Neha K. reviewed Elden Ring

I bounced off this game twice before it stuck. Both times it was Margit. Both times I told everyone the game was badly designed and both times I was wrong.

The thing nobody tells you is that you're allowed to leave. I genuinely did not understand that. I thought the big gate with the boss behind it was the way forward, because in every other game I've played for thirty years, the big gate with the boss behind it is the way forward. It took a friend watching me over voice chat going "why are you still here" for it to land.

Once that clicked I put 90 hours in over about five weeks. Still not sure I like being this bad at something in my leisure time, but here we are.

An A rather than an S because I think a game can be this good and still be needlessly unclear about its own rules.