Leveling up works pretty much the same way, tasking you to battle your way from checkpoint to checkpoint and spend your hard earned experience points to level up as you do. The only locks relate to certain items stat requirements, which can be easily tweaked as you level up. There are no class-specific skills, spells or items. All they do is set your starting stats and loadout. Like all Souls games, the classes aren’t terribly important. For example, Sorcerers are now called Astronomers, while Clerics are now called Prophets. It only took me a few minutes to accurately create an avatar that looked like a vagabond version of Pennywise from IT.Įven the classes are fairly similar, albeit with different names. The creator’s pretty much identical to the one seen on Dark Souls 3, which means you’ll get plenty of freedom changing your character’s appearance. You’re thrown into a character creator that lets you tweak your character’s appearance, name them and pick their opening class. The game’s intro offers no further narrative outside of the fact that you, a newly resurrected ‘Tarnished’, need to fix it by collecting and putting the broken shards of the ring back together.įrom there, it’s all very familiar. Specifically, it chronicles the downfall of the Lands Between, which went to hell after the titular Elden Ring was destroyed. After clicking the new game icon you’ll be treated to a suitably dark fantasy intro, detailing the downfall of the world you’re about to explore. But it’s still primarily about combat, not talking to NPCs.Įlden Ring starts off pretty much the same way as every Souls game.Features many characters and lore hinted at in past Dark Souls games.Elden Ring has a dark fantasy setting that takes place in the “Lands Between”.But, I’d still not suggest any but the bravest, and masochistic, player take up its challenge. Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/SĮlden Ring is a new RPG that aims to merge the iconic and brutally difficult combat that From Software’s Souls games are famous for, with open-world exploration and crafting mechanics that have clearly been inspired by Nintendo’s Breath of the Wild.Īfter spending 50-plus hours playing it, I can confirm Elden Ring is the most developed and welcoming Souls-series game ever made, with the added narrative and open world making Elden Ring feel far more accessible to From Software newcomers.Release date: Available from 25 February 2022. Genre: Action RPG: Elden Ring feels very similar to previous Dark Souls game, but with an open-world format like Skyrim.
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