Great review 👍 i appreciate your thoughts and in depth knowledge of what does and doesn't work. Hopefully they figure out some of those flaws before launch

Appreciate the coverage mate 💯 good thoughts on the game balance for comp. Definitely something that would need more cost and strategy. Or maybe just removing the cards from the comp mode and keep them to casual. 🤔 Definitely interesting. I look forward to seeing how the lifespan of this game plays out.

2:40 surely this can be said about the base game or any from title....sure you don't have to do exploration but it will make your life easier

There are so many builds and cheese builds to make this game beyond easy. It's not difficult, people are stubborn and closed minded.

Its not correct saying you dont level up the same as old way. Scad frags are just multipliers over your current level, it is just there are soft caps that kick in when you reach the usual level you will get after beating Mohg. Problem with this design around scag frags is that you are somewhat forced to find them, and forcing exploration is not good.

It’s just sad that FSW has designed a souls game around using summons to the point where just soloing a boss is now the new challenge run. Yea I get it, summons are a tool, use them, but not everyone wants to play the game on easy mode …. Essentially FSW made a Very Hard mode and an Easy Mode , when summons used to be an option they are now the solution

yes it is. anyone who says otherwise is part of that weird, virgin, self-important, online gamer crowd that writes condescendingly off topic remarks to people genuinely looking for answers on forums.

Totally agree about the camera, but every single boss was so cool and such a spectacle that I see why they made some of the bosses so big and fast.

The final boss looks impossible, unfair and you feel like your making no progress. However for me I felt this way but eventually the boss clicked and it made sense, I think this boss is great in terms of bringing back that feeling that not many souls players feel anymore and thats that victory feeling after beating a boss for hours. Yes I do think that the boss is disappointing but I feel like its a good boss because once you understand him, his attacks are fun to dodge and your always on the edge of your seat.

I killed Radahn at lv13 Scadutree with 2 player summons, both died before I defeated him. I guess your main issue was using RoB, my guy.

I agree with everything u said. There are so many tools to fight in Elden ring thats why i love seeing different builds. But i remember fighting the last boss saying I cant see a thing 😂

Just beat the last boss (lv.19 Scadu fragment with Beast claw bleed build). I think the difficulty of the last dungeon+last fight was much higher compared to the rest of the dlc. With scadu lv.16++ things were not as hard for me outside the last dun. May be because I also used Mimic tear when I had issues dealing with some bosses (the boar/sunflower). The last fight however was hell. It was very very difficult even with Mimic.

lore wise, it is potentially the highest level setting in a From game when you think about the actual mythological figures you fight. it makes sense for that to be translated to the fight design of the bosses. they're gods, mothers of gods, children of gods, protectors of gods, entities that probably don't even know they're worshipped as gods, etc. i enjoyed the setting even if i don't enjoy the actual fights much. what really got me bummed and itching to finish was the dumbass map design. had this creeping dry loss of energy about halfway through everything for sure. i almost missed entire segments of map and unique remembrance bosses if i weren't playing with messages on. even then the only parts that interested me early on were the southern shores of the map and the mountain because it was linear and awesome. this is definitely one of the best expansions i've ever played but unlike blood and wine, i don't see myself ever enjoying it again in the future.

hard is the wrong word for many of the "difficult" bosses. the issues many people are having and discussing are more that the bosses feel dishonest in their moveset compared to the base game and the previous fromsoft titles. in my personal opinion, they went too deep into the rpg mechanics instead of understanding the issues the bosses would have relative to their action game mechanics. its "hard" in a very different way to a game like sekiro was and in arguably the inverse way.

I do not think it is. I am yet to beat the last boss but other than that think about builds all you have at hand. Something always works.

I like how exploration was encouraged. It makes sure people truly take in and enjoy the land, and I had fun doing it! I mean what enjoyment would I get from just rushing the main bosses

The game is much harder with a Katana vs a stronger weapon. I have an Arcane build and with an occult great stars it is so much easier because most of the enemy's get staggert and stance broken extremely fast. And in some emergency situation I use the skill storm caller. Always works and it destroys anything around me. The great Katana that you can get quite early in the game has much more poise and it is much easier to play with then Rivers of blood. You can also put double slash on it and have Rivers of Blood 2.0

It's not too hard. People are wimps and need everything handed to them on a silver platter these days

Elden Ring literally encourages summoning and spirit ashes at every turn. Most of the Remembrance bosses were designed with co-op in mind IMO. Just makes the game more fun in general instead of waiting 10 minutes for an opening to heal

6:26, Valve actually made 2 Counter-Strike games for console. The first being Counter-Strike Xbox edition, and the other being Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, which was initially developed as a console port of Counter-Strike: Source, but the game was later abandoned on console and PC became the sole development focus.

Yo can i have a code, I subbed!

Good video on this game. I like the flintlock genre, I think this game is finally reasonable with its price btw. Even without the 10% what you can get now, later on it is only 39euro, what is totally fine as i see. I loved the demo, like the world and the fight mechanic is interesting for me bc it is as you said its more like a hybrid between souls like and a God of War.

Great review and a fantastic game still holds up to today by far my all time favorite 🎉

Good review. I think it was too hyped up as a COD killer. I still personally like to play XDefiant over COD. Haven't played COD since the start of season 3, and I was honestly burnt out by mid season 2.

i really dont get why people compare it to call of duty. its more like overwatch.

It’s free. Free. Free. Free. Free.

finally a youtuber who talks about the lack of in game content, only skins you can get without buying is 3 different skins

I thought the same thing until I ran out of stuff to do. It dries up fast. Early access games shouldn't ever be really considered for gory though. They could still screw it up

This game is 100% trash.

Finally a shooter I can play 😂

I love my main pawn . Ng+ we killing everybody so fast , Best co-op:)

been watching your reviews and your insight and critiques are really good

they might have something on their hands here if they upgrade to a new engine for a sequel

I can forgive all of the games flaws minus 1. It inexplicably doesn’t have a new game plus!! The whole appeal to me of playing a game more than once is having all of my skills and cosmetics unlocked and playing through again. WTF were they even thinking with that considering they have had it in every other game🤦‍♂️

Games is kinda poop. Combat is terrible.

I am tired of the whole open world map marker question mark trope as well, but honestly I’m not going to single out Rise for it when every other game still does that to this date. Including games like Horizon, God of War, Rift Apart, Spiderman 2, FF7 Rebirth, Infinite Wealth, and so on and so on. Even Ghost of Tsushima, while having map fog (which Rise kind of does as well as you don’t see everything for a region off the rip), absolutely has question marks and map markers all over the map. The wind mechanic is cool, but that’s only in place of a marker to follow for the quest you’re tracking and keeps the screen a bit less cluttered. But it still uses the same old question mark trope, bandit camp cleanouts, collectathon items, and so on. So while I love when a game is confident enough without it like ER and DD, I can’t in good conscience single out Rise for it when every other triple A title and publisher/developer is doing it to this day still. I chose to play Dragon’s Dogma 2 first and put 120 hours into the platinum for that game. Going into Rise it was a rough transition. But 20 hours deep, I’m really enjoying it. I guess it depends on expectations going in. I had heard mixed and bad reviews for it so with low expectations I was pleasantly surprised. If I had gone in on the hype train I might have had a different experience. It also has the benefit of being one of the few games in this time period and setting we have (aside from like Ishin and Ghost), although we do have a slew of samurai/ronin/ninja games upcoming to further spread this sub genre thin. So as an itch scratcher between now and whenever we see Ghost 2, it’s pretty solid.

In some ways I think they made the original FF7 better. Especially the Juno part of the story. Also the original weapons are a bazillion times cooler. Even the golden saucer is better in the original. Rebirth does Gongaga area and Cosmos Canyon better however. But the first 8 chapters are not better than the original at least.

Every time I'm forced to play QB I'm thinking how much i suck, but I always seem to win. I won the tournament and smashed with ease the three people in chapter 8.

I never played 16. Remake was the first one i really played ... but now after rebirth...im playing them all.. its hooked me into the franchise. Im gonna play 9 next. Then maybe 16

12 hours in....only chapter 2...damn queens blood... absolutely amazing game...I just played remake right before. And it became my favorite game ever. And rebirth is even better

I'm in 7 chapter now. Game is AMAZING!

chapter six and im already sick of the minigames

The story was GOOD when it was FF 7. When is doing new shit or changing in particular the ending....yeah no. FF 16 better music than FF7? You are insane and I can prove. Aerith theme, Jenova theme, One Winged Angel theme, Those who Fight Further...So yeah no.

No new character is crazy

This for some reason reminds me a lot of tarkov with the movement and gunplay stuff

He should remove the wallhack imo

If your still playing OW at this point idk what to tell you, cant blame the game, I think your the issue at this point.

110% facts!❤ Also you forgot to mention the third play style being ranged.

since when do we like whats going on in 2024

Nah man.. My first game was ds1 and it was so f*cking easy! The only boss that took me more than 3 tries was the Bed of Chaos 'cause he's a b*tch. But other than that, it was no challenge at all. BUT! I played Dark Souls 3 for my second game, and it was hard as f*ck! If I say Dark Rater Midir, or Gael, or Gundyr, I think everybidy will know what I'm thinking. This game is hard as f*ck. And it's ok! If you don't want it, don't buy it. But the challenge doesn't get easier. So yeah. F*ck Soulsborne. Also they are one of the best games of all time. Stupid oximoron's.