How The Public Sees Soulsborne Fans: “GIT GUD YOU FILTHY CASUALS!!!”
Most Soulsborne Fans I’ve Run Across: “I just finished my latest ELDEN RING fan art! It’s of Rykard and Tanith taking Zorayas to a water park! Look! She’s wearing floaties!”
Bread’s Game Journal 03/05/22: Oh No I’m Playing Elden Ring.
You know, I really shouldn’t have bought Elden Ring before I finished Horizon Forbidden West. It’s not like I’m about to drop Horizon or anything, but I do know that, as of right now, I have too much on my plate. But does that really matter, because frankly, both of these games rule.
I’ve only played Elden Ring for a little over four hours at this point but damn if I’m not enthralled! I haven’t felt this way about a big open world like this since Breath of the Wild, which of course this game shares a lot of it’s DNA with. I mean I’m not even really out of the starting zone and I already have some wild stories to tell. A dragon keeps trying to kill me, a treasure chest tricked me and teleported me into some terrible mine somewhere far away, I fought a big group of goblins in a pitch black cave!
The game, thus far anyway, is both easier and more difficult than any Souls game before it. Easier in the larger variety of options and places to see and explore if you just don’t want to fight any big bosses or anything. Harder, that when you do stop to go fight those big bosses….they’re bigger than ever. Some of the enemies in this game are absolutely brutal, too. In just four hours I can no longer count on only two hands the amount of time some horrible creature has just annihilated me before I could get a good handle on how I need to deal with them!
I’m sure I gonna have a lot more fun the further I get into the game, meanwhile playing both Horizon Forbidden West and my old Standby, WoW, so that I don’t completely lose my mind of course. And hey, if I could beat Sifu, I can beat this….I think.
