DO NOT BUY Elden Ring - VERY Disappointing [w5c-gyrPOxA]

Hello and welcome back to a new video game

review. So recently I've been playing

Elden Ring, and as an avid fan of Dark

Souls games and action-adventure games in

general, I just had to play this game.

Unfortunately, it's been pretty

disappointing so far and very lackluster.

If you're new to Dark Souls games,

basically Dark Souls games pride

themselves on the gameplay and the

challenging gameplay and boss battles and

how difficult they're supposed to be. And

Elden Ring is no different. The gameplay

can be extremely challenging, but not in a

good way. The only reason it's challenging

is because it's more, it's more

frustrating than challenging. And that's

mainly because the combat in the game is

extremely unresponsive. Moving the main

character around feels like moving an old

man around. It's kind of like every action

you try to do in the game has this strange

1-second delay, and every time you want to

do an attack or move or roll or dodge or

parry, it just feels like there's a very

noticeable delay and disconnect between

pressing the button and having the

character actually perform the movement.

I found the melee combat to be very

unsatisfying. For example, when you're

fighting against some kind of melee enemy,

he's obviously winding up to hit you and

you press block thinking your character's

gonna block when you press the block

button. But instead there's like this

weird delay and you end up getting hit in

the face. You have no idea how many times

I died in the game, not because I'm bad at

the game, but just because the game's not

smooth or fluid and the combat is

extremely frustrating. Now I like to be

mentally challenged in my video games just

like any other hardcore gamer does, but

when you're constantly losing in the game

because of poor gameplay mechanics and

poor game design, It just becomes— well,

it's not fun anymore. I honestly don't

feel like I'm having fun in the game.

When I see enemies or mobs waiting around,

I don't look at them with anticipation of

having a fun combat exchange. I just think

to myself, oh my God, I'm gonna get hit in

the face again through no fault of my own.

The AI in the game is also pretty bad and

poor. The enemies just kind of stand

around circling around you waiting for you

to make a move. I found it so easy to just

walk around enemies and sneak up behind

them when it should have been pretty

obvious that they could have seen me. So

one of the things that Elden Ring apart

from the previous Dark Souls games is the

fact that it's open world. Now, I'm not

really the biggest fan of open world. I

feel like it's a very lazy gameplay

mechanic that game devs implement when

they don't really have any other better

ideas. And unfortunately, the open world

in Elden Ring is just not very impressive.

It looks quite pretty on a surface level,

but then you realize that it's basically

just a very empty and barren excuse of an

open world. Compared to other open-world

games such as The Witcher 3, which it is

obviously trying to rip off, you can

obviously see that it's taken a lot of

inspiration from games such as Witcher 3,

Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and I just feel

like The Witcher 3 has done a better job

at being a gritty, dark RPG kind of

fantasy adventure game than Elden Ring can

ever hope to be. The problem with Elden

Ring is the fact that the story is very

lackluster, and this is very disappointing

when you consider the fact that they got

George R.R. Martin, the author behind Game

of Thrones to come up with the story of

Elden Ring. You'd think that he would be

able to make something that's really

interesting. Unfortunately, it just feels

like a ripoff clone of Lord of the Rings.

For example, in The Witcher 3, I felt

really interested in the story and the

characters, and that made the open world

and the setting and the scenes and the

different towns and villages more

interesting to be able to explore and find

out about. I can't really say the same

about Elden Ring. The main character

doesn't even talk. He has no personality.

And I honestly didn't feel like I cared or

wanted to find out about the world in

Elden Ring or the characters or what's

going on. I just feel like they did a very

bad job at hooking the player in to be

interested in the story. It shouldn't be

my job as the player to want to become

interested. It should be the job of the

scriptwriters to make me interested

straight from the beginning. Now,

scattered throughout the world of Elden

Ring, there are many bosses. There's mini

bosses and there's bigger bosses. And just

like how frustrating it is fighting the

regular mobs, fighting these bosses is

even more frustrating and annoying,

mainly because of the size. Because of

just how much bigger some of these bosses

are than you, the camera just kind of goes

crazy and starts spinning and flipping

everywhere, and you're frantically trying

to dodge and roll out of the way of the

boss's attacks. And so many times I got

stuck in the scenery, or I got stuck in

some corner of a wall, and the characters

just didn't really do a very good job at

tracking me. Fighting these bosses is

already frustrating enough because You

need to memorize the attack patterns.

Otherwise, you're just not going to stand

a chance. You can only take a couple of

hits before you get taken out by one of

these bosses, and then you have to start

the boss battle all the way from the

beginning, which can be very annoying.

And the only way to learn each boss's

attack patterns is by repeatedly dying

over and over again until you finally

memorize how the boss is going to act and

behave and move. And I don't know about

you, but I find this gameplay mechanic to

be extremely frustrating. I don't really

enjoy dying hundreds of times against one

boss. I just want to attack it and maybe

have a bit of a challenge, but I don't

really want to have to be stuck on the

same boss until I've memorized every

single thing it's going to do. I do not

find this kind of gameplay to be enjoyable

at all. Now, this wouldn't really be a

problem if they had different difficulty

modes. There's no easy mode, there's no

medium mode, there's no hard mode. You

just get one mode, and that is like the

default mode. There's no option to make

things easier. And as someone who gets

really frustrated easily and gives up

easily when things are too difficult, I

just found myself not really wanting to

play the game anymore because I was going

to break something. I just found the

gameplay and the combat to be very

disappointing and a massive letdown

compared to games like Zelda: Breath of

the Wild and The Witcher 3, which I feel

like they do a much better job at the

whole third-person action multiple enemy

combat style. Now when it comes to

traversing the open world, you have 2 main

options of transport. You have a mount and

you have a teleportation system, which is

very stereotypical of open world games,

not very unique or original. And as an

advocate of originality, I just don't

really see much originality in Elden Ring.

I found myself just running through most

of the open world in order to get from

point A to point B, mainly because I just

had no incentive or interest in exploring

this very barren and dull open world. And

when I got the teleportation stuff

unlocked, I just teleported and zipped all

over the place. So it kind of felt like it

was pointless that there was this open

world there. As for the graphics of the

game, I wasn't really impressed and they

weren't really up to my standards. The

graphical fidelity of the game reminds me

of games from 2015 or '16 at the latest.

The graphics are just not very impressive.

The textures are kind of poor and low

quality. There's just something about the

game's graphics that don't have a very

polished feeling or look. It just doesn't

really have the shine of certain modern

AAA games of 2022 or even 2021. The

character models and animations are also

fairly lackluster, and I didn't really

think that It was a very good-looking game

in general. And I honestly don't know why

there's so much hype around this game. It

doesn't really look that much different to

previous Dark Souls games apart from the

fact that it has an open world now. And in

this day and age, I don't really think

anyone is surprised or impressed by an

open world. It's just so bog-standard to

have open worlds in almost every single

type of game now. Even racing games have

open worlds these days. So unfortunately,

I won't be able to give this game a very

good score. I just didn't really feel like

I had fun playing the game. I didn't

really feel like I wanted to quickly get

back into the game because it was just so

frustrating and annoying. So I'll have to

give the game a 4.2 out of 10.

Not great, not impressive. I just can't

help but feel a bit disappointed,

especially after all of this hype that's

been going around for all this time.