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[LectureMaster]

Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree Review: Massive, Menacing, And Magnificent

FromSoftware’s highly anticipated DLC could be a standalone game—it's just that good

kotaku.com

Until Elden Ring, I avoided Soulslikes. Their punishing difficulty and rigid boundaries frustrated me immensely: I hit a wall in Dark Souls: Remastered and gave up, barely touched Bloodborne, and avoided Sekiro like it was a poison swamp. In the real world, I have mostly avoided the ire of homophobes and misogynists in the games industry, writing an article that temporarily shakes them up before fading into relative obscurity once Reddit refreshes.

Before I even make that connection between my real world and FromSoft’s game world, I subconsciously attack Shadow of the Erdtree with dogged determination, as if besting a boss would bleed into my every day and imbue me with a higher tier of self-confidence. Much like how it feels to receive near-endless hate comments from anonymous accounts or angry middle-aged men, I face Shadow of the Erdtree entirely alone—no multiplayer summons would work for me in early access, a feature I relied on in the base game.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Obligatory,

 

[EviLore]

 

[ReBurn]

The author should consider investing in surgery to remove that massive chip from her shoulder. It seems to putting strain on her enormous victim complex.

 

[Sgt.Asher]

I mean I get it it, I was paralleling the Melania fight with getting pegged.

 

[bender]

 

[LectureMaster]

Folks, do you still take those gaming journalism seriously?

I don't care them at all. If I need some opinions about a game I'd always prefer a trusted content creator to those gaming media sites

 

[Spukc]

hard to imagine giant bomb got even worse

 

[Burning Blade]

She must be fun at parties

 

[Loomy]

STOP.READING.KOTAKU.

They're basically baiting you morons at this point and you keep falling for it. Half of their views are probably from hate clicks at this point. They'll keep writing such bullshit if you keep clicking on it and that other fucking idiot keeps making videos about it.

 

[Revolutionary]

Why are you giving Kotaku clicks? You're falling for her bait

 

[Hypereides]

Folks, do you still take those gaming journalism seriously?

I don't care them at all. If I need some opinions about a game I'd always prefer a trusted content creator to those gaming media sites

After what they've recently been doing, if any of you have been following what's been unfolding, I've become fully appalled by them. They're actively smearing and legitimately harassing people. Its abhorrent behaviour.

They're activists masquerading as gaming journalists. Plain as day.

 

[Chiggs]

Why are you giving Kotaku clicks? You're falling for her bait

It's like all the people here who trash ResetEra, and then proceed to post links to their threads or summarize their latest gossip.