My hype level is through the roof. Played 15 hours of limgrave already since I was lucky enough to snag a Closed Network Test code so my level of confidence is also extremely high. Been trying to avoid spoilers (including recent launch trailer) but all the people I follow for souls content are raving. Reports are that the map is huge beyond the CNT (10x possibly), densely packed, and exploring every corner is heavily rewarded. Main quest is only a fraction of the game but those major areas top fromsoft previous elite quality level design and alone would combine to make up more than other entire souls games. Many of the reviewers are saying they are 50+ hours in and not close to the end. I also have high hopes for the quality and depth of the lore.
The aspect where I think this might appeal to more non soulsborne fans is that if you get stuck on an area, there’s tons of other ways to go due to the open world and you can return when you are more leveled up, have better equipment, or utilize co-op, use the spirits, etc. You always respawn at the boss rather than have to do what is sometimes a multi-minute run back each attempt. That said, it’s still very much a souls game, so would still be very hesitant if those games never appealed to you.
I tend to go swole bro on my first playthrough, especially since power stance is back. But everyone is saying the casting is too fun to completely pass up on. And theres the ashes of war that I haven’t explored much either. I’ll likely not be very efficient and keep leveling up a different stat just to try the next weapon or spell I pick up.
As someone who’s never played a souls game and who hasn’t hardly looked into Elden Ring at all, I wouldn’t mind hearing about some good strategies for getting started and common n00b pitfalls to avoid.
She’s a little crazy about rpg open world games. Loves Witcher 3, botw, and fallout 3/4/nv. She plays in the weirdest way. She is a massive completionist, did like 99.8% on botw including all of the Korak seeds iirc
I bought DS3 on Steam and played in with an Xbox controller. Quit a few hours in. Only have an XB1 so probably passing on this for now. Watched a long review today and it looks pretty impressive. Can’t say I understand having a super massive open world RPG and refusing to have a journal feature for the huge amount of lore.
If it follows the mechanics of the other Souls-like games, the roll is a temporary invulnerability. So you don’t need to get out of the range of enemies attacks, you just need to time the dodge correctly to avoid them.
