Underneath my yellow skin

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

Shadow of the Erdtree, the culmination of my frustration

Ok. Everything about this post is a *SPOILER WARNING* because I’m about to talk about the last boss whom I reached last night.  Hm. Well. Ok. I’m going to take this in chronological order and stop numbering these posts. This is going to be about bosses in general because I fought the final boss for three hours… Continue Reading

Shadow of the Erdtree, part ten

In the last post, I was talking about *SPOILER WARNING* going into Shadow Keep. Then I went into dueling/dualing summon signs (red/gold) and completely lost my way. Hey, there’s a lot in this game. I will talk about whatever is on my mind. I have had a stroke. I am neurospicy (in non-diagnosed ways). My… Continue Reading