurdle and I decided to put in

the time and effort to learn how to get

good at the game. Because when you get

past that initial phase of pain that you

experience in the beginning of Elden Ring,

you really are in for a treat. I honestly

haven't been this addicted to a video game

since last year when New World came out,

and I can honestly say that Elden Ring is

better than New World in almost every

single way. So I made some pretty harsh

statements in my video review of Elden

Ring that I don't really stand by anymore,

and I would like to retract and adjust.

One of my complaints about Elden Ring in

my initial video was about the controls.

Now, as a PC gamer, I'm usually used to

playing with keyboard and mouse, and the

idea of a controller being better than

keyboard mouse just really didn't register

with me. So I plugged in my Xbox

controller, which I never really used up

until now, and wow, the game just feels so

much better when you're using a controller

than when you're using a keyboard and

mouse. It just feels good. All of the

buttons are close to where you need them

to be. I just felt like I was way better

at dodging and blocking and rolling around

with the controller than I was with the

keyboard and mouse. So if you're playing

on PC, I definitely recommend using a

controller over the keyboard and mouse.

Now I still think the game is a bit clunky

and unresponsive, but you do get used to

it, and you just kind of have to accept

the fact that that is how the game plays

and feels like. When you're moving the

character around, it really feels like

there's weight and gravity to your

movements, and you kind of have to

anticipate that and calculate that into

your battle strategy. And actually, I'm

really enjoying the combat. It feels good,

it feels satisfying, even though I thought

it was frustrating at first. When you

start to get a feel for how the combat

works and you start to get a bit good at

it, it feels really satisfying when you

roll out of the way and dodge some attack

and you manage to get in a sneaky stab.

One thing I noticed about the combat is it

feels deadly when swing a sword, it feels

like there's weight and gravity and

actually feels like damage is being done.

One of my favorite things about Elden Ring

has to be the huge variety and selection

of weapons. There's just so many weapons

in the game, and I really wasn't expecting

to have this amount of choice. You've got

daggers, short swords, swords,

greatswords, colossal swords, polearms,

axes, and, and you've also got more exotic

weapons like whips and wolverine claws and

bladed fisted weapons. And you can also

get really cool weapons if you defeat

certain bosses. I just really love how

flexible it is when it comes to being able

to choose your own kind of playstyle. If

you want to dual wield swords or dual

wield a polearm or have a sword in one

hand and an axe in the other hand, it's up

to you. You can choose whatever you want,

and you can also assign a special ability

to your weapon. So you can spend hours and

hours just playing around and tinkering

around with different weapon setups and

combinations. One of the other points I

made in my review video was that the open

world was very bland and boring. I think I

was kind of wrong about this because when

you do explore the open world, you can

discover and find very interesting things

like hidden dungeons, hidden cellars that

lead to secret bosses and have some kind

of secret interesting chest as a reward.

And actually, I find the game world to be

quite pretty. It might not have the best

graphics, but the art style is what makes

it very intriguing and interesting to me.

I really love how you have all these

castles in the background. They just look

so striking and interesting. It just makes

you want to go— first of all, it makes you

want to stare at them for a bit, and then

it makes you want to go over there and

explore it. And as someone who's a big fan

of European-style castles, I really love

how there's loads of really cool-looking

European-style castles in Elden Ring. And

some of them are massive, some of them are

smaller, and you get to go inside and

appreciate the architecture. I just really

love the atmosphere in each of the

castles. It really makes me want to

explore every nook and cranny. And when

you're exploring the inside of these

castles, things can get really intense

because there's only a few checkpoints,

and if you die, you lose all of your runes

unless you go back to the spot you died

and recover them. But if you die on the

way to trying to retrieve them, then they

all get lost. And I've recently been

exploring Redmane Castle, and it's been

one of the most stressful castles in the

game so far because there's no checkpoints

in the whole castle up until the last boss

area. So if you get all the way into the

castle, which is very heavily protected,

you have to sneak in and try not to die,

otherwise you get sent all the way back

outside of the castle and have to try and

get back inside again. The game can be

extremely unforgiving at times. For

example, one time I had about 10,000 runes

saved up. I accidentally fell off a cliff,

and then whilst I was trying to get back

to where I fell off, I fell off the cliff

again and then lost all my runes. The

landscape in Elden Ring is just so

picturesque. I can't remember the last

time I played a game where I just stopped

moving just so I could appreciate the

landscape. It feels like you're inside of

a painting. It just has such a unique

visual appearance and style that I don't

remember seeing in any other game. Now,

as for the boss battles and how annoying

and difficult they are, yes, they can be

very frustrating, and it's taken me hours

and hours and hours to try and defeat some

of the bosses in the game. But I feel like

that's what part of the fun is. It's just

trying to get better and better and trying

to improve your dodging and trying to

figure out the tactics for each boss, and

also trying to figure out new strategies.

If your current strategy is not working,

then you can try something else. For

example, I was really stuck on this one

boss, and I felt like I tried everything.

I tried all of the different summoning

spirits to try and figure out which one is

the most effective. I tried out all of my

different weapons to try and figure out

which weapon combination was the most

effective. First of all, I was trying dual

claymores, but they were just too slow and

I couldn't get enough hits in fast enough.

But I figured out that using a sword and

shield was better, and I also changed my

armor from heavy armor to medium armor so

I could roll around and move faster. And I

also leveled up my summoning spirit to

level 2, and I managed to take down the

boss after 4 hours of bashing my head

against it. And the feeling you get after

struggling on a boss for such a long time,

when you finally take it down and you get

that sweet loot, that sweet reward, it

just feels so good. And my heart was

beating so fast and so hard when I was

near to defeating it. And that is one of

the reasons why the game is so damn

addictive, because it gets you pumping.

It gets your blood pumping, your

adrenaline going, and you get that really

nice reward at the end. It just really

makes you want to keep going on and on and

on, trying to find the next challenge. I

love that feeling when you enter a new

zone and all the enemies look really

intimidating and scary and formidable,

but then you start fighting them, you

start to learn their attack patterns, and

then they actually become pretty easy to

take down and you start feeling pretty

powerful. And I feel like it's a bit of a

shame that a lot of new players to the

game might end up rage quitting the game

because in the start of the game it is

very frustrating. And if you're not used

to that kind of game, then yes, you might

be put off by the way it feels and plays.

But if you give the game a chance and you

put in a bit of time and effort into

trying to get good at the game, then yes,

it really does become very fun. I remember

in the beginning of the game they put this

massive boss, a mounted boss with this

massive polearm, right at the beginning of

the game. And I thought to myself, Jesus,

how am I supposed to take this guy down?

I just started, I'm like level 2. And then

I came back to the same zone 20 levels

later, and I defeated that boss and took

his polearm. And that feeling was just

great. It feels like the whole world is so

dangerous and scary when you start off,

and then you get stronger and stronger and

you start to feel like, actually, I'm the

strong one here. So yeah, in conclusion,

I'm really glad that I gave the game a

second, a third, and probably a fourth

chance because I did nearly quit the game

for good several times. But thankfully I

kept coming back to try again, and I play

Elden Ring pretty much all day long every

day. I honestly cannot stop. In my review,

I think I gave the game a 4.2 out of 10.

I think that's a little bit too low, and I

would like to raise my score to a 6.5

out of 10.