When you get stuck on a challenge during Dark Souls or Bloodborne, for Elden Ring Runes instance, often meant crushing into that same wall over and over again until finally breaking through bloody and bruised, but the Lands Between provide much more to see and do. A lot of time can be spent exploring these regions prior to the first major Dungeon and the check of a boss. You can also collect loot and increasing levels until you're overpowered enough to reduce Godrick the Grafted into a pile of amputated limbs with little effort. You can skip the fortress entirely if thought you've had enough his insanity, an effective plan for when you're ready to check out what the rest of the game can offer.

At its heart, the elegance in Elden Ring is found not in its difficulty, but in the little things you do during the earth-shattering boss fights. It's about exploring every shadow-filled space and obscured by fog of the environment in search of objects you'll never use. It's about turning the camera just right to see around corners and over precipitous slopes to find hidden dangers. It's about clambering into coffins which take you over and up waterfalls, to caves that were largely forgotten by time and inhabited by eldritch creatures from out of the sky. It's about soaring over the cliffs of a dead, impossible massive dragon or the giant branchings of a golden Tree Both of them have been so closely woven into the structures of an aging capital city that over the course of centuries, before you arrived, they've become more architecture than biology.

Elden Ring manages to pull off the feat of making you feel small yet still able to affect the tectonic changes around you.

As one of the Tarnished, a group made up of "chosen" "undead" who return to the mythical world known in the Lands Between long after an unknown exile Elden Ring puts you in the position of a visitor and vaccine. The devastation of the eponymous phenomenon called the Elden Ring resulted in the deaths of demi-gods , as well as the dissolution of great kingdoms, creating a massive mess for you to set right in various ways after your arrival. Similar to the depressing settings of previous Souls games and the Lands Between is a shadow of its former self and those who continue to dig through the rubble seem to choose to do it out of an urge to move instead of Elden Ring Runes buy working together to bring the pieces back together.