I strongly recommend: Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree (Spoiler-Free Review)
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Shadow of the Erdtree is the perfect curtain call for one of the greatest games ever made - an expansion that manages the impossible task of making us feel that same feeling we had when we stepped out of that tomb and beheld Limgrave for the very first time.
Review code provided by Bandai Namco.
Video written and voiced by Ralph P.
Edited by Austin B.
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We want to know if the bosses are actually hard compared to base game
I certainly hope you're gonna cover IGN fucking up a translation and trying to get Wukong devs in trouble for a load of BS allegations.
@@92Carnage +1 on that. Fuck IGN.
Hi, when is the final shape review coming?
awkward question, but are you going to covering your relation to sweet baby inc anytime soon? After that Kenzera Zau recommendation and with your good relationships with big companies, it feels like you are more and more leaning towards pleasing corpos and less about speaking openly to the community.
The duality of wanting to consume any fromsoft hype content vs. not wanting to spoiled in any way..
Indeed. Carefull with thumbnail, titles, shorts and the occasional stray tweet. Spoilers are everywhere
@@emperman i think i just made a mistake by commenting and clicking on this video 😂
Algorithm be like: oh you want more shadow of the erdtree?! 😂
What have we done…
i listen only... not a second of this video watched
I accidentally got spoiled about the final boss being Radahn and Miquella being like the Prince Lothric fight from Dark Souls 3.
I love how there are a lot of cool boss names, and then there's "Golden hippopotamus"
Thats definitely that hardest dlc boss cause ... its a hippo
Dark Souls 2 ptsd
So hard….
That mf took me longer than messmer fr 😭😭
Hibbobotamus hours
Oh Miyazaki, what swamp have ye prepared for me this time?
Has to be Deathblight lol
Frenzy 😂
@@Big_Daddy953oh dear god 🫠
How about a swamp with every status effect
@@JDG_YT2 It just kills you instantly
Embargo was up 45 minutes ago, but you waited for the nintendo direct to end, you clever boy
Ralph’s playing 3D chess
You cheeky sausage
@@joshuatealeaves i think you mean 4D
METROID PRIME 444444444444
@@tyguy3876i been waiting for that game since 2007. i havent owned a nintendo console in a decade but i may buy a switch just for that.
In the immortal words of Yoshi P -- "Elden Ring DLC..."
"Elderinguh Dee ell ccssheeeeee"
Yoshi P is awesome lol
One week!
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@@Azmodan514 wait why??
@@Azmodan514 Er don't think so. He didn't like FF16 much, if that's what you mean.
friendly reminder to not go on social media to avoid spoilers; people are already spoiling the ending/ final boss
Are you kidding me??? God that sucks so much, people just suck
is it confirmed to be real?
@@Sephirothkingdom782apparently yes, there's footage of player holding the boss weapon in the exact pose. I still would judge once I play the dlc myself though.
eh, does it really matter
Definitely sucks when people spoil that you fight Radahn and Miquella like the Prince Lothric and Lorian boss fight.
I've owned Elden Ring since it was released, I have only just now started playing it for the first time and I'm loving it. Can't wait to get the DLC too.
Never been a better time to start. Like Ralph said it's going to take awhile for you to get access to the dlc since Mohg has a recommended level of between 80-100. Just enjoy the ride though, I wish I could wipe my memory of my first playthrough so I could experience it for the first time again.
I bought it way after everyone else had already been playing it for quite some time. I out 150 hours in and never beat the game. That was over a year ago I last played and I recently started it again to catch up for the DLC. It has been a ton of fun.
Same, been waiting for them to drop a patch that finally supports ultrawide while still playing online.
It’s time to just accept it for what it is, I guess. I just wanted to see the stunningly glorious beauty of Lordran in 32:9, but Miyazaki cares more about PvP balance…I guess.
The difficulty system is there because FromSoft have learned from previous expansions that some players want to enter with their end-game builds and just an equal amount of players will do it with relatively fresh characters. This is just a way for them to make sure you won't stomp on everything immediately and loose out on the experience.
Exactly, I rolled a new character just for the DLC out of tradition but from what it sounds like now I'm probably just gonna use my NG+3 character.
Considering the approach to levelling in the DLC, I really wish it opened up much sooner, or was just a standalone experience. I am playing Elden Ring again on Steam Deck (having beaten it once on Xbox) and I'm about 40 hours in and I just don't think I can be bothered getting to Mohg again.
@@chrisp2588 Follow Varre's quest and he will give you an item that will teleport you there.
@@YetiCoolBrother the dlc is balanced around you having the blessings, on ng+3 you are missing out on three playthroughs worth of blessings.
@@chrisp2588 no thanks, it's balanced around end game characters. also a playthrough with all remembrances can just be 20 hours. You can even get to mohg as soon as or before you kill radahn.
50 hours?!? Now that price tag makes a whole lot of sense
Yea from DLCS are notoriously usually really expensive but still super goof.
The old days this would of been called an Expansion, not DLC.
@@Swarm509 Some studios would call this sequel.
@@Swarm509 absolutely, Shivering Isles springs to mind.
I remember when Miyazaki said you could mainline the main game in 40 hours lol. That seems impossible. I put in at least 150 hours into it before I beat it.
Sorry Chillup... I very very RARELY skip these reviews with minor spoilers, but the magic of finding a new area playing these game are always indescribable.
The exploration on FromSoft games is 50% de fun for me, so I will let a like already. Because you're a cool dude.
I'm taking a 10 days vacation just for this DLC.Just pure bliss over here.
Good gaming everyone! :)
Just flip your phone over and listen
I just love to hear them suck off fromsoft😂
I just came back to this review now after beating the DLC.
I bought Elden Ring back in March as my first FromSoftware game. I accidently bought it at full price as I thought there was still a discount (pay attention to your purchases!) but I'm happy for that mistake. This has easily become one of my if not my favorite games that I have played. The sheer size and scale of the world pairing it with the deep the mythos has given me a feeling no other game may ever even encapsulate. I see this DLC as a friendly gesture of the middle finger to those that charge the same price for only a quarter of the content this has to offer, even if that quarter is great.
Edit: I am departing off the pickle of Elden Ring and now I must try finger but hole.
can't wait for this! first time listening to your review and not watch anything on screen lol - congrats on 1M subs!
Same 😂
Just finished my build got all flaks fully upgraded last night and beat game again can’t wait for this
You don’t often see development companies with so much consistency. I don’t think I can even name one besides From Soft that never misses. Capcom has been doing well lately though.
Being a AC vet (all the way from Armored Core on PS) FromSoft NEVER misses!
there are plenty
elden ring might be pretty good, but they are going in a direction that makes their games kinda ass/sucks out the enjoyment. still better than your greedy AAA company but they are not in their peak anymore, sadly
@@Exel3ncebrother listen to yourself.
Since 2009 we have had:
Demon’s Soul’s, DS1 (AotA), Bloodborne (tOH), DS2 (3 DLCs), DS3 (AoA + tRC), Sekiro, AC6 and now ER (SotET).
No Dev company comes close in quality and output. Not Insomniac, Santa Monica, CDPR or Rockstar. All these companies have bangers but take 5+ years to release a game.
They are on a historic run. They deserve all the praise the receive.
@@Exel3ncewhat was their peak then?
SANTA MONICA STUDIO, HOUSEMARQUE, ANY FIRST PARTY NINTENDO OR SONY DEV TEAM.
Listening to this one - always appreciate how Shill writes his review for the curious but not wanting to have things be visually spoiled people like myself.
Damn the Nintendo Direct JUST ended
Ok and..??this is a review not a news video
What does that have to do with a review of Elden ring dlc… this isn’t
His news show
Metroid prime 4 baby
Nobody cares about Nintendo lmao hardware from early 2000s at best
Let me guess... They showed a bunch of cartoony platformers.
I didn't even play Elden Ring base game yet, when I finally play it I sense this will consume my entire life for some time.
Oh, yeah if you like it you will be hooked. 150-200 hours of content.
If it's your thing than yeah, it will consume your life. ER is dangerous. Everytime I wasn't playing it, I was thinking about playing it.
What the hell are you waiting for man. It’s glorious 🤘🏽
@@DarkDonnie-82 My backlog is huge, I didn't even played Sekiro yet. But I will get there. And I will wait for a base game + DLC sale in the future.
20:18 blood and wine
but that is arguably the best dlc ever made, so if shadow of the erdtree is going to draw comparisons to that I'll be happy
I honestly think Phantom Liberty is a tiny Bit better than Blood&Wine😅
@@kewa_design it could be, both are incredible
Only FromSoft would hide the release of Elden Ring 2 in an expansion. The size of this "expansion" is mind-blowing. At least 50 hours, but looking like it's verging on 100 for a full playthorugh. I love FromSoft. Can't wait to see what the future holds.
you can finish this easily in with every boss dead in less than 15 hours. Cause I did, and i am not that good.
@@countryc0untsure buddy lol
21:48 Just wanted to shoutout Armored Core 6. It has an incredible story and in my opinion, has the best Fromsoftware narrative yet.
Just here to see the new swamps.
And possibly crabs
Swamps of struggle man
NIIIHIIIIIIIIIILLL!!!! TOGHETA WE conquer the lands of Shadows ye Tarnisheds!!!
15:25, that grab has Sekiro chained ogre flashbacks lol
and to think Miyazaki thinks he can do better than Elden Ring and Armored Core 6 we are not even at peak yet
bosses with even longer attack spams. How does he come up with these innovative ideas?
As a diehard RPG fan I wish I could enjoy Elden Ring, hope everyone thats likes the games gets what they wished for, we need some good info from games from time to time
Are you unable to play for some reason? Nvm if it's too personal was jc
Its just good game with priority to consume player time. Its like butter on too many breads
@@thoughtsandgamesandstuff I am able to play it and I did, I just don't enjoy it. I need story and I really don't play the souls approach of adding info on items. I prefer proper RPG storytelling.
Dude!!!!
that great katana stance is the Ichimonji double from Sekiro!!
11:40 Bro says "don't worry I won't spoil any L2 attacks". Literally less than a minute later he spoils the new katana L2 attack lmao. I don't even care about this kind of stuff and I still noticed.
The reason I love this game so, so much is how utterly unique and different everybody's playthrough can be...when you said you didn't find any backhand swords it literally made me double take because the very first weapon I found, like literally within 15 mins of starting the dlc, was in fact backhand swords...incredible
Oh man, oh dude, oh man... I'm so excited... JUST TWO MORE SLEEPS!
Lands between is where you start, lands of shadows is where you go so there will be lands of light.
Lower, middle, higher. This is Zelda Tears of the Kingdom but better and we are getting the different sections of the world in content drops. Next time we go up!
I think they’re done. Will be focusing on a new game now surely
The lands between in and of itself is a land of light which is why the erdtree glows and the scadutree is shadowy, plus they already confirmed this is the last dlc
With the scadutree fragments, they only effect your stats in the DLC. I feel like that works because then people who don't have the DLC won't be missing out on an a new game changer for weapons and build if they changed your weapon attributes. Whrn it comes to pvp, those who have the dlc would probably be at an advantage
I wish they would have added a way to jump straight to the DLC from the start menu with a new character boosted to the appropriate level instead of needing to grind the whole game until endgame before entering. Much like The Witcher 3 did
If you know what you're doing, you can beat Mohg and Radahn and be at a reasonable level in 3 or 4 hours, you don't need to grind the whole game. They even give you a teleport right to Mohg's doorstep.
And if you have an old file, you should have already done it.
If you're new to the game you're not ready for the DLC anyway.
Easy mode in any souls-like would be just the removal of the stamina bar really.
Help mode could be a visual sign to better determine parries and perfect parries (like quicktime events have).
Lion! It's a dancing lion!
For real idk why he keeps referring it to a dragon. He did it in his preview as well.
U know what would've been nice? If they added a boss gauntlet like they did in Sekiro. The fact that they haven't is really disappointing.
THE HYPE HAS NEVER BEEN SO INTENSE FOR THIS FRIDAY!!!!
It's actually thursday! They have posted release times!
Thursday night for console, thursday afternoon for pc 😎
Zero hype
@@vezolf4313 sucks to be you
I've never played any fromsoft/souls like. but I worked on the Collectible for the collector edition of this DLC.....also, a collector edition..... for a DLC ?!?!?!? hahaha! They knew this would be crazy popular! Always love your reviews by the way! :D
I just wanna know: is the leaked video yesterday about the final boss real or not after all?
Thx a lot for answering 🙏🙏🙏🙏👍
Truth is, we don’t know. It’s definitely not going to play like that according to reviewers, so ithe real question is: is it Real but an extremely early version? Or is it not real at all? Either way, it will have an almost completely different move set and level of difficulty than that video. Some ppl are saying the final boss is either as hard or harder than melenia
Coming in to say I am going to avoid spoilers (even spoiler free) but really excited to watch this for your thoughts after I finish the DLC. Glad all the press around this game has been so positive
title said no spoilers - 30 secs in, "here are two main bosses" lmao
Bro one handing the two handers 😆😆😆
I never really got the criticisms about the base game being too long. I mean, it was pretty much left down to the player to decide how long they wanted it to be & you could finish it fairly quickly if that was all you wanted. I on the other hand, did everything on my first playthrough, coz I wanted to experience everything From intended & you only get one first impression. I'm gonna do exactly the same with the expansion & I can't wait. Let's effing go!
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Aristotel said:
You shouldnt care about much things in life, but we all should indulge in a good spank beyond erdtree”s Shadow.
Be aware tough, it may make you question your sanity and reality
8:08
It took me with 1 character, doing everything more than 200 hrs. Highly agree with that criticism.
Most dungeons or sidestuff rewards are re-use bosses, small rune rewards for defeating said bosses, and/or weapons/spells/etc. that you dont use for your builds.
This is what made me not do multiple runs with different builds like I do with their other games and just not buy this dlc.
Im sure the DLC is going to be great, I just feel that I had my fill.
This video is the eighth straight content creator review in a row for me.
And by far the best.
You said what you wanted and or needed to say without major spoilers. Which I very much appreciate since a lot of these people are proudly slapping “No spoilers” on their videos, when what they really mean is “We assume you are up-to-date on every reveal from every source *before* this review, where we will not be adding any new images or facts except for everything already revealed up to this point and part of the zeitgeist.”
I decided to watch the main trailer and avoid everything else. It was hard but with my UA-cam preferences and specific word exclusions, I made it months without anything besides the one thing I chose to watch (which was admittedly sparse and withholding as far as anything juicy besides the reveal of the Lion Dance boss) the main story trailer.
So I was beyond miffed clicking on all of the reviews before your’s (or, more specifically, the first one which ruined months of diehard dedication and self-denying as far as intentionally remaining as in the dark as I could) in which “No Spoilers” was the lead-in only to have tons of weapons displayed, one major boss I had heard nothing about (although she’s way bada$$ in a Pontiff sort of style, so now more excited to fight her than mad I know she exists) shown in-battle and a more-or-less complete rundown of every one of the biomes, the part I was the most excited to discover on my own, to a of weapons and boss remembrance equipment on-display.
Like trying to truly enter these From games as “blind” as possible becomes harder and harder with each new game (which, to be real, it feels like we’re all more-or-less treating this as). There are more and more rising lore analyzers and build-builders and really smart, clinical minds looking to connect every dot as they have come to appreciate this bond between themselves and the creators wherein small nuggets are mined for dozens of forms of speculative explanation and motivation breakdowns.
This previously very small community of From/Miyazaki enthusiasts were always the same recognizable faces and names I would engage in gank gang wars with in the city and steps and towers of the old Anor Londo in DS3 legit five years after the game came out and they/we were helping to keep pvp alive, our one respite set against the impossibly far off wait for Elden Ring.
And in most places I frequent I do still see these same people I have met online but don’t actually know, beyond our infectious love for keeping the game alive, however improbably long past its shelf-life.
But crucially I also see so so so many more people. That small (well, relative to what) group of us that kept these games alive and active have been joined up by so many new From fans (even if the “purity” of our sanctity to our bond cannot be replicated or given to these newcomers).
Stands to reason that out of this new crop of obsessive fans some of them would start and create content for their own channels and start producing lore and speculations.
So yeah. Such a bummer getting exposed less than two days out from a truly naked gameplay so much information and set pieces and known locations where events will go down.
So thanks again for being the only one so far to actually not have spoilers. Might want to pin my comment so people who have been screwed like I have out of the blind play they wanted or those who haven’t can know you are not guilty of these same egregious over-shares.
Great job and thanks. Cheers ya’ll. Happy hunting in the lands of shadow.
I actually want to acknowledge that I only had $40 in my PS account from bday money and such, and I just don’t have the funds to be buying games rn, so FromSoft fairly priced a HUGE expansion and didn’t add micro transactions and I can actually afford to play it because I saved up. In contrast, I’ve been a Destiny player for 10 years, and the final expansion in that saga released too. It was $50, it’s stuffed with micro transactions, none of my friends play it anymore, and most of the content that is truly unique is locked behind struggling to find between one and 11 other players that you don’t know to complete the content. So I made the decision to forego a game I invested 10 years into for a game that was brand new to me 2 years ago, because Elden Ring really is that special, and importantly, it was and is more accessible to me personally. Which is ironic considering its infamous difficulty lol. All I’m saying is there aren’t a lot of games or developers like FromSoft out there right now and I appreciate them.
Gonna wait until my vacation before I dive into this. Looks and sounds like it's gonna be great!
There was only like 11 unique bosses in Elden ring quite literally, so 10 unique boss fights is pretty nice
wait, people complained about a non-micro transaction 80h base elden ring game?? how are these insane folks?
Fortnite kids. The ones that are ruining single player games for the rest.
I'm so hyped for this game that I haven't been able to focus on a single other game since the beginning of the month! I read a book instead of playing anything the other day because I couldn't find a game out of the 450+ games I have in my digital catalog.
dude it releases on my birthday. took the day off, cleared my calendar, bought the snacks.
What was the book
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I would have never seen this coming, neeeeever.
Man the difficulty is astonishing getting two tapped and barely tickling the bosses.
I thought the base game map was amazing, but the Realm of Shadow is the perfect condensing of a souls open world where the flow from zone to zone is even better and more interesting with locations layered on top of each other reminiscent of DS1.
And I would say the Shadow Keep is the best legacy dungeon in the game. Its more puzzle-y than any of the others else like a mix of the Research Hall from Bloodborne and the Grand Archives from DS3 with even a New Londo-style flooded lower level you can uncover.
i think its funny that at the cocoon it says "head to the realm of shadow" makes it sounds like a chill walk to the gas station
Listening to this like a podcast I want to be fully surprised
Youre talking about replayability but i dont see it happening. I could be wrong, but to gate weapon TYPES behind mohg seems ridiculous to me. I reckon its gonna be too much of a tall order for the majority of players to start a new character, go through varres questline (i guess), beat mohg, go to dlc, find the martial artists fists for example and then go back to the base game to RP as a monk.
I genuinely dont understand why people think thats a good idea. I would argue that: replacing certain base game end weapons with ones from the dlc would be the best solution, for example switching the giant crusher with a light greatsword or switching +2 talismans with some new ones would work ok. You then still maintain a form of progression. Otherwise the dlc seems TOO disconnected, which concerns me greatly tbh
mimic tear our savior
I put in 178 hours on the main game and didn’t even get to the last section of map. I take my sweet time on open world games like this. have to explore every inch, it’s actually a problem
Elden Ring really is modern day Morrowind. The exploration, the lore, the discovery, the massive expansion.
1:38 " How do you make elden ring better". Let me say, I adore this game. I love so much about it and ive been looking forward to the dlc for months now. That said, when I was playing, especially because this is the first souls open world game from "from", I had a few things I would have liked to be improved;
- Story; Dont get me wrong, I really like the mysterie and the ambigiouity of souls games in general. Trying to piece the puzzle together. Yet, in Elden Ring, because it is so expansive and non linear, I felt many side quests got kinda lost on me because npcs were so far apart and direction non intuitive. I would love to see a little more hints or clues where to go next (for particular storylines) if you would like to follow up on that sidequest. I think it would add to immersion even more so than I already was. As much as I like Vaativydia, I think it would be an improvement if I didnt need to rely so much on a youtube channel to understand so much of this worlds rich lore.
- Button control; I think many people might not agree with me because they like a certain staleness I assume, but for example I would have really liked to see where you press " up " on the d-pad and then you can press a button to select specifically which skill you want to use instead of scrolling through skills until you find the right one. Ofcourse, you can equip less skills for particular builds, but I do think being able to select a skill more directly would widen build variety and smoothness overall.
- Lastly; Being able to properly coop with a friend. I honestly never understood why fromsoft actively obscure people to do so. Not being able to mount, limited potions, no progession sharing, no fast travel etc. Ive played from DS3, Demon Souls, Bloodbourne, Sekiro and I did understand it for those. Elden Ring seemed like the perfect chance to add 2 player coop.
What are your thoughts?
I think the spell scrolling is a balancing issue. It's not supposed to be easy to quickly switch between spells in intense combat encounters to stop you from getting too powerful. It's the same reason why you can't freely switch between weapons during combat without taking a weight penalty, it's supposed to be a bit of a pain.
They pulled a Zelda, and gave us the dark world... Nice
I thought this was a spoiler free review. I’ll be back later
That intro was so well written 👏🏽
Brother, any Final Shape review? Curious to know your final thoughts. Much love from Qatar
he mentioned in a recent video that he’d be getting to that review once his schedule clears up a bit in the coming weeks
@@zd5819 thank you 🙏🏻
Thanks for your work and greeting from germany :) i am now in Australia (Adelaide) for the time. Nice experience so far.❤
My body is ready
The crazy hard final boss is Miquella. I’m calling it now.
He is going to be crazier than Malenia and it will fit considering how crazy difficult Malenia was and how crazy strong Miquella is supposed to be in the lore
While this DLC isn’t gamechanging or anything, if you want more Elden Ring then it has some of the most unique and beautiful areas along with some of the most thrilling boss fights in the game. Sure, the difficulty might feel a bit bonkers, but as long as you collect the necessary upgrades and…well, git gud, then it’s nothing you can’t handle if you managed to beat the base game. It’s surprising to me how many players didn’t beat Mohg though, AKA one of the required bosses for the DLC. Then again, I did make sure to fight every optional boss in the base game, and did the same in the DLC through all my wonderful 40 hours of playtime.👌🏽
5:57 if only people were this open with division 2016 storytelling
Lol they really made a boss called Rellana, someone needs to introduce new naming conventions to the Lands Between
Analler
Fixed 😎
It’s not spoiler free when you tell how many bosses there are in a first few seconds
If you think the number of bosses is a spoiler (it's not) then why are you watching a 30min review of the game? Maybe don't?
@@davidm2031 I can see why you’d say that, but I’ve watched dozens of similarly timed, spoiler free reviews that don’t tell you how many bosses are in the game.
Since this was my first entry into this genre, I am by no means a master with this type of game. I was so afraid of some of these bosses, I'm referring to the base game, To counter this I just made sure that I was
High level. Even the infamous melania Boss, or whatever her name is, that's optional, What? Everybody considered the hardest boss in the game. It only took me A handful of tries, because of my level. That's what makes this game interesting is
You can circumvent difficulty by being super high level.
Me, missing the *very* in the title: "omg no, does it suck?" 😅
There are “technically” 11 main bosses I discovered, just one does not have a remembrance. That’s all I will say
Damn no “very” strongly recommend? From fell off 😢
For that you have to watch the God of War Ragnarök review and, i guess, experience it for yourself
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A DLC/expansion where _rushing through the content_ (admittedly not speedrunning) would take about _15-20 hours!_ This isn't a mere DLC, this is almost Elden Ring 2, and it puts every other excuse for a DLC to shame!
Though I appreciate the positive vibes. I don't think many will need the recommendation. They hype is real.
At this point, I can't tell how many times I've heard Ralph say that an Elden Ring playthrough is 80 to 100 hours. I have no clue what you are talking about. On my first playthrough and my recent second playthrough, I did every single thing in the game and it took me nearly 200 hours each time. This 80 to 100 hours is an absolute fantasy. Unless you're skipping a TON of stuff.
At least 150 hours, yeah.
if you do everything. but most players are going to only do 50-75% of the content since alot of it is easy to miss. most likely 100-150 hours though. 200 if you do everything.
I mean didnt he also say odessy/valhalla were like bloated 200+ hours?
and I beat odessy in 60h and valhalla in 80h.
I still to this day dont understand why people said those games were that long.
@@zomgpie2 its the feel of it I think. I beat Valhalla at round 75 hours over off and on for like a year and it felt like the longest game ive ever played. I poured 150 plus hours into elden ring, beat it, missed it and wanted more.
I love how the dlc is pretty much just Elden ring two lol, we have bosses that connect to the main game with the story and all the old weapons and stuff so it’s not like dark souls 1 through 3 where it’s the same universe but not connected massively
You „strongly recommend“ so many games. Try to be a bit more critical.
You say that under a video for Elden Ring lol you couldn‘t find a more out of place video than this one
He praised Alan Wake 2, I don't know what you were expecting. 😂
@@lukew6725 Which isn't a good game?
Larval tears in the base game essentially allows you to switch a class at will, albeit to a limited degree (10 or so). The stat boosting is to qualify consistent difficulty for lower level and higher level characters.
Very bold of Elden Ring to by game of the year for 2024 as well. Extremely ambitious
anyone else agree shill up is a sell out? he only shows the good points of the dlc. it's a commercial for the game
Yes I’m very disappointed in this review in hindsight. Every reviewer I have seen has called this DLC basically perfect, yet steam reviews are mixed due to enemy damage scaling and performance.
You’re absolutely right, this is a commercial, not an honest review.
@@Yku30 I cannot get behind people complaining about dmg scaling? After getting my scadu levels up the dlc feels like base game where I can tank 4-5 hits from a boss while being basically naked. The performance aspect is absolutely right tho and some areas are a struggle
@@Yku30 in his mind he already gave it a high review before playing it and he just speed ran through it to get some footage. and then he yelled into the echo chamber "I strongly recommend" and all the from soft fans came for hours on end
@@cozminr The people creating a echo chamber of hating it are no different. Fromstoft does not pay for reviews. Just becuase someone liked a game doesnt make them a shill. Angryjoe also liked it, so did many other reviewers.
@@slanderpop8771 im saying something that for a gamer is 5/10 for a reviewer is a 7/10. and these youtubers are becoming like ign
I can't wait for Elden Ring 2, never. Just like my beautiful Blood Born. 🤧
I finished the dlc today, all the enemies in the dlc are overtuned and made for the sole purpose of annoying the player with the exception of some bosses of course. The sunflower, commander gaius and the last boss are some of the worst boss designs in any from software game. Dont get me wrong the exploration the world building and the art style are phenomenal but when most of the bosses are either really annoying or just flat out boring and easy while the last boss of the game requires you to play specific builds to be able to finish the game is not great game design, More over the lore is all over the place doesnt really explain a lot and really doesnt make sense to be honest, recycling the enemies from other games like DS3 and the base game is not that good either.
Overall the game just gets harder more annoying with new fresh of breath air in the new lands with a beautiful art style and unbalanced mobs, but its ok the game is terribly unbalanced and you can just spam your ash of war to win the dps race against most of these enemies or find another way to cheese it with magic if you have NG+ character. 7/10
Isn’t the Beastclaw a Bloodborne weapon as well?
Yeah, thought so
Also, wonder if there's a kos parasite equivalent
I've watched a few different videos about this dlc. Had to turn yours off after a couple mins cuz you were saying too much. Your definition of spoiler free should be reevaluated.
Maybe you should grow up.
Only "strongly recommend" dude whats wrong with you.Easily goty for everybody who appreciate this genre
Damn not a *very strongly*? Fromsoft is washed up.
Looks just as boring as the main game.
Skill issue
This is the only souls game I was able to enjoy. Barely got past that last boss in the original so I feel like this one would be way too much for me. Tried older souls games and just got crushed. Maybe I will give it a shot after I finally finish 10 Hades runs as I never finished that.
Same. The others felt to linear and tedious.
Elden ring was my first Experience in this genre. I went in terrified.
That I would not be good.Enough. But I managed to beat the game and I had so much fun.Doing so. I was pretty thorough and so once I beat the game, I Didn't play it again. Unfortunately.
That was some time ago, and I absolutely have to play this, but it also means I have to relearn how to play. I suppose it's much like a bicycle, It will all come right back to me.
Cannot wait! I will be on vacation when it launches, but as soon as I am back, I am booting this up.
Just a bit of a feedback. For me, saying the number of Major bosses/ number of new areas in the game are things I consider as spoilers.
I love your videos btw, my go to UA-camr for everything gaming and reviews.
Sounds like this will be worth the money.
Loving the new weapon options and looking forward to trying out the ones i can get my hands on but little disappointed that the expansion will follow the main game in recycling enemies.. hopefully it won't be as glaring as later areas of the base game but we shall see.
Few more days, then we can all go see for ourselves what awaits us at the Shadow of the Erdtree! 😁
Since it's a grand finale for Elden Ring
Miyazaki, please collaborate with GW for Soulsborne Warhammer Fantasy
The framerate is theses clips is not good. Hope it just the video.
Edit : In fact, it's terrible.
Would be nice if they had a skill mastery system for ashes of war or incantations. The more you use them, the more you can use the skills or incantations better. You can add additional effects like less cost, faster frames, or status buildup. The skill also changes visually to reflect the style in which you use those skills/incantations. Could also lock those mastery progressions behind battle feats like parries, backstabs, consecutive hits, multiple hits, etc.
Other games have stuff like that, but to accommodate it they need much, much smaller pools of weapons and abilities. The hundreds of weapons and spells in the game makes upgrade trees iffy.