Ok. Here’s yesterday’s post. Let’s get to the end of the game. Except, I can’t because I forgot that there was another section that is in the second half of the game that….
Look. Ok. I have to explain that there is a whole underground section. This is easily the wow moment of the game. You take this unassuming lift downwards…and you just keep going. There are two of these and they eventually connect. It’s an amazing area, and then you get to the real true underground by beating a big boss in a particularly spectacular fashion.
And it keeps going. There are other offshoots of this that are not connected, but also underground. The underground is nearly as large as the above-ground, which I’m fine with. I don’t need it to be as big, but I will say. I was just watching a video about the however many more secrets in Elden Ring you may not know, which I have included below. I was watching and nodding along because I knew the things he mentioned until he hit the one about reaching part of the underground (Deeproot Depths) in a completely different way–through another area of the underground. This blew my mind because I have pput in hundreds of hours, at least five-hundred, I think, and I never knew this. As always, *SPOILERS* will be ahead.
When you reach Leyndell Royal Capital, you have the opportunity to go underground to the Subtarrean Slumming-Grounds. Which, I will say, I did not love because it’s littered with the imps who do an incredible amount of damage at any level. They are the absolute worst. And you have to walk on pipes (from which you can fall off of) while fighting them. Plus, there are fell omens who are really strong as well. And oversized slugs. And lobsters. And, and, and. Again, no new enemies. Plus, they are just tossed in there willy-nilly. My guess is that it is supposed to indicate that all the shunned were tossed down there, but it feels very haphazard.
And, I will be honest with you. I do not like the constant difficulty of these areas that make me grim and unhappy. This is why I use Hidden Body/Slumbering Dargoncrest Ring, er…what is it called in this game? Unseen Form/Crepus’s Vial. I used it freely to get around when I did not want to be battered by things that could one-shot me. Which was nearly everything in the second half of the game. It makes it much more bearable for me to be able to interact at my discretion, and that makes it a much more enjoyable experience for me.