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It legitimately earned all those awards. Obviously it won’t be liked by everyone, but I think it was a clear winner for just about every award it was nominated for.
It’s a fantastic original game that has had a ton of care and love put into it, and it shows.
I’m not going to make friends here but I think it’s overhyped.
- The premise is fresh and interesting
- The VO is absolutely stellar in French and English
- The story is very focused on interpersonal relationships and leaves overarching questions unresolved
- The game is experimenting on putting souls like timing mechanics in a turn based rpg
- The experiment does not work however. Either you’re good at timing QTEs and can beat the story with absolutely no regards to any of the other game mechanics. Or you’re bad at them and will fail every second enemy encounter. Everything resolves around those QTEs.
- The environments feel overloaded. Like typical indy level designers that equate flash and colors with beauty.
All in all it’s fairly decent and I support any studio trying to risk something new. Some of it worked well, a lot didn’t.
Not sure why you’re being downvoted.
I tried playing it (before it received all the awards); and honestly, the pacing was all over The place. One minute they’re experiencing horrors unbeknownst to man (in a cut scene); the next minute, they’re quibbling one liners like they’re in a sitcom.
The game never quite clicked for me, I guess.
Thanks for your honest opinion. I guess then it’s not much for me either. Maybe i’ll pirate it sometime to see if it’s any good (and buy it if it is).
It’s very good if you like RPGs and are a touch on the artsy side.
Absolutely. It’s one of my top games from the last 10 years easy.
I haven’t played it, but my opinion based arround what I’ve seen of marketing and a little gameplay, winning best art direction in TGA over silksong and hades II makes it feel like some of those accolades were kind of gratuituos. It’s still probably a great game.
It does have legitimately excellent art direction, but I think a lot of it could be easily missed if you only watch the trailers and the “wrong” parts of the gameplay
Considering it’s from a small team of like 30 people it’s exceptionally competent.
Nothing is really new (it’s a turn based JRPG with some quick time button pressing like Vagrant Story had), but it’s fun, varied, well acted, well written. It doesn’t sit there wanting you to buy funbucks to buy revealing outfits.
It does exactly what it set out to do. Give it a go.
That’s a little far in my opinion. Expedition 33 is excellent, yes, but Elden Ring is a generational masterpiece.
GOAT
Holy shit. I guess I really do have to play it. Elden ring is my #1, my favourite game ever.
I watched a stream and while I can see that it is technically beautiful and must have been a shitload of work I find that it looks cluttered and has this strong uncanny valley vibe to it for me.
I think that the art style isn’t for me. Elden Ring is so beautiful imo.
I loved loved loved the combat mechanics and wish some more rounf based games had smth similiar.
