Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree managed to get me excited about a tiny golden circle in the corner of a screen. Not an epic boss, beautiful vista or stunning revelation, but the non-combat area icon, suggesting I might get to learn just a little bit more about this dark, vast and scary world.
FromSoftware is Pavlov and I am a tiny rot dog, borking for my lore kibble, as an expressionless man with too many swords bonks me on the head with a newspaper made of horns and fingers, over and over again.
You’ll probably see a lot of takes that this DLC is just more Elden Ring – it is and it isn’t. While on the one (scuttling, spidery) hand, it’s a condensed version of the base game, with an unmatched sense of discovery and accomplishment as you surmount seemingly impossible odds on your way to victory.
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