Recent reviews by Cpt.P1mp

You did it to yourselves, i love the game. But the PSN bit is total ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.
Get fek'd.

120 seconds of my life? no. Its way more then that its accepting ♥♥♥♥♥♥ and annoying practices that will keep getting shoved down your throat.
As a gamer for decades i keep seeing it get worse n worse the more people accept it, so don't.
Next thing to follow will be in-game adds. 'its only 30 seconds of your life'.

Update: thumbs up cuz we won,but wont be that many that will be nice about it.
update2: they did it again, ♥♥♥♥ you sony

good game, overhyped.
Actually played the whole thing.

disliking it for balance sake.
its not worthy of the score with all the bugs and issues the game has.
most people will never pass act 1, and act1 is the only thing that really works.
Hence my review.
A 8/10 game curently.
Maybe 9/10 when definitive edition comes out and they actually finish it.
Cuz it aint finished at release.

Act 2 starts to get messy and buggy with people finding solutions on reddit.
and
Act 3 is a total mess of bugs/fps and crashes.

If game had started with Act3 it would of been review bombed into negative.

Anyway, after finishing the game, my curent score stands at.
8/10. Almost a 7/10. Its to repetitive n long, overstays.
The combat is its biggest downside.

just great

its just great.
the ammount of flexibility it offers and funny stuff you can do.
Its unparaleled in most games today.
Bit repetitive at some point with the missions but its a great stealth sandbox.
Just amaizing really.

Is this a good game? Yes.
Is this a good star wars game? Debatable, no.

Its not a RPG, its a action combat game with sprinkles of RPG/crafting blabla. The first 4 tags are correct.
Action Adventure, Singleplayer Souls-like combat. The rest of the tags mean nothing.

Good fun, good exploration, good combat and pretty cool enviroments.
Bad performance, bad story/some lines are just there to try n sound cheesey with no meaning, who wrote this?
If you liked old star wars this will insult you.
If you are a fan no matter how they butcher the star wars lore, clearly you will enjoy this.

Some issues i had and spoilders.
Darth Vader strong? No, he almost got beat by this female lead, he just got a lucky stab at her. Didn't particularly mind that, but still its this check list that people keep adding in media that annoys me.
Him loving someone and saying ♥♥♥♥ it to the Jedi way? Check. Again i accept it, but i also knew they would do it. Cuz they do everything to change star wars.
Jedi's with blasters? Check. Again relating to ♥♥♥♥ the jedi way.
New weird 'jedi' powers that is turning this into dragon ball Z. Dagan sure has some fancy new jedi tricks.
YOur love interest has more powers and 'her race' tricks than you have. I guess the force isnt the strongest thing in the universe.
Random people that seem to have mastered the use of a lightsaber. We can't give you jedi n sith. We can give you randoms that got trained in the way of the lightsaber by a guy that was stuck in a tube.
List goes on.

My score unbiased.
8.5/10 story as average as any story goes. Game is fun.
My SW fan score:
4/10 Garbage story n lore being butchered..

9/10 first few hours.

5/10 for the rest. I can't wholeheartedly give this a thumbs up.
Past the uniqueness of Hogwarts and the initial 5hours, anything after is dead boring and repetitive.
A very soulless game.
The sidequests are pointless outside of achievements, rewards wise its nothing, dialog wise its nothing. Story is meh.
Why give me dialog options if they all give the same exact result? There is no point, just give me a cutscene without dialogue options.

World is hella bland and repetitve.
The only thing they got right is Hogwarts n HogsMeade. and if the game revolved just arround that areea it would of been much better.
The rest is some copy-paste meaningless stuff.

sbmm, modified ttk if u are good or bad. patents that make you do less danmage if you are too good. inconsistencies in fights. hits not registering.
youtubers proving all of it.
you suck? footstep boost. hear your enemy 3 miles away.
to good? cant hear footsteps as they run right on your ass.
etc

devs are taking the piss on its players. ♥♥♥♥ game.

Everything feels half arsed, lot of content, all badly implemented, to many bugy and to little quality of life.
They keep adding stuff without fixing the old. I mean indie devs, but srsly.
Piling bugs on top of bugs.

Combat is atrocious and need a complete rework, they allready tried twice, still ♥♥♥♥.

Just 100%'ed the game with all achievements n extra content that was not required, fashion souls armors D:.

A great game that kept me engaged on my seat for hours on end without feeling boored, long has it been since a game has managed to keep my attention for more than 2-3hours. This thing had me puting out 12h sessions.

Despite all the things that make elden ring great, it has its flaws and i will mostly focus on adressing some of those. Why?
Because the game isn't a 10/10. If you compare it to todays standards, perhaps, its a gem in the crap that comes out lately.
But as an objective review, it is not 10/10.

-The open world- while beautifull, it is often to large. It is mostly meant to offer you a different pace to the game and possibility for alternative paths.
However the relaxation of riding your horse overstays its welcome and you often spend to much time riding in betwen your goals. Its a well done adition to the game, it could of been better by being smaller. Perhaps the next game will get it right.
At some point i kept going from dungeon to dungeon as i had them allready discovered and i just had to initiate them, it felt like old Dark Souls and it was probably the best i felt while playing this game. 10h of dungeons without the open world. Tho at some point, after many deaths, the open world was welcomed as a breath of relaxation.
It works, but its just to much of it.

-Bosses: Some of the hardest from fromsoft, but very few overall.
What i expected came true. Open world means bosses on repeat, sadly there is to much rehashing of what you have allready killed. Large array of them being rather lackluster and easy.

-Difficulty: Bosses and Inbalance.
The game lost its sense of achievement, very few encounters made me feel it. While there are other things to enjoy while playing the game, Elden Ring has 'sens of discovery' above 'sense of achivement'. You will mostly feel the first while playing this game.

A majority of bosses are to easy, even solo.
With the new tools that the game offers, they become even more trivial, spawn a NPC summon and kill.
Elden ring has put the casual on first place and i personally believe its a bad thing, simply because it ruins what these games offered in the first place. A Sense of achievement, i hardly felt it.

Outside of the few people that will gimp themselves on purpose and not use anything but their raw skill.
The majority will/are using these summons, this is obvious on youtube videos/streams and achievements. Probably the highest % in achievement in any fromsoft game after just 2 weeks. Its deffinetly more approachable.
These tools are to readily available and easy to use.

In previous games you had to work for a summon, sacrifice an expensive effigy or the sorts, wich made you to be more warry when and if you wanted to call a summon as it was taxing.
In short, its laughable with summons.
And still easy even without, outside of a handful of bosses that are mostly optional.

-Difficulty Inbalance.
The open world aspect offers one more problem that adds to this sense of the game being easy. You can explore too far and wide and find powerfull weapons and materials for upgrades.
The fact that a weapon now goes to +25 instead of +10 means that you now have a HUGE GAP IN POWER that can be achieved. Many players achieve it.

Having +15 weapons early game and 25+ midgame. Being overgeared adds to this sense of low difficulty.
The game will eventually catch up to you since you can't go more than 25+ and you will reach the areeas that they were meant for.
But you could not do this in previous fromsoft games, you found the upgrade materials as you progressed the game and didnt end up with a +9 midgame.

As such elden rings difficulty scale for most, will be.
-early game(20%)= hard, learning the game n skills. FUN, DARK SOULS.
-mid game (20 to 85% of content) =easy, good gear, overleveled. Boring going from A to B one shoting everything n all bosses, bit boring. This stage lasts to long.
-late game (85 to 100%) = hard again as the game catches up to you. FUN, DARK SOULS.

Hope they fix it in the next game, despite all these, its great, but these are my nitpicks.
A deserved
89/100.

gut game