Elden Ring Review (Steam)

Elden Ring Review, Rise, Tarnished, and be guided by grace to brandish the power of the Elden Ring and become an Elden Lord in the Lands Between. In the Lands Between ruled by Queen Marika the Eternal, the Elden Ring, the source of the Erdtree, has been shattered. Marika’s offspring, demigods all, claimed the shards of the Elden Ring known as the Great Runes, and the mad taint of their newfound strength triggered a war: The Shattering. A war that meant abandonment by the Greater Will.

Elden Ring Review Pros:

• Beautiful graphics.
• 48.11GB download size.
• Steam achievements.
• Full controller support.
• Steam trading cards.
• Soulslike gameplay.
• Graphics settings – screen mode, resolution, auto-detect best rendering settings, ray tracing quality, and quality settings preset.
• HDR support.
• Advanced graphics settings – texture quality, anti-aliasing, SSAO, depth of field, motion blur, shadow quality, lighting, effects quality, volumetric quality, reflections, water surface, shader, global illumination, and grass quality.
• Mouse and keyboard support and you can remap the controls and Invert axis and sensitivity sliders for the mouse.
• Can remap controller button.
• Auto lock on, auto target, and manual attack aiming.
• Cross-region play option.
• Blood can be turned on and off.
• Camera speed, sliders, and Invert axis settings.
• Full 3D game world with 360-degree camera control.
• Handy lock-on button for combat.
• Tutorial tips pop up as you play.
• Messages can be left by other players (and you can lay your own) and these can help or hinder you.
• Bloodstains on the floor can be clicked so you see the ghost of the person who died and you see how they died.
• Runes are the currency in the game for buying gear and leveling up, you can get them from enemies and find fragments of them in the world.
• Full massive open world with only a few areas locked off initially.
• Set the game to online or offline.
• Online will mean you can be invaded by other players.
• Offline will turn off the messages but also means you cannot be invaded.
• Enemies can drop random items and gear.
• Stonesword keys are limited but they open hidden areas that have great rewards.
• Spend runes to level up and put points into your stats.
• Massive boss fights can be the usual arena-based fight or it can happen naturally in the world.
• Play how you want.
• You can equip and be affected by elements like freezing, fire, scarlet rot, poison, etc.
• Weapon types are massive like daggers, swords, dual blades, lance, bows, crossbows, great swords, and more.
• Embue your weapon with an element for a short time.
• Grace is the new bonfire where hitting it will unlock it as a fast travel point, staying at it will reset enemies, refill potions, and let you manage your inventory and level up.
• Ashes of war are spectral allies you can cast and have fight alongside you.
• You can dual-wield a weapon to increase its stats or adjust its attacks.
• Load out lets you have multiple weapons in each hand so you can quickly swap between them, you can equip a set of items for quick use and magic spells.
• Vendors in the world will have unique stock and you can buy and sell with them.
• In the world, you can grab resources and materials for crafting.
• Get Smithstones to upgrade your weapon.
• Every np and vendor can be killed but it changes how the game goes later on.
• Day and night cycle with rainy weather happening.
• At Grace’s, you can change the time of day.
• Nighttime makes it easier to avoid enemies as their aggro vision is smaller.
• Chests can be found.
• Roundtable Hold is an area you can find and here you get npcs you met who have moved there, and you have access to better blacksmiths and vendors.
• You can attack the game in any order and go off anywhere to have your own unique adventure.
• Unlock your steed so that at any time you can call your horse and travel faster, have a double jump and you can fight from atop your horse.
• Full control over creating your character from the creator itself to how you build and spec your stats.
• Weapons will have stat requirements and even if you don’t meet them you can still use it but it’s slower and does less damage.
• Very atmospheric from the lighting to the music and locations themselves.
• Backstab is a huge deal as it does major damage to an enemy.
• Stealth is a sound and practical approach to combat.

Elden Ring Review Cons:

• Very difficult.
• A lot to take in and it never lets up.
• To get the most out of the game and see everything you really need to heavily rely on guides and YouTube videos.
• You can easily miss stories, quests, and interactions.
• Glitches can happen which is usually fine but it can ruin the experience like falling through floors and walls, bosses getting stuck in animations, etc.

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Elden Ring:

Official website.

Developer: From Software

Publisher: Bandai Namco

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Steam