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Shadow of the Erdtree, what frustrated me, part seven

Back again with another post that examines the flaws of the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC because I don’t quite have it out of my system yet. In yesterday’s post, I was musing on the cleverness of FromSoft and how/when it goes too far. Also, how frustrating the NPC questlines can be. The video I… Continue Reading

Shadow of the Erdtree, what frustrated me, part four

Back again with more criticisms. *SPOILER WARNING* At the end of the last post,I mentioned that I felt defeated at the Leda fight because it was supposed to be this grand and wild spectacle, but because of how I fucked up all the NPC questlines, it was just boring and anticlimactic. When I reached Shadow… Continue Reading

Shadow of the Erdtree, what frustrated me, part three

Back at it with more criticisms for the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC (FromSoft). Standard caveat: *SPOILER WARNING* In the last post, I talked about cheesing Radagon with no regrets in my first playthrough. Oh, before I go on, I have included a video by Umbriferous with solid cricisms of the DLC below. I don’t… Continue Reading

Shadow of the Erdtree, what frustrated me, part two

In my last post, I was talking about the things I found frustrating about the Shadow of the Erdtree (FromSoft) DLC. I ended by talking about my displeasure with how the bosses were created for this game. In the DLC, it’s not so much that they have two bosses as one (looking at you, last… Continue Reading

Shadow of the Erdtree, an in-depth review (not quite)

Today, I am offering my definitive review of Shadow of the Erdtree, the Elden Ring DLC from FromSoft. I have played through the whole thing, found every place noted in Eurogamer’s video about 11 hidden areas in the DLC–which I’ve included below. I’m feeling smug because I found all of them. But, it speaks to… Continue Reading

Gatekeeping in FromSoft games, part two

In the last post, I was talking about gatekeeping in FromSoft games. I left off by bringing up the ongoing debate in the RKG Discord/Patreon about the *sigh* use of summons. I sigh because it’s boring as fuck. It’s pretty much as simple as if you don’t like that the boys use them, then, BYEEEEEEEE!… Continue Reading

Gatekeeping in FromSoft games

I am pretty tired of the topic of gatekeeping, but I need to talk about it as a FromSoft fan. There are two reasons I’m specifically bringing it up now, and I’ll try to get to both. The first is *sigh* the isuse of accessibility options in games. You would think that in the year… Continue Reading