Even Dark Souls skeptics should still try Elden Ring

polygon.com:

So you’ve heard about FromSoftware’s video games. Many players describe them as excruciatingly difficult. Others, like yours truly, describe them as more of an exercise in patience than anything else. Maybe you’re somebody who hasn’t bothered to try out any of these games, or perhaps you bounced off of them — and now you want to know whetherElden Ring is the game that will change your mind. After all, it’s written in part by bestselling fantasy author George R.R. Martin, and our own review describes it as the “most approachable” and “most difficult” of FromSoftware’s lineup.

As a former Dark Souls skeptic, I think you should give it a try.

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Is Elden Ring the next Skyrim or the next Breath of the Wild that you’ve been waiting for? Or is it going to frustrate the hell out of you and make you wish you hadn’t spent your money on it? I can tell you this much: Elden Ring bears a lot in common with those games, but it also has some undeniable FromSoftware elements that may turn you off.

Although FromSoftware games like Dark Souls and Bloodbornehave sold plenty of copies, they definitely don’t have the same reputation thatBreath of the Wild and Skyrim do. They instead have an association, fair or not, with a certain kind of elitist gamer who loves to gloat about the amount of punishment they’ve endured by playing these supposedly super-hard games.

I don’t know about you, reader, but that turned me off of these games for years. I did give them a chance, of course. I tried out Dark Souls and Dark Souls 2, although I didn’t get very far in either one. The games’ reputation put me off. I knew they’d get hard later, so I assumed I wouldn’t enjoy them, and I quit. But then, after learning how to meditate and experiencing