Don't Let Pride Ruin Elden Ring For You
Elden Ring, the breakout hit action role-playing game from developer FromSoftware, is rife with immensely daunting challenges, but they don't have to ruin the game's experience. Elden Ring, with all of its new features and multiplayer options, is still a Soulslike game, which means a key part of its design is to create some of gaming's most extreme boss encounters. Fortunately, Elden Ring does provide new opportunities to shape character builds and inventories to help players overcome even the toughest of battles.
One of the biggest changes Elden Ring brings to the Soulslike genre of games is its massive open-world map. At the beginning of the game, the game's world map is mostly hidden from the player, making it difficult to see how big Elden Ring's map actually is. Other Soulslike games have taken a more linear approach to gameplay, pushing players forward into extremely difficult challenges and using death and repetition to teach boss mechanics and patience. Still, repeatedly fighting and losing to the same bosses over and over again can become frustrating, and Elden Ring's massive open world encourages taking different paths to overcome harder boss fights.
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Elden Ring's approach to open-world gameplay can be used to players' advantage and make the next boss encounter less challenging. Exploration can transform player's early experience in the game, and some of Elden Ring's essential items are cleverly hidden in Limgrave, the first area of the map available to players. However, Limgrave also features some difficult boss encounters, and players more used to a Dark Souls-style experience may simply throw themselves at these bosses over and over again without
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