LET’S GET THE elephant in the room out of the way first. Elden Ring is a Souls game. From Software’s string of action RPGs have a reputation for being brutally hard and unforgiving. From the original Demon’s Souls in 2 09, via the main Dark Souls trilogy and Eldritchs pinoff Bloodborne, players have thrown themselves against the twin terrors of a game world designed to make them suffer, and gigantic bosses with matching health bars built to hammer home the point. Sometimes literally.
However, , previously a dungeon-crawl that offered little sympathy to the underpowered character (or even those who found the controller a bit awkward to use) take a new approach. There’s nothing as scandalous as an