Elden Ring would’ve been better if it had a story – Reader’s Feature
A reader is disappointed to find that, after beating Elden Ring, even the experts are confused as to the details of the story and its lore.
It’s pretty obvious that Elden Ring is going to dominate the game of the year awards in 2022 and I wouldn’t take seriously anyone who said it didn’t deserve it. After three months of struggling, I’ve just beaten it and there’s no doubting it’s an amazing game. Nothing’s perfect but I would say I only have one major complaint: at no point did I have any idea what was going on.
Everyone starts off like that with the game, as you slowly learn how the controls and the various systems work but I would say, to anyone that has not yet jumped in, that it’s actually relatively straightforward. My inventory looked like it would fill a warehouse by the end of the game but how to use all the spells and weapons and so on is relatively easy to get the gist of.
The story though… I have no clue. There’s a sort of slide show intro that talks about the Elden Ring being shattered and something about various demigods keeping the shards. It took me a long time to realise that the ring is not actually a ring, but I’m still not even sure about that. I think it’s more a collection of magic runes and the only reason it’s called a ring is because they’re circular?
If you haven’t played the game and think that sounds simple enough, I’d say I was 80% through the game before I even pieced together that much. I still don’t really understand who shattered the ring and why, or who all the warring factions are. Or what the Lands Between (between what?) is or where all the ordinary people went (are those soldiers just zombies? And if so how are they different from the animated skeletons?).
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