I'm amazed at how highly the first Elden Ring DLC ​​was rated. Babazaki did ♥♥♥♥ again, and people on metacritic ran to give it 12/10, as a result of which this garbage from FromSoftware overtook even the legendary Blood and Wine DLC for the third Witcher. But everything finally fell into place - the reviews of players on Steam are "mixed", and 65% of them are negative reviews. Corrupt journalists, naturally, ran to work off their suitcases of money and blamed the Chinese for everything: supposedly, the Chinese saw Shadow of the Erdtree, bought it and were surprised by the high complexity and disgusting optimization. And yes, indeed, most of the negative reviews are from China, but the thing is that it is not the Chinese who are fools, it is the rest of the world - stupid, to whom Miyazaki has been selling crap for years. When I played Elden Ring, I was simply tortured by the input lag that remained in the series since DL - the character is controlled disgustingly.
And there is no optimization in EL: this "game" looks worse than the second Alan Wake, but in open locations it lags as if it was launched on the third Pentium (and a Celeron at that). And I have an Nvidia 4090! But journalists need to earn their money and that's why they write "Chinese gamers just have a different attitude to games." What different? The game doesn't give more than 40 fps even on top video cards, and the graphics settings don't affect this in any way. All bosses just had their HP and damage turned up to maximum, they didn't give them clear windows for attacks, even dogs have 2000 HP - this is not difficult, these are just sponge enemies. I remember how everyone criticized Division from Ubisoft for turning key enemies into one-shotting bullet sponges - but here YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS OTHER THING! It was the "great" Babazaki who did it, not Ubisoft! If he did it that way, that's how it should be, that's what hardcore gaming looks like. That's what crap looks like, not gaming.

All your life FS sold you absolutely unplayable crap under the guise of a game, you handed Elden Ring a goti, and now, when our Chinese brothers saw this crap and were surprised that you play it, you ran to scream at the entire Internet that they have a "different attitude towards games". That's right, different - it's called "adequate". The Chinese do not want to play some pseudo-hardcore crap at 40 fps in 2024. Do you want hardcore? Go through Doom Eternal on Nightmare - there your ass will burn, but you will understand that the game honestly punishes you for your mistakes. And playing Miyazaki's crap in 2024 and giving it 94% out of 100% on Metacritic is complete absurdity. Respect to the Chinese, to the Dark Souls fans - my sincere condolences and a ticket to a mental hospital. One way.