Recent reviews by Yablonya

Noice.

Literally the peak of role-playing video games at the time of writing this review.

Another indie game that put AAA studios in shame.

I am not rating this as a "game" but rather as a "platform". It is free, you can build whatever you want on top of it. I bet very nice things will come eventually.

It is very enjoyable in the current state, even more if you mix it with some mods that expand even further beyond the mechanics of the base game.

This mod feels more like Skyrim 2.0 Every aspect of the original game is improved to an incredible level. The attention that the developers put in this mod is astounding. I would recommend it 100%.

Edit: After almost 100 hours of gameplay and beating the main questline and many, if not most of the side quests, I can say without any doubt that this is not a simple mod of Skyrim. This "mod" surpasses Skyrim by far, I wish that for the next release of The Elder Scrolls they would simply fire all of their game developers and hire SureAI instead to develop the game for them.

I bought Skyrim on Steam and paid for a premium account on NexusMods just to play Enderal with a nice collection of mods to enjoy it to the limit, and oh boy, I don´t regret any of that.The things that this mod made me feel during the gameplay were very deep, the lore of the story, and the way it is narrated are incredible, the voice acting was on point, and you can feel the connection to the characters and how they develop as the story progresses.

Regarding the gameplay itself, since I played with a huge mod collection that changed many aspects in the game my opinion here may differ from the true experience for someone who plays without mods. In any case, the beginning was extremely tough, I had to save and reload many, countless times... But as the game progressed and I leveled up it became easy even. I encountered a certain amount of crashes, but that might be related to the mods and not the game itself.

Thank you SureAI.

Masterpiece.

This is so painful to write. The game, at the current state is simply dissapointing. I don´t even know where to start.
Let me start by saying that I am a huge Dark Souls saga fan, I played more than 700 hours between all of them, I knew that Elden Ring was not going to be a Dark Souls game, but an evolution of it. But what I have discovered so far is not keeping up with the hype I had.

First let´s talk about the worrisome technical issues: It took more more than 1 hour just to make my gamepad able to work with the game. I literally have to launch the game through Steam Big Picture, otherwise it won´t detect that I even have a gamepad. It is the first time ever I have an issue of this kind in any game.

The optimization is close to non-existant, the stuttering make my eyes bleed. I tried some solutions mentioned by the community and disabling "Microsoft Device Association Root Emulator" seems to fix most of the issues. But again, first time ever that I have an issue of this kind with any game, in my life. Also the game crashed a couple of times.

This is not Ubisoft, and you literally used the same Engine as for your previous games, how could they mess up so badly? You are not an Indie developer neither, this is supposed to be a AAA game, and I paid 60 euros for this, I don´t expect to have any of these problems.

Technical issues aside, let´s talk now about the gameplay...

What really grinds my gears is that it seems like most of the enemies in this game are literally damage sponges, and Dark Souls WAS NEVER ABOUT THAT!!!! Dark Souls are very hard games, but at least most of the bosses can be defeated withing a few combos, but in Elden Ring it´s all about trying to survive and kick their asses literally for 5 minutes, looking how for every hit you land on them barely a 2% of their health bar recedes. And their damage output is just ridiculous, I am going with a heavy armor build and a buff to reduce the damage received on myself, and still, most bosses will delete me in 1 hit!!!!

I tried to summon a couple of players to help me out, just to watch how 5 seconds after going into the boss area they were wiped out in a single blow by the enemy boss. 1 single blow... and their whole health bar was gone. And I still didn´t move out from the first region where I started my adventure, where it is supposed to be easier.

Another thing that really grinds my gears is that you can see that this game was created from Dark Souls 3 as a template. because they didn´t even bother to change most of the animations, sounds and some equipment. They just copied them straight from DS3!!!!! What kind of lazy work is this?

I can´t really recommend the game in the current state, although I know for sure that many of these issues will be fixed after some patches. From one side I try to push myself to keep playing, but from other side It is really demotivating to see how all my plans and strategies to defeat some bosses fail try after try because the simplest of their attacks will kill, or nearly kill me.

Dark Souls games were hard, but never unfair as Elden Ring is.

One of the very few games ever where the plot and the gameplay are at the same level, right on the top.

The Dark Souls saga is easily in the 3 best videogames sagas of all time.

Excellent game for it´s price.