Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree
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ELDEN RING SHADOW OF THE ERDTREE ストーリートレーラー【2024.05】
ELDEN RING SHADOW OF THE ERDTREE ゲームプレイトレーラー【2024.02】
Critic Reviews for Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree
A masterfully designed expansion to one of the best action RPGs of the last decade that not only complements the base game but expands its thematic and systemic scope even further.
Like the base game did before it, Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree raises the bar for single-player DLC expansions. It takes everything that made the base game such a landmark RPG, condenses it into a relatively compact 20-25 hour campaign, and provides fantastic new challenges for heavily invested fans to chew on.
Much of Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree is more of the same gruelling beauty - but a shift to explict storytelling and signposting means its essence as a living, evolving shared text is lost.
This is their linking the flame moment, a chance to be reborn and usher in a new age, capped off by what can only be described as their magnum opus.
Perhaps more interesting than the bosses are the moments where FromSoftware stretches the limitations of its mechanics and nearly reaches whole new genres.
Exactly as engrossing and meticulously designed as you'd expect of FromSoftware but even by their standards this is an enthralling slice of DLC that underlines and enhances the achievements of the original.
The boring but ultimately correct shorthand to summarize Shadow of the Erdtree is that it’s more Elden Ring. The incredible sense of discovery, fantastic dungeon design, entertainingly deep combat, and intriguing lore and characters that defined From Software’s 2022 masterpiece all apply to this expansion.
From Software's expansion for Elden Ring offers an entire new game's worth of content, all of which is exceptionally executed.
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