DO NOT BUY Elden Ring DLC - Shadow of the Erdtree

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

I've been playing the new Shadow of the

Erdtree DLC for Elden Ring, and I have

some thoughts about it. Not very good

thoughts. The DLC is kind of bland,

boring, and lacking in a certain kind of

luster, and it's kind of rubbish as DLC

goes. So I've been playing for a few hours

now. I beat a few of the bosses. They

weren't very difficult, to be honest. It

was quite easy, and they loot they dropped

was really rubbish. So I got this sword,

it is called the Greatsword of Solitude.

It is pretty rubbish. I mean, look at it,

it just does that, and its special attack

is literally just that. That is so boring.

And then you might have already seen the

big fire giant wicker man thing. I beat

him as well, and all you get is some

kind of wondrous physic thing. It is the—

where is it— Deflecting Harder Tear.

Enhances spontaneous guard in mixed

physic. I don't even know what spontaneous

guard is. So you start off here coming out

of the cave, and then you're just greeted

by this really drab and dreary looking

scenery. It's just kind of dull,

isn't it? Raining, cloudy. You've got this

big field with ghostly gravestones.

When it's not raining, you can see the

Erdtree in the background,

and there's just like big empty space of

nothing. You've got these ruins here,

and there's like a bunch of ghostly people

walking around. It's kind of boring. You

think when you enter the new DLC area,

it'd be really breathtaking, amazing,

really cool cutscene, loads of action.

It's just like a bunch of these shadow

ghost people. I got this new thing, Hefty

Cracked Pot. I don't even know what that

is. Is it a talisman?

I don't know. You get this new stuff, it

doesn't tell you what it is. I don't even

know what that is. So you got this big

area, you'll get that big fire wicker man

boss. Already defeated him. Roaming around

here. It's quite an annoying boss. You

just spam attacks on his feet and then

double jump over his flame AoE. There's a

bunch of stuff here. I don't know, it's

just not very interesting. Oh, I got a

sword. It's just not very interesting,

and the DLC basically just— it's like more

of the same of the base game, but it got

new weapons, ashes, New armor. The enemy

types don't really look new yet. It's just

the same stuff. Got a big bridge over

there. I just don't really feel like I'm

having fun, and I feel like the chore of

having to get through this— I feel like

I'm working, like this is work. I don't

really feel like I'm having a fun time

here. And then beating the bosses takes

ages to figure out the best tactic and

then to memorize its attack patterns.

You've got some castles. The castles just

look like the other castles in the base

game. It's not really anything special or

new. You run across the bridge, they fire

these big trebuchet bolt things at you,

just like the Redan Castle when you run

across the bridge and they're catapulting

at you. You've got these soldiers.

It's just not really Amazing,

is it? Bit disappointing that

you pay £35 and this is what, what you

get. They keep bragging about how massive

the map is, but it's just an empty big

massive field with not

much in it. A few caves here and there, a

few mausoleums, a few churches.

Bit boring. I honestly don't even know

where I'm going. I just randomly found

this, and the annoying thing is you can't

open doors or interact with stuff when

you're mounted. You get off your mount

even to activate a Site of Grace. You

gotta demount. It opens the door so

slowly. The Fog Rift Catacombs,

another dungeon. Great, it's probably

gonna have little imps. And the

fire-breathing pillars. It's exactly

the same as the base game.

The annoying thing is as well, when you

get down into the dungeon and you activate

the last— I mean, the Site of Grace, you

can't teleport out of it. Look, it's got a

little red line through it. You got to go

back up the elevator, which takes forever.

So look at this catacombs, supposed to be

new DLC that I called it, didn't I? The

imp kind of enemies that just one-shot

you. I just can't be bothered to do

another catacomb dungeon thing. So to

teleport out of it, you gotta go back up

the elevator. I don't know why they

designed the game to be really annoying

and time-consuming.

Look, I still can't teleport until you

actually leave and get out of the door,

and then you can teleport. So I want to

show you the castle. So there are these

new castles, but just like the base game,

they're full of enemies that you don't

have to fight, and there's no point

fighting them because you don't get

anything apart from some runes. So look,

you can literally just run past

everything. So this door here,

to begin with, it's closed, so you gotta

go through the shortcut, and you think you

have to fight all these enemies, but you

literally don't have to do anything, just

sprint past them all. And then you got

this waterfall. I really find it

bizarre that they make these big dungeons

full of enemies and it's better to

not fight them and just run past them.

You could fight them one by one,

but then you get unlucky, you get killed,

you gotta go all the way back, they

respawn, you gotta fight them all again.

I'm not fighting through an entire castle

of enemies, watch. They just run past them

all. They're so silly. You open

this gate, you go over the drawbridge.

They're so stupid, they just stand there

and they miss every time.

And they try and ambush you like that.

Sometimes you get hit by this magic thing.

There's a really tough enemy here. I

haven't beaten him yet. But all I do is I

just, I just run past him like that.

He keeps one-shotting me. Oh my god,

oh my god, just keep running.

It's such stupid gameplay. I mean, that

gate there took 10, 20 seconds to open.

The animation was so slow. Keep running.

Oh, he got me because I didn't heal. The

healing is annoying because it takes so

long and it makes you walk so slow. The

other annoying thing is, so I'm stuck on

this boss. I nearly got him. There's so

many buffs you need to do, it takes

forever. Watch all my buffs. So I do

Seppuku, and I do my Wondrous Flask,

and then enable my finger, and then I do

my buff Golden Vow. And then I re-enable

my sword, and then I re-enable my mimic.

And sometimes the boss just runs at you in

the beginning before you even have a

chance. Look, look at this. I can't even

do anything, and then he just one-shots me

before I can even summon my mimic.

The boss should not run straight at you

straight away in the beginning, and then

it takes— look, I'm dead. Just respawn

already. What are you waiting for? Gotta

do a stupid loading screen all over again,

and then gotta resummon and rebuff

everything. You should have like a safe

zone so you can get ready before

the stupid boss attacks you. I can't

summon my mimic, and it's just random.

Sometimes the boss waits, and then

sometimes he just lunges at you.

Watch, I summon him quickly. And then I

want to heal this time. Oh, he is coming

at me. Dodge this bit. If I can dodge this

bit, I might have a chance. Oh my God,

come on, Mimic, do something! Oh my God.

So I think I, I survived. Now we can

actually fight.

Going with a jump. I missed. We got hit.

Going with the jump.

Heal. Oh my God, what's that? Oh,

oh, he nearly one-shot me. See how

annoying these bosses are?

It's destroying my mimic.

Come on, knock him down. Oh, he just

one-shot me. God, I really don't know why

I got this DLC sometimes. This game is so

annoying. It's not fun, it's just

annoying. Here we go again. Summon it,

heal myself,

don't get one-shot. Come on, the mimic

summon is so slow. What's he doing?

Oh my god, I didn't dodge this stupid

wave. Stupid dumb game.